The billboard (July 1911)

Xtie Oillboard JULY 8, 1911. UNDER T HE WH ITETOPS Merry Opposition War On in Chicago Between 101 Ranch Wild West and Buffalo Bill-Pawnee Bill Wild West—^George Holland Dead CUCago. in., Tnly 1 (Spedal to The BIU- iMMtrd).—Tbe merry war Is on in Chicago. The 101 Banefa. Wild West Show Is to open thero Jtfl; 8. for eight days, and tbe Bnffalo Bill Show will open one week later for nine days. The city Is most thoroughly billed, hannered and lithographed by both shows, and tbe billing forces of both shows haye been materially In- creased by the Ibcal men. The 101 Ranch has refosed to do business with Bobbins while the Bnffalo Bill Show Is nslng the boards. Ixmle Cooke Is personally directing the bllUng of the ■ Two Bills Show, white Eddie ArliDgton of tbe 101 Banch. has left everything In the hands of aus car managers., The 101 Ranch Is nsing four lots, making two-day stands on each, while tbe Bnffalo Bill Show Is nslng three lots, oslng each for three days. Both shows nse the same lots, bnt the time on each gives the 101 Ranch one lot exclnslvely. Thos far the men attached to the shows have billed clean, bnt the local men have oeciuloiially gone bad. bnt this is soon checked. Tbe flght Is confined principally to downtown locations, and for two days was con- flned to one building. The 101 Ranch got this location first from tbe owners, who are Band & McNallT-, and their permission was endorsed by the occupant of the bnlldlns- The Buffalo Bill Show got permission from tbe wrecker— the baflding Is to be razed on July 12—and both etewx went to It. Tbe lot Bench started at the top and bannered the side facing Hanison Street down, whUe the Bnffalo BUI people started from the bottom and worked up. Tbe 101 Ranch got the three npper stories, and the Buffalo Bin tbe two lower. When It came to covering the other side and front of the build- ing the 101 Ranch had the BUI Show stopped, as the tenant refused them entrance to the prem- ises, and it was impossible to work from the adjoining buildings or sidewalk. Both shows liad their crews at work on tbe bnUding at the same time, and mnch good-natnred bantering was Indulged In. The city has never before been ao tborongbly billed. As tbe theatres are au closed the danbs that are'-controlled by them were eagerly sought for by both shows. It to estimated that over one hundred men were en- gaged billing, bannering and lithographing at the same time daring the early bUllng. GEORGE HOLL AND. CLOWN, DEAD, 6e<»ni Honma. tbe prodncUg down died Jane 24, after fMir days of Illness. The Order ot EUn and Uasonle Ziodge took diaxse of the funeral. Holland was at the New Twk BInpo- drome, seasons 1806, W. '08, 'OB, mUl the Bamum * Bailey Oiicas. season lUO. A GIAN T WE DDING. Lookport, N. T., 7iily 1 (Special to The BUI- board).—Marr ^en Powers, for years P. T. Bamum's taUest woman, was married this week to Maurice T. Stapleton of Lockport, one of the tallest men In this vicinity. Miss Powers Is 7 feet In height. Stapleton Is over « feet and a giant in every way. Abont three years ago Miss Powers and !ltr. Stspleton were to be married, but the event was called off on tbe moming set for the ceremony. No reason was given out. SHOWED I N MIN NEAPOLIS. Hinneapolls, Minn., Jnlv 1 (Spedal to Tbe Billboard).—^Despite the fact that the Civic Celebration Committee protested against the Issuance of a Ucense to the Bamum & BaUey Show pilar to the week of tbe ceXebratlon bete. InSr 2-8. and ttat the Mayor stated he wonlC veto sndi license if Issned, the circus was able to show in this dty Monday and Tnesday. Jnne 26 and 27, on tbe clrcng grounds, 26tli Street and Cedar Avenne. MASTERSON'S SHOW CLOSES. CSharlestown, W. Va., Joly 1 (Special to The BUIboaid).—Dan Bice's One-BIng Circos, also known as Ifuterwn's B. B. Sbom.-irhlch gave a peifmnunee here Jime 20, and left for Haroer's Ferry, made an assignment Jnne 21 to C. M. CajipbeU, tmstee, for the benefit of an Its creditors. Tbe trustees gave bond for $20,000, and the property wm be disposed of. The onfflt oeemiled three cats, sod the ecganlsa- tlon Is said to have been started In Oharlestown, W. Va. With the permission of the assignee to nse the canvas, a benefit performance was given for the sttailded mnslclans and laborers. Those who took part In the program were: Harter and Martin, double trapeze; Dan Bandall. down song; Harte Horith, Japanese jasKler; Bor- lesqne- prize fl^t, ^owns; Barter, rasgXe- trap- ece; Belew and WIekos. comedy: Miller aad Glenny. acrobats: Fleetwaod SUteia. singing and dancings REPLACE' RICHARD SISTERS. !Fbe HIense-HInerva !IVoape Is a new wire act with the Ftnepangb-Sells Show, taking the place of flie Bldiard Sisters, who are laying off OIL account of tiie ■ accident to Miss Lnlu Bidiard. BUFFALO BI LL AT PITTSBURG. Flttalnntt. Pa., Jnne-26 (Special to The Bin- board).—Bnffalo BlU's Wild West and Pawnee Bin's Far East Combined Exhibitions wOl visit the Northslde, Monday, July 3. Peter S. McNally. press representative, says: "His Pittsburg appearance will be Colonel (body's farewell and positively his last appear- ance In the saddle; It will not he the nsoal pro- fessional player's farewell—^bnt an actnal Vgood- bye' as a public entertainer." With Colonel Cody will be "Pawnee BUI," Major Goraoa W. Llllle of a later school of frontiersmen, plainsmen, trappers, gnldes and scoots; more than 100 representatives of various tribes of Indians, cowboys fresh ficom the plains, Mexican Taqneros from Cbibaabna. Sooth Amer- ican ganchos from tbe Llanos and the Pampas, Boer horsemen fjrom the South Afrtcan veldt. Bedouins from the Great Sahara, camel riders from Arabia, Sinhalese on racing elephants, and expert riflemen and rifiewomen, forming a congress of rough riders of the world and the greatest organization of the kind ever assembled. More than 600 persons and more than 500 head ot stock wUl participate in two exhibitions. CIRCUS BILLPOSTERS. (Written for the Billhosrd hj Sam 7. Banks,) You always see them pnttlnp np the gandy posters, days and days Ijefore the circns gets to town. l!liey are only clrcua billposters, bnt they are Indefatigable workers aiui on them depends, -Xo a large extent, the success of the show. Before the average person has break- fasted, the circns billposter ia working, and many times be can be found laboring by Ian- tent. Bght. If you wUl get np bright and early some summer morning and go down to the raUroad yards where Is ^detracked tbe circus advance car, ;oa will see wbat a bustler be is. On the way down to the depot you note, as yon paaa the Pal&ce Uvery stable. thB.± the em- ployees there are bitching spirited steeds to Mveral big "democrat" wagons. But tliere Is nothing so wonderful abont that. Tbat is tbe business of livery stables—to rent rigs. And so yon pass on. Presently yon arrive at tbe railroad depot and there is the great sixty-foot circns advertising car No. 1. Perhaps it is decorated In Imid colors and along Its side yon read, in monetrons letters, which would make the frlghtfol scare-heads on the front pages of a certain yeUow Journal appear like nonparefi type In legal ads, something Uke this: "Doakes Brothers' World's Moat ifonstrous Circns," perhaps," on the other hand, the car is finished In the ^h chocolate color so common to Pnllmans, and the lettering thereon is in sliver leaf and modest of size; bnt the style of caf decoration makes no' difference—^it is a circns advance car, and It is tbe center of a scene of animation. Throu^ a big double window at one end of tbe car, we see a middle- aged man writing at a roll-top desk; be is -the car manager. A score or more men, arrayed In neat white uniforms, can be observed bustUn^ here and there. They are the- pictures of perfect heaiQi. ISieir ifaces are tanned, bronzed and haMened by their daHr life In the open, their mnsciee are, hard as Iron, their steps elastic. Some carry long brushes; others are laden with heavy piles of paper: stlU others are toting pans; a colored man. In white cap and apron. Is seen through a window. Se is washing dishes—^for the circns men eat and sleep on their private car. All are evidently anticipating something. Suddei^ a clatter of hoofs and a mmbllng of wheels, accompanied by tbe cracking of whips and the shoots of drivers, is heard, and we turn to see those Uvery vehicles being driven towards tbe ad- vance car. The "something" has arrived, for the drivers are eagerly greeted by the circns men. Tbe boss bl]lp<»ter, scrutinizing a slip of paper, calls out to all the dtlvens: "WIio goes to Berrytown. Hickory Comers, Jmdns, Podnnk, Tyre and Pancasbnrg!" "aniat's my team." pipes tbe voice of one of the Uvery stable employees. "All right; that's route No. 1; drive right np to the side of the car and get loaded," wdeffi the foreman. Whereat the wagon is driven np to the wide side-door, as directed, and two or three white- garbed workers qnlcldy deposit -therein a large barrel of paste, a -coople of Imckets, a pair of brusbes and a good-sized bundle of posters. Then Into the seat lamps a billposter; the driver gives the horses tbe irhlp, and the ont- at Is off. Then tbe boss calls off another Ust of ont- lylng villages, towns and crossroads, and route Xo. 2 Is qnlckly loaded and sent on its way. And -thus It Is until all tbe Tural wagons have departed. Each of these teams goes In a different general direction and the billposters UberaHy paste bills and dates on bams, sheds, fences and rocks, within a radlns of several miles of the exhibition village or city. One route may cover thirty miles from the time it leaves the ear nntil rctnrning; another may extend over a distance of fifty miles; but all teams iwiU be back by eventide and the In- habitants ot the country ronndabont will have learned that "Doakes Brothers' World's Most Monstrous Circus" Is to exhibit In Ipswich or Oshkosh on such and snch a date. The last wagon to be loaded at tbe advance car Is known as the "town team." This must be large enough to accommodate a conpJe of barrels of paste, hundreds of pounds of litho- graphs, six or eight palls, ten or a dozen men and as many bmsdies. This vehicle is for local pmioseB exclusively, and Its trail can al- ways be distlngalsbed l^ a blazing array of artistic vart-coiored posters on the billboards and dead waUs of the city. The work of the local blUposterg is supple- mented by lithographers, -who visit the stores of the city and hang art posters in the -windows; pcogrammeis. who distribute attractive litera- ture from house to boose; and bannermen, who tack cloth dates to piazzas, sides of buildings and wherever else possible. I. A. B. P. & B. O F A. NOTES. Minneapolis, Minn., July 1 (Special to The BIlllMard).—Jake Benzslnger and bis Advertising Car No. 3, Bamnm & BaUey. polled into Uln- neapolls on time. Mr.. Benzslnger was enter- tained by bis old friend Zach Lackens, and after a spin aronnd the lakes In Ned Barrett's big touring car, a box seat at the gall game ended the afternoon and the evening was spent at the Shnbert Theatre and at. 11:05 Car No. 8 left for Dulnth, Minn. Ij. a. Weddle Is steward on Car No. S and an men are paid np to date, Onr old MlnneaixaiB Mend, Wdwr. irlio came In Benzslnger's car. left the show here to work In Minneapolis. The No. 3 Car had George Herbolsbelmer, Charles Parker.' E." Inman, O. McBvan, Joe Ennig, Joe HcConnlck,-.-Jlm»~ BObertson. Pat Plant, B. B. Sellg, WII|l^fge, Jerry Benslne lUNITED STATES TENT & AWNIN8 CO. EDW. P. NEUMANN, JR.. Praa. JOHN C. MoCAFFERY. Traaa. WALTER P. DRIVER, Vi«».PM«. EDWARD R. LITZINQER, SMy, J22-28 North Desplaines Strwt, - CHICAGO. ILL. i WE ARE GIVING AWAY BLots of free information evefy day con(seming show equipment. ■ Are you getting it? This is information tbat means dollars and S cents to you if you are thinking of outfitting a show. Write u§ ' right now while you are thinking of it. 10 Band Uniforms For S«io at a Bargain WE ARE ALSO AGENTS FOR BOLTE & WEYER LIGHTS. y. Umi REfLlHTlOi Bli:n Of HtRI TEM GOSS' SHOW CANVAS ':\^^J BLACK 'TENTS CIRCUS FLAGS Waterproof Covers SE'iD fOB .SEW CJTiiDi; isn sFrn-iD Hi'\a list. ■ The J. C. GOSS: CO. Pbone Canal seei EstabUsbed 1865 Thomson & Vandiveer Manofacturets of CIRCUS TENTS TENTS FOR RENT ■16 East Paarl StrMt. 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