Billboard advertising (Jan 1917)

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BORN AT THE REGALLY BRILLIANT pt Oatdoor Showmen the World—Commis- ^on Working Ont Plans Permaneat Organi- sation To Be Perfected u Chicago m Fehnuuy Oat of the wonderful Christ- Btas banqaet and ball of the ontdoor showmen, which was held at the Hotel Astor, New York Gity, Decemher 27, and which scored the most snrpris- tag and distinct sncoesa of any tewtioii «r«r polled off at tbafc ItfMBi htMtcft gmr a mm, wmA naadad and vataalde or- * Btll^raB ASSOCIATION or THE OUTDOOR SHOW- MEN OF THE WOBLD and is to be an owners and managers' body. A large and entbosiastic del- egation of Western members ot the Showmen's Lea^e of America attended the festlvi- tiea and showed the East how to do it. Under their enei^tio and forcefnl tactics the move- ment went over with a bang. Fostered and encouraged by the elder oigaaintion the new one can not help bat thrive and grow. ^ An EzecntiTe OonunisBion is working ont the preliminary plans, and when it has finished Ua labors these will be sub- mitted at a meeting to be hela In Chicago in February. It la the intention to held the Ont- door Showmen's Convention the same week the Fair Man- agers meet and the Showmen's Leagne holds its annoal elec- tion, which will be followed by a banqnet and ball. Already politics are rife in connectitm with the officers to be selected for the new organi- zation. John Bingling's name is frequently bein^ mentioned by circus foU: as the logical head, while among carnival BANQUET AND BALL AT NEW YORK A NEW ^ASSOCIATION kfiUiMueal dtod me t autdsor ab ana tM bundreda of oUmt InJwlM of t, rimllar iter—or^nlBtlMb Up to XoiMj IndDMir In tlia Onltsd BtsMi VanderiUat droina. burleaquci rontlan pletuna aia all or- ganlud tor common dafenH aitf com- mon advancement. Iilkcwisa tlie inintcis, tIUlocnPb*n. macbfnary mauulaftareTS, ablpbuUden miA all ocber recosnlzed IndUBtrlea of fim- wss enough. TfauDderona applause greetad hia remarka. and It tna evi- dent to Bee thB.t the SOO ibowmen at the Astor banquet vrere prepared to The temporary secretary of the Executive Commis- sion which is worfclnft out the ^ane and prellmlnaiies of the AssoctatSom of tba Outdoor ^owmoi of the World is AXABBT KIRAUT, I5» Bioodwar,N«rYwk, to whom an i: folk seems to have the calL New York. Dec SO.—ITha Outdoor Showmen of the World had a tra- mendoualy more Important. object than the mare ■'■f'"r o< the lianqi ' In Ita advertlsInE and The BUIboard atoriea tor the laat .Ix weeka—The Aasoelatlon of Out- Loor Showmen ot the World. The natter was not made public until the light of the banquet, aa that the eood I fiir any OlsaentlnK raoeed in one of tbe parlors at the Aator Hotel tor tbe next day at eleven o'clock, and on Thursday at the ap- pointed time tble parlor was crowded with showmen. It waa abvioss that tber realised tbe value of orsanlalaCT that Xhtr lallr oomprebeiided tbe valne ot ttadr oomblned atrensth. and would brook no attempt to delay their union far protective and commercial eaxurea any lonser. William H. Donaldson, owner of The Billboard, waa made temporary preildent. and A. K. Oreealand waa made temporary eecretary. and the body immediately passed Into eiecu- Folra—Albert B. Brown. Sjracuse;- James R. Corey, Iowa Etate Fair: Al- fred Dtcklnson. Michigan State Fair: Frank Fuller, Trl-8Ute Fair, Mem- Patits —Oscar C. Jnrney, Luna Park,. Coney ' Island; Hike Hehn. Electric Park. Kauaaa Otyi Bmll Schmidt^. Riverview Park. Olloaao: OeOTse Ue- Sniesen, Ffttibnrg. Circus—Ed Ballard, Weat Baden,. Ind.; I.0UI3 B. Cooke, Newark. N. X; Al G. Barnes, Venice, Cal.; Frank P. Spellman. New Tork; J. AuEiutna^ Jonea. Warren. Pa. burs; Victor D. I,evltt, New Tork; J. George lAOs, Jacksonville. Fla. Booklns Asenclea—B. P. Carrath- ers. Chlcaeo: Henry ICeyerliotf, New York: Fred M. Barnea, ChkMgO. Concesaions—AI MttS. Out Fraa- cisco; George Sarmon.. CUewo; lice Bernardi. fian Ant^tg; San. Reich. New York. Uanufcictuiera—J York; Henry B. Aucby, Philadelphia; George Lowe, Erie, Pa.: Fred Clark. Chicaso; Walter F. Driver, Chlcaco! Willi am F. llangelB, Coney Island; C r DonaldBoi Ing was accordlnglv adjourned unlU 11:30 on the neit day at the New- York otDcea ot The Billboard. At thlc- Spellman, Albert E. rown, Walter Aucby, W. F. Mangels. C. W. Parker, George Ixiwe, Ed F. Carruthers. Henry Meyerhoff. Clarence A. Wortham,. Harry R- Polack. Victor D. I,evttt. J. Oetiige tiooe. Albert Klralty. Harry F. McGarvle. Oscar C. Jumey. AI E>otla< and samnei Reich) convened In BDIy- boya oOlce. and proceeded to temporary presldrat, vlce-preald«mfl secretary and treaaoror, whose (ar^H ot omee waa to contliiiie only until the-^ nen mHtlBg of tbe Execotive Com- mlttM at tk* Aaodatlon of Outdoor- I' uniiian irilia Triiilil in Chicago la- This Issue of The Billboard is 40,500 a)pies