The Billboard 1901-05-18: Vol 13 Iss 20 (1901-05-18)

THE BILLBOARD am “ Poster ements under this heading will he pub Oy, s kly at the uniform rate of ten cenis per ine f issud, oY $4.00 fer year. Roston Job Print. Co. 4 Alden, Boston, Masg Brooklyn Daily Eagle Job P. Co., B’yn,N.Y Calhoun Printing Co., Hartford, Conn. Calvert Litho Co., Detroit, Mich. Central City Show Print. Co., Jackson,Mich Central Litho So. 140 Monroe st., Chicago Donaldson Litho Co., Newport, Ky. Enterprise Show Print, Cleveland, O. Enquirer Job P’rt'g Co., Cincinnati, O. Erie Show Printing Co., Erie, Pa. Forbes Lith. Co.181Devonshire, Boston,Mass Free Press Show Print Co., Detroit, Mich. Great Am.Eng.& Print. Co ,57 Beekman,N.Y Great W.Print. Co.,511 Market, St.Louis,Me Greve Litho. Co., The, Milwaukee, Wis. Haber, P. B., Fond-du-Lac, Wis. Hennegan & Co., 127 EB. 8th St., Cin'ti, O. fam W. Hoke, 255 5th av.,N. Y. Home Show Printing Co., Atchison, Kas. Morgan, W.J.& Co., St.C. and Wod, Cleve,O Morrison Show Print, Detroit, Mich. Pioneer Print.Co.,214 Jefferson, Seattle, Wash Russell & Morgan Show Print, Cincinnati. * . Associated Poster Printers. fhe Billboard has repeatedly offered to call a meeting of poster printers for the purpose of organizing an association if re quested to do so by ten of the fraternity. We have never received over four re quests We are compelled te conclude therefore, that the majority of the poster printers of America, no matter what they may say, do net really want te join an as sechation They recognize the benefits to be deriv ed from an organization, but lack the moral courage to declare themselves. They are afraid, yet they do not know what they fear They cannnot tell what deters them. In a vague way, the smaller concerns scent a sinister motive on the part of the big ones to dictate prices, and the big fellows de tect insincerity on the part of the small! fry. New York is afraid of the provinces and viee versa, They have all been slashing and stabbing each other in the dark for so long that there is no faith or trust left in them for one another. Conditions are going from bad to worse. The end is in sight and when it comes, it will be too late to mend matters, or rather it will net be worth while. There will not be enough of the business left to tinker with If there are five firms in America today who are really making money, that is, in #n amount commensurate with the capital invested, the ability employed and the ef fort necessary, we do not know who they are Yet a poster printer association would bring about a general prosperity. We will call a meeting if requested to do se by ten firms, Inklings. The Donaldson Lithograph Company _ piled forty-three circuses with printing this Sc ason, William M. Donaldson, president of the Honaldson Litho Company, left for a trip 'o Eurepe Monday, May 18. John Laidlaw, formerly with the Russell Morgan Company, but now in the ink busi ess, will go into business on his own ac count shortly. Ed C. Neele, formerly with the Russell Morgan Company, has come into another fortune. Tlis wife was a cousin of the late Vollis I. Huntington, and was handsomely cthembered in the multi-millionaire’s will. Sam Murray has some ideas fn machinery Which are expected to revolutionize the poster printer business. He is probably the xreatest mechanteal genius in this line in America. His achievements In playing card machinery have contributed more than any other one influence in giving the United States Playing Card Company the monopo ly they now enjoy. $am. W. Hoke’'s “Gold Dust" Highwayman Poster, which has attracted so much attention.. . Amalgamation. It would seem, now that the report of the various committees recommends that the I. D. A. be embraced in the general amalgamation at Buffale, that the I. A. of D. en would get to work. But they show no disposition to. Most of them were greatly surprised that the report embraced distributors. It was quite generally conceded before the meeting of the combined committees that the I. D. A. had no chance of getting in with the bunch. It was to be choked off in the committee meeting. It would not even be recommended for con sideration at Buffalo. . But in spite of all predictions to the contrary, the I. D. A. is in—very much so In fact. What is more it looks like it was going to stay in. It certainly will if apathy and indifference on the part of the I. A. of ID. count for anything. There is just one chance to defeat the proposition—one only. If the Gudecrats make it an issue and win out, it may not prevail. It may be that Mr. Gude would champion the cause of the I. A. of D., he might add to his following, and then again he might lose more adherents than he would gain. The Prattites are for the I. D. A. first, iast and all the time, and they are well organized. Ever C. F. Filbrick, president of the I. A. of D., is a Prattite and with Mr. Steinbremer declining re-election in every issue it looks as if it was all over but the shouting. Samplings. Clarence E. Runey is much elated over the fact that the report of the combined committees recommends the admittance of the I. D. A. The I. D. A. maintaines that the distributing in a town belongs to the bill poster by right. The [. A. of D. says it belongs to ~ man that will pay the best attention to _ A. E. Temple, bill poster and distributor at Bluffton, O., says that bill posting has been good this spring, and distributing has been much above the average. Mr. Temple thinks it is a mistake for distributors to kick about work from advertisers who are slow in sending work or paying, because sometimes they lose good orders. Mr. Temple speaks of the fine treatment he received at the hands of the Wallace Show. J. F. Clark, the distributor at Conway, Ark., reports that he has distributed 2,000 books for Dr. Miles’ Medical Company, 15,000 for the Peruna Drug Company, 2,000 almanacs for the Thatcher Medicine Company. He has 15,000 on the road for the Lydia Pinkham Company. He has tacked 100 signs for the Flexible Sfarch Company, contracted with the Boston Medical Institute for 15,000 booklets to put out over the country routes. Mr. Clark has posted 21 sheets and 10 3-sheets for the Memphis Jockey Club, 100 1-sheets for Dr. Harter’s Wild Cherry Bitters, 35 S-sheets and 185 2sheets for Wetmore’s Tobacco, 16 8&-sheets for Imports Cigars. His prospects, he thinks, are very bright for the future. There are two kinds of space-fillers—planets and fixed stars. The advertisers should get out the fixed-star class.—Current Advertising. This trick of referring to a previous ad. is not a bad one. It is a way of saying, “I told you so!” and if what was told has been confirmed, it makes the teller seem quite a wise prophet. People find it hard to “remember seven things,”” and they have to be led if you are going to do anything with them. An advertisement which asks people to do one particular certain thing, and tells them exactly how to do it, brings better returns ten times over than one of general character, which leaves people to do pretty much what they please.—Fx. MAGNETIC TACK HAMMERS ! t the thing for tacking tin and card board signs. ne Gutributor should have one. Prices, with double extersion handle, 32 inches long, each, rN 7) ? triple extension handles, 42 inches long, each, Send the money with the order. None sent C. 0. THE DONALDSON LITHO. CO., Newport, Ky. t ; :