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

2 Seer ov =slUcae — sos WISCONSIN CONVENTION P. B. Haber, of Fond du Lac, is Re-Elected President Unanimously. rhe Wisconsin Bill Posters’ Annual Con vention closed May 8&8, after re-electing IP. hh. Haber, of Fond du Lac, president, and the other officers of the previous year. George M. Leonard, of Grand Rapids, Mich., president of the Michigan Associa tion, was present, and made an address, advocating closer union and mutual pro tection, The most exeiting incident of the convention was the contest between rival firms at Green Bay for admission into the asso elation. As the Dill posters are a very close corporation having a practical monopoly of all the posting and distribut ing In the State, a membership is vital to continuing in the business. A committee was finally appointed to investigate the merits of the Green Bay concerns, and a decision will be arrived at later. A contest between R. IL. Wilsen, who has been the bill poster at Beloit for the past twenty vears, but had neglected to assoctate himself with the Wisconsin Association, and T now, W. Gates, a new man on the ground, resuited In Mr. Gates’ election to membership Fond du Lae was chosen as the place for holding the next convention in May, 1002. A committee consisting of F. A. Fitager ald, of Milwaukee; G. A. Marshall, of West Superior, and E. A. Hartman, of Manitowoe, were appointed to draft a form of or dinance for the guide of such members as desire a city ordinance, which providing for the licensing of bill posters, in con formance with the law just passed by the legislature last week. bk. A. Kempf, of Sheboygan; Williard E. Carpenter, of Waupaca, and P. B. Haber, were elected delegates to the national con vention at Buffalo, on July 9. The following were present: P. B. Haber, Fond du Lac; Carl Stussy, Eau Claire; EB. J. Kampf, Sheboygan; E. . Hartman, Manitowoe;: . Cc. Thede, Racine; J. W. Gates, Beloit: G. E. Dee, Chippewa Falls; J. KF. Leason, Marinette: Peter Myers, Janesville; Peter Rhode, Kenosha: J. E. Williams, Oshkosh; Will Lansing, Neenah; h A. Newman, Watertown; Willard EF. Carpenter, Waupaca; A. P. Adler, Marshfield; ©. A. Marshall, West Superior; PF. A. Fitzgerald, Milwaukee; H. * Leason, Green Bay. The following bill posters were elected to the State Assiciation: O. G. Brown, Viroqua: J. W. Gates, Beloit; C. A. Marshall, West Superior: G. F. Febring, Antigo: F. M Caldwell, Princeton: F. A. Campbell, Prairie du Chien; G. A. Bishop, Mineral Point; H. A. Bengzle, Augusta; Adam PI. Adler. Marshfield; John D. Lawe, Kauka une. To J. MePhillips, Monree: G. EB. Palner, Oeonomeowee: BE. BE. Davis, Waupun; freorge EB. Dee, Chippewa Falls. The asseciation, under Mr. Haber’s ad ministration, has Increased its membership during the past year over 50) per cent Prom Milwaukee Journal. South-Eastern Convention. to the Pditer of “The Billboard: lhoour Sir Tease announce In next issue \l IS) that the Southeastern States Bill ‘eters’ Assoclation meets in annual conion at Atlanta, Ga., on Monday, May i, Mu J. Dooley has authorized the see fury te annennee that his office will be ro all daw Sunday, the 19th, and some there to give Information about hotels, meeting will be hela, ete. All mem and visiting Dill posters are invited port at Dooley’s office on arrival in nta 'e Aragon Hotel, which Is first class In ’ particular, offers a rate of $2 per day | posters who attend che convention, Kumball Honse rate is $3) and up. r hotels at cheaper rates can be se 1. ff desired ‘1 otfielal notice of the date and place of Southeastern Association meeting was _ und whe in sent to every member and to a large nuinber of bill posters who are not members, on Mareh 15. Attention has been called to it since in all the trade papers, and at every opportunity in correspondence by the secretury. If the attendance Is net large, the fault will net be from lack of publicity, rnd no member can offer an excuse of did not know it’ if he is not present. Vote ov the several vital questions which are coming up at this meeting. The present membership of the Southeastern entitles it to six Jelegates to the national convention at Buffalo, and as the four delegates who represented it at Atlantic City last year made their presence felt when questions of importance came up, there will no doubt be a delegation elected at Atlanta who will again carry the news of ai “Solid South” when they meet the multitude at Buffalo. Every member who has had any experience with traveling agents in the matter of sign tacking, distributing or sampling during the past year by which he did not get what he considers fair treatment, is requested to come prepared togive the details, as an effort will be made to regulate the nnsatisfactory conditions which have ruled in regard to sign tacking, ete. An effort will be made to fix a price schedule on all class of work for which there is no scale at present rik EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. Savannah, Ga, A Showman and Bill Poster. _—_— A kind-hearted showman is by no means an uncommon thing, and a powerfal bill poster is mere common even than = that. fhe fact is, that most all bill posters develop a deal of physical power by handling the brush daily. A. L. Blodgett, now manager of the New Haven Bill Posting Company, was in for mer days a bill poster as well as a showman, and was net lacking in either of the above qualities. Since boyhood he has traveled the Eastern hemisphere, and has filled every position with a circus from candy buteher to advance agent. An old showman who worked together with Blodgett for many years, tells the fol lowing stery of him: “Al. Blodgett, during his cireus days, was known to respect and admire the comnron bill poster, and bad more warm friends among the ‘dope throwers’ of this country than any individual who had to lead the nomadic life of a showman. Several years ago while playing in turlington, Vt.. Bledgett had an altereatien with the bill poster there, who was one of those big, sturdy fellows six feet in his stocking feet, who comes from that lumber region one night, which ended in the unmerciful beating of the bill poster with his own paste brush by Blodgett, upon whom the bill hoster intended to use it, perfect health is a powerful man. Next day Blodgett hunted up the bill poster, who was temporarily laid up for repairs, apologized profusely, secured for him a week's leave of absence, and paid the expenses of a week's vacation at a watering place near Burlington Levyne’s Letter. _—— To the Editor of “The Billboard:” Dear Sir My mail for the past ten days from the bil posters throughout the United States tells me that they never knew of such a rush for space on the boards in their experience, and from these letters I will make up a little letter of squibs Frank Chamberlin, of Burlington, made a eontract for nine months’ continuous showing with one of the national advertisers, who sent on the paper without one stand for renewal, as they knew galvanized steel didn't require it. Rrother Dishon, of Terre Haute, says he ean't put up a pestage stamp, as all of his boards are contracted for. Horn, of Springfeld, is in town, shedding bitter tears, as he claims he is losing money hourly on account of being compelled to refuse work, notwithstanding that he has just huilt a thousand feet of new boards W. M. Sanvage, of Alton, IIL, kept his beards open fer one week, expecting Buffalo hill to pest his town. They didn't pest, and the second day after, at an expense of fifty cents for telegraphic charges, he closed this space out to the American Cereal Company fer sixty days at an advanced rate Charley Kindt, of Davenport, says: “I am full (Tlully Geet) even up to my fat neck, and I don’t want any more paper for thirty days, but vou can send some to Muscatine and just a littl to Des Moines Rob Campbell, of Chicago, writes that he will fix everyone O K., as his plant Is so THE BILLBOARD wirge that he always has room for a “small order, such as a thousand eight sheets, Filbrick, of Buffalo, wants us to suppose he was not “afraid” of this “fly by night.” shaw! He was so afraid he had to raise his prices on posting. I wonder if the advertisers will remeniber this, after the PanAmerican is over. Johnny Williams, of Oshkosh, says he thinks so much of “The Billboard” that he is sending Editor Sam Carey a box and a basket. tlalvers, old chum! Charles Kelly, of Murphrysboro, IllL., says he posts in thirty-two towns tributary to Murphrysbore, and nothing under eight hundred sheets will do. Charley Stutesman, of Peru, Ind., on his recent visit to St. Louis, carried away ‘nough contracts to hold him for awhile. lle reports that he is still building good, substantial boards Bum Chapman, of Cincinnati, has still got that chip on his shoulder, and dares any one to knock it off. That chip means a certain location, in which 300,000 people pass hy in a day. equal to the population of his city—a double-decker, by the way, and at 12 cents a sheet, too. Vhilley & Olendorf, of St. Joe, Mo., write that they have looked all over the large cities of the East and have failed to find n hat large enough for them. The growth of the craniums was caused by the mushroom growth of their city. Mrs. Chas , MeAliney, the bookkeeper for Lonis Bill Posting Company, will ‘ * presented’ with a cane by his admiring tellow-woerkmen, thereby casting Charley Osterman into convulsions. Never nind, Mr. Osterman, vou'll get a cane some day—right across the back. Yours truly, M. L. LEVYNE. A Warning. Junius Garlick, city bill poster, distrib utor and “ad” sign painter at New Orleans, requests “The Billboard” to print the following ordinance, which is the last one passed in New Orleans December 2, 1896, and is a warning to infringers who invade licensed territories with a view of conducting a practice ‘“‘on the sly,’ and who cause the authorized distributor no end of worry: Mayoralty of New Orleans, City Hall, December 2, 1896. No. 12,920 Council Series. Substitute for ordinance by Mr. Sherrouse repealing Ordinance No. 12,783. Section lL. Be it ordained by the Common Council of the City of New Orleans, That from and after the passage of this ordinance, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firms or corporation, to distribute circulars, cards, dodgers, sheets, pamphiets, samples or other device containing advertisements of any description whatever, in the yards or under the doors of private residences or places of business, without first submitting same to the Mayor and obtaining his written consent to each distribution. Section Il. Be it further ordained, That it shall be unlawful for any person or per sons, firm or corporation to distribute advertising matter of any nature whatever, as enumerated above in Section No. L. of this ordinance, except licensed bill posters, provided that nothing in this ordinance shall prevent any business man or firm doing business in this city from distributing his own advertising matter. Section III. Be it further ordained, That any person or persons, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this ordinanee shall be liable to a fine for each violation of not more than $25 or imprisonment fer net more than thirty days, recoverable before any of the recorders of com petent jurisdiction. Section IV. Be it further ordained, That all ordances or parts of ordinances in con flict with Ordinance 12,783. C. S., be, and the same are hereby repealed. Adopted by the Council of the City of New Orleans, December 1, 1896. W. R. BRASHEAR, Clerk of Council. Approved December 2, 1896. W. Cc. FLOWER, Mayor. A true copy. TY. H. THORPE, Secretary to the Mayor. Texas Posting. To the Editor of “The Billboard:" Dear Sir--We are writing to inform you that we are doing business since we have enlarged our plant. In reading “The Billboard” we rotice that news is very searce from this section of the country. We have on our boards at the present writing: Prickly Ash Bitters, Kuppenheimer Clothing, Coca-Cola, Wet more’s Best, Howard's Hats, and are posting for several local firms. We have put up (in addition to that we have already had) 700 feet of new boards, making a total of a littl over 1,500 running feet, 12-10 feet hich, of new boards. We have had our application to the Bill Posters’ Union, to be acted upon, in for ever two months, and have had assurances that as soon as the board met at Buffalo they would act upon it. The. firm consists of Charlie Ross and Eugene Sloan. Ross is the hotel man of this place, and does the office work, and Sloan does the outside hustling. We have also done a good deal of distributing. Yours truly. SLOAN BILL POSTING CO. Laredo, Tex. The * Boycott” is Off. We clip the following from ‘The Bill loster-Display Advertising’ for May. It is taken from the official report of the proceedings of the Roard of Directors on page i, viz.: “Resolved, That, in view of the unconditional withdrawal of the suit against the Roard of Directors of the Associated Bill Posters of the United States and Canada by W. If Donaldson and “The Billboard’ Publishing Company, of Cincinnati, ©... and a change in the management of said publication by which a fair representation of the bill posting interests and the Association’s doings has been the editorial policy of the publication during the past few months, THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS COMMENDS It TO THE FRATERNITY AT LARGE AND THE MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCTATION.” Circus Bill Posters’ Merry War. A Williamsport, P’a., daily paper thus describes the bill posting contest between the Wallace and Walter Main forces in that ‘ity: “Williamsport, these days, is enjoying a novel battle. It is a contest between the bill posters for the Wallace circus and those of the Walter L. Main circus, both of which give exhibitions here in a few days. The rivalry for space on the boards about town has resulted in gorgeous array of grinning clowns, long-necked giraffs, trick ponies and a multiplicity of other pictures characteristic of the American cireus. If the Wallace men have found an advantageous spot at which to paste a flaming poster the Main people are bound to get along-side If the Main people get on first the Wallace posters soon bob up, even though they are compelled to bring their boards with them. One of the favorite bills, when slyly slipped alongside the rtval fellows, is the face of a clown with a broad grimace as though exemplifying the Dutchman's joke—‘‘it is fer to latf.” But all this rivalry in the bill posting business is good advertising. Not alone dose the small boy gaze in wonderment at the magnificent, unparalleled array of gorgeous spectacles of eqescurriculum celebr.ties, but tae sire and the grand-sire also look in astonishment at the wonderful offerings of the two big coming circuses, The Main cireus will reach here first. It comes here from Elmira, and will show in Williamsport next Tuesday, May 14. Mr. Main always tries to be somewhere in Central Pennsplvania on May 30—Memortial lDay—at which time he and his agents visit the cemetery at Tyrone in which the bodies of his men who were killed in the famous railroad wreck are buried The decoration of their graves is considered by Mr. Main and his helpers to be a solemn, yet pleasant duty. ‘The wreck of his circus train occured near Tyrone about eight years ago, at which time many valuable animals were killed, and some esca ° The Wallace show comes to Williamsport from La‘Trobe, Westmoreland county, making a big jump. The show is at Greensburg on Saturday, May 18. It is expected that the circus train will reach Williamsport about 1:30 o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday, Mav 19. The unleading of the circus at the Hepburn street crossing of the Pennsylvania will attract thousands of spectators to that point. Meanwhile the friendly rivalry of the billposters will go on merrily. Daubs. All three of the presidential possibilities are in the Gudocrat party-—-Bryan, Leonard and O' Mealia. Gude taiks confidently and Pratt smiles cheerfully. The situation grows more strained every day. During the wildest flurries in Wall street last week, the stock of the Publishing Company remained unchanged. It is said that the Prattites have Samuel Pratt slated for president and R. C. Campbell for general manager of the amalgamated association. F. E. Fitch is now in full charge of the bill posting and advertising interests of Albany, N. Y., and it is said he is doing an excellent business. The new Empire Advertising and Distributing Company of St. Louis, Mo., is doing quite a large business. It has same very tine work displayed. The Williamson-Gunning Company, who is in reality the St. Louis Bill Posting Company, made a big display in St. Louis for the Buffalo Bill Show. The Greve Lith. Company of Milwaukee, won out in the recent labor troubles. It is now thoroughly independent of both the pressmen’s and artists’ unions. BILL POSTERS’ PASTE BRUSHES. The most desirable & Lasting Brush made. We carry ? brands. “*DONALDSON.”’ “ UNEXCELLED.”’ This brush is manufactured The Best Paste Brush made. expressly for us, and is fully | lar © whare om aceount panto PA Tt is the cheapest | of hes great derabuity. Guar. GOOD brush you can find any| anteed te outlast eli others. where. parces: § in., $2.25ee. | PRICKS: 8 inch...$3.75 cack. Sin..gs2@Toea. Win..$1.00 ca. | Fic. G8.00ee. 10 in..B8. ben the money with the order. None seat C. 0. D. Lithe. Co., Ne My. ee en ——