The Billboard 1902-06-28: Vol 14 Iss 26 (1902-06-28)

— REMEMBER THEIBILLPOSTERS’ CONVENTION--MILWAUKEE, JULY 8-11. on nd THE BILLBOARD MUST ENLARGE PLANT. Bill Posting Plant at East Port, Maine, Can Not Accommodate Business. | in The business of the Eastern Bill Posters’ Associntion has increased so rapidly in the last three or four weeks that the management of the bill posters’ plant of East Port, Me., find it necessary to enlarge their plant by the addition of two thonsand more feet of bill boards in East Port «and Callais. James A. Muldoon, of | East Port, and J. A. Sennet, of Callais, are in charge of the plant. NEW COMPANY. One Has Been Incorporated in Norfolk, Va. Consolve & Cheshire Company, whose chiefly devoted to bill post The business will be ing. has been incorporated in Norfolk, Va., with a capital stock of from $25,000 to $100,000, The stock of the company is divided into shares of one hundred dollars, and the fol lowing are the ofticers: H. C. Cheshire, president and general manager; Walter H. Taylor, vice president and general counsel; Charles H. Consolvo, secretary and treasurer. These, with H. D. Oliver, James V. Trehy and S. Page Butt, are to compose the Board of Directors. NEVER BEFORE Has Bill Posting Been So Good in New Castle. A communication from Bill Posting Company, Pa., states that never before in the history of the city has the business of posting bills been in such a flourishing condition. They further state that their plant now includes 3,000 feet of boards, all of which are so full that there is not room left for a postage stamp. They sold the Buffalo Bill Show 800 feet, the balance being local work, including Day and Night Tobacco, Hires’ Root Beer, Gold Dust, Puck Rye, Tom Keene Cigar, Mennen’s Baby Powder, Youngstown Races, Mather Bros., jewelers; Pearce & Quig, gents’ furnishers, and PD. and C., Navigation Company, with plenty of orders to commence July ATTEND THE CONVENTION. Every bill poster ought to attend the convention at Milwaukee July 8-11. It is a duty that he owes to himself and his fellow eraftsmen in other cities. If you have not prepared for the trip you have made a se the New Castle of New Castle, rious mistake. Take our advice. Go, if you have to borrow the money You will find yourself so broadened by the experience and so much benefited in a business way that you will count the expense as naught. If you are not a member of the association, there is all the more reason that you should go and learn of its strength, helpfulness and great resources. DAUBS. Milwaukee! Milwaukee, Wis.!! Join the association. Milwaukee, Wis., July 8-11. Milweukee, Wis., July 8-11, at the Pfister. Hote! An opposition firm has opened at Marietta. O. If a ean not buy ‘“‘The Billboard” at your newsdealer’s write us about it. Milwaukee, Wis., July 8-11, at the Hotel Pfister—greatest gathéring of bill posters. Five bill posters from England will attend the bill posters’ convention at Milwaukee, July 8-11. Bill posters will oblige us by sending us | the names and dates of all tent shows, playing their towns. John Moore, the globe trotting poster | salesman, will attend the bill posters’ convention at Milwaukee. The City Council of Newark, N. J., refused the renewal of the license of the Newark Bill Posting Company. J. L. Campbell, the bill poster at Shelbyville, Ill., is going on the road to promote free shows in small towns. The Hotel Pfister will be the headquarters of the delegates to the convention of bill posters, to be held in Milwaukee, July 8-12. If you do not attend the bill posters’ eonvention at Milwaukee, you will be sorry when you read what you have missed. John Dow, the bill poster at Manilla, is coming all ‘the way from the Philippine Islands to attend the bill posters’ conven tion at Milwaukee. Milwaukee, Wis., July 8-11, twelfth annual convention of the Associated Bill Posters and Distributors of the United States and Canada. Cc. R. Sydman, formerly bill poster with oe" s Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company, has joined G. W. Hall Bn Sons’ Circus as banner | Ifuntington AY, DisTMNBITONS OM MEROALADIRIITRE, d "Prank i ~ x ‘Toledo, O . and A. G, REMEMBER THE BILLPOSTERS’ Bryan. of Cleveland, will represent the Ohio Bili Posters’ Association at the na tional convention in Milwaukee, June 8-11. Do not be surprised if the the presidential race should denly in the semblance Four. ‘They say it is but probable, It is rumored that a movement instituted by the people of Nutiey, sey townurd the abatement of bill that town. The good people of must have plenty of time to waste. One of the aldermen of Duluth, is trying to put through an orinance ‘for the restriction of bill posting and distrib uting in that city. He laso wants to prevent the erection of any sign boards along the streets and on the buildings. The situation at Huntington, W. been cleared up and settled H. Ramsey has sold his new Ek. Rice, and signed the tion fer membership in now has a and no opposition. The firm of Auslet & Gibbs, of Thibodaux, La., write as follows, viz.: ‘We beg leave to call your attention to the fact that we have succeeded Mr. C. P. Auslet in the bill posting and display advertising business. Mr. C. P. Auslet is too well and favorably known to the advertisers of the United States to need any comment. Mr. H. L. Gibbs is an advertising man from California, with a thorough experience in all its branches. The plant has been entirely renovated and greatly enlarged by the erection of many new boards and the addition of thirty-one towns, together with their country routes, embracing nearly every town of importance on the Southern Pacific and dark horse in loom up sudof one of the Big not only possible, will be New Jer posting Nutley Minn., Va., has amic ably. L. plant to M. latter's applica the association. first -class plant, Texas Pacific Railreads from New Orleans to the Texas line, a distance of over 200 miles,"’ DISTRIBUTORS’ NOTES. Write to the fair managers near you for work. You will find them all in “The Billboard.” We will publish next week the names of seventy-two new firms who will distribute during the summer and fall. Circuses are showing a stronger disposition every year to patronize distributors. Write the agents. You can find their routes in “The Billboard.”’ The distributing department of Owens, Varney & Green, of San Francisco, Cal., has just issued a very neat booklet, entitled “Right Way to Reach Buyers.”’ If you are going to work the fairs, write all the agricultural, farm and dairy papers. They pay good prices for distributing sample copies with subscription blanks to “farmers only.”’ If you possess the knack of soliciting subscriptions, you can earn a tidy little sum at each of the fairs. COMMERCIAL ADVERTISERS. Righty-six new fair dates claimed in this issue, To popularize a brand or a trade-mark nothing is so fast or as economical as the poster. If you post, paint or distribute, you will be welcome at the bill posters’ convention in Milwaukee, July 8-11. Read our crop and industrial the editorial page, and you right country at the right time. no sense in billing no money in it. Instead of kicking against the Bill Posters’ Association, advertisers ought to recognize the improvement in service that the erganization has brought about, and thank their stars for it. A new agency called the Ohio Advertising Agency has been opened at Marietta, O. The firm will take contracts for bill board advertising, distributing, tacking, painted country signs, ete. The best of service is guaranteed. Commercial advertisers in San Fr Cal., and vicinity, reports on will post the There is a region when there is ancisco, ought to read the booklet which Owens, Varney & Green have just issued. The booklet is entitled “Right Way to Reach Buyers,”’ and sets forth in a very brief and comprehensive style the possibilities of distributing as a means of at | tracting patronage. Te bill hoards are the best of all adver tising media when the goods are stocked. ‘they never fail. Much of their force is sometimes lost when the goods are not on sale to meet the demand, or when there is not 4 large enough stock in the retailer's possession. If conditions are right. though, the bill boards will create demand and sell goods faster and cheaper than any other advertising under the sun. A man of experience and acumen, who has watched the gradual development of advertising until it is the very essense of business, avers that it does more than at tract an inereased amount of business from a given amount of trade. He deelares that it acts as a creative force, gen erating trade, as desire (hence lected without it were, and creating a a demand) for new and negcommodities. In «a word, business advertising is no business at all. NAT GOODWIN When he reaches Cincinnati, al s dines at Nougaret’s Cafe, 220 Hast Fourth street. Mest thegtrical epicures visit this celebrated qotabeeement, where they are sure to the hast. ADVERTISING TIPS. When the advertising wanes the patron}age diminishes. hs Good advertising will sell any article, a faulty goods bring no repeated orders. In this rapid age, a name, to be remem‘red, must be kept constantly before the Porenng “No risk, no gain,’’ does not apply to advertising, because it is not a risk, but always a gold-bringing venture. lracing the success of any business or article of to-day always leads to the fact that advertising was the medium. A business without advertising is entity, but life and action in the tising department brings returns dreamed of. A business is known by its advertising. Proper management and judicious advertising are the elements that constitute a thriving business. oat RINT ERS BEPC OSTERS: ‘acHAND-BILES nll Advertisements under this heading will be published weekly at the uniform rate of ten cents per issne, or $400 per year. American Show Print, Milwaukee, Wis. N. W. Ayer & Son, Philadelphia, Pa. Bell Show Print, Sigourney, Ia. Calvert Litho. Co., Detroit, Mich. Central City Show Print, Jackson, Mich. Central Litho. Co., 140 Monroe st., Chicago. Cc. H. Buck & Co., Boston, Mass. Donaldson Litho. Co., Newport, Ky. Enterprise Show Print, Cleveland, 0. Enquirer Job Print. Co., Cincinnati, 0. Erie Show Printing Co., Erie, Pa. Gt. Amer. Eng. & yy > Beekman st., N.Y. Great W. Print. Co., 513 Elm, St. Louis, Mo. Greve Show Prtg. Co., Milwaukee, Wis. Haber, P. B., Fond du ‘Lac, Wis. Hennegan &'Co., 127 E. 8th, Cincinnati, O. ork. a nonadvernot $am W. Hoke, 255 Sth ave., ‘New Y Standard Emb. Co., 1858 Broadway, Mie Me Home Show Printing Co., Atchison, . Starr Show Printing Co., Mason City, Ia. Mason City, Ia.—Star Sh iow Print Ce. Morrison Show Print. Co., Detroit, Mich. Penn ~~ & Pub. Co., Philadel bia, Pa. Pioneer Printing Co., ‘Seattle, ash. Planet Show Pt. Co., Chatham, Ont. ee & Morgan Show Piss Cincinnati, O . E. Runey, 127 E. 8th st., Cincinnati, O PIC RUSSELL’S WILL SUSTAINED. By consent of all heirs, the will of the late Capt. “Pic’’ Russell, of the Russell & Morgan Co., was sustained by Judge Caldwelle jury June 16 at Cincinnati. is son, Willis Russell, was not satisfied with the bequest to him of $1,000 and a onehalf share of Florida land. So he sued to set the will aside. His brother George, who was treated in a similar fashion, did not sue. Under the compromise the other heirs purchase from Russell the 114,000 acres cf Florida land he inherited under the wi'l. The Russell estate was valued at $800,000. INKLINGS. Hennegan & Co., of Cincinnati, O., will make the show work for ‘“‘Indiana Folks.”” The Miner Litho Company, of New York, is getting out the window work for Edwin Young’s rural drama, ‘Indiana Folks.” The outing of the employes of the Donaldson Litho. Company was held at Macke’s Grove, back of Cincinnati, June 21. The occasion was made all the more enjoyable hy the presence of Mr. Wm. M. Donaldson, president of the company, who had just returned from Europe. Twenty-five prizes and trophies were awarded to contestants in the athletie events. Musie enlivened the affair, and a splendid banquet, at which 211 sat down, brought the day to a close. WEEKLY LIST OF BILL POSTERS. Advertisements under this heading will be published weekly at the uniform rate of ten cents per issue, or 34,00 per year. ARKANSAS. Conway—J. F. Clark, Box 92. Springdale—Hite Sanders Co. IDAHO. Pocatello—George Dash, Box 272. ILLINOIS. Bloomington—City B. P. Co., Coliseum Bldg. Peoria—Auditorium Bil) Posting Co. INDIANA. Michigan City—J. L. Weber & Co IOWA. Des Moines—W. W. Moore (Licensed Dist.) KANSAS. Atchison—City Bill Posting Co. Parsons—George Churchill. MINNESOTA. Minneapolis—Gibbons Bill Posting Co. MONTANA. Billings—A. L. Babcock. NEBRASKA. Hastings—M. M. Irwin. NEW YORK. New York City—New York Bill Posting Cu. NORTH CAROLINA. Statesville—Rowland Advertising Co. OHIO. Middletown—Anthony H. Walburg. Zanesville—Wm. D. Schultz. PENNSYLVANIA. 4 \toona—Chas. Edmund Grubb 827 4th ay. a aa ir. 5 New Castle—The oving C. B. P. Phoenixville—Geo. Pa ” Oberbsltser.” ™ TEXAS. Cc a ‘Paul Grills, Gainesville—Paul Ga Cc. B. P. an Yoakum—C. C. Tribble. when UTAH. Salt Lake City—Grand Bill Posting Co. WEST VIRGINIA. Bluefield—H. I. Shott. WISCONSIN. Prairie-du-Chien—F. A. Campbell. WEEKLY LIST OF DISTRIBUTORS, Advertisements under this heading will be published weekly at the uniform Fate ot ten cents per issue, or $4. Ww per year. ALABAMA Troy—Josh Copeland. ARKANSAS. Conway—J. F. Clark, Box 92. CALIFORNIA. Eureka—W. H. Mathews, 636 2d st. CONNECTICUT. Windsor Locks—Willis L. Sizer. ILLINOIS. Chicago—John A. Clough, 42 River st. East St. Louis—H. H. Deemar. Gainesville—H. Hulen B. P. & Dist. Co. Peorila—Auditorium Bill Posting Co. INDIANA. Huntington—Benjamin Miles, 8 Everett st. Indianapolis—Indianapolis Adv. Co., Stevenson Bldg. Indianapolis—Vansycle Adv. Co., 114 Il. st. Marion—John L ood, 920 S. Branson st. Michigan City—J. L. Weber Co. Terre Haute—O. M. Bartlett. IDAHO. Bolse—R. G. Spaulding. IOWA. Des Moines—Des Moines Ady. Co. Fort Madison—Sylvester Johnson. Sioux City—A. B. Beall. KANSAS. Atchison—City Bill Posting Co. MASSACHUSETTS. Boston—Cunningham & Goustes, Brockton—John V. Carter, 288 Belment st. MICHIGAN. Peoria—Auditorium Bill Posting Co MINNESOTA. Morris—George R. Lawrence, B. P. & D. MISSOURI. St. Louils—S. A. Hyde, 2136 Eugenia at. NEBRASKA. Hastings—M. M. Irwin. Schuyler—Rus & Bolman. NBW YORK. New York City—New — B. P. Ce. Ogdensburg—E. M. Bra Schenectady—Chas. H. Besedict, 121 Jay st. NORTH CAROLINA. Statesville—Rowland Adv. Co. OHIO. Columbus—S, A. Hyde, 2136 Eugenia st Fostorla—W. é: Tirrill & Co., 116 W. “wit fin st. Martin's Ferry—J. F. Blumenberg PENNSYLVANIA. Carlisle—Wm. M. Meloy, Box 49. East York—Richard R. Staley. **Johnstown—Geo. I. Updegrave & Co. Phoenixville—Geo. K. Oberholtzer. York—Richard R. Staley. SOUTH CAROLINA. Columbia—J. C. Bingley (ad. Charleston.) TEXAS. Beaumont—Montgomery Adv. Co WISCONSIN. West Superior—C. A. Marshall, perior Hotel. CANADA. A. F. Morris, mgr., Hastings st., Vancoe ver, B. C. Montreal—C. J. T. Thomas, Box 1129 BUFFALO, N. Y. tuffalo, N. Y., June 23.—Teck Theater, (John a Mer. )—“Moths” was up the past week, and business continued falr, the Teck Theater Stock Company giving good satisfaction In the cast. Academy Theater, (Dr. Peter C. Cornell, West 8nu Bus. Mgr.)—‘Hoodman Blind,” with the Baldwin-Melville Stock Company, openes to-night to excellent business. ‘‘Camill and “The Two Orphans” divided the past week, to fine returns. LaFayette Theater, (Chas. Baggs, Megr.)“The Innocent Maids” appeared to good business the past week. Joe Morris, Madden and Jess, Mark and Kitt Hart, Ed. Johnson and Mae Hilliard and others &ap “The Devil's Daughopened to-night for a return engage peared to advantage. ter ment, Shea’s Garden Theater, (M. Shea, Mgr.) Ida Melville and company, Eva Madge, the Four Lukens and others, athe fous one of Shea's Own Shows, crowded the house to night. Valerie Bergere and company, E¢win Latell, Ward and Curran, Susie the Merrills, the Auers, the Six Blackbirds and Nat. M. Wills caught on the past week, Forepaugh-Sells Bros.’ Circus, aa 21. The Welsh Bros.’ Cireus is doing the e nearby towns, appearing at Batavia, Y June 21, JOHN 8. RICHARDSON CONVENTION--MILWAUKEE, JULY 8-11.