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

6 ee meee tere Ee ee Re Rn wt THE BILLBOARD r _—— fre BiceBoarp. Published Weekly at 426 Elm Street, Cincinnati, O., U. 8. A. Long istanee telephone Main 2079 R. Address ali communications for the editorial or ess departments to bi THE BILLBOARD PUBLISHING CO. Subscription, $4.00 a year: 6 mos. $2.00 3 mos., $1.00, in advance. ADVERTISING RATES. Ten cents _ line, agate measurement. Whi ole page, $70; ha , $35; quarte 4 premium om ———.”” . a rd is sold in London at Low Ex Charing Cc and at American » ewspaper cy Trafalgar BuildBera, ‘The. trade a ’ The suppli the American News Co, and its branches, Hanttienes should be made by office er press money order, or 2 amar ter adi or made payable to the Billboard Pub. Co. Theeditor can not Gaderiake te reqre unsolicj ents pogo keep copy. on. eoev,!uaievationmeetn erent tates ian ‘ t matter of pe Tosy be haa’ by recourse on Cipher Code. Entered as Second-Class Mat at Cincinnati, Ohio. a oa ree Saturday. June 28, 1902. On August 1st next the advertising rate’ of “The Biliboard” will be advaticed to 15 cents’ a line, agate meas: urement. Parties who now Have T. F. centratts rufining with us’ can have them exchanged for time contracts, and extended until December 31, at the’ present rate: Provided applica tion for the exchange reaches us before July 1. In default of sith notice the 15-cent rate will apply te T. F. and transient advertisers alike; and will take effect (August 1) in the issue dated August 9. Nothing of late years in the way of amusements bas grown and multiplied at such NP ge rate as has fhe traction park. But a few years since and the park as ap institution was comparatively unknown. Today there are over five hundred (to be exact there are 5 listed in this issue of “The Billboard”). , ; It is not altogether easy to satisfactorily account for the great vogue they are enjoying. Of course it is due in part to the support they obtain from the trolley companies who are willing to start and help to maintain a resort that peoplé will haye to ride to get to. It is also due to the desire of people to get out in the country: during the cogniry season. Bnt these reasons not wholly account for’ it. ses To our notion, the bicycle is largely responsible for the existence of the great number of parks, summer gardens ang pleasure resorts. If this be true, and. w think it is, It is ahother exemplification 0! the law of compensation, for no device was ever more heartily cursed by theatrical folk than the bicycle when it was at the heighth of its reign a few years back. But. while it was cufting off both ends of the theatrteal s@ason, it was also opening the eyes of city folk to, the beauty and rms of the country. Up to that time many people kniéw that these beautfes and charms existed, but they were regarded as inaccessible. To enjoy them was only possible if one had a week's time at one’s disposal. The going and coming was a task not to be lightly undertaken. The bicycle changed all that. It made a few hours in the,ecountry possible, and that in turn made the traction park possible. The bicycle is rapidly passing, but the park is here to stay. It is a great blessing, too. People have as great or even greater need of amusement in the summer as they have in the winter, and actors and actresses have just as gfeat need of employment. This park provides both, and thereby proves a very useful institution. Its effect on_professional people will be far stone en an attor finds his art in demand the whole yeaf round, when he can rely on obtaining a living from it winter and summer, he is boufid to gain in confidence and stability. As he advances in his own estimation so wil], the profession in the estimation of the public at large. > 2 The’ tirhéwill come when you will seé theatrical ventures and theatrical folk quoted in the mercantile agencies and re gatded as seriously and respected as great] as atiy: other business or people fo iowing it. @retofore, a theatrical man in th estimation of bankers or financiers was a person Impecunious or of doubtful financial standing. This impression is fast passing away even now. Very shortly it will have disappeared altogether. When it does, give the park that meed of credit which it deserves. In the meantime, recognize the worth of the park and the work it 1s doing. Consider it carefully and seriously. Then be a booster. If you are financially able to revel in idleness in the summer months, good and well. So are many people in mercantile life. Remember, however, how many, many people are pot. Consider your less leagues. And boost for their sake. In a word, do not speak lightly of the parks or those who play them. As an institution it is even now very useful, and is doing a great work—a_ greater work than the Actors’ Fund, Society Homes, etc., all combined. It is making the actors’ profession a solid and stable one on which he can rely for support the year round. W. N. MERRICK. (See First Page.) Mr. W. N. Merrick, the subject of this sketch, who is now musical director with the Forepaugh & Sells Bros.’ Circus, is a native of Zanesville, O. Mr. Merrick entered the circus business with the original Van Amberg Bros., in the early seventies, and has been continuously engaged as musician and leader ever since, without missing a single season. For the past twentyfive years he has been connected with nearly all the circuses and minstrel shows on the road, He was with the old J. H. Haverly when the latter first lannched his Mastodon Minstrels, and played with the fumous Meclntyre and Heath when they first made their debut as concert or ‘after show’ performers, under the white tents. Ever since the inception of the Sell's branch of the Forepaugh-Sells Shows, Mr. Merrick has been almost continuously. connected with them. He is one of the oldtime ‘‘wagon show’ musicians who has not yet lost his usefulness. He has a faculty for collecting and keeping around him the best musical talent in the eircus profession, and as a result his music is always of the highest order. Mr. Merrick, was among the first to feature a full military band under canvas, and has introduced many novel ideas into circus band music, his incidental music being nearly all composed and arranged by himself, and very original in conception and execution. It enjoyS a peculiar popularity, both among educated musicians and the general public. Indeed, it is seldom that an act is featured that. he is not called upon to produce suitable music, and in no instance has he been unequal to the task, Mr. Merrick has composed many very catchy numbers, which he has declined to have published, His latest production, “The Equestriepne March," is now being used for the grand entry with the Forepaugh-Sells Show. It will be published in the near future by the Charles R. armes Music Company. _ Mr. Merrick’s. friends and acquaintances number, almost the entire circus professien, his long career in the business (covering more than a quarter of a century), having brought him into contaet, with all the greater and lesser lights of the tented arena. OBITUARY. James Ward, a well-known Irish comedian, passed away recently at Syracuse, N, Y., of pneumonia. Mr. Ward was formerly a. Detroiter,-and made his debut at the old Germania Hall, in t!.at city. The remains were shipped to Deroit, where a brother and two sisters survive him. ANIMAL FARM. Bostock will Establish One at Man hattan Beach Park. Cleyeland, O., June 14—Frank C. Bostock’s collec of wild and trained animals are in their new quarters at Manhattan Beach Park. New sheds and enclosures were tinished last week under the supervision of Mr. Bostock himself, He intends to make his permanent animal! farm here, and will devo % much time to the breeding and training of wild enimals, ps they are scarce and # great demand. For this purose Mr. Bostock has secured agents in A RELIC is Stage Coach with Great Buffalo and Wild West Show. The Great Baffalo and Wild West Shows Tnited have secured a Rocky Mountain stage coach that is replete with historical interest. It is to be used in the daily exhibitions of the show, and will, no doubt, make a tremendous hit. Society ladies and prominent newspaper men will he asked to ride in this venerable Concord during the ‘“‘hold-up’’ and made race at each per ance. en. U. 8. Grant, General Custer, Leland Stanford, Villard, the railway plunger, and other distinguished citizenrode in this cradle of the wilderness. It was ptesent at Gold Creek when the golden spike was driven to bind the eastern and western link of the Northern Pacifle Railway in 1883. At one time it ran between Drum Lummon and Butte, two of the most famous camps known to. the mining world. It made trips to Walla Walla, Bofse, Salt Lake and Arizona. It was the mute witness of several desperate hold-nps, and was onee dragged over a ptecipice by a wild horse In a runaway. Of later years® it did pete on the = head Indian Agéncy, @ was repeatedly attaéked by the copper-colored monarchs of the forest and plains. 4 fortunate col! “AERIAL AD. MACHINES Do Not suit People of Fort Dodge. A néw kind of advertising, through the medium , called the aerial advertisin achine, -which, is, manufactured, at Ted nd | Harbor, Mich, -was Bea heel by some --} re enterprising tirms in F , la The model was of a windmill shape, and the signs that adorned it were painted upon large blades that were moved about by the wind. The seheme was to place them at the main entrances to the city, where the farm traffic could easily see them, and it was argued that the advertising results were much better than many other me diums, owing to the novelty of the idea in that it created favorable comment for those firms that had their names printed-on them, The first heavy wind storm damaged some of them so badly that they were practical useless. All of them frightened horses, an several narrow escapes from serious runaways were experienced by farmers who had to pass by coming to the city. ‘The matter has evidenty aroused the tre of the farmers, and at the meeting of the couned) the following getiiee was presented, which, owing to the number and importance of the signatures, was given immediate attention by the council. fo the Honorable Mayor and City Council: We, the undersigned, petition your henorable body to condemn.and have removed, the advertisements known as the aerial advertising machines, made at Benton Harbor, Mich., as they endanger the life of every farmer who has to come to. Fort Dodge and drive by one of these machines. The street commissioner was instructed to take all signs inside of the city limits down at once, and those outside the limits wil) be turned over to the board of supervisors and a similar action by that body recommended. BIG FOUR SPECIAL RATES. S. L. Horton, of the Cleveland, Chicago, Cincinnati & St. Louis Railway (‘The Official Route’), is sending out the foHowing circular letter to bill posters and distributors: The twelfth annual meeting of the Associated Bill Posters and Distributors, and the fourth annual meeting of the International Distributors’ Association of the United States and Canada, convenes at Milwaukee, commencing Tuesday, July 8. The Associated will meet at the Hotel Pfiester. Special rates at the Hotel Ptiester: American plan, 3.00 to $5.00 per day. European plan, $1.50 to $8.00 per day, owing to the location of room and number of persons occupying same, The International will meet at the Repub“ss pa Hi! Amert , $2.00 epublican House: erican an, per day; with bath, $2.50. . Members and their families, advertising agents, opera house managers, etc., living south of Cincinnati, will leave over the Big Four Railway, under the personal supervision of Clarence E. Runey, official representative, leaving Cincinnati (Grand Central Depot), Thursday evening, July 3, on the 8:30 train, arriving in Chicago 7:10 a, m., in time to spend the Fourth In Chicago, While in Chicago, the members will be entertained by the American Posting Service, Lake and Morgan streets. Special rates have been secured at the Briggs House, Fifth and Randolph streets, Chicago, European plan. The rate will be $18.00 for the round trip from Cincinnati to Milwaukee, and members have the option of using either rail or boat from Chicago to Milwaukee. All communications for berths and tickets should be addressed to J. E. Reeves, general Southern agent Big Four Route, northwest corner of Fourth and Vine streets, Cincinnati, O. P. S.—If you are not a member of the association, you should write Chas, Bernard, secretary, Savannah, Ga., who will give you all the necessary information about joining. CROP REPORTS. It sould be born in mind that the South depends less and less on cotton every year. The crops are annually becoming more diversified. This. has a tendency to make the season in Dixie earlier. The berries this year sent a great deal of money south. There was over $1,000,000 worth shipped from Chattanooga alone. The time is not far distant when a spring season !s possible south of Mason & Dixie’s line. Much money is being sent south at the present time to move the watermelon crop. This getting to be quite a factor in business, an grows in importance each succeeding year, Kansas, Iowa and Illinois have suffered somewhat from excessive. rainfalls, but the crops in those States will be as good as usual, other favorable conditions having offset the loss by. rainy e Texas crops have lost considerable from drouth, which still prevails. The outlook in other parts of the country is exceptionally bright. Michigan needs warmer weather to produce as good a crop of grain as it Is posstble, The wheat harvest in Indiana will be fair, West Virginia, who already has the fod of woe on her neck, will have a light whea crop. INDUSTRIAL REPORT. | The strike Im the hard coal country ba’ now continued for. such.a, len of time that. the whole region has been ruined, for business of any kind. Advertisers, show, men and theatrical managérs will de. well to steer clear, of it, It can, not recover its normal condition for months. to to gome. ‘est Virginia is also fast getting into ba c Abape on acconnt of the strike of the soft coal miners. ,-This, at js nat general as Yeta, but is, fast # ~ and unless speedily checked, will become serious. » Diavele, the * ae will be a paso of : Canty at ‘Springfield, O, week ef July 7. o*s s~s-s-s ARERR RS GENTLEMEN'S List. . dame, W. Lawren tm 3 Adams, W.F. Leinen, Frank, sen, ' Lawrence, Ed, Andrews Carnival Leavitt, HL. 2., A oe a Lewis, G. AL, ge. un, Gayton, . 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