The Billboard 1906-03-17: Vol 18 Iss 11 (1906-03-17)

MARCH 17, 1906. e DbDOoOard —j GOOD GOODS GETS GOOD GOLD |} Ho for California........Get on the Right Track. Affiliated Western Vaudeville Circuit SAM LOVERICH and TONY LUBELSKI, Managers.? Affiliated with the Sullivan-Considine Northwest Circuit. houses.) Novelty Theatres rich and Rothchild Circuits. in San Francisco, The real circuit with the big houses (our own Oakland, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Santa Rosa, Vallejo, Denver Fresno and Stockton. Grand in Reno, Nev.: Fisher's, San Francisco; Unique, San Jose; Bon Ton, Salt Lake; Lyceum, Ogden; Oak Park, Sacramento. Palm, Cripple Creek; Booking exclusively for the Tony Lubelski, Love Don’t Misrepresent; otherwise will be Cancelled After First Performance. Eastern Headquarters, Novelty Theatre, Denver, Colo, Western Headquarters, 916 Market St., San Francisco. Are ** BUSINESS BRINGERS,” Our Catalogue tells WHY. ATLANTIC CIT) VALENTINE ELECTRIC SIGN CO., “xiWuensey. wPARMELE THEATRE... Platismouth. Neb. Population 10,000. We have some open time in March and April. T. H. DUNBAR, Mor. GALATEA GOME TO LIFE, Great thing for amateur entertainments, road shows street shows, sideshows, store shows. A drawing card forany show business; makes good on any biil; make the outfit yourself. Instructions 10c. HARRY HILL, 120 Sutter 8t., San Francisco, Cal. AIRSHIPS Gas Balloons order pow, as manufacture and treat Gas are makers of the ‘Famous Balloon. Pre OUR DATE BOOKS For the CIRCUS SEASON of 1906 ARE NOW READY. PAPER COVERS 5 Cents LEATHERETTE COVERS 15c. RUSSIA LEATHER 25c. ADDRESS THE BILLBOARD PUB. CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO. WE HAVE FOR SALE AND LEASE Advanse, Prvviade Baggage, Stock and Desirats Go-Rou we Cetaival Compa © ft. leng. ales mable terms. Write for yi T ARMS PALACE HORSE ©. natn No. 1889 Monadnock Building, eee Blood Poison CY A V7 \ and its attending ills, Rheuma tism and Catarrh, in any stage, cured permanently by STERLING’S ROYAL REMEDY. 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A writer in the New York World summarizes them, but declines to vouch for the details, For his 200-acre wheat field, Mr. Ade has a machine that takes the place of a harvester and reaper and binder combined. In addition to the usual crew of eight, it carries a cook and a spare hand. A new attachment, with all sorts of little machines in it, catches the biggest grains of the wheat, grinds them, hulls them, adds the necessary ingredients to make batter and fries flapjacks over the waste heat in the flues as the machine moves through the flelds. The cook simply turns the flapjacks as required, and hands them to the men, who get syrup from a little drip cock on the side of the harvester, connected: with a tank. The spare hand relieves one man after another for dinner,’ and as the knives kill quail squatting in the. fields he picks them, cleans them and tosses them to » who has them in the pan while they are still kicking and served out to the men ten minutes after they are killed. The machine, it should be stated, bags the wheat and stencile the address of the buyer on the bags. COW'S CLUB HOUSE. The dairy arrangements of the farm especially interest Mg Ade’s neighbors. His herd lives in a stable’ the like of which has never been seen in this country. It looks like a club-house inside, The cows’ boxstalls have malachite pillars, and nouveau art broze decorations serve for gcratching posts. The runlets of water through the stalls for drinking purposes go through little troughs of purest topaz, and the racks whence the cows twitch handweeded clover are barred with silver. Overhead each cow’s name Is set in brilliants, with electrie lights bebing. The cows are named for jewels, and each cow’s namestone is used; rubies, diamonds, opals, pearls all shine in order | there. The attention to detail is seen when one looks at Mr. Adejs milk pails. Each one is a piece of pure rock crystal. Celluloid was tried, but a pall exploded under a cow one night and glass pails broke. The stable on Mr. Ade’s farm is stable, engine house, garage, machine shop and carriage house, all in one. All his vegetables go to market in automo®@{les. There is only one horse on the place, wyich is kept to keep a pet coach dog company, The dog was pining away among the machinery, and the ceming of the horse saved his life. The wer from the natural gas well¢’which was veloped on the farm soon after the humorist’s arrival, supplies the dynames, engines, etc., and artesian wells give an ample supply of water. FENCES MADE OF RADIUM. All the fences on the farm are of radium. This boviates the necessity of any lighting apparatus whatever on the roads, for visitors drive between lines of light. And all the crops are grown by aétificial light; electric lights dot all ‘the fields, and on dark, foggy nights the Ade farm throws up a glow from its 8,700 acres like that over a great city. Some of the corn grows #o fast under this light that it has to be cut back each morning, and the ears on this corn have no cob. They are solid kernels from one side to the other. Nor does this ctop fear frost or “‘cold spells’’ to retard growth; between the rows run electric heaters, and the crops grow right along, night and day. Mr. Ade has introduced a seedless melon and \a skinless cucumber; an olive grove, which is planted with lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and lonions between the beds, has also attracted leonsiderable attention. It is called a “salad garden,”” and depends for its usefulness on the machine which is used to plant it. SALAD-MAKING MACHINE. This is a swift automobile machine which strips the various products from tree, stalk, vine and ground.’ As they go up into the machine, each is washed, peeled or cut, and the olives from the trees are pressed. Vinegar is carried on the machine, with little spice boxes, and the salad is made while the machine is running and shot out in separate portions through the dining-room window at the end of the run, 60 — the guests at the playwright’s house have their salads never later than 5 seconds from the gathering of the constituents. If neéessary, the onion digger can be switched off. The consequen of giving great fields to staple products, Tie wheat and corn, has limited Mr. Ade to very little space for his garden crops, but he devised a great Ferris-wheel, with garden beds on g@imballs where the cars would hang at fair grounds. The crops are planted in the generously deep trays of rich soil, quarter of an acre in each bed, and the wheel is set revolving slowly. As each bed reaches the bottom of its revolution it passes through an ever-playing needle bath of fine spray, getting a thorough wetting. Then it goes on to the pure sunlight of the upper air and the candent heat obtainable only at great heights. By this device almost all weeding is obviated and the crops get a fine chance to grow. Squashes that weigh on the ground perhaps 15 pounds apiece, in goed season on the wheel gardens grow to a weight of fifty and even 100 pounds, and the vines ran riot so luxuriously that the great golden lumps often hang over the edges of the cars, like molten gold falling through the air. PETER DAILEY’S JOKE The actor sat with a party of friends in an uptown cafe. His name can’t be used in this story, for he is married. The waiter came to him deferentially. ‘Lady wants you at the "phone, sir.’ The actor jumped up gleefully. A delightful voice came to him over the wire. It was soft, ~~ subtly suggestive of curves and dimples. “Don't you remember me?’’ she asked. ‘“Why T am the blonde lady in the third row you smiled at last night. No, I’d rather not give my name, but I am in the parlors at the Cadillac, if you want to see me.”’ Well, Let’s call him Harris. Harris made a few palpably untrue excuses to his friends and | started for the Cadillac. He was gleefully climbing the stairs when the clerk halted him. ““Where are you going?’’ he asked. “Guest of the house,’’ Harris explained. “‘What’s the lady’s name?’ asked the clerk. Harris explained. “Yes, you get up to the hotel parlors with yx like that—not,’’ said the clerk. “‘Skid Harris returned to his friends in sorrow. He looked at a glass darkly as he sat down at the Httle round table. Waiter again approached. ‘“‘Gentleman wants you on the "phone, sir,’’ he said. “This is the clerk of the Cadillac,”’ said the voice. ‘Sorry for the misunderstanding, sir. I didn’t know the lady was really waiting fer you. She is one of our most valued patrons. If you'll come over again, sir, it will be all right.” Harris looked like a study of joy when he returned to the group. ‘‘See you to-night, boys,”’ he said merrily. ‘Aw revoir.”’ He skipped lamb-like across the street, and, nodding in cheerful understanding to the clerk, took the steps two at a time toward the parlor fleor. Just at the top the clerk caught him by the coat tails. ‘‘Now, I’ll throw you out. You wouldn’t stay away like a gentleman, you lobster, and here’s where you get it. What! Me telephone you? You're dippy. Beat it.” Again Harris returned to the cafe. He glanced over the half-length door before entering. Within he saw Pete Dailey in acute convulsions. He had just finished rehearsing his joke on Harris to an applauding crowd. The telephone had been used from the rear room. Harris bought—sadly. THE BUNC OMAN The Bunco Man visited Gloversville, N. Y., one day last week and succeeded in ~ eo a ten before his departure was discovered. The job was a pretty slick one and finely executed. The advance man for Johnny Ray’s A Hot Old Time Co. had just left the city after having com pleted the billing. The opera house manager was surprised to see another “advance man,” but No. 2 explained that No. 1 had been drinking and there were lable to be some discrepaneles in his work. A telegram from Pittsburg supported his claims and the opera house manager refrained from asking any embarrassing questions. Sure enough, No 2 found that the billing was wrong; that A Hot Old Time played Gloversville several days previous. Then some of the overworked printers got busy on some new date lines which were pasted over the ones posted by advance No. 1. Contracts were made at the hotel for the entire company and many other things that fall to the duty of the painstaking advanceman were attended to. In his haste advance No. 2 found that he was a little short and ‘“‘touehed’’ Mr. 6pera House Manager for a ten. The manager produceh, of course, made haste to prepare his opera house for the last named dates. Then the advanceman skipped, and the local manager learned that he was a fake. The printer’s bill will have to be put on ice and the hotel man and billposter will want to see the color of the next advance agent’s money before they are taken in. | | ample of Our 75¢ HALF TONE Made for Posters, Heralds, Newspapers and Letter Heads. Cuts delivered by mail or express prepaid when cash accompanies the order. KNOXVILLE ENGRAVING CO., SiS Bate St., KNOXVILLE, TENN. «TQ THE PROFESSION. Do you want a perfect voice for speaking or singing? A clear, strong, pure toned voice; a voice that can be heard distinctly all over the house, without effort on your part, and no hoarseness or fatigue even after hours of speaking or singing, | Guarantee to do this or Forfeit $100.00. No medicine—a simple patural treatment; something different from all other voice treatment. Full Course and Guarantee $5.00. W. 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