The Billboard 1923-09-29: Vol 35 Iss 5 (1923-09-29)

SEPTEMBER 29, 1923 The Billboard 115 AGENTS SALESMEN BIG MONEY MONOGRAMING CARS. WAKE $20.00 TO $25.00 DAILY. Automobile owners want initials on thelr cars. You apply them while waiting, charging 25¢ per letter, three letters on each side of the car, six initlal letters im all, for » you charge the car owner $1.50, and you e $1.38 profit. They could not get finer work paid $5.00; then again, no sign painter wold give them as nice a job as you could do wit t experies ce in 15 minutes. You can sell ir jividual auto owners, or you can sell to garaces and supply stores complete display outfits, Nke the one illustrated, at big profits $00 transfer monogram letters im three of our volar styles, with efght borders to match : te working oufitt amly $5.00; or save time and money by purchasing our Special $10.00 Offer, ntalnine 1,000 letters and complete working outfit. Send money order or certified check. Cutfits sent C. O. D. upon receipt of $1.00 deposit. Please specify the outfit you desire, TRANSFER MONOGRAM CO., Inc. Dept. L, 10 Orchard St., NEWARK, NWN. J. KKK KKH HK HK KK * HALLOWEEN * NOVELTIES CONFETTI, SERPENTINES, PAPER HORNS, HATS, Etc. No. 205— Halleween Clown Hats. Gross $2.50 No. 103—Hailoween Paper Hats. As* CRE, GUND. cc ccesccccesccocece 4.00 No, 107—Halloween Hats. Gress. 4.00 “. spree neyreaniaie 10-inch eS ross inch Gross No Goe-Hatiowcen Garlands, 10-ft. BE ccncdanciastus vaeee GO No. €3i—Haltoween Garlands, (2-ft. , Gros ~ = 33—Haileween Wiggling Witch. No. 327—Hailewer n Crepe Paper Hat Assortment. Gross 4.75 4 No. 512—Haltloween Crepe Paper Hat Gross Gat Eee 4.50 No. 155—Halloween Tey ‘Balloons, As_ COFRORE, DOOND . ccccccescscesese 3.50 No. 116—Cat’ s Meow, New Item. Gr.. 8.00 No. 324—Bulk Confetti. 50-Ib. Bag.. 3 0 LL. {f above, postpald, T5c. Imme diate shipment, C tal gue free. 25% de posit required. We spectalize “in Printed Balloons for All Purposes. J. ELCH, 333 Se. Halsted Serents Chicage, mn. KKK KKK KK KKK SIXTY -PIECE ASSORTMENT ALUMINUM SET 6 Only 6-Qt. Preserve Kettles. 6 Only 9'4-Qt. Colanders. 6 Only 3-Qt. Pudding Pans. 6 Only 2-Qt. Lip Sauce Pans. 6 Only 3-Qt. Lip Sauce Pans. € Only 8-Cup Percolateors. 6 Only 10-In, Fry Pans, 6 Onty 8-Qt. Dish Pans. 6 Only Double Boiler. Price of 60-Piece $60. Assortment Set Send $8.00 with order, balance €. O. D. Write for Catalog on Falr and Carnival Goods, A. KOSS, 2012 em Weteted Strest Long Distance Phone, Diversey 6064. FAULTLESS TOY BALLOONS _Order your Toy Ralloons direct from our factory. mi get them fresh and of quality that Is the very dead ted alt Ah fiebaaleg ere ts You'll find our prices down te Bed-roce wer to be had anywhere, quality « sidered, Feultiess Toy Balloons are big and strong. Their bricht colors are non-polsonous and WILL NOT RUB OFF Long necks, easy to tle. In addition to our 1 Balloons we put out a complete line of Rubber N es, Squwkers, Come-Rack Balls, ete. WRITE TODAY for information and prices THE FAULTLESS KUBRBER COMPANY, 930 Rubber St., Ashland, O. Princess Olga Shows WANT Ferris Wheel Operator Must be first-class man. Salary every Tuesday. Also concession agents and a few more clean concessions. Weck of Sept. 24th, Kuttawa, Ky.; Week of Oct. Ist, Marion, Ky. ure in reading of their friends—of NMke distinction. A man or woman doesn’t need be owner or manager of a company, or any other stafl job, to be a showman—which fact is well to consider. They all like these little personal mentions, and many of them give but a fleeting glance at some of the weekly ‘‘writeups’’, Let's have more news of all the show people, not Just a few and the same ones week after week. That Wisconsin State Fair romor does not seem to have real substance behind it. It obtained considerable circulation for all that. These surely are dark days for royalty. They pinched the queen of the Coney Island Mardi Giras right in her palace at the height of her reign. The palace was an alleged speakeasy. In The Dallas (Tex.) Dispatch of September 8 appeared a lengthy article, bearing a New York date line of September 7, telling all about it presumably A quotation follows: "No more lidowns, blowoffs and squeezes,’ saye Mr. Johnson. ‘That means a cleanup of indecent shows and gambling concessions.’ Cryptic words like these spell danger to the unwary. The ‘czar’ explained them: ‘A _ rolldown is &@ concession game where the sucker is lured on with prizes and then bilked by a mechanical trick.’ "" There were some more explanati ons, but there is no need of repeating them A six-inch cut display accompanied the article. The Dallas Dispatch has a heavy daily circulation among the citizenry of that section of the country. and the readers are doubtless very much interested in the enlightenment, The clipping was forwarded to Ali, according to a signature at the top, by G. C. VanLidth, with the penciled comment: “I am proud of our (underscored) dictator." The cleanup is a very important thing to be properly handled, but there are almost countless other issues (among them some very “oppressive’’ ones) to receive the attention of a real, universally operative association of earnival owners and managers. And good results can only be obtained for mutna! interest, with showmen themselves co-operatively behind the movements. As previously stated by the writer in this column, when the meeting was called (to convene in Cincinnati) several years ago, there were at that time mountains of distractive, oppressive onditions arising, each working continually increasing hardships on the outdeoo n—particularly the carnival owner and manager. The Billboard warned without going into extensive detail, and from authentic facts at hand—the urging of an association was not merely (altho to @ great extent) for leaning up—there was much cleaning up e the outside to be looked after, and there's still many bog holes that need immediate attention. This writer claims that no sectional factionalism or “‘territory interest’’ com ions making big splurges in print will suffice to place the carnival business on the bigh plane of amusements where it belongs, and its representatives receive their rights, but that a nationwide and active combination is the all-important proposition to be considered. There is no cause to detail the various issues to be handled, as each owner and manager already knows them full well—or shoulé—thru experience The point is, who of the clan will go to Chicago to the convention for the welfare of all, and who will try to siip one over on his brethren by framing himself fair contracts while they are in meeting and debating. in all. doing something for the welfare of their profession? Truly, who will? December 3 and 4 and a few days following (at Chicago) will provide the answer! Looking backward—from 0. A. Tanner: “Dear Ali—In answer to your query in issue of September S as to who of the oldtimers remember the first Gaskili-Mundy Show. At the risk of my age becoming known I will plead guilty. 1 joined them in 1902 in Nashville, Tenn., where we opened on the penitentiary lot I had the ponies (twelve), the goats that I later sold to Dunbar and a lot of dogs. ‘Pop’ Samwells had his dogs and monkeys, and Grace Samwells her cockatoos. Deacon Delmore came on the lot there to join the show and I wes the only one on the lot he knew. Tom Hurd handled the Wild Animal Show, and Bill Dyer worked the ‘Wallace’ lion. Fred Shields was treasurer and Will Gaskill sold tickets. Joe Conley and Ike Monk ran the ‘Statue’. I have in front of me on my desk my shield that Ike furnished us for admission to the grounds (we played enclosures) and soaked us $2 each for it Reads ‘Gaskill-Mundy Carnival Co., 1902." Meredith sold tickets on the Pony Show and Mrs. Mundy on the Wild Animal Show Doc Waddell. was press agent and wrote columns of a lion getting loose and killing my talking pony, Satellite—and he incidentally came near intercepting some of Percy Mundy « lead when he framed up a yhony abduction of Fatma, one of the Burmese Midgets, and failed to put Mundy wise to the play. Si and George Cleveland were on the trick and Jim Bostock had the English carousel that was made up of two-wheel trailers. I left Tubby Snyder in Attala, Ala., te join them, and went around by Calera to get to Nashv Me I stayed with them until I roungstown, O., when I left to handle the first ‘carnival’ Homewood ever held (the town that put Hatch in the money class). Then went to the fairs, sending my son with the ponies to East St. Louis, where he closed and shipped to Kentucky, “T am now with the Edgewater Steel Oo. and have been for eight years. Also am Justice of the Peace in Verona, Pa. 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Less than Dozen Lots, send Convince yourself of this extraordinary SPEC IAL > RI CED ‘OF FER by sending order at once. A. A. MITCHELL, 16 Sutton Avenue, New Rochelle, New York. MAKE OFFER ON FOLLOWING CARNIVAL EQUIPMENT One (1) Allan Herschell Carousal; one (1) No. 5 Eli Bridge Ferris Wheel, all complete, with power and miscellaneous equipment. write BOX D-91, care The Billboard, Cincinnati, Ohio. MIDWAY WANTED FOR LAMAR CO. AGRICULTURAL FAIR BARNESVILLE, GA.,. OCT. 8 TO 13, Ten to fifteen Paid Attractions, Rides, Band, Concessions, ete. Write C, G. NEAL, Secretary, CORN GAME. GET THE ORIGINAL GAME. ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTES BING Games Complete, Two-Color Cards, Numbered Wooden Blocks and Full Instructions. Size, 8x10. THIRTY-FIVE-PLAYER LAYOUTS... $5.00 | SEVENTYPLAYER LAYOUTS... ._$10.00 Qne-half deposit or cash in full with or CHICAGO DISTRIBUTING C0., 35 So. Dearborn, CHICAGO. Tel. Dearborn 8594 TELL THE ADVERTISER IN THE BILLBOARD WHERE YOU GOT HIS ADDRESS. ne