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Volume XVII. No. 10. CINCINNATI NEW YORK- CIIIC A G O March 11,1905.

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women on the American stage; Mr. Charles J. Wilson, recent basso with Edward Harrlgan; BESSIE VVYNN Miss Dorothy Gray, leading soprano of The Strollers; little Agnes and Reginald Blair, two DRAMATIC MINSTREL! of tlie mo-it versatile and talented of children VAUDEVILLE BURLESQUE artists. Miss Kleanor Blair, Mr. Eugene Keith. Miss Fanny I'routy and Mr. Arthur Lorraine. MUSIC OPERA Tills Is a list of people who have made good in either the legitimate or vaudeville, and com- mand a salary that places them above the Cousin Billy is not the greatest of average artist. The finale of the act Is a big Clyde Fitch's plays tint it serves to draw a radium dance that Is In Itself a big feature very gratifying amount of business to the card. Eight ghosts, with radlunilzed costumes Criterion. The principal Interest 1* In Francis and hollow pumpkins for beads, execute a Itcan- WlU-on's work, his first in straight comedy. tiful dance and chorus. There Is an excellent quartet which is an important feature of the Things Theatrical in the Metropolis, The Duchess of Dantzlc at Daly's act. Dave Nowlln Introduces his celebrated and Bits of General Interest lias more than fulfilled the prophesies founded barnyard Imitations during the course of the Discussed on the Rialto. on Its remarkably successful opening. act, and other novel specialties add atmosphere. We carry all special scenery and electrical There were no real openings on Lew Fields has not yet found It effects." The act was written and staged by llroadway last week, though a special matinee necessary to change his program. It Happened Dave Nowlln. who also wrote the special num- of Rlchter's Wife, a drama by Julio riertie, In Nordland lias proved a big winner. bers and songs used exclusively by the Barn In which the playwright herself appeared, was Dance. given at the Manhattan Theatre on Monday Lovers of epigramatic comedy are afternoon. The play Is too morose to be suc- finding surcease at the Garrlck In Bernard Charles W. Coleman takes exception cessful, even If It were not wanting In other Shaw's You Never Can Tell. Arnold Daly to the note In the last Issue of The Bllllioanl respects. The plot deals with the love of a is sustaining his reputation in the piece under In which it was said that a protege of Mr. musician for his cousin from the west, who has the management of Llebler & Co. Fred Beckman would handle the excursion car come to New York to enter upon a musical with the Frank Robblns Show. Mr. Coleman career under his tutelage, he being the director The County Chairman put In two says that while Mr. Beckman is a very desir- of nu orchestra of considerable Importance—and good weeks at the Grand Opera House, closing able sponsor, he thinks he Is strong enough to tile husband of a rather flighty -wife. The fact theie last Saturday night. stand on his own reputation, and liegs me to of his being 11 husluinil at nil Is what makes announce that he will have charge of the car. the plot possible. None of the character* are Lew Dnckstnder was no doubt as glad to get back to New York as New Yorkers particularly Interesting, though some good work Bert S. Gllmore ("Pop") writes thai wen- to ;ee him. He Is putting In the week Is done by several of the actors. Chrystal Herne. he Is in the South with Benton's Comedians •it the Grand Opera House. sister of the pluywrlght. for Instance, in the but will be back with the carnival boyn thin part of Helen, the western cou: In. and William summer. Blanche Walsh has come into her In Babes in Tcyland. linn phrey as Bandit, a musician of ir.e;tns and own with her success in Tlie Woman In The i •*** ability, also In love with the heroine. The | A. E. ("Kid") Hodges and D. T. Case. Clyde Fitch's latest success, at the Herald llainlll stopped In to say "Howdy" on their proHem is solved In the end by the wife's sul- S-|iiiire Tl nitre. HARRY MORRIS DEAD Hde i:pon learning of the love of her husband way to the steamer which Is to bear them away fur Helen. Altogether, the play falls Co satisfy. to the Buffalo Bill Show In Paris. Both an Success makes the man and want members of Local No. 1. Harry Morris, one of the best known of It the fellow. Strongheart has made William impersonators of German character In Maude Adams' successful run at the ('. I'e.Mille by Its success. Incidentally It this country and for the past twenty- Umpire in The Little Minister and 'Op O' Me Alexandria Vlarda, the celebrated five years prominently connected as a Thumb came to a close last Saturday night. bus added to the reputation of Robert Edeson. Polish tragedienne, supported by a West-end It Is drawing big business to tlie Hudson. comedian, died, Feb. 27. at the private In this, the greatest of the Harrie plays, Miss Co.. will present In English, Deliorah, the trag- Adams more than duplicated her former success. edy In four acts from which Leah, The Forsaken, sanitarium of Miss A. L. Alston, No. Notwithstanding Love and The Man 26 West Sixty-first street. New York. Ixith from an artistic and a financial standpoint. was adapted; also Alexandria, a drama of has tieen rather severely criticised, business at Death was due to complications fol- She was first seen In the play as John Drew's modern life In four acts; and Beyond Our Power, the Knickerbocker is up to the top notch. The lowing an attack of pneumonia. Mr. leading woman at the same house several years a powerful, new, up-to-date drama. The com- people know that Mr. Forties Roliertson could Morris entered the sanitarium three ago. She lias matured In her art since that pany will go en tour shortly. not lie had In anything. They go to see him, weeks ago and his recovery was ex- time, but she ha: never nad a better vehicle not the play. pected up until a few days before his than The Little Minister. She will take her J. M. Norton, of Delmar Garden, St. Louis, Mo., was a caller last week. Mr. Nor- death. New Yolk company on the road, where a pros- The popularity of Fantana at the IHMOUS tour is certain. William Gillette follows ton predicts a prosperous season for the Garden, Mr. Morris was born in Cincinnati Lyric Is not waning. of which he has been requested to take the in 1854, and early entered the pro- her at the Kmptrc. *-•-» ••••» management. fession. For ten years he and Henry Mrs. Fiske continues to attract good They do say that Augustus Thomas Fields operated companies. He pros- Illiniums to the Manhattan with Leah Kleschna. lias never before produced anything so good as Edward J. Connolly was severely in- pered in his ventures, and about 1890 Mrs. Lemngwell's Boots. The play stands alone in Its cluss of successes jured about the eyes by the premature explosion married Miss May Howard, who, how- this season. While It presents psychological of a revolver during the firing scene of The ever, secured two divorces from him. <|uestions ill a most interesting study, the other Wright Lorimer, in The Shepherd Duel in The Snow at Colonial Music Hall one Miss Howard, upon learning of her King, will fill out five weeks at the New York Miiccisses on Broadway are so, either from the night last week, and was unable to appear former husband's Illness, went to his •tand|H>lm of sparkling comedy or tangible sen Theatre. Business Is not good. New Yorker's In several subsequent performances. Indeed, bedside and forgetting all estrange- tlrnent. The Music Master, with David War- don't exactly take to Mr. Lorlmer's play. Still, an operation was necessary to remove a large ments assisted in caring for him. She Held as the star. Is enjoying the same degree It had a most successful tour and no one seems splinter from the eye-lid. He narrowly escaped was at his bedside when death came. of popular favor at the Bijou that distinguished to know Just why it should not draw big busi- being totally blind. Mr. Charles James Cherry Mr. Morris excelled In burlesque. It at the Belaseo Theatre earlier In the season. ness here. substituted him. CLYDE PHILLIPS. He burlesqued Wilton Lackaye's Sven- Its Interest Is founded on sentiment. Its plot ga.ll, and In a burlesque on Mme. Sans Gene was successful as Napoleon. He has no great depth; but oh. what a depth of Thearle & Buckley, those two en- NEW PLAY AT THE YORKVILLE feeling David Warfleld puts Into the part of terprising agents who hare been rapidly forg- once headed the Twentieth Century Maids and several A Night On Broad- the old musician. People who see The Music ing to the front in the past few months, are The Red Carnation, a new play from Master weep. Its pathos Is most delightful. Issuing a little four-page newspaper which they way companies, which are now suc- the pen of Mrs. Elizabeth Lee Shepard, cessfully running. Just before his ill- The College Widow at the Garden Theatre is call The Stroller. In It are to lie found many will be produced by the Yorkville Stock Irresistibly funny. George Ade has Incarnated bright lilts that make the doings and alms of ness Mr. Morris was associated with Co. at the Yorkville Theatre, New Joseph Weber at the latter's Music Ills abundant sense of humor In it. These three the Arm well worth reading in explanation of York, next week. The piece was orig- plays have been running longer than others In their position the editors say In part: "Some Hall In New York, taking the part inally written for Odette Tyler, now formerly played by Lew Fields before New York, excepting Iluuipty Dumpty at the four months ago the Thearle-Biickley Agency with Mrs. Leslie Carter in Adrea. The New Amsterdam, which as a spectacle can not was an experiment, today it Is a fact." This the dissolution of the Weber-Fields scenes of the new play are laid In Paris partnership. lie classified with the drama, and constitute Is quite true. It Is a fact, and a very striking at the time of the imprisonment of the whole gamut of what may be enjoyed by fact. They also explain that the firm Is more Marie Antoinette. the aesthetic theatregoers In the whole variety than an agency. Thearle & Buckley are pro- BERKELEY THEATRE OPENED of Ills moods, ducers of vaudeville novelties, and willing to -»•*• work In conjunction with other agents for their OVATION TO FERDINAND BONN It was a top-heavy house that wit- mutual benefit. Thearle & Buckley believe that Henrietta Crosman has just finished nessed the reopening of the little the proper way to put on an act Is to furnish Upon his return to this country Hiiother three weeks' engagement in Sweet Berkeley Lyceum Theatre on Forty- it with the best scenery. They carry this Idea Ferdinand Bonn, the German actor, was Kitty Bellalrs, this time at the Academy of given an ovation at the Irving Place fourth street, New York City, last Music, to popular prices. There have been into execution in all their productions. All their Theatre, New York, last week. The week, when, under the management of very few successes In the Irish drama, and this acts are scenlcally perfect. Their Liquid Air demonstrations. Radium Act, Great Barn Dance, house was crowded. Bonn appeared as Mr. Frank Keenan there was inaugu- Is certainly an exception. Another David Be- rated at that house a series of unique and other productions are In this category. Rabbi Sichel in Freund Fritz, and lasco star. Blanche Bates, has followed Miss one-act plays In triple, following the Concerning their Great Barn Dance Thearle & seemed as capable of touching the Crosman Into the Academy. The Darling of general plan of the Antolne Theatre In Buckley have the following to say: "The Barn springs of mirth and tears as In The Gods will no doubt have a most profitable Paris. Whether from curiosity the Dance Is a rural comedj- sketch, with songs, former days. Bonn has returned to engagement, as tills Is Its first return to New large crowd had gathered or for the electrical effects, a great Radium Ghost Dance, America for a series of performances. York since its long and successful run at the purpose of witnessing a failure in this and tlie most realistic old barn dance ever pre- Belaseo two seasons ago. little playhouse which has sent to the sented on any stage. There are ten people NAIADA INJURED theatrical bargain counter so many In the act. each with a reputation as an artist It Is the general verdict that Mrs. adventures, it soon became apparent of pronounced ability. The act contains a dis- Last week Nalada, as the top-liner I^eslle Carter has never done such excellent work that success was In the air for the new tinct plot, dealing with the rival attempt to at the Trent Theatre, Trenton, N. J., liefore as characterizes her performance In venture. All three bills were successes win tlie hand of a village maiden by a young proved a winner. On Saturday night Adrea, the latest Belaseo play at the Belasco and proved interesting to the audi- country lad and a youth from the city. Comedy as she was preparing for her aerial Theatre. ence, which applauded vociferously. situations, interspersed with pleasing songs and flight one of the wire supports broke At the Threshold, Strolling Players, spectacles, go to make up an act that holds and the dancer was precipitated to the Mr. Frank Keenan appeared at the and The System of Dr. Tarr were the the undivided interest and appreciation of the stage, a distance of twenty feet. She Berkeley Lyceum last week In three playlets, three bills presented, the first making audience from the rising of the curtain to the was seriously Injured though not per- entitled respectively. At The Threshold, Strolling the most pronounced hit. The com- beautiful spectacular closing. The old corn manently. Players, and The System of Dr. Tarr. On pany in support of the actor-manager Tuesday evening the entire house was reserved husking with the attendant "red ear" forms has been chosen with care and each for the Comedy Club. The engagement was the key to the plot. The leading comedy role NEW VAUDEVILLE STAR member was well cast. is held by Dave Nowlln, woo has earned con- a distinct success. Although Antoine's Theatre may siderable reputation In vaudeville during the Harry LaMack writes that he has never reach the Bowery, the initial Fritzl Scheff Is enjoying the same past ten years. Miss Gladys Van 18 also one )ust signed contracts with Miss Elnora success of Frank Keenan has made an of the most prominent members of the company, popularity In Boccaccio that marked her earlier McDaniels, making him her manager impression. Many may be the artis- which Includes such well-known people as Tell productions at the Broadway. Miss Scheff has for five years. Miss McDaniels comes tic successes that the patrons of the Taylor, formerly leading juvenile with Quincy carried all her charming qualities Into comic from Australia and is said to have a house will enjoy. Mr. Keenan promises opera and she has a very extensive following Adams Sawyer; Miss Josle Slsson, late of wonderful soprano voice. She will ap- to establish In popularity the house In New York. Slsson and Wallace, one of the best character pear in vaudeville. which has witnessed so many failures. The Billboard

entertain the public during the summer season. Island, with band accompaniment, and ha) The elephants are chained to the wall of a I signed to slug as the feature act of the Inter- H. M. BREWER wide corridor surrounding this ring. "Itaby state Live Stock Fair at Sioux City, la., this Boo," the pet of the great herd, is a sjiolled fall. .Murphy suvs. the only trouble is to con- kid. t'nless noticed by strangers, she will butt, vince managers (hat lie can do the work, as Things Theatrical North and West roll, and squeal like a pampered crazy-head. Ills act is so out of the ordinary that people from a Chicago Point of View. The horses are stabled with blue-blooded con- lire skeptical of his ability to make good: how- sideration. The stalls for the draft horses are ever, lie offers as reference of his ability not The winter quarters of Rlngllng of the box kind, generally assigned to aristo- only managers and band conductors, but Con- Brothers Circus are now the most complete and cratic high-steppers. The ring stock stables gressmen. Cuited States Senators ami (ioveruors, modern in America. Everything that money and connect with the ring barn. The latest Inven- so we arc likely to hear more of "The Man enterprise, aided by an experience of the widest tions for ventilation and light are used In these Who Slugs To Heat The Hand." range, could suggest, has been adopted. The quarters. There are 075 horses In all. Two »•* latest inventions in machinery and electrical 'hundred of these nre highly bred and educated Sosmen and Landis, the bis scene service are in use. More than twenty great animals. The horses that are used to haul the palming firm, of Chicago, and tin* originators hulldlngs are required for the home quarters property burdens of the show are superbly .f ele nlc th< of this enormous circus. None of these build- formed and run In weight from l.flOO to 2,000 so popular at the various summer resorts, are ings, excepting the office, occupies less ground pounds. Most of them nre dappled greys, well now biilMIng right of them for delivery before space than 200 feet square. These buildings bred and young. Spencer Delevan. who looks May 1st. and also various other scenic produc- tions. They are constructlng an especially elab- range along the hanks of the Baraboo river for after this department of the great shows, has p about a mile, and spread back from the lazily l>een engaged In this work for forty-five ycnrs. orate "Johnstown Flood" i nr the million dollar flowing stream about half that distance. Sur- He knows and lo\es the horse nature. It Is Wlillc City Park of Chli-a^o. ulso for Dream- rounding this big acreage of show property are a treat and a profit to hear him talk on his laud. Cleveland, the llopkhii Parks at Kansas tastefully designed cottages, with sloping lawns pet subject He can make human nature shrink City, St. Louis and i ..• i \illr. and Rocky Glen and no separating lines of fence. Big elm and look black and useless by comparison. The Park at Scraulon, I'a. They seem to have al- trees with scrawny black fingers in the winter small army of men under him are imbued with most a complete monopoly of this electric the- time, and umbrella spread leaves In summer, his spirit, and the result is a horse exhibit worth atre building. Their long experience, of course, thickly stud the hillsides and stand in solitary going miles to see. The splendid beasts have since the Chicago World's Fair In 1883, Insures grandeur here and there along the winding street a luster of eye and hide which betoken perfect an absolutely perfect entertainment. Their that faces these pretty houses. All of these health and care. scene painting department Is also running to houses were built and are owned by heads of A mile and one-half out of town are two full capacity, something heretofore unknown departments and thrifty employes with Rlngllng enormous barns recently built, with every stall at this season of the year. This certainly speaks Brothers. The office is a three-story edifice, occupied. Big fields adjoining are used by pretty well for the theatrical outlook the with reception room, consultation room and these horses for exercising, and it is a fasci- ciimlng season. rooms for the auditor and clerical staff. Upon nating sight to see them enjoy their liberty. <••* the other two floors are the private offices of The horses that work together in the traveling Recent advices from Minneapolis in- the Ringllng Brothers, and large general rooms season keep at each others side in all the dicate that everything is flourishing there in for assistants and stenographers. Desks are confusion and excltment of the recess. There the way of amusement enterprises, and it looks provided for the convenience of visiting show- are similar, only leas spacious grounds for the Mg fur the coming season. With three new men and business agents. horses to limber up and frolic near the stables theatres Just built, and the new White City The only frame structure within the houudrles at winter quarters. buildings already under way. things are most of the circus quarters proper is the hotel, where Last year buildings were erected for car decidedly on the boom. The G. J. Preecott are fed and housed two hundred workmen during construction, an Innovation in circus enterprise. hooking agency has moved to more commodious the winter season. This hotel has a manager, Ten cars have already been turned out in these offices, 2KJ and 217 Lumber Exchange, and are and chef with a corps of help. There are shops that are much superior to any found In doing a big business In the line of attractions two ring barns, so-called, although they are general railroad service. Rlngllng Brothers have for county fairs, street fairs, fireworks displays, built of stone and iron. Every hour of the proved that there Is a great saving In the etc. The University of Minneapolis Is prepar- The above Is an excellent likeness of Mr. H. day and frft into the evening these rings are cost of a car, by having It built under their own ing for the annual Mid-winter Circus at the M. Brewer, manager of the opera house at hands. The materials used and the care and I'liivcrslty. Last year It was a great success, New Vienna, Ohio. Mr. Brewer has been con- busy scenes of practice and horse drilling. They nected with the house for the past five years, are fitted with dressing rooms for the perform- pride of the skilled' workmen employed insure and this year promises to be much better. The and Is a hard hustler for business. He 'plays ers and trainers, like a fashionable up-to-date greater safety and longer life for these cars. Vnique Theatre Is preparing to make some only a limited number of attractions each theatre. Electricity is exclusively used for Several stock and flat cars are now under way. large improvements by adding a second gsllery season. lighting. In the two carpenter shops are the and the shops are working day and night. to take care of their increasing patronage. The latest inventions In machinery to facilitate and There is also a harness shop, where every strap new Auditorium, seating about 3,000, opened season is probably a forerunner of the success improve work. Forty men, the most skillful and holding link and button of the working with a series of musical events of considerable gear of a horse is made. This Is another evi- to be enjoyed in Chicago. Some idea of the workers, are employed here from the middle of importance. outlook may be estimated from the fact that November until the first of April. Thousands dence of the Intelligent and economical manage- Manager Adams made hut little more than upon thousands of feet of lumber are put ment of the World's Greatest Shows. J. A. Bradley (Doc) is in Chicago hare announcement of the Parsifal performance through these practised hands Tor the multi- One of the interesting sights of a tour of and organizing a company to produce The Hust- on Tuesday, March 21, at 5 o'clock, placing varied needs of the big show. Poles of every these winter quarters Is a glimpse at the ler, season to open August 7. The piece has the seats for this single performance on sale thickness and length, seat boards and backs, Interior of the paint shops. The gorgeous tab- been entirely rewritten and rebuilt and the fonr weeks ahead. Almost every seat In the wagon parts, dining tables and the seasoned leau floats, musical vehicles, flashing chariots, paper used for the attraction will consist of theatre for that one performance is already woods for railroad cars and circus vehicles of animal dens and picture cars are to be seen no less than twenty-eight varieties. The com- sold. It Is a most ex traordinary occurrence utility and ornament, are the practical output there In the plainness of undress and all the pany will travel in Its own special car. that such a big sale could be made with so of this department. The woods are carefully splendor of finished appearance. Hundreds of Uttle effort. selected by special agents, and must have the pounds of gold leaf (and everyone knows how John Moore was in Chicago Monday, expensive a pure article of this is) are used resisting and enduring qualities of steel. Hugh 27, en route to Ixmdon, via. New York. Pearl Souder, superintendent of ele- piles of rough timber are plied up along the to give richness to the allegorical figures and delicately traced designs. The solid grounds phants with the Rlngllug Brothers Shows, re- rivers' edge. Thirty blacksmiths and wheel- Jack West and Burdl Bartram closed newed old acquaintances in Chicago last week. wrights make the air ring with Industrial music of purple, crimson, green and white are laid with Hooligan's Troubles after a pretty pros- over two coatings of simpler colors, and re- -•-•-•- In the adjoining shops. Between these hives perous season and are In Chicago. The Schwartz Theatre, Waukegan, and the wagon building and paint shops Is a quires several weeks to get that solid, imperv- Is enjoying an eminently successful season. wide field space filled with wheeling structures ious surface which wears so well and seldom The ruins of the old Orpheum The- waiting their turn for repair and decoration. shows sign of blemish. No two of the parade atre at 120 and 128 Washington street, opposite Fred P. Sargent, general agent of the The finished wagons and chariots, those the cages are exactly alike In decorative features the city hall, are soon to give way to a hand- Mundy Shows, closed some railroad contracts public are familiar with, refulgent with red and coloring. Artists who have made special some new playhouse, to be called the Goethe. In Chicago last week. and gold, are stored In marshal array In study of festival decorations are engaged by Work will be begun shortly, for, according to enormous fireproof buildings. The massive floats, Rlngllng Brothers and receive the highest pay the architect's statement. It is desired to have for their distinctive services. A unique Inci- George Hines will have two splendid with raised figures and filigree embellishments tile building ready for occupancy early In the attractions at White City Park this summer. In gold and sliver, that glorify and Individualize dent of the day at these busy quarters Is the fall. Aside from the theatre, which will seat fire drill. Hose-reel houses have been erected, Prof. C. D. Wlllard's Temple of Music and the Ringlfng pageant, are muffled In fine linens about 1,300, it Is planned to conduct a large R. J. Blake's dog, pony and monkey circus, here like a singer's delicate throat. Four great from which long lines of hose may be swiftly dancing academy in the hall on the first floor, run to every part of the grounds, and there is each of them occupying specially erected build- buildings, built of pressed brick and trimmed while in the basement beneath a cafe will lie ings at a cost of |10,000 each. stone, are devoted to the wild animals. pressure sufficient to throw a stream any neces- opened. The entire building, it Is said, will sary distance. A bucket brigade Is organized tie leased by Burke's dancing academy, which The Rlngllng collection of wild beasts Is The Great NIcoli' has secured the probably the most valuable and extensive on In every building and every day they rehearse expects to devote the theatre to vaudeville and filling and passing buckets, climbing ladders services of James Sullivan, comedian, to assist the American continent. The utmost care Is conduct the dancing feature on a larger scale him In his exhibition of magic. given to these strange creatures, and they are and rendering "first aid" to the Injured, as in than the present location permits. Architect separated, as far as possible, so that no dis- the case of actual necessity. Wherever wood George O. Garnsey, 185 Dearborn street, is in Is used In any of the buildings It has been Al. Glllingham, manager of privi- turbing species may b« within offending sight charge of the plans for the building, the speci- leges with the W. P. Hall Shows, was In or hearing of each other. The "cat" animals fire-proofed, and corrugated iron, stone, brick fications for which call for a fireproof structure, and steel framed glass are the materials almost Chicago one day last week on his way east have cage rooms 12 feet wide and 10 feet deep, with steel trusses, hardwood finish, steam beat, from Lancaster, Mo. with connecting doors that may be swung open exclusively used. There Is so much of Interest opera chairs, modern decorations and electric to write about In the varied departments of lights. A feature of the theatre will be a for social Intermixing or exercise. The giraffes Mr. and Mrs. Barry Gray called Mon- have a domlcle of their own, with ceilings high Rlngllng Brothers' Immense circus Institution, aeml-clrcle of twenty-five boxes, occupying the now at semi-rest In Baraboo, Wls., that one entire front of the balcony. The usual boxes day, Feb. 27, having closed a three months' enough to suit their reaching necks and floor engagement with the Cornell Concert Co. In space for limbering exercise. Their keeper has must call a halt to conform with reasonable on the floor will soon be In evidence. Above space In one article. the balcony there will be a gallery constructed Kansas. They are on their way to New Vork a cozy compartment under the same roof, where to join the Barnnm & Halley Show, and were he can see and hear his delicate charges at strictly according to the requirements of the city ordinance, the seating capacity of which guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Andress while In all times. These rare animals are touchlngly A new novelty In the line of out- Chicago. fond of their keeper and droop perceptibly when- door attractions Is Bert Morphy. Mr. Morphy will be about 400. The building will be four ever he leaves their company. The hippopota- has been a feature with a number of military stories high, as was the old building, some of mus has a toboggan slide and swimming pool bands, and was engaged by the National Re- the walls of which are In good condition and Harry and Laura Gillman, after a that would make a romping small boy envious, publican Committee to sing campaign songs foi will be utilized In the new structure. TU» long season of forty-two weeks with the Queen and the rhinoceros, the costliest of all wild President McKlnley In 1896 and 1800, accom- property belongs to the Alexander White estate, of Haytl Co., are In Chicago arranging time beasts, as well as the fiercest, has a spacious panied by Phlnney's United States Band of and for years has been permitted to stand /or their vaudeville act. steel cage, where he lumbers around a good sixty-five pieces. He has been for a number practically idle. The opening of a new theatre part of every day with an enthusiasm no one of years singing with band accompaniment for on the site will much Improve the appearance The Paine Pyrotechnic Co. will ex- would associate with his bulky "make-up" and the Columbia Phonograph Company of New of the block facing the city hall. ploit the greatest fireworks spectacle ever at- drowsy air when seen In the menagerie. The York, and was the musical feature for two tempted In The Fall of Port Arthur. Recent meat, vegetables, herbs, and other food given seasons of the Forepaugh-Sells Brothers United The coming grand opera season at bookings Include Indianapolis, week July 3. to the strange creatures In this soologlcal settle- Shows at Madison Square Garden, accompanied the Auditorium, announced for one week only, Bert Gregory has returned, and In the absence ment, are scanned closely by caretakers, who by Merrlck's Concert Band of fifty pieces. will be the shortest Chicago has ever had; but of General Manager H. B. Thearle, Is In charge follow scientific rules In Its preparation and Morphy Is the possessor of a baritone voice every Indication points to the fact that It will of the main offices in Chicago. distribution The immense herd of forty ele- that has an extraordinary penetrating quality. be the most brilliant In the history of the phants "keep house" In a great round building and Is known as "The Man Who Sings To Beat city. Chicago has not been slighted In the Manager Ben Glroux of the Criterion built of pressed brick with a glass dome for The Band." He has a long Hat of bands that matter of time by Mr. Conrled, Boston, Phila- Theatre, Chicago,, and Roger Imhoff, of Bob ventilation and light. A ring about 40 feet he has sung with, and has been heard at public delphia, and other large cities having been Manchester's forces, were made Nobles of the In diameter Is used to practice the big beasts park concerts In New York and Chicago. Last given but a single week. The success of the Mystic Shrine, Feb. 21. In the numerous odd act* with which they summer Morphy nog at Dreamland, Coney grand opera In New York during the current WABRBN A. PATRICK. Billboard

BOSTON MANAGER REMEMBERED don and the English provinces. Mr. Mr. Ernest Crawford opened the tour Philip Torke, the well-known English <>f ids Russian Spy Co, at Alton, 111.. Feb. GERTRUDE DION MAGELL -7. Hiram W. Hayes, author of Louisiana. When Isaac B. Rich, the well-known showman who has been the director is also the author of this play. of Sousa's tours in Great Britain, is Hostoii manager, stepped into his office Will D. Jacox, formerly with Driven in the Colonial building the other among those who believe that London, From Tht* Altnr Co.. Is spending n v.iratlon al morning, he was surprised to find It in fact, all England, would give the Ills home in Lniiisi:ni:i. Mo. He will probably nicely decorated with choice flowers. Field Minstrels a hearty welcome. take nut u company of his own next season. Besides, there were several baskets Louis Weslyn, who has just returned Mr. Jos. M. Jacobs, former manager filled with floral offerings and a large from Europe, has spent the past week **f tlie lireak for Liberty Co., has taken charge with the Field Company, negotiating: of Iteiitf row's Pathfinders. The company is hunch of telegrams lay upon his desk. playing to M;: liuslness all through the west. It was his seventy-eight birthday, and for the European tour. Mr. Weslyn. he had been liberally remembered by accompanied the Kilties Band on their Frederick H. Wilson, who has been European lour, and reports them doing featured in The Taming of The Shrew with his numerous friends and employes. Mur^an-t Kill ph. has resigned to take charge From the united staffs of the Hollis splendidly. of tlie tour of Florence (Jale In As You Like It. and Colonial theatres came a gold Sir Henry Irving has accepted the watch, appropriately engraved with NEW VAUDEVILLE CIRCUIT .. invitation of F. R. Henson and the memorial monogram and inscription and accom- commit lee thill he and his company should play panied by an interesting souvenir. A new vaudeville circuit of fourteen The Merchant of Venice at the Stratford-on- This was a heavy card bearing a por- cities will soon be established in Ohio j Avon festival Monday evening;. April 24. trait of the aged manager, a photo- and Indiana, to include about fourteen Miss Alice Fisher starts upon her tour In The School for Husbands under the graph of the place at South Orrington, theatres. Mr. Russell H. Osgoodby. the management of Mr. Fred C. Whitney about Me., where he goes for his summer va- Muncie, Ind., oil operator, is at the April 1. Her principal support will be Jameson cations, and a souvenir ticket of the head of the project. In order that he Lee Flnney. KrncHt I lust ing; and (.race Filklns. Old National Theatre, signed "Isaac may give his entire time to the busi- Oliver Morosco is reported to be B. Rich, treasurer." The ticket is over ness he will sell his oil properties. confined to Ills bed from illness caused by the sixty years old. The staff of the Park Fort Wayne and Muncie will be among hurst ing of a blood vessel In his nose recently. The hemorrhage proved an obstinate one. but Theatre sent an enormous basket of the Indiana cities, while Cleveland, his physicians succeeded In stopping the flow beautiful flowers, while the employes Sandusky. Loraine and Dayton will be of blood. of his two other Boston houses re- among the Ohio cities in the new cir- The steamer Oceanic, which sailed membered him with floral gifts. Per- cuit. New buildings will be erected in from Liverpool for New York March 1, had sonal friends remembered him in a all cities where a suitable theatre can among her passengers the company of Russian similar manner and a number of trib- not be obtained. Mr. Osgoodby now actors headed by M. Orleneff and Mine. Nasl- gmoff. who will present The Chosen People In The subject of this sketch made her first utes came from New Tork. All day operates the Star Theatre at Muncie. this country. appearance. In the profession at the age of six. Mr. Rich was kept ousy answering playing toe. role of Cupid, In Shakespeare's Harry Bryant, the popular agent of Comedy of^ Errors, with Robson and Crane at telegrams. One from Maude Adams CLUBROOM FOR PROFESSIONALS Rowland & Clifford's Gamekeeper Co., was the Hollis Street Theatre, Boston, Mass. Later read, "Love and good wishes on your tendered a reception at the home of his friend. she played children's parts In The Silver King birthday." At a meeting of the St. Louis (Mo.) John Magraer. in Ludlngton, Mich., while ar find in Rip Van Winkle with Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Rich is apparently in good health ranging for his company at that place. Lud After three years with Frederick Warde she Chapter of the Actors Church Alliance Ington is where Harry spends his summers. entered the Convent of the Sacred Heart, where and by no means looks his age. held recently, a project was advanced she completed her education. Resuming her to establish a permanent clubroom in The three act comedy, Molientrave theatrical career she became In turn a member on Women, which was successfully produced of well-known stock and traveling companies 'WAY DOWN SOUTH the downtown district for the use of in London recently, may be seen on this side, of the higher class. Her latest and most pro- the members of the Alliance and as It Is understood that several American man- nounced success was as leading lady with the 'Way Down South, in Richmond, Va., traveling companies. The suggestion agers are seeking negotiations with Its author. Bufflngham Stock Company at New Bedford. the theatrical company exhibiting too was favorably received and referred to Alfred Dutro. Mass., where she played for four seasons, ap- much of the lithe form of femininity a committee, consisting of Messrs. Miss Adelaide Keim, leading lady pearing In different roles, all of which added with the DeWItt Company of Players, has be- to her success as an actress. Miss Maglll Is had better be prepared to seek protec- Robyn, Short and S. E. Taylor, Rev. come extremely popular In Baltimore. On one of the leading ladles on the stage at the tion in a cyclone cellar should the Day and Mesdames Cannon, Robb and Washington's birthday, after the matinee, she present time, and Is considered one of the most mayor happen to be in the neighbor- Miss Ludlum for development. The of- received so many floral offerings that the stage versatile. She has been engaged to fill a fifth summer engagement at New Bedford, where she hood of the theatre. He has declared ficers are Rev. Carroll M. Davis, presi- resembled a flower garden. Is a popular and universal favorite. war on all "unduly" exposed limbs, dent; Rev. Crozler G. Adams, secre- Mr. Frank Mason reports fine busi- whether they be paper ones on the- tary; Miss Ludlum, acting secretary, ness with his (eastern) When Women Love Co. billboards, artificial ones in the hose and Rabbi Leon Harrison, Rev. Mr. Mr. Lewis Warner, who played the part of White Barbara, playing with Nellie Bowman the miser, has retired. He was succeeded by s Little Black Sambo. The tendency of the department of the ladies' furnishing Day and Patrick Short, members of William Flag, formerly of Howard Hull's Waif's present season seems to be toward light, bright. store, or whether they be the sym- the council. Paradise Co., who takes the part and manages Innocent plays before audiences of young folks metrically curved shins and calves the stage. and equally appreciative mammas. annexed to the fascinating form of AKRON THEATRE BURNED Frank R. Blitz gave a matinee en- Enjoying good business is the word the chorus girl. tertainment at the New Houston Theatre, Hous that comes from the Burke Comedy Co., of The Richmond papers are having ton. Tex., on Washington's birthday to 2,000 which Mr. Frank J. Burke Is manager. Mr. The Grand Opera House at Akron, children. It was the first time In the history Burke Is featuring bis daring trapeze act and their say upon the subject. One of Ohio, the second oldest playhouse in of the house that the orchestra was crowded Is making a hit. Morrison and Carson are a them discusses the matter in this wise: the city, was totally destroyed by fire out of Its usual place and forced to go upon miccess In their new sketch. The Telephone "The matter of indecency or decency, as ve Feb. 25, entailing a loss of $50,000. the stage, Crank. Their new sketches and burlesques also have said before, is one of custom and Inteit. The origin of the fire is unknown. In- Mesdames John Moore, Frederick take well. Roy Morrison, leading man. wins Older people can remember when ladles w< ire Warde, Thomas Coffin Cook. Augustus Balfour, never falling applanse with his sensational surance to the amount of $18,000 was Frank Garrison and Geo. McCula took ad- songs. Besides the above mentioned persons hoop Bfclrts and when the slightest revelation carried on the building. Ethel Grey, Bessie Evans. Leona Townsen,!, of the lines of their forms was thought to be vantage of the engagement of Salammbo In Mabel Atkins, Johnnie Lake and Frankle Castle vile Impropriety. The woman who allowed a Chicago and visited their respective husbands are members of the cast. Kllmpse of her ankles was considered fast. 1.08 ANGELES' NEW THEATRE. In the cast, each lady coming from a different Members of that sex were forbidden to cross part of the country. With Alfred Sutro's cynicism at the their kueeg In company and any reference to The Imperial Stock Co., now touring xpense of English society In his The Walls of their lower limbs was Improper. • • • Since Plans for the new Majestic Theatre and Jericho as one of the leading topics of the the days of hoop skirts we have had the ikln- office building, at Los Angeles, Cal., drawn by the South, Is playing to capacity business under i.oiiildti season. Interest attached to the recent tlght fashions, which revealed the figures en- Architect A. F. Rosenhelm, have just been ac- the management of A. J. Francis. Following production of his short play, A Maker of Men. cased In them Just about as clearly as the cepted by the directors of the building company, Is the roster: Col. Geo. Hamilton, proprietor; 'n the St. James Theatre. The piece, practl- stage tights. The average woman In full-dntss and the work of demolishing the buildings which Clyde McCashln, treasurer; David A. Bellman, 'ally a duologue, contains a strong and ad- shows mure of her actual body than the average now occupy the proposed site will begin within advance agent; J. Harry Harris, stage manager: mirably written treatise on the duty of the ballet dancer or chorus girl. At the seashore two weeks. .in... Sutherland, master of transportation; Carrie married woman of the middle classes aa a every summer thousands of women, entirely The contracts will call 'or the completion of L. Hamilton, Bell McGee, Gretchen Elgin and mother, wife and companion. The thesis Is respectable and modest, go Into the water In the building by Jan. 1, on which date Oliver Anna Thurmand. beautifully written, and though A Maker of full view of spectators with skirts barely to Morosco, the lessee, plans to open the theatre Three companies now touring In Way Men Is not dramatic. It sounds a deeply sympa the knee. We become accustomed to these with the 'nltlal attraction. Down East—a central, western and eastern— thetlc note, and Its reception was of the most things, so that they cease to shock us or to The front of the building will be of the store have the enviable record of never having played cordial character. be suggestive of evil. Everywhere we see nd office type, and t:ie stricture "'111 contain a losing engagement since the season began. pictures and marble and bronze In the nude. -bout (me hundred office*. The original plans The personnel of these three organizations had Probably a majority of the people In Richmond have been changed to admit of a slx-fiwt area- never been changed until the death of Mrs. ENGAGEMENTS. who can afford them have In their homes way leading from the street along the south tide of the building to the theatre, and which Sara Stevens. Josephine Bacon Is now playing William C. Waters recently joined representatives of beautiful female figures un- the part dignified and made famous by the The Missouri Girl (eastern) as musical director. clothed, or so draped as to reveal all the out- will furnlah an exit from all portions of the celebrated old actress. lines clearly. Nobody Is shocked by these or house. Pete Craig, formerly with the Little Incited to vicious courses." The main entrance will be directly In the The Poor Mr. Rich Co., organized Church Around The Corner Co., has signed with center of the building. This will be 25xSO feet, in Winston-Salem, N. C., Feb. 20, made Its The Gunner's Mate Co. to play comedy. Mrs. and "ill lead to the lobby, which will extend opening stand in Martlnsvllle, Va.. Feb. 27. >alg will take care of the soubrette lines. A CORRECTION up through two stories and be surmounted by The roster la as follows: S. A. Pearson, pro a glasH dome, which will form part of the roof prletor; George Seldon, manager; Edney Ridge, Mrs. Daniel Kellogg Baker, daughter Immediately In the rear of the office portion advance; J. C. Davis, properties; Lewis Thorne. of a wealthy wallpaper manufacturer of New The Billboard wishes to correct a of the building. From the lobby will be doors musical director; Bertha Thorne, Lillian Carl. York City, made her debut as a professional statement made in a former issue to leading, to retiring rooms, with a stairway on Edith Baker, Ellnore Parker, Jas. C. Bennett. In the company of Amelia Blngbam at Wal- the effect that the Crystal Theatre at Ither side leading to the balcony. David Baker and K. P. Carl. ack's Theatre on Monday, this week. Marion, Ind., was to be sold at public From the lobby nn entrance will lead to a Dan McAvoy's suit against Manager auction. Mr. John H. Ammons, man- foyer or promenade, encircling the auditorium Florenz Zlegfeld, which has been pending In from box to box. This promenade will be the trial term of the Supreme Court before PLAYHOUSES. ager of the Crystal, writes that there screened off with glass, and from Its recesses The opera house at Coatlcooke, Que- never was to have been a public sale, :he performers can be viewed from any point. Justice Leventrltt for the past two days, came It vclll be provided with at least a dozen exits to an abrupt end March 1 when Justice Leven- >ec. was destroyed by flre Feb. 24. but a private one, he holding the lease heading to the parquet or to the grand lobby. trltt held that the plaintiff was entitled to The Columbia Theatre at Wausau, individually in such a manner that no one week's salary. Attorney Hummell, for The foyer feature, which will be an Innovation the defense, confessed judgment for $850, which Wis., has closed and the Columbia Stock Co. one could possibly have outbid him for coast theatres. Is contained In the Metro- amount was awarded McAvoy by the Jury. has disbanded. should the sale have come off. He politan Opera Bonse of New York and the Bos :on Theatre of Boston. Mr. Frank Rich writes that stock The Unique Theatre, Indianapolis, states that in order to clear up a part- under his management at the Empire Theatre, Ind.. under the management of R. B. Thorbns, nership fight, an action was brought In Houston, Tex., hai proved an Immense success. Is reported to have closed Feb. 25. court, but never came to trial. Mr. DRAMATIC. A new melodrama by Harry Van Demark, busi- Mr. Bennett Wilson, manager of Ammons now owns the Crystal, and Mrs. Mary Spooner promises to have ness manager, was produced week of Feb. 20 Hyde & Behman's Amusement Co., Brooklyn. a Broadway Theatre next season. and proved the best drawing card of tbe season. N. T., reports business good at all their houses. says he is packing them in to the They have In active preparation Carmen, Michael doors; besides he Is going to build two Otis Skinner is reported as doing Strogoff and Dora Thorne. Robert C. Turner The engagement Is announced of Mr. more theatres In the near future. well In the west with The Harvester. has proved himself not only a clever character Gns Bork, advertising manager of the New actor, but a good stage manager. Bradford Theatre, Bradford, Pa., to Miss G. A dramatic critic In Milwaukee has Baker of that city. MAY GO TO EUROPE been expelled from a theatre and Is suing for George Olml, of the Brown Comedy Aamages. Co., writes that in spite of the Inclement Decatur, 111., is soon to have a ten- weather they have been holding their own. cent vaudeville house. Plans have been made Mr. L. Helmuth, advance represen- From his report Miss Beatrice Gorson Is a big to convert Cassell's bowling alleys Into a There is great possibility that Eng- :atlve for Corse Payton's Stock Co., announces popular priced house. land will see a genuine up-to-date :hat success has attended his company through box-office winner and a Hnnly established fav- minstrel show the season after next, as nt Pennsylvania. orite everywhere. Was She To Blame Is their The opera house at Midland, Md. opening bill. The roster Is as follows: T. M. near Cumberland), was destroyed byflr e Feb. negotiations are now pending by which P. J. Worthington has recovered suf- Brown, manager; Beatrice Gordon. Edna Mayne, 28. The bouse will be rebuilt. The loss will Al. G. Field may be induced to take ficiently to assume his position as business man- Margaret Flood, Geo. Olml, Edmund J. Murphy. mount to abont $8,000. iger of Paula Edwardes. He left St. Louis Arthur Olml, Alfred Jennings, William Beau his big organization across the ocean list week with the company. man and Brooks Hamilton. The Grand Opera House at East for the theatrical year of 1906-'07. Liverpool, Ohio, baa been converted Into a Several of the most prominent London David Belasco has bought the dra- It is an interesting fact that several matic rights to Robert Hlchln'a novel, The great successes at tbe London theatres this skating rink, and Mr C. B. Fisher, formerly amusement promoters have been try- Garden of Allah, and may write a play for winter have been scored by plays In which little reasurer of the house, Is now its manager. ing for some time to engage the Al. Miss Blanche Bates from It. The story tells of girls have borne the chief parts. On« of the Mr. William Grover Is making a suc- 0. Field Minstrels for a season In Lon- the adventures of an Englishwoman In Algler*. best hit* ii that of tiny Irti Hawkins u Uttl* cess out of the Amplilon Theatre In Brooklyn. Billboard

The house Is located in one of the best sec- be 750, the second floor, 400 and the third, 350, more weeks than he formerly planned, and will tions of the city and vaudeville takes well. with four boxes to seat 50. Tbe building will take a tour over the Orpheum Circuit. CAP1TOLA MARSHALL be centrally loca ted, being on the corner of Plans are being drawn for a new Chase aud Baylen streets, and Is expected to Mr. Percy G. Williams, the popular $50,000 opera house at Boulder, Col. cost In the neighborhood of $150,000. It will manager and owner of several Brooklyn and The opera house at Wheatland, Wyo., be the most modern of Its kind. New York theatres, will manage the Four Is being fitted out with new scenery and a Mortons next season In a new musical play. drop curtain. Besides the Thearle Original Nash- Manager Tunis F. Dean, of the Alvin MUSICAL. ville Students, now playing to the coast, the Theatre. PIttsburg, Pa., Is recovering from his The Merry Shop Girls is to be reor- Thearle-Buckley Agency of New York City recent illness. ganized and renamed The Girl From London. started a No. 2 company to Europe, March 0. Hayward and Hayward closed a suc- Leon A. Gilson writes that the Ferris A profitable business is reported by cessful fourteen weeks' engagement with the Grand at PIpestone, Minn., has been closed. Business Manager Will F. Neff of the Great Murray Comedy Co. at Oshkosh, WIs., Feb. Companies booked will take warning. Eastern Stock Co. 18, and went Into Chicago to fix up their act Messrs. Campbell & Drew deny the Alice Nielson has met with so much for vaudeville. report that the Vaughan-Glaser Stock Co., now success hi Europe that she will devote the next DeVaro and Curtis are eliciting running at the Star Theatre, Cleveland, Ohio, two years there to concert tours before visiting praise from managers and press agents wherever will goon give way to burlesque attractions. this country. they appear. Their new comedy ring and bar Harry Howard, of the vaudeville Throat trouble may compel Edna act is said to be a good one, and they are team known as the Dancing Howards, has pur- May to give up musical comedy entirely for booked up until May 14. chased the Empire Theatre at LaSalle, 111., and straight comedy. An operation will be per- The Youngs, Frank and Emily, have Is managing the same. He reports business formed shortly. returned to their home in Cincinnati after a good. On account of illness Miss Gertrude very prosperous engagement at the Star The- E. H. Johnson, manager of the Elec- Klngdon, a member of A Hot Old Time Co., was atre, Atlanta, Ga. They speak very highly of tric Theatre at Waterloo, la., opened a new unable to go with the company for the next that house and munagenient. vaudeville house at Denver, la., Feb. 26, which stand. Her physician says her condition is Addiston and Livingston write that he will operate in connection with his Waterloo serious. they have just purchased a beautiful home on bouse. Ernest Schelling, the Swiss pianist, Palmetto Beach, Tampa, Fla. They have signed Stanley Ward Hunt, of the Hopkins made a distinct hit apon his appearance at for the season, beginning April 1, with the Theatre, Louisville, Ky., was a visitor with Symphony Hall, Boston, Feb. 25. It was his Swallow & Markle Floating Palace Co. Ms wife and sister In St. Louis last week. Mrs. first appearance in America. He conies as Prof. Frederick D. Rugg, who made Hunt has recovered from her long siege of fur west as Chicago. such a great hit over the Keith Circuit with sickness. Helen May Butler writes that she his Liquid Air Demonstrations, Is, at present. Professionals will be grieved to learn intends to add a saxophone quartet to her band :m the Weber & Rush Circuit, going from there of the serious illness of Manager Jay E. Spauld- this season. Offers are numerous, but the man- direct to the Orpheum Circuit, to be absent ing, of the WInsted (Conn.) Opera House. At agement has not yet decided upon the route for until June. present little hope for his recovery Is en- tht summer work. They are headed west for The Bachellor Sisters, Lizzie and tertained. the present. Nellie, who have been a hit with the Eight The Newlan Concert Band, under Eugene Carter, business manager of Hells Co., hiive separated. Miss Lizzie, In the direction of Will F. Newlan, is now book- B. C. Whitney's My Wife's Family, announces private life Mrs. Frank Ross, has retired from ing park engagements through the National that they are meeting with unparalleled success, stage life. Nellie Joined the Sam Devere Co. Theatrical Booking Agency of New York. Their t'nder the direction of Bert St. John the piece In Brooklyn. time Is l>elng rapidly tilled. Is scoring triumphs at every stand. The cast Carrolton and Hodges, late of Ward's Is said to be a very clever one. Minstrels and now In vaudeville, report meeting Walker, Minn., is to have a new Jacob Gordln, the Yiddish play- with great success In their new Creole Singing opera house. Citizens of that city have organ- wright, well rememlwred as author of The and Dancing act. They were re-engiiged at ized a corporation to be known as the Walker Kreutzer Sonata, has just finished a new play Johnson's Electric Theatre, Waterloo, la., for Improvement Association for the purpose of which he has entitled The Unknown. During a second week. building the theatre. It will cost about $0,000. Its action there Is a strongly depicted struggle The block known as Park Theatre, between optimism and pessimism. Harry Bulger, Dolan and Lanharr, Dayton, Ohio, was sold at auction Feb. 18, being Searle and Violet Allen. O'Brien and Hallett, bid In by the Gebhart heirs for a consideration Mr. F. W. Mason is very enthusiastic R. J. Jose, Emma Carus, Hlckey and Nelson, of $101.000. Just what disposition will be over his new star. Tom Waters, known In Chas. W. Llttlefleld. Leigh ton and Lelghton made of the property has not yet been made vaudeville as the Tramp and The Piano, who and Pistel and Howard had specialties in the Is going to star In his new musical comedy. several benefit performances given on behalf of Ai Elizabeth in The Holy City. public. Neighborly Neighbors. The entire season is the LafTerty fund in Baltimore recently. Mr. Corse Payton, the popular the- being booked In the best houses through the Sie Hassan Ben Ali and the members atrical manager of Brooklyn, is meeting with east and as far west as St. Louis. of his Toosooin Troupe gave a reception Feb, production of Uncle Si Haskins through the splendid success this season. His road at- Shubert Brothers announce that The 'JO in honor of the officials of the Mecca Temple west. This Is Geerge's thirteenth week In tractions are all reported to be making good Karl and The Girl Co. opens at the Garrlck, of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic advance. He closes with Uncle SI Hasklns and his theatre In that city has this season Chicago, March 12, and will be the summer Shrine, at Mecca's headquarters. No. 121 West about the first of next month to take charge done the largest business in Its history. attraction at the Casino, New York. The com- Twenty-second street. New York City. About of one of the advertising cars with a big Manager C. E. Eyles, of the Sweet pany Includes Alexander Clarke. Richard Temple, fifty members were present and an elaborate circus this season. Clover C«., which, recently played at the Tabor Victor Morley, W. H. Denny, Georgia Cane, menu was served. A little more news from Hooligan's Grand In Denver, Col., Is very enthusiastic in Amelia Suramerville, Nellie McCoy, Laura Burt Jim and Lottie Rutherford, who go Troubles Co. Is to the effect that that organiza- his remarks concerning that theatre and Its and Violet Hlllis. with the Rtngllng Brothers Show this season, tion Is enjoying playing to crowded houses ID sister theatre. The Broadway. He says they Myron C. Rice, business manager of celebrated their fourth wedding anniversary on California. After the show at Los Angeles. are two of the best operated houses In America. Babes In Toy land, discovered upon his arrival Feb. 14. Jim tells It that during these four Feb. 10, the members of the company executed Prof. Joe Power, for many years con- In Baltimore, Md., that his trunk had been years they have been out of work only six a surprise they had planned for Manager Ken- ductor of the orchestra at Brown Opera House, broken open and robbed of some of his personal weeks, that time being taken for a much needed nedy by giving him a birthday banquet. A Waterloo, la., has left that city and settled effects. He came from Philadelphia, and it rest. The team closes In the vaudeville houses big time was had by tbe entire company. In Mason City. The patrons of tbe bouse as was brought out that the trunk had been robbed the latter part of this month to prepare for During the Minneapolis engagement well as the employes regret very much the before It left that city. Philadelphia authori- the summer season. of William and Walker, Richard Connors, a departure of the professor from their midst. ties are endeavoring to locate the culprit. The announcement that Miss Cecil member of the company, was accldently shot. Prof. Power was very popular In Waterloo. A comic opera company composed of Snooner is to tour the continental vaudeville While In the dressing room with several other Mr. D. C. Kerns, the popular head Baltlmoreans, to slug the works of Baltimore circuits In a song and dance stunt at $1.000 per members of tbe company a revolver was dropped usher and gateman at tbe Chatterton Theatre, composers and to be managed by two Baltl- week Is received with much interest In Iowa on the floor and discharged. The bullet struck Springfield, 111.. has secured control of tbe moreans, Messrs. James L. Kernan and F. C. the former home of the Spooners and where Connors in the back and lodged In the muscles- Wineman Opera House at Woburn, 111., which Schanherger, will begin a summer season at they first gained a reputation as thcsplan* of the neck. He was taken to a hospital and, has recently been remodeled. The buuse opened the Auditorium Theatre about May 1. It Is For a number of years the Spooners. of which unless complications set in, will recover. March 4 under Mr. Reams' management, the already In process of formation, and will fellow Miss Cecil was a diminutive member, toured Notes from the Prince of Llara Co.: Great Eastern Stock Co. putting on the at- the example of the old Castle Square Opera the smaller cities and towns of Iowa with a Ve are In our twentieth week, doing fine busi- traction. Coin-puny, of Boston, In that the efforts of repertoire company. Even then Cecil was a ness. We are playing the best time in the home people and home talent will be given prime favorite out In the "tall and uncut". vest and are pleasing. Our show numbers Is there another city In the west first consideration. wenty-two people. Mr. Will W. Sterling heads having a population of only 40,000 people that Washer Brothers, the boxing midgets, :he cast and is ably supported by J. H. Con- can boast of three big theatres? Springfield, write: We closed our twelve weeks' engage- dell, O. L. Oliver. Edith Walters, Marlon West, 111., claims to be the only city able to make MINSTRELS. ment over the "3 L" Circuit through Cali- 'handos Leigh, Jennie Carllng. Edith Walters, this claim. New York and Chicago have only fornia on Feb. 11 at the Novelty Theatre In Marlon Walters and a chorus of ten pretty one stage larger than tbe largest at Springfield. "Doc" Waddell reports continued San Francisco, and opened an engagement of tirls. Master Gerry does some good contortion- Ben Hur and Babes in Toyland both had plenty prosperity for the Faust Minstrels, ten weeks on the Goldsmith Circuit, beginning svork. We carry a full line of special printing. of room and Parsifal Is booked for May. Feb. 20 at the Star Theatre, Seattle, Wash. Success to The Billboard. Manvro, the "Lone Hottentott," is We have had pood success since we have been Mr. Percy G. Williams, manager of now with Beach & Bowers' Minstrels. out here and our act has been the feature of The Two Merry Tramps Co. has several theatres In New York and Brooklyn, every bill. We will piny Utah and Colorado >een doing a paying business through southern will soon open his new Auditorium Theatre In While the Dockstader Minstrels were time en route to the middle west and eastern "Illinois. Indiana and Ohio, and are now headed New York City. It is stated that the theatre In Baltimore Lew and Carroll Johnson appeared states. 'or Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The com- will be one of the most modern, and only high- In the Lofferty benefit performance at Ford's. lany has been out thirteen weeks, during which class vaudeville will be put upon Its boards. ench doing a monologue. Manuel Romaln and Mr. H. B. Thearle, of the Thearle- ime there have been hut two changes In the The house will be run in connection with Mr. Mat Keef, of tbe Dockstader organization, also Ruckley Agency. St. James building. New York, cast, which now reads: Bessie Bennett, Cora Williams' Circle and Orpheum theatres. appeared. left Saturday for an extended trip south and west, visiting Indianapolis, St. Louis, New Or- itennett. Myra Jefferson, Margaret McDonald, Manager S. Hanauer, of the Lyceum The Al. G. Field Greater Minstrels leans and other points, partly on business and jorrlne McDonald, George Thompson. John Cay- Theatre, Beaver Falls, Pa., reports that busi- gave a benefit performance for the B. P. O. partly on pleasure. He will endeavor to arrange or. Harry LeFever, Dick Tossell. Ben Heaton, ness at the present is better than at any time K. No. 50 at Kalamazoo, Mich, to the S. U. for the production of a number of Liquid Air Arthur Callahan. Holmes Traverse. Frank Fair, since the opening of the house three years ago. O. sign last week. The members of the com- acts for southern theatres and porks. The firm John Zlpzle, McVerno and Vetter, owners: Her- He has been offering the best In the state. pany were entertained by the lodge after the has been receiving a great many letters and man McVcrno, manager, and J."Ketter, business The house staff of the Lyceum Is as follows: performance. This popular organization has offers for the act for parks this summer. Liquid manager. ChaB. Mooney, stage manager; Geo. Calvin, completed Its Michigan tour and will now travel Air will be the feature with one of the big programmer; James Hill, chief usher; James toward the west. BURLESatfE. H. Carson, doorkeeper and Miss Bucher, ticket circuses, and will have a building of Its own agent. at Atlantic City this summer. Mr. A. H. Schonberg reports busi- VAUDEVILLE. Mabel Bardine wishes the correction ness excellent at the Star Theatre, Brooklyn. Brookings, S. D., badly in need of of the statement appearing in last week's Issue Tills house plays the wheel attractions, and" an opera house for several years, now has a The D'Arville Sisters report good of this paper to the effect that she Is a "Chi- In addition always puts on a special feature. fine new opera house costing $15,000. The build- business In New Orleans, La. cago society jrfc-1. making her debut on the stage The Cozy Corner Stock Co. returned ing Is heated by steam, lighted by electricity with Mr. Harry Jackson In vaudeville." Miss to Wfttson's (Brooklyn, N. Y.) Theatre last and has a seating capacity of 900. The stage Mile. Adgle and her lions were a spe- Panllntf writes that while It Is quite true week and made some of their old time hits. is provided with two drop curtains, seven sets cial feature at Wm, G. Grover's Theatre In she is appearing with Mr. Jackson In a sketch of scenery, and all tbe necessary apparatus for Brooklyn, N. Y., last week. The opening attraction was a rollicking burletta, a first-class production. The new Auditorium called. Between Seven and Nine, she began entitled A High Old Time. The closing number, was opened Feb. 21 with a presentation of Miss Dorothy Russell is registered her professional career at the age of twelve and a musical extravaganza entitled Darling Daisy, Dorothy by the Columbia Opera Co. at West Baden Springs, Ind., where she has has played continuously since then, holding lend- exploited some of the latest musical composi- gone for a season of rest and quiet. ing positions. With the exception of the last tions and caused a sensation. A well balanced" Lewis & Lake, proprietors and man- f(*n**onR she traveled under the name of olio filled In a good entertainment. agers of the Lyric Theatre, Wichita. Kan., have Mr. Fred McClellan, booking man- Mabel WIerne. purchased the Interests In the Crystal Theatre ager of Thompson & Dundy's Luna Park, Is The following people appeared at at that place and clwscd the house for repairs. now hooking for the summer season. the Coliseum. Peorla, 111.. In the Police De- COMPANIES CLOSING. After decorating and papering the Interior and Carroll and Clarke, singing, dancing portmrnt benefit performance Feb. 27-28. Prof, Indiana Folks Co. closed Feb. 22 at painting and finishing the exterior they will ft ml acrobatic duo, were callers at the Cin- r.allettl and his educated animals. The Three New Albany, Ind. open it up as a first-class vaudeville house. cinnati office of The Billboard last week. Nambas. Japanese acrobats and equilibrists; Tliis house was only recently opened, but never Mignonette Kokln, premiere dancer; Han-cs Geo. Howard's Little Church Around paid, owing to the poor class of attractions Slater and Finch are still doing well The Corner Co. has closed. offered the public. I^ewis & Lake are very In Illinois and Indiana, with good dates In Sisters, singing and dancing; Gas Austin; Von- popular with the public In that city, and It Is Wisconsin, Michigan and Canada to follow. tella and Minn In poses, and M. J. O'Toole The Franklin Stock Co. closed a believed that it will be a paying Investment hi Illustrated songs. Bert Heylman has gotten season of thirty weeks nt Marshall, Tex., Feb 22. under their capa-ble management. The house Lee Mack writes from Marion, Ind., together the above teams and proposes to mnke The Elizabeth Kennedy Co. closed will be opened March 1. that his tour of the vaudeville houses of that a tour of central Illinois, giving a first-class Its season at the Lyceum Theatre. Memphis, state and Ohio have proved a very successful vaudeville performance. Tena., Feb. 21, and the members left for New The plans for the new opera house one. York. to be erected at Pensaoola, Fla., by Mr. J. FARCE COMEDY. M. Coe an 4 his associates, have been drawn Josef Yarrick, who opened at the up and work will begin at once In order to Boston (Mass.) Music Hall, Feb. 27, reports The Eagles and Elks belonging to WITH THE STAGE RANDS. thn t he has added several new stunts to his the Jerry From Kerry Co. w^re entertained by have the house completed by Sept. 1, 1003. Magic Kettle act. The ushers of the Chatterton The- The size of the stage will be 80x46 and 60-ft. the lodges at Wellston, Ohio, Feb. 21. atre. Springfield, 111., are looking for a first- high. There will be twelve dressing rooma In Instead of returning to London-----, —Al - From all reports George F. Cable is class benefit attraction. D. C. Kerns, bead All. Tbe seating capacity of the first floor will bert Chevalier will remain in this country ten getting a bunch of money for C. S. Primrose's usher, has the matter In charge. The Billboard

BOULDER,—Temple Theatre (R. P. Penney, appears as -Beatrice Carew, the part originally Musical 'Bartletts, Doss and Madolyn, Frank Em- ingr.) Rudolph and Adolph 5; S. R. O. Or- played by Maxlne Elliott. There are splendid merson. Halley and Meehan, Claire Maynard, pheum Road Show 10; good business. You Yon- roles for William H. Evarts. Charles Balser, and Walter E. Yant made an Interesting bill sou 18; packed house. Everyman 27; Miss Hur- C. M. Gilfln, Morris Mcllugh. Blancke, Gertrude week 6. sey From Jersey March 6; Two Little Waifs 11. Rivers, Mary Hungerford and other capable Weast Theatre (Chas. Bartson, mgr.) Love- members of the company. ALABAMA. LONGMONT.—Dickon's Opera House (R. P. land Family, Early and Lake. Hope and Thles, Penney, mgr.) Rudolph and Adolph 6; good Auditorium Theatre (Mllward Adams, mgr.) Rlanaphln and Hehr, and moving pictures week For five years Ben Hur has been a financial and Feb. 27. MOBILE.—Theatre (J. Tannebaum, mgr.) business. Fire uestroyed theatre 17. Yon Yon- artistic success of unusually great proportions, The Runaways 20; pleased fair bouse. Volun- son, booked that night, lost date. yet It remained for the production and the en- teer Organist 21; good audience. Walker White- LOVELAND.—New Loveland Theatre (R. P. gagement now current at the Auditorium to side 28-March 1; Sleeping Beauty and The Beast Penney, mgr.) Rudolph and Adolph Feb. 4. break all records of this long period of con- 2-3; Roger Brothers 4: Win. H. Cran* 6. Clr- fair business. Orpheum Road Show 9; good spicuous prosperity. When it requires four cufr—Spark's Ten and Twenty Cent Show pleased house. Yon Yonson 1C; fair business. large business week 20. ticket-sellers and four box-office windows to care CENTRAL CITY.—Opera House (R. P. Pen- for the people In a lobby as large aa that at the 8ELXA.—Academy of Music (Long & Rees, ney, mgr.) Rudolph and Adolph 5; good busi- Auditorium, which has been the condition for mgrs.) Walker Whlteslde 22; good bouse. Ar- ness. West's Minstrels 12; only fair business several days, there is no need to talk about the tbur Dunn In The Runaways 23; delighted large account zero weather. size of the crowds attending these beautiful per- house. Sergeant Kitty March 1. Carnival— formances. Ben Hur is here but one more week Bausher Carnival Co. week 20; good business. after this. CONNECTICUT. DECATUR.— Powers' Theatre (J. P. Given, MONTGOMERY.—Bijou Theatre (0. A. Neal, HARTFORD Parsons' Theatre (H. C. Par- Columbus Theatre (Weber Bros., mgrs.) Week mgr.) The Way of The Transgressor Feb. 20; mgr.) Burdette-Depew Stock Co. week 19; good sons, mgr.) Hartford Philharmonic Orchestra 5: Russell Brothers in The Female Detectives. pleased fair house. Babes In Toyland 22; good business. Harris-Parkinson Stock Co. week 27; Feb. 21; good house. The Duke of Kllllcrankle, The Smart Set. with a melange of coon songs, houses. The Fatal Wedding 24; fair bouse. opened to large business. old-time southern melodies and dancing and com- with John Drew 22; capacity house. Cecelia edy novelties, entitled Southern Enchantment, Murray and Mack 25; fair house. Devil's Auc- TROY.—Folmar's Theatre (Frank P. Polmar, Loftus 24; large audience. Bertha Kaltsh played a return engagement at the Columbus tion March 6; Slayton Jubilee Singers 7; Girls mgr.) A Friend of The Family 21; large audi- played The Orphan In Yiddish 23; fair house. last week and the show was funnier than ever. Will Be Girls 8; The Girl From Kay's 9; My ence. Volunteer Organist 24; capacity. Wizard of Oz March 1-2; Ethel Barrymore 4; Marlon Smart's singing made a hit, while S. Wife's Family 11; James K. Hackett 18. BIRMINGHAM.—iiij,MI Theatre (M. L. Semon, Maude Adams 7. Hartford Opera House (Jennings A Graves, H. Dudley Is a comedian of ability, bis meth- GALESBURG. — Auditorium (D. L. T. Dorsey, niut i Captain Barrlngton week Feb. 27; good ods being original, up-to-date, and refined. mgr.) Babes in Toyland Feb. 21; large audi- business. Next: Arizona. mgrs.) Great Lafayette week Feb. 20; fair business. Cracker Jacks 27-March 1; Patrice In Coliseum Gardens (Stewart Spaulding, mgr.) ence. Otis Skinner In The Harvester 22; good ARIZONA. Driven From Home 2-4. The B. M. Z. Bazaar came to a close Sunday, 5. business. Smart Set 24; big house. Beggar Poll's Theatre (L. C. Kllby, mgr.) The Beginning 15. for one week, Office Appliance and Prince Opera Co. 28; Paula Edwardes In Win- DOUGLAS.—Orphcum Theatre. Creston Clarke Mlllman Trio. S. Miller Kent & Co., and The Business System Show, which bids fair to ex- some Winnie March 2; Shepherd's Pictures 3-4. cell anything of this kind ever held In Amer- Heart of Maryland 7. In Monsieur Beaucalre Feb. 22; fair audience. Mysterious Zanclgs were the favorites week Feb. ica. American Tramp March 1. 21); packed house all week. Next: Henry Lee, JACKSONVILLE. —Gran d Opera House (Geo. Three Keatons, J. K. Emmett & Co., Pierce and Thirty-first Street Theatre (Millie Willard Nel- W. Chatterton. mgr.) Babes in Toyland 23; CALIFORNIA. Malzee, Musical Cralgs, Slater and Williams, son, mgr.) A Celestial Maiden. S. R. O. Murray and Mack 24; only fair bouse. anil' The Onrl Family. Item—The benefit per- People's! Theatre (Leslie Davis, mgr.) Stock. Bern' Stock Co. 27-March 4; opened to S. R. O. LOS ANGELES.—Mason Opera House (H. C. formance of the Theatrical Stage Employes, Criterion Theatre (Ben Glroux, mgr.) Week Yale's Devil's Auction 6; The Errand Boy Wyatt. les and mgr.) For the first half of week Local No. 84, will be held at this theatre March 5: Why Girls Leave Home. The story is told 7; Girls Will Be Girls 8; The Girl From Kay's 11. Feb. 27. Miss Virginia Calhoun and her Co. In 5. Corona, The Mlllman Trio, and Dan Har- with remarfiable fidelity to details and Incidents a dramatization of Helen Hunt Jackson's great rlgan head the bill. in a plain, every day manner. DIXON. — Opera House (Trueman & Eastman, novel. Ramona. For balance of week The Earl BRIDGEPORT.—Smith's Theatre (E. C. Howard Theatre (Chas. W. 'Burrlll, mgr.) mgrs.) Wlnnlnger Brothers week Feb. 20; of Pawtucket. Item,—A monster benefit will Smith, mgr.) John Drew Feb. 20; big business. Week 5: The Stock Co. in A False Friend, by good business. The Royal Chef 27; S. B. O. be given here March 3, for the needy of the The Midnight Marriage 23-25; large audiences. Charles Woodman. Mahara's Minstrels March 3; Buster Brown 6; profession. The program Includes many of the Ethel Barrymore 27; Patrice In Driven From Avenue Theatre (Chas. B. Marvin, mgr.) Ashlaml's Dramatic Co. 13-15; Uncle Josh stars from the local playhouses. Stock. Spruceby 17; Holty Toity 24. Burbunk Theatre (Oliver Morosco, les. and Home 28-March 1; Cracker Jacks Burlesquers Allmmbra Theatre (J. H. Browne, mgr.) Week mgr.) The Burbank Stock Co. In The War of 2-4. 5: A. II. Woods presents Dangersi of Working ROCKFORD. —Gran d Opera House (Geo. B. Wealth, which offers extraordinary opportunities Poll's (Jos Crlddle, mgr.) Capacity business Girls. Peck, mgr.) The Crisis Feb. 22; good business. for character work. The usual good houses con- with a meritorious bill which Included The Eight Academy of Music (Wm. Roche, res. mgr.) Heart of Maryland 24; good business. The Royal tinue. Vassar Girls. Next: Mysterious Zanclgs, Mr. Week 5: Charles E. Blaney's melodrama More Chef (return) 25; capacity. David Harum 28; Belasco Theatre (H. -B. Blackwood, mgr.) The anil Mrs. Howard Truesdell & Co., Musical to Be Pitied Than Scorned. Mahara's Minstrels March 4; Murray Comedy Co. Belasco Stock Co. In an elaborate production of KMi-si. Major Doyle, Ward and Curran, Alice Bijou Theatre (Wm. Roche, res. mgr.) week fl; Kyrle Bellew 10. Henry Arthur Jones' Judah. The Co. la well Phllbrooks and Sidney Reynolds, Mlllman Trio, Prisoner of War. cast. and the electrograph. Olympic Theatre (A. Jacobs, mgr. for Kohl STREATOR. — Plumb Opera House (J. E. Wil- Grand Opera House (Thomas Baker, ragr.) W. WINSTED.—Opera House (Jay E. Spauldlng, & Castle) Week 6: I. Nelson Family, Sam liams, mgr.) Murray and Mack Feb. 21; good J. Elleford and Co. present Through The Break- mgr.) American Vltagraph Co. Feb. 21; good Elton, Wm. Murphy. Blanche Nichols & Co., business. David Harum 24; fair business. Shad- house. Return 28. ows of a Great City 27: The Royal Chef March ers, which Is being greeted by p:icked house. George W. Day, Ford Sisters, Adalr and Dahn, 1; Al. G. Field's Minstrels 3. Orpheum (Clarence Drown, uigr.) Cole and DERBY.—Sterling Opera House (I. M. Hoyt Vernon. LaVine and Leonard. William and Johnson, In clever song hits, head the bill this & Sun, mgrs.) What Happened to Jones Feb. Melbourne. Rockway and Conway, Brooks and SULLIVAN.— Titus Opera House (J. B. Titus, week. Others are Paulton and Dooley, trick 22; good house. American Vlfagraph to. 2C. Young, Scott and Howard, Schafer and DeCamp. mgr.) A Wise Woman Feb. 25; fair business. cyclists; Ford and Wilson, dancing act; Qulgley Dick's dogs, Morris Mauley and Geo. K. Spoor's The Troubadours 27; S. R. O. Maloney's Wed- Brothers In a conversational skit; Robert Hodge klniKlroine. ding Day March 3; Romance of Coon Hollow 15. & Co., Happy Jack Gardner, and Newell and GEORGIA. Chicago Opera House (Kohl & Castle, mgrs.) Nlblo. The usual good crowds in attendance. ATLANTA.—The Grand (H. L. and J. L. Week (i: Kmniett Corrigau & Co.. Paul Con- EQUALITY. —Turner' s Opera House (Cbas. Chutes Park and Theatre (Henry Koch, mgr.) DeGive, mgrs.) Week of Feb. 20 the spectacu- chas. Fred Nlblo, Chas. Burke and Grace LaRue W. Turner, mgr.) Steven's Comedy Co. Feb. The Ellery Italian Band continues to be the lar extravaganza. The Beauty and The Beast, with Inkeys, George Wilson, Fox and Foxle, 20-25; fine business. great drawing card. The evening concerts In did a fair business. The costumes and ensemble Bush Devi-re Trio, Mr. and Mrs. Travelle, Tex- the theatre are well attended. Prof. William work- wore unusually good. The Runaways 27- inia Sisters. Mildred Grover, Davis and Davis, INDIANA. Smith makes his daring halloon ascension and 2.S: good business. Mr. and Mrs. 1'lerce, The Marlines, Harris and parachute Jumps, and all concessions are running The Bijou (Jake Wells, les.) The Olympic DeLoss. Harris and Harris and Geo. K, Spoor's EVANSVILLE.— Grand (Pedley & Boroh. Opera Co. presented The Telephone Girl week klnodrome. mgrs.) Faust's Minstrels Feb. 22; only fair to full capacity. D. W. FERGUSON. business. Lyiuan Howe's Pictures 25; Jack FRESNO.—Barton Opera House (Robert O. Feb. 27, which proved a most acceptable offer- Hayinarket Theatre (W. W. Freeman, mgr. Ing. A strong Co., good chorus and pretty girls Hoeffler Co. 27-March 4; The Girl From Kay'« Barton, prop, and mgr.) Ole Olson Feb. 17; for Kohl & Castle). Week 8; Hermann. The I!; Rose Coghlan In Diplomacy 8; The Showman's fair house. The Little Outcast II); topheavy made the performance satisfactory. Great. Helolse TItcomb, Piccolo Midgets, Smith The Star (J. B. Thompson, mgr.) Business at Daughter 11; Weber Stock Co. 15; Roger Broth- house. Lawrence D'Orsay In The Earl of Paw- and Campbell, Night in Venice Trio. Lea Dahlias. ers 16; Vogel's Minstrels 18. tucket 27; Creatore and Band (return) March 1; this playhouse has been good for the past week. Bryant and Cavllle. The Geromes, Harrison Item—Tommle Ware has resigned as stage car- People's Theatre (Pedley & Burch. HILTS.) Chas B. Hanford 12; Human Hearts 13; Under Brother*, D's and D's. Harry DeMarlo. Slddons Trip to Egypt Feb. 26; capacity business. Mur- Southern Skies 16. penter at The Grand to accept a position with •Brothers, Marie Monfort, The Two Johnsons, the Seaman-Mfllican Carnival Co., his new con- ray and Mack March 5; Stella Mayhew in The Novelty Grand (Sam Loverlch, mgr.) Wills The Hymans and Geo. K. Spoor's klnodrome. Show Girl 12. and Collins, Robert Eldrldge, Robinson and tract to be effective April 1. Sam T. Jack's Opera House (Sidney Euson, D. E. MOOREFIBLD. Crystal Theatre (Chas. Herbert, mgr.) High- Jones. John T. Powers, Jessie Lawrence, Geo. mgr.) The Yankee Doodle Girls are holding the class vaudeville to good business. Mme. Shu- S. Keane, and moving pictures; fair business. COLUMBUS.—Springer Opera House (Chas. stage this week. Frank Flnney, who has made tier, singing Illustrated songs, is becoming very Unique. As an extra attraction this week a Springer, mgr.) Thos. Jefferson In Rip Van a host of friends during Ills sojourn at this thea- popular. light comedy drama is being presented, the Winkle Feb. 24; good house. Volunteer Organist tre heads the jolly fellows In two new bur- usual vaudeville features being Introduced be- 25; large audience. Sergeant Kitty March 1; lesques. A Hot Night and Miss Frisky. The MUNCIE.— Wysor Grand (H. R. Wysor, mgr.) tween the acts; fair business. Arthur Dunn In The Runaways 2. specialty bill includes the trick cycle riding of Fahlo Homanl Feb. 20: only fair business. SAN DIEGO.—Isis Theatre (H. C. Wyatt, les.; Haeder and LaVelle, and the splendid buck and Buster Browii 22: capacity. Yogel's Minstrels J. M. Dodge, bus. mgr.) Creatore and Italian ILLINOIS. wing dancing of Nettle Fields. 24: good business. Brothers Byrne In Eight Band Feh. li»-21; good business. Lawrence D'Or- CHICAGO.—Illinois Theatre (Will J. Davis, Trocadero Theatre (Robt. Fulton, mgr.) Bells 27; A Chinese Honeymoon 28; Otis Skin- sey in The Earl of Pawtucket 22; Harry Beres- mgr.) Edna May is playing to capacity audi- Rellly & Woods' clever show Is this week's at- ner March 1; Babes In Toyland 4; The Royal ford in Our New Man 28; White Whlttlesey In ences, and entered upon her second and last traction with two burlesques. Down at; Rellly's Chef 7. Soldiers of Fortune March 3. Item—The open- week, 6. Miss May Is as demure and apparently and The Morning After. The specialty bill Star Vaudeville Theatre (R. H. Osgood, mgr.) ing of the New Plcwlck Theatre, 27, was quite not a day older than when she made her pyro- Includes Iveeler and Watson, Gordou Sisters. The Week Feb 27: Delmore and Darrell, James a success financially, as every seat was sold. technlcal flight from the chorus ranks to stellar Century Comedy Four, Adams and Swlnbourn, Neary. Keeley Sisters, Perry and Chllders, and The house is on the Empire Circuit. linnors and fame. The School Girl, a musical and Ortb and Fern. the blograph. comedy of the Geisha and Chinese Honeymoon Folly Theatre (Robt. Fulton, mgr.) Week 5: COLORADO. Blue Ribbon Girls, presenting two burlesques, MARION.— Indiana Theatre (E. L. Klnneman, type. Is one that citn be counted an unqualified A Day at The Races and Caught Wltb The mgr.) Bnster Brown Feb. 23: good house. Ade- DENVER.—Everyman produced at the Broad- success of Its kind. Replete with tinkling Goods, and an olio bill which Includes Bertie laide Thurstfln In Polly Primrose 27; delighted way last week created only a mild sensation, melodies, agile comedians, an amusing, although Fowler, Ward and Bradburn. Lew Palmer, Billy good audience. Girls Will Be Girls 17; Howe'« the audiences In attendance being composed rather heavy brand of British humor and num- Kent, Kevins and Arnold, Leroy and Levanlon, Moving Pictures in. mostly of those studiously Inclined. DePach- erous pretty and daintily gowned chorus girls) Leo. Hayes, Ira Kessner, and Stella Gllmore. Grand Theatre (E. L. Klnneman. mgr.) Kid- mann gave one of the best concerts ever given who at frequent intervals are grouped into WARREN A. PATRICK. napped In New York Feb. 24: only fair business. In tills city, hut only drew a moderate crowd. charming and effective stage pictures, make the Vogel's Minstrels 25: (,'nod house. Down By The The Orpheum, with Mabel McKluley, did the comedy one that continues without lagging SPRINGFIELD.—Chatterton (Geo. W. Chat- Sea March 17; Irish Pawnbrokers 18. Item — best business of the week. throughout the two acts. Added to this are ex- terton, mgr.) Special engagement of Paderew- Manager Klnneman announces that this house Hnwulway Theatre (E. F. McCourt, mgr.) ceptionally attractive stage settings, and Miss skl Feb. 21; taxed standing room capacity. will be run as a vaudeville house next season. William Collier in The Dictator la proving a May, all of which combine to make The School Rentfrow's Jolly Pathfinders 22-26; very good laughing success at the Broadway this week, Girl a sincere and merited success. houses. Plays: Devil's Gold Mine, Midnight FRANKFORT. — Bllnn Theatre (Langebrake & opening Feb. 27, to a large audience. Coming: Powers' Theatre (Harry J. Powers, mgr.) In Chinatown, Hooligan's Luck, Dr. Jekyll and Hufford. mgrs.) Arizona Feb. 23: good house. The Silver Slipper. Beclnnlng Monday, 6, Mrs. Patrick Campbell In Mr. Hyde. Below Zero, and James Boys In Mis- Vogel's Minstrels 28: good business. Buster Tabor Grand (E. F. McCourt, mgr.) Owing to The Sorceress. souri. Murray and Mack 26; pleased heavy Brown March 1; Adelaide Thurston 3; Irish the non-arrival of their scenery, Andrew Mack Grand Opera House (Harry Askln, mgr.) Be- house. Pawnbrokers 11; Our New Minister 13; (return and his Co. had to postpone their opening one ginning 5. for three weeks, Henrietta Crosman New Gaiety (Smith & Burton, mgrs.) Bill engagement) 18; The Strollers 24. performance. They opened a two weeks' en- In Sweet Klttj* Bellalrs. week Feb. 27: Fantans. comedy acrobats; Luclle ANDERSON. — Grand Opera House (C. C. gagement evening of Feb. 2tl to a good audi- Garrlck Theatre (Samuel P. Gerson, mgr.) Harper, Illustrated songs; John C. Fox, expert Poor, mgr.) Hector Fuller In War Pictures Feb. ence. Week 5: George Primrose and his big minstrel hand balancer; Barlowe and Nicholson, come- 1ft: pleased fair house. Buster -Brown 21. fair New Curtis (A. R. Pelton, mgr.) From Rags festival. dians; Carroll and Gardner, comedy skit, and the house. Sultan of Sulu 22: big house. Grace to Ulches opened to the usual Sunday afternoon McVlcker's Theatre (Geo. C. Warren, bus. klnetoscope. Item—The best amateur act In the Hayward Stock Co. In repertoire 23-26; The audience. Miss Artie Hall, the genuine Georgia mgr.) Beginning Sunday, 5, Thomas W. Rose In city will be awarded $10 In gold. March 24. Fatal Wedding 28. girl, Is well received. Coming; A Koyal Slave. Checkers. Indefinite. Empire (John Connors, prop.; L. S. Anderson, Orpheum Theatre (F. -B. Henderson, mgr.) Studebaker Theatre (R. E. Harmeyer, bus. res. mgr.) Heavy attendance continues and PERU.— Webb Theatre (Fred Webb, mgr.) The Orpheum did a splendid business last week, mgr.) Commencing Monday, 6, for two weeks, larger space Is needed to accommodate the pa- The Tenderfoot Feb. 16: large house. A Chi- and a good bill this week should draw good The County Chairman, which packed this theatre tronage. Bill week Feb. 27: Ed. Shannon, -bari- nese Honevmoon 24; S. R. O. Buster Brown 28; houses. Those appearing are Clayton White and for eleven weeks last season. tone; Whiting and Harris, comedy skit; Rita Polly Primrose March 1: Isle of Spice 6. Little Marie Stuart Co., presenting Dickey; McMahon's Hyde & Behman's Theatre (Archie H. Ellis, Gibson, serio-comic; The Goodwins, society act; Church Around The Corner 9. Minstrel Maids and Watermelon Girls. The Great mgr.) Evidently Chicago lias not as yet had Trlxle Whitney, comedienne: E. E. Oliver, Il- WABASH. — Barter's Opera House (J. M. Thereses, Four Sensational Botses, Apollo, high enough of Lederer's merry extravaganza bur- lustrated songs; The Frandmathes, expert rifle Hnrter. mgr.) Buster Brown Feb. 24: packed wire artist; The DeMuths, Murphy and Francis, lesque. Smiling Island, for the audiences at shots: Soloro, transformation scene, and the house. Polly Primrose 28: Irish Pawnbrokers the klnodrome. and Orpheum Solo Orchestra. Hyde & Bellman's are not growing smaller. project Iscope. March IK: Davldsoa Stock Co. week 20. Noveuy Theatre (Henry Lubelskl, mgr.) Ca- Several changes have been made In the cast. Olympic (C. J. McCann & John Berrlman, BLUFFTON. — Grand (Chas. DeLacour. mgr.) pacity business rules at the Novelty and a good Mr. Bowers, who last week replaced Sydney De mgrs.) This new house opened Its second week Vogel's Minstrels 23; capacity. The Orphan's bill Is being presented. Desmonde and Des- Grey in the part of Stephon, has a pleasing to very gratifying business. BUI includes Tom Prayer March 5; Arizona 9; Jule Walters in Side- monde. Harry Brown, HoustoUj and Dallas, Mr. tenor voice, which shows to advantage In hla Armstrong and Ella Vern. Great Barrlngton. tracked 17. Shaw, Miss Fenlngton, Ralner Brothers, Bend- songs and ensembles. MacVey and Seabrlght, Howard and Clyde. Bur- Ing Bob, Miss Rose Belmont, and moving pic- LaSalle Theatre (R. E. Mackay, bus. mgr.) nett Sisters, Olympic Orchestra, William M. VINCENNE8. — ...cJImsey Theatre (F. Green. tures. His Highness The Bey. Next: The Isle of Leeder, and tbe blograph. mgr.) Murray and Mack March 3; good crowd. Lyric Theatre (Wm. Blnford, mgr.) Win. Bong Bong. Indiana Folks 4; The Girl From Kay's 7. Blnford, formerly of the Empire Theatre of Great Northern Theatre (Fred C. Eberts, bus. PEORIA.—Grand Opera House (Chamberlln & RUSHVILLE.— City Opera House (Howard Colorado Springs, Is now manager here and the mgr.) Week 5: The Strollers. Harrington, mgrs.) Mahara's Minstrels Feb. 21; Mullln. mgr.) Old SI Stebblns March 1; good house Is prospering under bis regime. The bill Bush Temple Theatre (Elizabeth Scheober. fair business. Murray and Mack 22; good house. house. The Orphan's Prayer 10. this week Is Silvan and O'Nell, M. Samuels, mgr.) The stock are presenting this week Nat Princess Chic 23. good house. Otis Skinner 25; MADISON, — Grand Opera Rouse (Graham ft Trans-Atlantic Trio, Clay Trass, Geo. Swan. Goodwin's favorite comedy drama. An American satisfactory business. The Fatal Wedding 20; Schelk. mgrs.) The Irish Pawnbrokers 0; Vo- Zara and Zara, and moving pictures. Citizen. The story Is one of love, patriotism full house. Stain of Guilt 28: fair house. Paula gel's Minstrels 13. The boys of the Jesuit College produced The and sacrifice. George Alison baa Nat Goodwin'* Edwardes In Winsome Winnie March 1; Devil's Signet of The King Feb. 28 to a good, large an- old part, that of Beresford Cruger, who marries Auction 2; Robert Fltzslmmons 3; Al. G. Field'! TIPTON.—Th e Martz (N. S. Martz, mgr.) dlence. The production was given at the Broad- an English girl as a matter of form and then Minstrels 4; Shepard's Pictures 8-7. Arizona Feb. 27; fair house. Vogtl's Minstrels way. J. D. McGINNIS. falls In love wltb her. MUM Mabel Montgomery Main Street Theatre (B. P. Churchill, mgr.) March 1. Xtie Billboard

Feb. 20-22; pleased good houses. Plays: The Blaney's Arch Street Theatre. Nellie Me- 'losed with the Chester DeVonde Stock Co. and EL PASO.—Myar's Opera Bonse (W. L. Fatal Coin, Ezra Dexter, Side Lights of New Henry in M'llss had a splendid week. The returned to his home here. ogers, mgr.) Creston Clarke 20-21; packed York, and Queen of Virginia. M«ry Emerson James Boys In Missouri week 6. JOHNSTOWN.—Cambria Theatre (H. W. onses. Lewis Morrison In Faust 23; S. R. 0. In His Majesty and The Maid 24; capacity. People's Theatre. Alone In The World drew iherer. mgr.) Wilton Lackaye In The Pit Feb. Text: Lyric Opera Co. Carnival—Monarch Qulncy Adams Sawyer 28; The Minister's Son fairly well week Feb. 27. Announced for week Jl; S. R. O. Denver Express 22: good business. musement Co. week March 20. March 2: Down By The Sea U; From Rags to (i. A Midnight Marriage. \ Struggle for Gold 23; only fair house. The ABILENE.—Lyceum Theatre (W. Saunderson, Riches 8. Hart's New Theatre. Lillian Mortimer Is giv- Ulllionalre 24: S. R. O. Hot Old Time 25; good igr.) Tom Franklyn Nye's Merry Makers week UHRICHSVILLE.—City Op. House (Elvln A ing A Mountain Waif week Feb. 27. Announced business. Burke-McCann Stock Co. 27-28, and eb. 27. Carnival—The Dixie Carnival Co. will VanOstran. mure.) Gertrude Roberts Stock Co. for March tt Is the same star In A Gambler's March 3-4; Ezra Kendall March 1; Isle of Spice xhlblt here, March 7-11, under auspices of the Feb. 20-22; failed to appear. Betrayed' at The Sweetheart. 2; Miss Bob White 6. ederatlon Library. Altar 24; canceled. Prlngle Concert Co. 23; Forepaugh's Theatre. The Stock Co. put on a very creditable production of a new English CONNELLS7ILLE.—Colonial Theatre (Geo. S. SAN ANTONIO.—Grand Opera House (S. H. large house. Langsley's Marionettes 25; fair hallls. mgr.) Tbe Player's Maid Feb. 21: S. Velss. mgr.) Grace Van Studdlford In Red business. Down By The Sea March 2; Two melodrama entitled, The Painted Woman, week Feh 27. A feature was the Introduction of a R. O. Way Down East 22; large audience. The, eather 20-21; large bouses. Mme. Melba 22; Merrv Tramps 4; Little Homestead 7; Uncle Minister's Sweethearts 27; Sambo Girl 28; A rge bouse. All-star cast of The Two Orphans He: 9. trained python. Week 0: Under Two Flags. Standard Theatre. Her Marriage Vow was the Struggle for Gold March 3. An Aristocratic 4-25; large houses. PIQUA.—May's Opera House (Chas. H. Maj, offering of the Stock Co. week Feb. 27. Why Tramp 4. TEXARKANA.—Grand Opera House (Ehrllch ulgr.) Al. G. Field's Minstrels Feb. 22; packed He Divorced Her will be the bill week 6. Gayety. Gus Sun's Minstrels 20; S. R. 0. ros., mgrs.; S. W. Greenblatt, bus. mgr.) John house. Mary Emerson 25; large audience. Du Keith's Chestnut Street Theatre. Big busi- Josh Perkins 23; good business. rlfllth In Macbeth Feb. 20; good house: Down Vrles Stock Co. week March (i; Isle of Spice 13; ness with big bills of vaudeville Is all that can WILLIAMSPORT.—Lycoming Opera House (L. n The Farm 22; The Girl From Kay's 23; Ari- The Minister's Sweetheart 16; The Missouri he said about this house. Girl 18. J. Flsk. mgr.) Emery Stock Co. Feb. 20-25; ona 24. Bon Ton Theatre. Business continues profit- tig business. Plays: Ways of Women, Other SULPHUR SPRINGS.—Main St. Opero House TIFFIN.—Nobles' Theatre (Chas. Collins, able with continuous vaudeville. I'eople's Money. In Arkansas. Beautiful Fiend. W. S. Morehead. mgr.) Dunaway Concert Co. mgr.) Peggy From Paris. Feb. 15; pleased good Eleventh Street Opera House. Business Im- Road to Klldare. Camllle. and Dr. Jekyll and eh. 14; large audience. Marvelous Tatum 25; house. Under Southern Skies 21; only fair busi- mense with Duuiont's Minstrels contlnuhig. Mr. Hyde. Under Southern Skies Marcli 2. ness. Isle of Spice 24; Seminary Girl March 1. Trocadero Theatre. The Jolly Grass Widows olumbla Male Quartet March 6. Sign of The Cross 2; Our New Minister 8. are doing well this week. The house was entire- LEWISTON.—Temple Opera House (H. A. ORANGE.—Opera House (Mort. L. Blxler, Felix, mgr.) For Her Children's Sake Feb. 23; igr.) That Little Swede Feb. 23: fair house, STEtTBENVILLE.—Grand Opera House (C. W. ly sold out at 10 of the 12 performances. Lyceum Theatre. Burlesque still pays nicely canceled. Dora Thorn Marcb 1; Sophie Bradford 'he Marriage of Kitty March 1; The Labadles Maxwell, mgr.) The Two Johns Feb. 20; fair Stock Co. 2-4; Roger Brothers Vaudeville 6-8; house. From Hags to Riches 22: good house. at this house. Week Feb. 27: The Trocadero Lewis Morrison In Faust 11. Burlesquers, and announced for March 6 IB The A Bunch of Keys 9; The Mock Trial 15; A Royal The Pit 25; large bouse. Sign of The Cross 27; Princess 17; Verna May Stock 20-23. MARSHALL.—Opera House (R. H. Pattlson, Ragged Hero March 2; Her Only Sin 4. Dainty Duchess Burlesque Co. us. mgr.) Franklin Stock Co. week 20; dls- Museum. Chlqulta Is the star In the curio NEW CASTLE.—Opera House (J. F. Genkln- andedl after three performances. Cousin Kate, NEW PHILADELPHIA—Union Opera House hall, and she Is renewing many acquaintances jer, mgr. t Bennett-Moulton Co. 22-25; good 1th Koselle Knott March 1. : large audiences. an of Sulu 23; S. R. O. The Player's Maid mgr.) Whyte Dramatic Co. Feb. 21-25; large and EtBe Shannon are the headllncrs tills week. CORRY.—Armory Theatre (C. T. Trimble, i: fair business. Otis Skinner In The Har- houses. Repertoire: Hip Van Winkle, Two The Howard Brothers, banjo act; Grace Camer- mgr.I Out of The Fold March 2; Queen of The •ster March 3-4. Orphans, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Soldier's on. Miss Lloyd's Troupe of Siberian wolfs, White Slaves 9; The Royal Slave 14; Sun's Min- WESTON.—Camden Opera House (Geo. V. Sweetheart. The Holy City 24; S. R. 0. Ru- George H. Wood, monologlst; Martini and Maxi- strels 15. Flnster. mgr.) Patton & Perry In Jerry From dolph and Adolph 2(1; good house. Shore milian, magicians; Tenbrooke & Co.. musicians; CHAMBERSBURG.—Rosedale Opera House Cerrv March 1; pleased packed house. Real Acres 28. Trovollo, ventriloquist, and the klnetograph com- (Shlnabrook & Grove, mgrs.) In Tbe Shadow of Widow Brown 8: W. B. Patton In The Last Rose plete the bill. The Gallows Feb. 24; only fair business. nf Summer 15; Human Hearts 17. PENNSYLVANIA. Gayety (J. E. Orr, mgr.) Williams and MAHTINSBURG.—Central Opera House (A. F. PHILADELPHIA.—The weather this week has Walker In their second week are still playing to SOUTH CAROLINA. Lambert mgr ) In Tbe Shadow of The Gallows been just right for indoor amusements and peo- packed bouses. It Is very evident they could £>• large audience. Myers Stock Co. week 27; ple have been flocking to the theatres la large run for several weeks more, but this Is their CHARLESTON.—Owen's Academy of Music ipened with The Black Hand to S. R. 0. numbers. It has been one of the best weeks final week. Next: Joseph Hart and Carrie De (C. R. Matthews, act. mgr.) San Toy 14- since the first of the year, and as from this on Mar In Mama's Papa. 15: good business. Wizard of Oz 16: good house. CHARLESTON.—Burlew Opera House (N. S. the attractions are stronger than they have been Bijou (K. M. Gulick. mgr.) The Queen of Sergeant Kitty 23: S. R. O. Diplomacy 24; Burlew mgr.) Missouri Girl Feb. 10; large all season, the chances are that business will The White Slaves, which has been seen here fair business. Lyric Stock Co. 27-March 4; A muse. The Seminary Girl 24-25; crowded keep up to a large volume. The coming of Lent before, Is playing to the usual large Bijou and! Friend of The Family 7. louses. does not seen to worry managers much, as they enees. The play Is full of exciting scenes and GREENVILLE.—Grand Opera House (B. T WISCONSIN. claim that while a number of their patrous ta- climaxes, and was heartily enjoyed by the large Whltmlre. mgr.) The Lyman Twins in At The boo the theatre during that period a number of attendance. Next: James J. Curbelt In Pals. Races 24-25: good business. Maud Muller 28; KENOSHA.—Rhode Opera House (Jos. G. others will take their place and results will be Empire (E. I. McCullough, mgr.) The Two Thos. Jefferson in Rip Van Winkle Marcli 1. Rhode, mgr.) Nanette Comstock In The Crisis the same. The introduction of a new bill in the Johns; fair business. Next: Thos E. Shea. Feb 24: good business. Why Girls Leave Home Pennsylvania legislature, which might possibly Avenue. The Sign of The Four, put on by SFARTANBURG.—Oreenewald's Opera House 27: R. R. O. cramp the managers of all theatres, has not the Avenue Dramatic Co.; fair business. Next: (Max Greenewald. mgr.) The Simple Life 20 •Bijou Family Theatre (O'Brien & Buchman, worried any of the Philadelphia amusement peo- East Lynne. good business. Diplomacy Marcb 1; Thomas mgrs.) Bill week Feb. 27: Master Slater. Great ple, as they claim that the bill Is unconstitutional, Academy (Harry Williams, mgr.) The Uto- Jefferson in Rip Van Winkle 2. Gaza Marshall and Erwlne. Adams Dim. Vic- as It has u number of clauses In It about ticket pians are playing a return engagement to big toria and Mack. McGlnnls and McGlnnis. Oracle selling that are neither fair or Just. These business the play merits all the praise It re- TENNESSEE. [Sohler. Foster and Henderson, and the bljonscope clauses were inserted for the purpose of defeat- ceives. LOUIS L. KAUFMAN. MEMPHIS.—Lyceum (Frank Gray, les. am to large audiences. ing ticket speculation, but they are entirely too WILKESBARHE.—Xesbltt Theatre (Harry A mgr.) A Chinese Honeymoon Feb. 20: gooc WAUSAU.—Grand Opera House (C. S. Cone drastic. There Is no ticket speculation in Phil- Brown, bus. mgr.) Ada Hchan Feb. 22; ca- house. Elizabeth Kennedy In Madge 21; fair mgr.) Columbia Stock Co. Feb. 2.-22; fair adelphia except the usual advance sale of tickets pacity. Lulu Glnser 24; capacity business. Un house. Co. closed their season here and re louses Dan Sully In Our Pastor 2J-26; good at hotels, and the public are not In favor of 'ir Southern Skies 25; full house. Franz Von turned to New Y'ork. Chauncey Olcott In Ter nouses Joseph De Grasse In Merchant of Venice stopping this convenient method of getting tick- Vescey 27; Louis Mann March 3; The Billionaire ence 22: good business. W. H. Crane In Busl 27- Donna Troy Co. opens 28 for one week. ets. The bill also contains many stupulations 4. Etliel Bair.rlnore 1*; Tile Burgomaster 11. ness Is Business 23-24; S. K. O. The Girl From Columbia Theatre (O. R,. Schochow, mgr.) about tire regulations, but as most of these have Grand Opera House (Harry A. Brown, bus. Kny's 27-28; good houses. The Two Orphan This bouse closed last week and the Columbia already been compiled with by the managers of mgr.) When Women Love Feb. 20-22; good busi- (all-star cast) (1-7. Richard Mansfield 8; Llone Stock Co. disbanded after playing three nights Philadelphia houses, they do not pay any at- ness. Royal Lilliputians 23-25; S. R. O. A Barrymore 10-11; Roger Brothers In Paris at tbe Grand. Lew Silvers and wife. Frank tention to them. I espernte Chance 27-Marcli 1: Fast Life in 13-14. Mayo and O. F. Rockafield, members of the Co., Garrick Theatre. Eleanor Hobson In Mere- New York 2-4; Chester DeVonde 13-18. Bijou (-B. M. Stalnback. mgr.) Olympic Opera left for Chicago. ly Mary Ann completed a very successful two PITTSTON.-^Broad Street Theatre (H. J. Co. week Feb. 20: crowded houses. Sign of Th< EAU CLAIRE.—Grand Opera House (C. D. weeks' engagement March 4, and will be fol- Four drew well week 27. lowed 6 by The Wizard of Oz. Sinclair, res. mgr.) Ada Kehan In Taming of Moon, mgr.) The Darling of The Gods Feb. 16; The Shrew Feb. 30; capacity. Tbe Holy City Grand (A. B. Morrison, mgr.) Lost Twenty •apaclty The Crisis 28: Holty Tolty March 2. Chestnut Street Opera House. Nance O'Neill Four Hours week Feb. 20; excellent business had fair business during her second weeks' en- 24; only fair business. Under Southern Sklrs Unique (Al. G. Schuberg. res. mgr.) Vaude- 2.~>; good business. Mummy and The Humming Resurrection, with McCarthy and Walcott am Mlle and moving pictures to packed bouses. gagement, ami llumpty Dumpty opens for two LaPetlte Adelaide In vaudeville week 27. weeks Marcli G. Bird March 1; The Typewriter Girl 8; The Bur FOND DU LAC.—Crescent Opera House (P. Broad Street Theatre. Ada Hehan opened Feb. gomaster 9. NASHVILLE.—Vendome Theatre (W. A B Haber. mgr.) Nanette Comstock In The 27 to fair business, and same can be said of the Lvrlc Theatre (H. J. Sinclair, res, mgr.) Sheetz. mgr.) San Toy Feb. 21; crowded house Crisis Febe.. 27: good _house.. _ Mildred Holland rest of the week. She will remain week 6, Marie Fleming Stock Co. week Feb. 20; large Business Is Business 22; S. R. O. Terence 25 Marcb 1; faifairr house. David Harum 7; Mahara's producing The School for Scandal. business. The Gunner's Mate 27; Why Girli- packed house. The Two Orphans Marcb 7. Minstrels 11. Chestnut Street Theatre. The Girl From Kay's Leave Home March 4. Bijou Theatre (Allen Jenkins, mgr.) Flam made a hit and will continue for two weeks EEIE.—Majestic Theatre (Frank Williams. Ing Arrow Feb. 20-25; good bouses. The Stree CANADA. longer. Snm Bernard and Hattle Williams mgr.) Under Southern Skies 27-28; fair busi- Singer 27-March 4. TORONTO.—Princess (O. B. Sheppard, mgr.) pleased everyone. ness. Bertha Galland March 1; good house. KNOXVILLE.—Stanb's Theatre (Fritz Stauh Edward Terry 27-March 1. drew crowded houses, Casino Theatre. The burning of the Casino Mine. Schmnann-IIeink 3: Tbe Show Girl 4. mgr.) Murray Comedy Co. In repertoire 22-25 appearing In Sweet Lavender. House of Burn- In New York was a lucky thing for this bouse, Park Opera House (John L. Gilson. mgr.) good business. Shepard's Pictures 27; big house side, and Bardwell vs. Pickwick. Mr. Terry re- as the malingers were enabled to secure Floro- James Kennedy Co. week 27; good business Channcey Olcott In Terence 28; Immense busl ceived a warm welcome. Next: The Clngalee. Uora for their theatre. It opened Feb. 27 Repertoire: Chuckle Conners, The Man Behind. ness. Tbe Telephone/ Girl March 0-8; Sergean Manager Sheppard has been giving his clientele and packed the house. The entire production Two Irish Gentlemen; Sheridan Keene. Tempta- Kitty 9; The Two Orphans 10; John Drew 11 f-e cream of the traveling companies and busi- is new and pleased mightily. Big business has tions of a Great City, Woman's Enemy and The Business Is Business 13. ness has been very large. 'MTU the rule since opening, and It will continue Poisoned Dagger. The Factory Girl March 6-8; UNION CITY.—Reynold's Opera House. Shea's (J. Shea, mgr.) R. G. Knowles. for- Indefinitely. Royal Slave 9-10. N»ble Outcast Feb. 20; fair house. Conkln' merly of Hamilton. Ont.. received an ovation Walnut Street Theatre. Mrs. Wlggs of The when he made bis first appearance here week SHAMOKIN.—G. A. R. Opera House (J. F High Class Comedy Co. 22-23; pleased goo Cabbage Patch packed tins theatre at every business. 27. Emll lloch. Jane Elton & Co.. Crane Broth- performance. Week 6: The Isle of Spice. Osier, mgr.) The Gunner's Mate 23; fair house. ers. The Jackson Family and others were well Park Theatre. Way Down East has drawn Thou Shalt Not Kill 25; fair business. Emery TEXAS. received. well during Its two weeks' engagement, UH-' Stock Co week 27: good business. Wizard «f Grand. Jane Corcoran In Pretty Peggy 27- Williams and Walker will no doubt pack the Oz March 7; The Typewriter Girl B. McKINNZY.—Opera House (H. W. Warden March 4: large amllences. Next: Sherlock house when they open March 6. Family Theatre (W. D. Nlelds, mgr.) Halgh mgr.) Gratton-DeVernon Steck Co. canceled Holmes. Item—The annual benefit of the T. Grand Opera House. Nancy Brown bad a good and Dean. Wally and Lottie Helston, F. Allen Harrison Adams Theatre Co. 20-22; fair houses M A was given here 24, and was a big success. week. By Right of Sirord will be the attraction Coogan, Rena Arnold. Henry and Young, Fred Plays: Pearl Without Price, Slaves of Opium Massey Hall (S. Houston, mgr.) The National week 6. and Annie Pelot, and moving pictures made up and St. Patrick's Eve. Tatum's Vaudeville Co Chorus, assisted by Victor Herbert's Orchestra, Glrard Avenue Theatre. -Business continues a strong bill week Feb. 27, which drew well 23-24; North Brothers' Stock Co. March 6-12 gave a splendid recital 28; packed house. fair at this house. Week Feb. 27: Eugenie Blair SHARON.—Morgan Grand (M. Rels, les.; Lee OALVESTON.—Grand Opera House (Fred O Majestic (A. J. Small, mgr.) Nobody's Dar- In Her Second Life, and announced for week 6, Norton, mgr.) Human Hearts Feb. 21; goot Wels. mgr.) Nankevllle's Minstrels 21; fal line week Feb. 27: fair business. Underlined: A Desperate Chance. house. My Wife's FauiHy 22; good house. The attendance. The Two Orphans (all-star cast Child Slaves of New York. National Theatre. Tesas pleased and drew Factory Girl 24; go«d business. A Ragged Hero 22: large houses. Richard Mansfield In Ivan Star (F. W. Stair, mgr.) Full of ginger and well week Feb. 23. Announced for week 6, 25; good business. Myrkle-Harder Co. 27-Marcb The Terrible 27. The Marriage of Kitty (re snap Is the performance of The Parisian Widows, Slnbad. by tbe Lilliputians. 4. good business. Item—Harry Showalter bas turn engagement) 28. Next: Imperials. 10 Billboard

After a tour of the Lang Circuit, Phone 2851. E«ta.bli>hed 1843 Howe E. Decker Is resting at Mr. Howe's home In St. Joseph. Mo., preparatory to going with the Barlow Show this season. Thomson & Vandivoor Marguerite Still, snake enchantress, MANUFACTURERS OF last season with Hargreaves Show, has signed MU&6UM MtNAfiERft as a feature act with Sautelle & Welsh Brothers for the coming tenting season. CIRCUSTENTS Barnum & Bailey's new calliope ar- TENTS FOR RENT. HIPPODROME FOR CHICAGO Seventeen head of draught stock rived at winter quarters from Evansvllle, Ind., ami sixteen ponies arrived at the Hargreaves Feb. 20, a total wreck, the result of a rail- 816 East Pearl St., CINCINNATI, 0. Chicago theatrical men and finan- winter quarters last week from Io\va. road accident at Buffalo, N. Y. ciers are considering the project of a Geo. Hines, proprietor of the Hotel Fred Beckman, vice president and Belmont, Clilrago, has bought a half Interest general agent of the Frank Rohblns Shows, will hippodrome in the Windy City. They in I'rof. Blakes Dog and 1'on.v Circus. Inject many new ideas into the advertising de- have already predicted success for the Fred. Morgan has canceled with the partment of that show this summer. New York Hippodrome, and have had Itohinson Show untl signed as contracting agent Theodore Stout has signed to take their commissioner, Stewart Spalding, with the Forepaugli-Sells Brothers Shows. the hand with the Snyder Brothers & Dowker'g TENTS managing director of the Chicago Coli- Manager Montgomery of the Texas Wild West Shows for the coming season. The seum in that city. Bill Wild West Show has secured another band will consist of thirteen pieces. ALL K1HD5 i*D SIZES. Mr. Spalding spent several hours in monster gorilla besides several wild animals. C. W. Lingard, the iron-Jawed won- conference with Frederic Thompson of iler, has signed with the Stephen & Mossman Thompson & Dundy. He carefully ex- Show for the coming tenting season. He will amined the intricate stage mechanism J. H. J. KANE DIES IN ARIZONA. do his heavy lifting act in the concert. and the usual features of the audi- C. D. Mclntyre, formerly of the Indianapolis Tent & Awning Go, torium of the hippodrome, and got de- .T. M. J. Kane, one of the best known advance Harris Nickel Plate and the Great Wallace tailed knowledge of the productions. and opposition men in the business, died in Shows, has signed with Gollmar Brothers as INDIANAPOLIS, IND. He obtained plans, figures and other Tucson, Ariz.. Saturday, March 4. 1005. ac- contracting agent for the coming season. cording to a telegram received by The Billboard Ralph W. Peckham, general excur- Important details from Mr. Thompson. unday. The Elks have the body in charge. sion agent of Rlngling Brothers Shows, ar- The large water stage aroused com- t not being known what disposition will be ade of tile same The Billboard Is unable at rived in Chicago Saturday Morning, 4, after MURRAY GO. ment from him, and the mechanism for its time to detail the funeral arrangements, a protracted sojourn on his California ranch. raising and lowering the stage was a. hich will appear In our next Issue. Mrs. W. H. Harris writes from Gib- surprise. He is entirely satisfied with the Mr. Kane was born In Chicago, 111., in 1808, raltar, Spain, that they have had an Ideal trip practicability of the project, and said nd witli his parents moved to San Francisco so far, with no storms. On Feb. 15 they left lortly after the Chicago fire. Leaving school Gibraltar for Naples, a distance of four days. "I am sure that Chicago will have a t ten years of age he engaged with the Atner- hippodrome before long. It strikes me 'an District Telegraph Company as messenger Fred. Judson, who has been winter- as a successful venture." Besides Mr. ioy. At eleven years he entered the employ ing at his home In Springfield, 111., left that Stewart Spalding, representatives from f Mr. Dargle. of the Oakland Tribune, as city Feb. 25 to Join the Gentry Brothers Show. Philadelphia, Boston and Pittsburg rinter's devil, and at nineteen years was This makes Fred's third season with the Gentrys. uauager of that newspaper. The Baldwin & Arthur Show was have visited Thompson & Dundy, seek- snowbound for three weeks In the Indian Ter- CIRCUS CANVASES, ing details of the hippodrome. They ritory, and consequently Incapacitated for mak- Poles and Stake*. SKATS. Flags. Ktc. have offered Mr. Thompson conces- ing dates. The shows are now running In full BLACK TENTS. sions if he would take charge of blast. SIDE SHOW PAINTINGS. amusement resorts in their cities. Victor Stout goes with the Hagen- Fronts and Banner* for Street Fair* :teck Trained Animal Show this season. Since the closing of the Norrls & Rowe Show last ^nTTro-r KIDD'S PATENT CIRCUS LIGHTS $100 A SECOND FOR SENSATIONAL fall Mr. Stout has been successfully piloting ACT the Miss Hursey From Jersey Co. 59-61 W. Waahinjton St., CHICAGO. ILL. Roy Feltus, who has been identified with the Rlngling Brothers, will act as first It is just announced by Mr. J. A. assistant to -Mr. Henry Rlngling, general man- Bailey that he has definitely fixed upon ager of the Forepaugh-Sells Brothers Circus Scenery and Show Paintings! March 23 as the date for opening the this season, a splendid promotion for an able -ion 111: it n it n i. regular circus season in Madison nan. No. 8183 It..••!!.• St., Cincinnati, O. Square Garden with the Barnum & Frank J. O'Donnell, the well-known Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, which, contracting press agent of the Forepaugh-Sells Brother! Shows, returns to that organization despite all previously circulated re- this season. Mr. O'Donnell Is at the present ports to the contrary, is one week later time advance representative of Hanlon's Su- .R.KUHKELY than in previous years. He also an- lerba. nounces that no other circus will ex- The winter quarters of the Frank hibit there this year, and that, among Rohblns Shows at Passalc, N. J., is now crowded a large number of new and novel at- ivith a force of men putting the show In first- tractions, there are several that are •hiss shape. Many new wagons and chariots positively astonishing and which for lave been built and the parade material will a certainty are bound to satisfy the all be new. MANUFACTURER OF SHOW CANVASSES most exacting searcher after thrilling Geo. Hines owns a half interest in the Temple of Music, one of the most im- U|i||Trn FOR THE GREAT sensations. For one of these acts, the portant concessions at the new $1,000,000 White artiste, who is a young and prepossess- City Park, Chicago. Mr. Slakes' hotel. "The WAN I tU Da Coma Family ing lady, receives one hundred dollars Belmont," on West Madison street, is doing BOY or «.IUI. for bl* Acrobatic Act: one for every second of time occupied in splendidly. good tumbler preferred. Write or wire. Can her performance. The whole show is George Pringle, the old time men- always place (rood acrobats. projected and will be carried out on agerie and circus man, is in Kansas City, Mo., ART Iiiifon%. . Nortn Brnd. Otolo new and improved lines, and may truthfully be said to be entirely novel from hoof to helmet and from rings to roof. For the first time in forty years or more, the show will embrace Cali- In 1887 he secured the advertising privileges fornia in its itinerary, and notwith- vith John Robinson's Ten Big Shows. Since standing nearly all the countries of hat time he had a varied theatrical and circus experience. In 1893 he was an actor with THE NEW CIRCUS LIGHT Europe have been visited at various Webster & Brady's Bottom of The Sea, and periods hitherto, the usual route of n 18»4 was a partner with JMck Ferris in Tlie this circus in America has been con- Ferris Comedians. fined to the section east of the Rocky In 181)5 lie started a theatrical paper called Music and I)rama, at Cincinnati, which ran = THE ONLY iCIRCUS LI6HT = Mountains. It will really be the debut with varying success for about a year. Since of the show west of Colorado. hat time he was with John Robinson, Walter NOTHING LIKE IT EVER SEEN BEFORE. [j. Main. Sells-Downs, Forepaugh-Sells Brothers, Oliver Scott's Minstrels, and was for nearly CIRCUS GOSSIP. three seasons In advance of the Al. G. Field "Pop Corn" George Hall renewed old Minstrels. Last season Mr. Kane had charge acquaintances in Chicago Saturday 4. of the opposition car with the Forepaugh-Sells Lights Your Tents Like Brilliant Sunshine Show. At the end of the circus season he The Leffel Trio have been engagec embarked In business for himself and put out OUR OUT DOOR LIGHT IS A WONDER. for the Hargreaves Shows for this season. Oliver Scott's Minstrels. The venture did not John McGloucklin, boss canvasman: [irove successful. When the show closed at ADOPTED BY—Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth, Ring, Write or wire H. B. Gentry, Bloomington, Ind. Mlddlt'Rboroiigh, Ky.. Mr. Kane went west and joined the advance forces of Nat. Reiss' South- ling Bros. World's Greatest Shows, The Great Adam Forepaugh Harry Crigler will lead the band with ern Carnival Co. Gentry Brothers (No. 1) Show the coining season As an "opposition" man Mr. Kane was one & Sells Bros. Enormous Shows, J.T. INcGaddon's Great Interna- D. G. Callahan has accepted a posi- of the best in the business. He figured prom- tional Shows, Gentry Bros. United Shows, The Carl Hagenbeck tion as ticket seller with the Forepaugh-Sells inently in many opposition fights and it has Show. been admitted, even by his opponents, that he Trained Animal Shows, Washburn & D'Alma's Trained Animal was seldom worsted. As an adverlining man Barnum & Bailey will play Philadel- Mr. Kane was strong in a newspaper office. Show. phia for a week after their New York en Bright and ambit ions, he worked with a will WE REFER TO ANY AND ALL OF THEM. MANUFACTURED BY gagement. and had a peculiar knack for accomplishing things. He was a writer of more than ordinary The Barnum & Bailey Shows open iblllty and his verse, essays, editorials and 299-301 W. Lake St., the season March 23 at Madison Square Garden ihort stories are forceful, vigorous and clever. New York City. BOLTE & WEYER, - CHICAGO. - George Steele has been engaged as official adjuster for the Forepaugh-Sells Brother: An account of the elopement of Shows this season. Harry Lamkin of Petersburg. 111., and Miss J. J. Milar, of New Philadelphia Pearl Robinson of Terrace Park. Ohio, will be Ohio, has signed contracts with the Sun Brother found on page 14. THE MT. VERNON CAR MANUFACTURING CO., Show for the season. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gore closed with Harry Green, of the John Robinson the Joshua Slmpkins Co. (western) at Mollne, Shows, was a welcome caller at our Chlcagc 111., March 4. In order to Join the Great Floto office Saturday, Feb. 25. Shows at Denver. SS» FREIGHT GARS £££. for SHOW PURPOSES Archie Royer and nineteen othe Geo. Holland and wife will re-enter the business this year with a fine new riding MIT. VKMNON, ILLINOIS. clowns will be a big feature with the Har act which they are now perfecting at their greaves Shows this season. home in Delavan, WIs. Kid Kooster has signed with th> Wm. "Butts" Morgan, Jim Charley, Great w. p. Hall Shows as special opposltlo: harltonlst. and Ed. J. Manpln, have signed with lithograph and banner man. the Snyder Brothers & Dowker's Wild West FOR. TENT LIGHTS Messrs. Evans and DeWolf will have Shows for this season. charge of the finances with the Forepaugh-Sell Shlpp's Indoor Circus closes its sea- ....AND OUTSIDE LIGHTS.... Brothers Shows this season. son March 11. Edw. Shlpp and Julia Lowande H. P. Matlack, manager of privilege: have signed with the Forepaugh-Sells Show for with the Hagenbeck Shows, transacted bust the season, Mr. Shlpp having the position of GEO. TAYLOR. : » 97 Cliff S«re*t. New York ness In Chicago last week. equestrienne director. Mention " '" when answering ad*. Mentum. "Tka StOhoarf vhmtaumrutg ad* Xtie Billboard lL fMATERIAL F R T WORLD'S FAIR> The Chlcairo House Wrecking Company bougrht the i50.000.000 St.T LouiHs World's Fair and »ffer for sale enormous quantities of material for every purpose. This Is of special Interest to Parks. Circuses. Theatres and Amusement Owners of every kind. We practically can furnish anything needed In the way of Building Material and General Supplies You dare not overlook suoh a chancre to buy material Rood as new at extremely low prices. These aro a few of the Items now ready for delivery. CHAIRS. ROOFING—SIDING—LINING. SAFES AND VAULT DOORS. GARBAGE AND REFUSE 25.000 Wood seat, bow back, thrM CANS. •p indie Chain. 60,000 squares "Flintkote" Roofing. Over 100 good Safes in all sizes. 1,000 Vienna Caneieat Chairs. Will be taken off carefully, and prac- Also 15 Fireproof Vault Doors. 5,000 Large Cans, mostly 30 in. dia. tical for further use. by 48 in. high. 1,000 Baddleieat (heavy) Ann Chain. 1,000,000 sq. ft. of Vi-inch Ribbed Sky- FENCING. Thousands of other Chain. light Glass. 2 miles of 8-foot Picket Steel Fencing. TURNSTILES. INCANDESCENT LAMPS. 1,000,000 sq. ft. of heavy Wire Netting 50 miles of Woven Wire Fencing. 150 Registering Turnstiles and Ticket used under skylight. Thousands of feet of Expanded Metal Cancelling Machines, made by H. V. 250,000 New Incandescent Lamps, never 10,000 squares of Plain Sheet Iron Fencing. Bright. Each Machine is equipped with used; mostly General-Electric Make; 8 for lining and covering purposes. Can 5,000 Cedar Posts. Patent Electric attachment, making a and 16-candle power, Edison Base. Some make very low price on large quantities. 100 Iron Fence Gates. double register. of them are clear; some in amber, green Also Corrugated Iron, Beaded Steel 10 miles of Steel Lawn Fence. Also 170 Glass Top Chopper Boxes. and red. Ceiling, Brick Biding, etc. 100 regular Pattern Registering Turn- MOTORS. 40,000 ft. Conductor Pipe, siies I to GALVANIZED WIRE. stiles. 50 Electric Motors, ranging from 1 to 6-inch, square and round. 1,000 Rolls of Smooth Galvanized 360 Exit Turnstiles. 40 H. F. in all voltages. 75,000 ft. Galvanized Eave Troughs Wire, useful for many purposes, such V and fittings. WATER COOLERS AND FIL- V COPPER WIRE. as making fences and the like. TERS. $750.000 worth of Rubber Covered, PIPE. FLAGS. 250 Portable Combination Germ-proof Weatherproof and Slow Burning Wire, 5.000 Flags of all Nations, including Filters and Coolers. Also Water Kegs, in all sites, from 16 to 600,000 O. K. 10,000,000 feet of Pipe of every kind. Arabia, Argentine Republic, .Austria, Water Barrels, etc. Also Lead Covered Cables, all voltages Wrought Iron Pipe, sizes % to 86 inch. Belgium, Brazil. Bulgaria, Canada, Chili, and sizes. Cast Iron Pipe, sizes 4 to 80 inch. China, Corea, Cuba, Costa Rica, Colum- FOLDING CAMP BEDS. Bare Copper Wire. Tile Pipe, sises 6 to 40 inch. bia Republic, Denmark, Dominica Re- 8,000 V. 8. Folding Camp Beds. UNUSED TICKETS. Steel Riveted Pipe, sixes 8 to 42 inch. public, Exposition Flags, White Flags, 3,000 3ft. by 6ft. Folding Camp Beds Several million Exposition Tickets, Also Valves, Fittings and Connections of France, Gango, Germany, Greece, Great with woven Wire Springs. every sort. used for every purpose at the Exposition, Britain, Guatemala, Hayti, Honduras, GREENHOUSE MATERIAL. on rolls and suitable for any amusement Hungary, Italy, Japan, National Com- purpose. Low prices on large quantities. MACHINERY. mission, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Nor- 3 Greenhouses, 22 ft. by 300 ft., com- way, Mexico, Persia, Panama, Paraguay, plete with all appliances. Also 10,000 100,000,000 FEET OF LUMBER. 25 Boilers from 10 to 250 H. P. each. Peru, Portugal, Russia, Siberia, Siam, Plants of all kinds. Send us your lumber bill for our esti- Some Water Tube, some Horizontal, Salvador, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, 5,000 Hct Bed Bash. mate. We can furnish anything in the some Upright, three fire-box. Turkey, Uraguay, Venezuela and the 50,000 Paper Flower Pots. line. Studding, Joists and Timbers; 10 High Speed Engines, ranging from United States. These Flags range in Mixed 2-inch Planking; Dressed and 70 to 800 H. P. sizes as follows: 6x10; 7x11; 8x12; PLAIN AND CORRUGATED Matched Flooring; Timben in sizes 4x4, 1 direct connected "MoEwan" Tan- 8x14; 8x15; 10x12; 10x19; 14x24. eto. IRON. 4x6. 6x6, 6x8, 8x8, 10x10, 10x12, 12x12, dem Compound Outfit, for 150 lights. 5,000 Flag Poles, ranging from 20 14x14, and in lengths from 8 to 88 feet. 8 40 K. W. 125 velt "Norton" Multi- to 115 feet. SETTEES. Interior Finishing material. polar Generators, with switchboard and 20.000 6-foot Hardwood Slat Settees, instruments. BAMBOO POLES. with iron standards. SASH AND DOORS. A large stock of Pumps, Air Compres- 25,000 Bamboo Poles, used by the U. Thousands of Sash for quick delivery. sors, and other equipment. S. Government in the Phillipine Reser- MISCELLANEOUS. 1,500 Sash, 2 ft. 5'i in. x3ft. 7 in. vation. They range from 3 inch to 6 150 Gas and Ccal Stoves. 1,500 Sash, 1 ft. 6 in. xS ft 6 in. HOSE AND FIRE FIGHTING inch in diameter at the bottom and from 2000 Step Ladders. 1,400 Sash, 1 ft. 6 in. x6ft. SO to 60 feet long. Useful for many 1000 Iron Pails. 2,500 Sash, 1 ft. 10 in. x4 ft. I in. APPARATUS. purposes. 25 Portable Forges. V 1,100 Sash, 2 ft. x4 ft. 25,000 ft. 2',i inch double jacketed Fire 50 Wrought Iron Anvils. w 1,500 Sash, 3 ft. 10 in. xT ft. I in. CLOTHING, SWORDS, ETC. Iron Bolts Iron Doors 760 Sash, 1 ft. » in. x« ft. 15.000 ft."";* inch 4 ply Fire Hose. 500 "Khaki" Uniforms, consisting of Lag Screws Iron Stairs 1.500 Sash, 4 ft. 8 in. x7 ft. S in. 60,000 ft. 1H inch Fire Hose. coat and pants. Turnbuckles Pumps Thousands of others. 10,000 ft. 1 inch Mill Hose. 200 Special Overcoats, made for the Iron Rods Paints 10,000 Doors. Write for List. 15.000 ft. 3'i inch Water Hose. Jefferson Guards at the World's Fair. Vises Wheelbarows TRUSSES. 2.000 ft. 1 inch Suction Hose. 500 "Khaki" Caps. Axes Jack Screws 15,000 fine Wooden Trusses of every 300 2'', inch Play Pipes. 500 sets of Swords, Belts and scab- Shovels Bunting kind and size. They are made with 400 1V4 inch Play Pipes. bards. Hammers Nails special attention to uniform strength. STATUARY. Hatchets Iron Posts OFFICE EQUIPMENT. Architects' and Drawing Instruments. We are having a complete list of them Thousands of Art Statues and orna- made up, which will be sent on applica- We own $75.000 worth of High Grade Stationery of every kind. tion. We furnish blue print and draw- mentation used around the Exposition 10 Fire Engines. OT.ro Equipment, consisting of Roll-top Grounds. Useful for Parks, Theatres 25 Fire Alarm Boxes. ing. They range in lengths from 60 to Desks, Typewriters' Desks, Flat Desks, and General Amusement Purposes. 400 ft. Directors' Desks. Standing Desks. Re- 1000 Water Hydrants. ROAD ROLLERS. Flower Pots. volving Office Chain. Office Arm Chain, TICKET BOXES. 1700 Lavatories. 10 Road Rollers, "Universal" and Vertical Filing Cabinets, Bookcases, 1,000 Galvanized Iron Ticket Receiv- "Kelley" make, ranging in 3, 5, 6 and Typewriters, eto. 1700 Closet Outfits. 7 ton. ing Boxes, also Coin Boxes, eto, 350 Bath Tubs. HOUSEHOLD GOODS. 300 Kitchen Sinks. ROPE. ROAD SCRAPERS. 150 Slop Sinks. A very large quantity of used Manila 3.000 Bed Sheets. 125 Wheel and Drag Scrapers in all Soil Pipe and Fittings of every kind. Bope in sizes from y, to 2 inch. 5,000 Woolen Blankets. sizes. Also Railroad Plows, etc. 500 Cast Iron Radiators. Also Wire Hoisting Wire, sizes % to 8,000 Iron Beds. 3 Hot Water Heaters. V, inch. 500 Combination Dressen. OPERA CHAIRS. £ Steam Heaters. Also Tackle Blocks, Pulleys, Derricks Carpets, Rugs, Matting and Furniture of 2.800 Veneered Opera Chain, made by 76 Wagons, Buggies and Vehicles of and Hoisting Apparatus of every kind. every description. A. H. Arulrrws Company, good as new. every kind. OUR SPECIAL WORLD'S FWIR CATALOGUE No. 544 SENT ON APPLICATION. • \v<- also l»iie a Catalogue ot material lor «»le at our Main Warehouse, at Chicago. Write an to-day. MAIN (FFICE and YARDS, ST. LOUIS HEADQUARTERS, v:35th and Iron Sts., CHICAGO. CHICAGO HOUSE WRECKING COMPANY World's Fair Brounds, ST. LOUIJIS M considering offers for next season. Mr. Prlngle nt Forepaugh's Theatre in that city. The plot 1905 to be a prosperous one. The show will plete. The entire train of cars Is being re- has sold his Atehlson. Kan., property and will of the play depended upon the snake carrying remain In southern Georgia and Alabama for the built and repainted at the Pennsylvania R. R. be found with one of the big ones again the out the part assigned to It, and It fully did next four weeks. shops In Columbus, Ohio. Many of the old coming season. BO. Mr. Hope will have eight snake acts with circus coaches were discarded and new ones different circuses this season. The Camm Brothers, Alfred and provided In their place. No expense has been A most efficient member has been Charles, have been playing a series of school spared In any department of the show to make added to the general staff of the Forepaugh- George Metcalf and wife. Evangeline, shows In Cincinnati and vicinity with fairly it conform to the highest standard of the new Sells Brothers Shows through the recent engage- have signed with the George W. Hall United good success during the winter. They present management, and In Its new dress this spring ment of Jay Rial, the well-known theatrical Wagon Show for the coming season. Mr. Met- a strong program. It Is said. Introducing magic, the Forepaugh & Sells Bros. Show will be a manager, who will handle the press one week calf has leased the privileges and Mrs. Metcalf punch, ventriloquism and shadowgraphlc repro- revelation to the amusement loving world. In advance of the organization season 1005. will do her singing and dancing act. They ductions of The Fall of Port Arthur. They also Henry Rlngllng will be general manager and George H. Reiser, who has been rinsed Feb. 2fl at the Theatre Comlque. Spokane, have a troupe of performing birds. Thomas A. G. Rlngllng general agent. ' The balance Identified as contracting agent with the Ring- Wash., and returned to their home at Ottuinwa, Allen and William Yates are capable assistants. of the general staff will probably be announced ling Brothers Shows for a number of seasons la., for a few week's rest. The following people have signed in the next Issue of The Billboard. past and enjoys an enviable reputation, has Among the showmen to visit the with the Al. Steele Big Shows: J. A. Kelly, The Don Ford Ideal Shows will take been engaged as general contracting agent for Great Wm. P. Hall Shows at Lancaster, last balloonist; The Billings, aerlallsts; Ammon the road this season Instead of playing Phila- the Forepaugh-Sells Brothers Show season 1905. week were Carl Hagenbeck, W. W. Scott, Slg. Mussulman, clown; Sam and Sadie Dock's troupe delphia as heretofore. It will be a wagon W. E.. Holmes writes that he has Sautelle's representative, and Al. J. Gilligham. of )>erforming ponies, dogs and donkles; Am- show. The same policy of combining vaudeville sold his Interests In, and severed all connec- All unite In declaring Mr. Hall a most hospi- brose Hockanberry and contortionist Joe War- with circus for one price of admission will pre- tions with the Oriental Vaudeville Palace at table host, and assert If he uses the same wick are superintending the construction of vail, and a feature will be made of Mr. Ford's Birmingham, Ala., and has Joined the Augustus perseverance he will he the King of Showmen, several new parade wagons. Manager Steele magical Illusions and Impersonations of Ching Jones Model Plate R. R. Show. Mr. Holmes as he is now of the horse world. last week purchased a fine team of roans for Ling Foo in Chinese magic feats. A troupe and his wife joined the show at Florala, Ala., Notes from the winter quarters of his plank wagon. of trained dogs and ponies will be among the March 4. C. H. Knight's Twenty-flve-cent Show: Every- Following is the roster of the side many other features. The Danella troupe of aerlallsts will again be with them. The clown William F. O'Hara, for a number thing Is in fine shape for the opening, which will show with the Texas Bill Wild West Show: be about May 1. This show will carry thirty W. C. Lane, manager; Clyde Wolfe and Frank contingent will 1« stronger than ever. A novel of years connected with the Forepaugh, Barnum outside attraction will be used along with the & Bailey and Buffalo Bill shows. Is now engaged people, twenty horses, eight trained ponies, Cool, ticket sellers; Harry Mitchell, ticket three hogs and one mule. The McMahons, taker; Clark Brothers, bag punchers; G. W. best of paper to get the people. While the In running a profitable restaurant at Bridge- equipment will not be new from stake to port, Conn. "Billy" Is well known to show- aerlalists. have signed: also Harry Demarlo. Miller, ventriloquist; Geo. Alexander, tattooed contortionist, and Harry Lewis, clown. man: The Edwards Sisters, musicians; Ada, centerpole, it will be found to be one of tbe men, being president of Jungle No. 1 of the neatest and cleanest outfits on the road, and Benevolen t Order of American Tigers. snake enchantress; The Gordons, jubilee singers. Herman Boger. a trainer at the Hag- The top Is in charge of "Yellow" Ward with the management believes that expectations of A correspondent says that it might enbeck Trained Animal Show, was attacked five assistants. The side show will have a a very successful season will more than be ful- be mentioned to the route agents of the tent and dangerously wounded by a Bengal tiger In new front with twelve double-deck banners. filled. The show opens May 4 at Rutlege, Pa. shows that Intend touring Ohio this season, that St. Louis Wednesday, of last week. One tooth was broken out of the tiger's mouth and that A consignment of animals reached Following are some of the recent St. Paris haa not had a tent show of any engagements for the Frank A. Robbins Greatest moment In several years, and that every one probably saved Roger's life. The Jaws of the Brooklyn last week by steamship Lagona for the Barnum & Bailey menagerie. A new fea- and Al New Feature Show: Tbe Greggs, doable In the town seems to be In a prosperous condi- animal closed on him and opened the scalp for leaping and looping the gap; Josie Ashton, tion, warranting a good piece of money for a five inches on one side and two on the other. ture and a curiosity was a pair of pure white principal rider; Johnnie Rooney, principal rider; small circus. The skull was not crushed. The beast Is seven Siberian camels, whlqh will be added to the years old and had been raised from a cub by herd of Bactrian and Soudanese camels already Joe Cousins, principal rider; Mrs. Cousins, prin- Manager Fred. Falkner, of the Drake Boffpr. who has been with Hagenbeck for fifteen with the show. The shipment also Included a cipal rider; Harry Rente, mule hurdle; Three & Falkner Greater United R. R. Shows, made years. mammoth dromedary, guanacos. alpacas, several Heumanns, trick bicyclists; Four Gregorys, a trip to Pierre. S. D., last week for the purpose full grown llamas, and a baby llama and mother. aerial bars; Two Elletts. trapeze: Billy Carroll of engaging Nebraska Bill and a number of Notes from the James Shelby Shows: The little one was born on the trip across. and wife, trick mule; The Wente Duo, gym- cowboys for the wild west exhibit that will be We have Just experienced four of the coldest After quarantine inspection, the animals will nasts ; Four Daros, aerial bars; The Kosters, added to the show this season. While In and most disagreeable days ever known In be sent to the Bridgeport winter quarters, to hippodrome riders; El Nino Eddie, bounding Pierre Mr. Falkner purchased a buffalo for southwest Georgia. We drove into Blakely remain until the Barnum & Bailey Show Is wire; H. Inman. elephant posturing; Mile. the menagerie. through a hard and cold rain and opened In the shipped to New York for the spring engagement Janta, web act; Albert Gaston. clown; Charles opera house, the weather being too cold to at Madison Square Garden. Bllta, clown juggler: Willy Shrode, principal J. Hope, the Philadelphia animal and show In the tents. A second night in the clown; Mile. Wonderly,, snake enchantress; «nake Importer, trained a huge python to take opera house brought good business. All are The organization of the Adam Fore- Flossie LaBlanche, strong woman; Jean Foster, part la the production of The Painted Woman well, and we are looking for the season of paugh & Sells Bros. Shows Is practically com- minstrel; Harry Shlpman, minstrel, and John- 12 The Billboard

atlian Purvis, equestrian director. Addi- Ellis' lOc. and 20c. Shows Tower City, Pa. Fox's (Rolla) Show Terre Haute. Ind. tional to this program Mr. Bobbins has con- Elstun'a Dog and Pony Show..Kansas City. Mo. Great Gasklll Shows Augusta, Ga. tracted with a well-known producer of spectac- Ferari Bros.' Shows The Zoo. Toledo, O, Greater Smith Am. Co Mobile, Ala. ular novelties for the historical spectacle, The Floto's (Otto) Shows Denver, Col Hatch, J. Frank. Shows Plttsburg, Pa. Tribunal of Nations, introducing the rulers of Forepaugh-Sells Bros.' Columbus. O Hewitt's (Fred) Exposition Shows the world covering a period of one hundred Fox's (Rollo) Show Kscanaba, Mich, Washington, Ind. Frank & Hermann's Vaudeville Show LaRose Electric Fountain... .210 Ft. Scott St., years. Wapakoneta, O Ft. Scott. Kan. Marvelous things have been accom- Frlsbee Bros.' Shows Detroit, Mich. Lachman-Keecb Expo. Co Lnmberton, Miss. plished on the New York hippodrome within the Gentry Bros.' No. 1 Bloomlngton, Ind. McElwee's Merry-Go-Round Kelayres, Pa. past month. Whereas four weeks ago the Gentry Bros.' No. 2 Bloemlngton, Ind. MIthell's Anthracite Band Kelayres, Pa. inside of the building was In a state of in- Gentry Bros.' No. 3 Bloomlngton, Ind. Metropolitan Am. Co Chattanooga, Tenn. completeness that It seemed only months of Gentry Bros.' No. 4 Bloomlngton. Ind Monarch Carnival Co Covlngton, Ind. continuous labor could turn Into the semblance Glbb's Big Olympic Shows Wapakoneta. O Montgomery & Hatcher ...Dallas, Tex. United States Tent and Awning Company of a place of amusement, It is now plastered Glasscock's (Alex) Shows Longrlew, Tex. Monumental Carnival Co Hot Springs, Ark. 125-131 W. Randolph St. Chicago. 111. Manufac and decorated and the scaffolding has been re- Gollmar Bros.' •Baraboo, Wls. Jethro Almond's Bible Show.. Albemarle, N. O. turersof T- NTS all sizes and kinds. Circus moved. Thousands of lights have been Installed, Great American Water Circus Ironton. O. Patterson-Bralnerd Carnival Co.. .Beaumont, Tex. Canvases. Poles and Stakes. Seats. Flags, etc. and It looks as if a performance might be given Great Buffalo Wild West Mlssoula, Mont. Pierce Am. Co Box 54, Statesvllle, N. 0. tomorrow. Notwithstanding the incredulence Great International Shows Kansas City. Mo. Pllbeam's Am. Enterprises. .. .Lansing, Mich. Agents for Kldd's I'atent Cirrus Lights.. Black of the put,He and nil who have been interested (Jreat Texas Bill's Wild West Boone. I Robinson Am. Co. ..Bodraan Bldg., Cincinnati, O. Tents Our Specialty. Side Show I'alntings. in the progress of the colossal building, Messrs. Gregory & White Show Rock Hill. S. C. Robinson, Billy Louisville, Ky. Thompson & Pnndy have declared from the first Grlmsley's New London Shows... .Plttsburg. Pa. Seeman-Mllllcan MardI Gras Co that it would Iw finished on time. Of course Haag's (Ernest) Shows Shreveport, La. Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Ga. It is not cpilte "on time"—that Is, the time It llagerry's (T. E.) Big Tent Show.Franktou. Ind. Tennessee Carnival Co Lexington, Ky. was advertised to open, but the action of the Hall's -Shows Fond du Lac, Wls Welder's Will H.) Cam. Co Coalton, O., buildIt if: department was unforseen. If it had Hall's (Geo. W. Jr.) Evansvllle, Wis. and Philadelphia, Pa. not been for this delay the performances Mall, F. W., United Wagon Show.Coyville, Kan. Westlake's Carnival of Novelties. .222 W. 128th TENTS would have commenced long since. llarkness and Fox Minstrel Circus St.. New York City. 1 Ali KINDS and SIZES. Circus superintendents have been McKeesport. Pa. Wlxom Bros. Bancroft. Mich. considerably Interested of late in the widely Harris' Nickel Plate 443 Doughlas Blvd., Whitney Am. Co 108 W. Main St., Baton Have some good second hand tents on hand. advertised Twentieth Century Soap, which has Chicago IU. Rouge, La. proven a solution to many of their problems. Hnrgreaves' Shows Chester, Pa. Wright's Amusement Co Savannah, Ga. one 35x50. The difficulty of keeping the wagons clean with- Harmon & Carroll Tented Minstrels.Lincoln. Neb. out injuring the paint has proved a serious Hubln's (F. B.) Shows Atlantic City, N. J one. It seemed impossible to find a sonp that Ilulburd's Wild West Philadelphia. Pa want a Tent This Year? would not rot or eat the paint, but superin- Hagenbeck's St. Louis. Mo. We are Headquarters South for G.D.WESTON tendents who have tried Twentieth Century Indian Bill's Wild West Clifton Forge, Va. DO YOU 6159-6161 Wentworth Ave., Chicago Soap say it does not injure the paint In any Jumps & Loss Show. .. .South Milwaukee. Wls. way and cleans satisfactorily. The reason for Jones' Model Plate Clifton Forge. Va this, the manufacturers explain, is because it Jones' Empire Shows Chambersburg. Pa. STREET - FAIR - TENTS !s made of absolutely pure vegetable oils which Julian's Amphitheatre Havana, 111. They are our specialty but we make any kind are uiarvelously efficient In loosening and re- Kellogg's Great So. Shows Alexandria, La. of ti-nt that is marte. Don't buy before get- moving the dirt, and that it contains no lye, Kennedy Bros.' Wild West Indian Congress ting our pi-Ires. Yours truly. acids or any substance wHlch could injure the Perry, Okla. most highly polished surface. It is used by Kemp Sisters Lamar, Mo. M. D. & H. L. SMITH, Dalton,Ga. some of the railroad companies to clean the Knight's _.»•. Circus Dunkirk, O woodwork In tUeir fine coaches and offices, and Knott's Perfect Shows Belding. Mich. circus superintendents use It successfully in Knowles Show Hinton, Okla. Show Tents for Circuses. Wild West their sleeping and dining cars. The wardrobe Lambrigger's (Gus) Orvllle, O. mistress has much to sny In its favor, and Itnds Lamont Bros.' Salem. 111. Shows, Black Tents, Candy Tops, Innumerable uses for it. In the cook tent It Littleton's lOc and 20c Show Rockvllle, Ind. Flags. Kldd & Baker Lights, etc. Is used for dish washing, and the boss hostler Loretta's Shows Corry, Pa. TENTS claims It is excellent for cleaning harness, that Lee's (Chas.) Shows Wilkesbarre, Pa. Manufacturers of Tents and Canvas Ooodsof Stud lor 16 paR6 price list of SECOnD-HANO Tents it does not rot the harness, but keeps it Leonarder Bros.' Circus Portland, Ore. every description. H^Wrlte for Catalogue soft and pliable as well as giving a high polish Leopold's (Frank) Shows Norrlstown, Pa. BAKER &. LOCKWOOD MFG. CO., to the metal trimmings. AB a general cleaning Lowrey Bros." Shows Shenadoah, Pa. DOVGHERTY BROS. TENT -> City. Mo soap ft has met with great favor, and super- Lucky 'Bill Quenemo. Kan. ST. LOUIS. MISSOURI. intendents who have not yet tried It would do Mann's (H. A.) Oberlln, O. McCaddon. J. T., European Show..140 W. well to Investigate. 40th at.. New York City. WANTED---FOR CIRCUS SEATS. Notes from the Great Wm. P. Hall McCleary's (W. S.) Zoo Van Wert, O. Shows: The work of organizing and equipping McDonald Bros.' Hnntlngton. W. Va. Portable Grand Stands and Folding Cir- .» Great Wm. P. Hall Shows is now practi- Melbourn, The Great, Circus Hebron, Wls. Col.M.L Clark Combined Shows cus < hair* manufactured. Estimates cally completed. Under the able management Mlnnelll Bros.' (No. 1) Delaware, 0. furnished and plans submitted to pros- of Phil. Ellsworth and Supt. McCormick the Mlnnelll Bros.1 (No. 2)..) Delaware, O. SEASON 1905 OPENS MARCH 20 tableaux, floats, dens, cages and earn have all Montgomery's Pavilion Show Boone. la. Bar Team, Brother >ct. Kncx-kalout Clown. pective purchasers. been remodeled and painted. The brand new Moore Family Show Touring Florida. Huts and stocks received from the Youngstewn Morgan's (J. H.) Lexington, Ind. Troupe of Japs, and other performers; also F». A. rVIcHUGH, Car Co. are first-class in every particular. At Myer's (F. M.) Big Tent Show Tlpton, la. Slide Trombone, Baritone. Trap Drummer 59-G1 Champlaln St., CLEVELAND, O. Lancaster. Mo., the entire first floor of a large Neal's United Show* Belolt, Kan. corner block la being used by Mr. Hall for the Norrls A Rowe. Agrl Park San Jese, Cal. and strong Cornet. Lew Nichols write. Ad- designing and making of wardrobe. Here twen- Orrln Bros.' Circus City of Mexico dress ty-five Indies are each day busily engaged, and Orton Bros.1 Show Des Molnes. la. M. l_. CLARK, It is safe to predict the handsome costumes of Pan-American Dodaon, Mo. 111(5 Hladisi n Street, Alexandria. Lav this show will be a revelation to the circus iharlei s P, Sieder Pawnee1 Bill Wild West Carnegie. Pa. world. The ring barn at Lancaster, under Perrlne * (D*ve W.) Easton Rapids. Mich. the capable direction of Prof. Mayo, Is busy Perry's (Frank C.) Show Ystes City. 111. COOK WANTED from sunrise to sunset. Here Miss Elsie St. Perry & Pressly's Webster City, la. DETHOIT, II nil. i-'-.m. the daring equestrienne Is practicing Peter's, W. J., Pavilion Marysvllle. Ksn. For the Frank Adams Southern Show. OWEN tarns of all kinds, new and second hand. dally; her somersault principal act IH marvel- Prescott & Co.'s Rocklsnd, Me. B. TAYLOK, write again: GAIL BOHDEN 1 foot Topa and under carried In stork. ous, and will be an innovation to circusgoers. Publllone's No. 1 Havana. Cuba. and .1 I'M !'• . Mtss Fin ttie Gazelle, lady principal rider, and Reno & Alvord's (Northern) Kankakee. III. Master Cross, clown mule rider, will make some Reno & Alvord's (Southern,). .Hattlesburg, Miss. of the old timers look to their laurels. Prof. Rlaldo's Show Oswego. Kan. I Mayo Is breaking a number of menage horses, Rice's Dog and Pony Show....New Albany, Ind. which will be a pleasant surprise to circus Rlngllng Bros.1 Baraboo, Wls. SLOT MACHINES pntrons. A great many feature acts have been Rlppel's Shows Frankfort, Ind. I have a lot of Slot Machines—ALL KINDS— Imported from Europe, and Manager Hall Is Bobbins1 (Frank A.) Shows Pasaalc, N. J. One Cent to Two Bits, taken on debt; also sparing neither time nor expense in making Robinson's (Happy Bob) Said Knob, N. J. METAL LAUGHING GALLEKY and TENT. his equipment the finest ever placed under a Robinson's (John) Terrace Park. O. Will sell all or part at bargains, or will ex- tent. At the Geneva winter quarters James Rock Bros.1 Shows Rnshboro, Pa. change. Klngcade. the veternn. Is In charge of the ring Rock Bros.' Shows Plcketts, Wls. barn. Here Miss Mayme I^emm is dally practic- Rocky Mountain Nell Rushboro. Pa. ALLEN L. HALL. Milwaukee. Wis. ing and perfecting her (lying hurdle act. Orrin Samweirs D.. P. A M. Show Houston, Tex. WE MAVR FOR SAI.n AND LK \«l-: Hellls, principal rider. Is busy with his somer- Seibel Bros.1 Shows Wstertown, Wls. Advance.Privllege Baggage,Stock and Box Cars sault horse. Chief: the European artists. The Sells & Downs' Topeka, Kan. Colonas, have arrived, and are practicing their Skerbeck's One-Ring Circus Dorchester, Wls. no ft. long. Desirable for Show and Carnival Com- wonderful triple Jockey act. One of the many Stewarts, Capt., Big City Circus Ganvasman WANTED panies. Reasonable terms. Write for p*rtlcvlars. features of the show will be Us horses. Wm. THE ARMS PALACE HORSE nAR CO., Ft. Worth, Ind. To handle SIDEWALL OUTFIT. No night No. 1220 MOnadnock Building. i:b> ago III. P. Hall has the reputation of being the greatest Shaffer & Spry Bros.* Portsmouth. O. work. Mast be sober and reliable. Good horseman In the world, and for more than a Silver Bros.1 Acme, Mich. position for right party. Address W. P. •ear 1ms been picking out and keeping for his Slpe's New Shows Kokomo, Ind. NEEDHAM. 100 S. 6th Ave.. LaGrange. 111. Ircus the cream of the horses that have come Smith's Imperial Circus Buekstown, Pa. SHOW TENTS. inder his observation. Snyder Bros.' & Dowker Roodhouse, 111. AND TENTS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Steele's. AI.. Big Shows.. .Vandergrlft Hta., Pa. Have on band aimoat new. 33X50, 4UX60 and 4ox80 TENT SHOWS IN WINTER QUARTERS. Stevens & Mossman 804 High, St. Louis, Mo. ATTENTION! Stewart Family Show Ft. Wayne. Ind. Tents, and 400 feet lu-feet Bide wail, good aa new The following list gives the winter quarters 1 Managers of Carnivals, Parks or First-Class Very cheap. Sun Bros. en tour. 'ircuseB. The Taggart Family (5 people) are nf the various tent shows, circuses and wild lft Bros.' Show (No. 1) Golden Gate. 111. D. VI. KEftft VI ft;. CO.. west combinations. In many Instances (but 1 >pen to accept engagement for their Comedy 167 S. Canal St.. - Chicago. III. Swift Bros. Show (No. 2) Greenup. 111. Trlpple Bar and Family Acrobatic Novelty. not R]]) the address given Is also the permanent Tanner Bros.' R. R. Shows Lincoln, Neb. address. The list Is revised and corrected Wanted—A good Bar Performer to Join act. Terry's U. T. Shows Little Sioux. la. Address OSCAH TAGGART, Oxnard, Cal., Ven- weekly ToiJd's. E. H.. New Era Shows. .Roodhouse, 111. tura Co. Adams. Frank, Southern Shows en route. Todt, Wm. Shows Snow Hill, Md. Circus and Ament's. Capt. W. D. Shows..Hot Springs, Ark. Tonner's Hippodrome West Berlin. N. J. Anderson Dog and Pony Show Rochester. Ind. Tuttle's Olympic Llnnesvllle. Pa. Bailey's (Mollle E.) Shows Houston. Tex. I'den's (W. J.) Wild West Flannlgan, 111. WANTED. Theatrical Uniforms, Rnrd Bros.' Shows Rending. Pa. Van Vranken's Shows Scott, O. Barlow's Shows South Milford. Ind. Wallace Shows Peru. Ind. Hand Lender. Tulm and other Musicians; also COSTUMES, Gold and Silver BHrnum & Bailey's Bridgeport, Conn. Walsh Sisters' Show Ohio City. O. want Steward and Cooks. Address (New York offices. 25-27 W. S4tb 8t.) Ward's Shows Plymouth, Mass. Fringes, Laces. Cords, Bartlne's Shows Connersvllle, Ind. Washburn's Dog & Pony Shows. .Paterson, N. J. SUN BROS.. Savannah, Ga. Beamon's Dog and Pony Show—Dudley ave., Welsh Bros. ' Lancaster, Pa. Spangles, etc. Parkersburg, W. Va. Wheeler, Al. F., New Model Shows Bernard's (Sam) Shows Blmhurst, Oal Schenectady. N. Y. ThePETTIBOMEBros.Mfg.Co. Reyerle's (Burk) Tom, Shows Lincoln, Neb. Wheeler's. J. R.. Monkey Show. .Portland. Ore. WANTED ~ FERRIS WHEEL, BoJder's (W. F.) New United...St. Joseph. Mo. Winston's. Prof.. Sea Lions 823 Talleyrand Will exchange an ItiO ACRE FA KM n Illinois Dept. B. CINCINNATI, O. Rnnnpiir Bros.' Augusta. O. T. ave.. Jacksonville. Fla. f.irCONMEKMAN Ferris Wheel. Must be in Bonner Show 150 Culver ave.. Wlntermute Bros.' Hebron, Wls. A-l condition. Address Jersey City. N. J. Woodford's (Chas.) D. & P.Show.Falconer.NY. Brown's Combined Shows Newport, Ark. Zlck * Zarrow's Show.. Sprlngle, York Co.. Pa. "DOC.-L. B 315. Osceola. Iowa. Buffalo Bill's Wild West..Stoke-on-Trent, Bng. Zlemer's, King E. Shows St. Louis, Mo. BusVy -Bros.' Pana. 111. FOR SALE—Eight PerformtnK Canaries, Cage Boer War Lancaster, Mo. id nil properties (they do 9 acts). Lear* Canada Frank's TIpton, la MIDWAY COMPANIES. anyone to work them by letter: also 4 Ptckouts. Campbell Bros.1 Falrbury, Neb. Arnold. E. J.. Shows Portland, Ore. (Stamp). N. LA ZELL, 363 Warrin Ave., Chi- Campbell's, Dr. Dog and Pony Shows nine Grass Carnival Co Winchester. Ky. cago, 111. Labette, Kan. Big Otto Trained Animal Co 290 Third St.. Castello & Graves Shows Cortland, N. Y. Milwaukee. Wls. For Sale Cheap—Two large oil paintings. Clark. M. L.. Shows New Orleans La Capitol Am. Co Lansing, Mich. •Turkish Slave Market" and "Music;" sl»e Craft's Dog and Pony Shawn Fonda, la. Dreamland Carnival Co Avondale. Ala. about 7x0 feet each. Suitable for exhibition. Crawford's, Col., Show Bed Key Ind Eagle Carnival Co., 25 S. Front St.,. .Wilming- ALPHA CO., 913 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. UNIFORMS Cummins' Wild West and Indian Congress, ton, N. C. BANDS. MILITARY. MINSTREL PARADE last season World's Fair..172 Wash, st., Excelsior Cam. Co. of N. Y... .Norrlstown, Pa. SAY! Get Blackburn's Joke Sheet No. 2. OUTFITS, USHERS and all others. Send Chicago, 111. Fatima's, LaBelle, Show 319 Grand St. It contains Cross Eire, Up-to-date Jokes, So- for Catalog, mention kind wanted. Daehlngton Bros.' Danville 111 Hoboken, N. J. ciety Notes, etc. Price luc. In coin. Enclose Special Attention Given the Profession Pock's (Sam) Frederickaburg, Va Ferari Bros." Shows United..The Zoo, Toledo, O. stamp for mailing. Add. GEO. W. BLACK- Western Uniform Co.,220Clark St..Chicago Downle's, Andrew. Show Medina N Y Flash & Wood's Carnival Co 887 B. Rich St., BURN. 217" Findlay St.. Cincinnati, O. Dulaney'a Shows New Martlnsvllle, W. V«' Columbus, O. Mention "The Billboard" when answering ads. Mention " The Billboard" when answering ads. The Billboard 13

eported that his company has been doing a being the first wheel ever operated In many of lumper business. While in Abilene Mr. Jones the towns in which we showed. Creation IB •ecelved a telegram from his company at Cisco still the feature show. Its roster Is: W. L. saying that they were "eating It up." Hamilton. manager; Slim Tlllman, talker; Our Street Fair Special Issue, which Eddie Edwards, Bed Long. Red Moore, Kid has now become an annual Institution, will lie Jones and Reta Ashton. Port Arthur, with E. mailed at Cincinnati Tuesday, March 14. The E. Montgomery in charge, has been very suc- isual edition Is doubled on this number wltnout cessful. Jack Redmond. Curly Cummlngs, Ma- any increase In rates. It is a promotion number. inosa and Kane are assistants. The Girl From Jvery city, town and village In the United I'p There is In charge of J. C. Calllson, as- states will be sample-copied. No increase in sisted by the Farmer Brothers, Gertie Long, Summarizing the reports that have supper in the dining room of the Hotel idvertlslng rates. I.:IM call for your ad. Helen Dester and Whltey Long. Slg. Nevarro's ueen received at this office concerning Dalton, Dalton, Ga., Feb. 23, he was Herman Q. Smith has been engaged Lady Glass Blowers have Hamberger Red, Harry the park situation, there appears to shot by a mulatto waiter who Is said to >y Mr. Will II. Welder to act as general agent Berry and wife. Clara Strong, Helen Letch and be a general tendency to open early. have become enraged at the doctor for if the Welder Carnival and Midway Attrac- Mrs. E. L. Dodge. The Howard Brothers and A few of the southern parks will open having ordered him to cease making lons. which opens the first of May. Mr. Smith Al. Boyd have charge of Joe Wood's Temple of vrltes: We will not be the largest, but we Music. Teddy Leary's Working World, with this month and by June a large ma- a noise with the chairs. The negro vlll be "one" of the best In the country. three people, has been successful. The free jority of the resorts in the northern shot while standing forty feet away. We will play Ohio. Kentucky, Indiana and acts are Dare Devil Holland, balloonist; Clio, states will be open to the public. The bullet made an angry flesh wound Michigan up to September, when we go South slide for life, and Slgamond. high diver. Felix * * * and lodged in the wall of the dining 'or the winter. We have twenty-three weeks Sanchez has the band with nine men. Fair dates as a rule are being claimed room. booked solid from May 1. Dr. Grant. was late for supper and Notes from the Monarch Carnival Co. a few weeks earlier than last year. Everything in winter quarters is progressing There appears a desire of the fair there were few people in the room at nicely, and we open early In May with a new management to have his event at a the time the shooting occurred, giving ind up-to-date show under the management of time not to interfere with neighboring the negro a chance to escape, which Mr. M. .Mitchell. Mr. E. D. Bentz will act he did. The doctor suffers but little us aslstant manager. The company will consist fairs. But the movement appears to of ten paid attractions and three free acts, be too general, thus frustrating the from his wound. [•rot. Taggert's band will furnish the music. object of the management. The Greggs, looping the gap and bicycle whirl; PARK NOTES. * * * STREET FAIR NOTES. [jane and Suzenette, jugglers; Katey Brothers, George Hines has two of the swellest •ouiedy acrobats; The Fords, jugglers, and the shows In White City Park, Chicago. Park managers as a rule are ex- Street Fair Issue next week. Weinier Family. pending more upon improvements than Hyde Park at Austin, Tex., opened A No. 2 Great Alamo Show will be The Jones-Adams Carnival Co. closed •'eb. 20 with an all-star free show. Prof. G. last year. New attractions are being put out about May 1. ;ts winter season at Hot Springs. Fla., and B. Green, aeronaut, and Baby Green, the child purchased to a greater extent than is now In winter quarters at Dillon, S. C., wonder, gave a most sensational rope walking any preceding year. The Great Alamo Shows leave Texas ivhere a large force of men are hard at work t. about the first of next month. preparing It for the spring tour. Everything * * * will be brand new with the exception of a few J. A. Erwln returns to Peru, Ind., Will the Magic Kettle get into the Middlesborough, Ky., has organized tents. Mr. J. J.1 Jones left March 2 for New- aliout the middle of this month to superintend carnival business? for and wants a street fair April 24 and week. York to purchase a portable electric light plant preparations for the opening of Boyd Park, of and machines for penny arcade. The spring which he Is manager. The opening will occur * * * Col. Fisk has entirely recovered from tour opens April 3. See their ads elsewhere May 21 or 28. He has about closed contracts What has become of the movement his recent Illness and Is once more beading In this Issue for performers, bandmeu and for the Installment of two big amusement de- suggested by Mr. Adolph Seeman for north. plantation people. vices costing, approximately, $20.000. the organization of street fair com- Last call for your ad in the great The Monarch Carnival Co. will fur- Turbania Park at South Haven, Mich, panies? Street Fair Special Issue, which comes out next nish the attractions for a big carnival and will this year open Its season June 27. The week. street fair to be held In El Paso. Tex., week ;mrk proper consists of thirty acres of land. of March 20. The event will be under the Lagoons and small canals, ranging from ten FAIR NOTES. The Robinson Amusement Co. opens auspices of the volunteer tire department, which to thirty feet wide, are being dredged through Billy Curtis: Your brother wants the season at Knoxville, Tenn., under the aus- Is going to work In earnest in preparing for the grounds. These will be used for gondolas pices of the U. C. T. the carnival. The following is the executive and small water attractions. When the park to correspond with you. Address Lou Curtis, committee: J. B. Badger, chairman; Al. How- Is completed about $80,000 will have been ex- 223 N. Hoff street, Tucson, Ariz. The Columbus Railroad Co. has not ard. D. W. Reckhardt, J. C. Lackland and pended in beautifying the grounds and erecting The Jackson (Miss.) Corn and Cot- decided whether it will manage or lease Wild- C. W. Faggett. These gentlemen are all well attractions. ton Carnival Association will hold another state wood Park at Columbus, Ga. known and representative business men, whose Minnequa Lake Park, Pueblo. Col., fair some time in October. Dates will be given Florence Spray, high diver, formerly names are an augury of success for the un- has just been leased for a term of, years by through these columns. of Splash and Spray, has signed with C. W. dertaking. the Pueblo Traction Co., and Joseph D. Glass The California commission to the Parker for the coming season. On Friday, week before last, Mr. lias been employed as general manager of this St. Louis Exposition returned to the state $G, - Francis Ferarl, James W. Bostock and Victor beautiful resort. The most up-to-date attrac- 000, unexpended, of the $130,000 appropriation Ike Monk writes that the Barkout D. l^evltt were callers at the New York office tions only will be Installed upon the grounds made by the legislature for state advertising Carnival Co. is moving along slowly. Business f The Millboard. Mr. Ferarl was in the met- for the coming season, and Inasmuch as Pueblo purposes. Practically all the exhibit has been Is Improving with the weather. ronolls to look after a shipment of animals from is crowding Plttsburg, Pa., for first place as sent to the Portland Fair, which Is to open Europe. The bunch comprised several leopards, an iron producer, the indications for a pros- next May. Sam Josephs has left Philadelphia pun.us. and a large Hon. Mr. Bostock lias perous season are most encouraging. The board of directors of the West and Is working at the head of the press staff sold his outfit to the Patterson-Bralnerd Carnival The Billboard is in receipt of a Texus Fair Association held a meeting on Feb. of the Uobinson Amusement Co. Co.. and will tie Identified with the Ferarl nicely bound and artistically arranged little 11, at which time the old board resigned. A Brothers next season. Mr. l,r\ ill is still run- booklet descriptive of Chutes Park and Zoolo- The Tri-State Fair to be held at ning his slot machine concession at the Four- gical Gardens at Los Angeles, Cal. Chutes Park new board was selected Feb. 18. They have Dubuque, la., has canceled the dates of Aug. teenth stieet store. He also will be on the not decided on what dates the fair Ibis year 28 to Sept. 2, and claims August 21 to 27. was opened on Washington's birthday, 1001, and will take place, but it will probably follow official staff of the Brothers Ferari. Messrs. has not been closed a day since that time. It I'erari and Bostock left for Boston Friday night, Is conceded to be one of the finest it not the the state fair at Dallas. The popular secretary, McKinnon & Ebeling's big illusion, having spent a large part of a day and ulght Mnx Andrews, was again elected secretary. Thelma, and Jolly Joe, the fat boy. have signed In visiting friends. finest family resort west of the Rocky Mountains Following are the officers: Morgan Weaver, for the season with the J. Frank Hatch Shows. —and it deserves the title. With its long president; J. M. Cunningham, treasurer, and Mr. James Adams, of the Jones- walks and drives shaded by a wealth of tropical D. C. Gather and T. O. Anderson, vice-presi- The J. Frank Hatch Shows will carry Ailams Congress of Novelties. Pure Food Show verdure, Its beautiful lawns, fountains, statues, dents. eleven cars this season; five palace cars, one and Theatrical Exposition Co.. writes as follows: etc., its collections of animals and birds makes I'ullinan. two coaches, two flats and one privi- On February 10. while playing a week's engage- It the one spot for young and old. lege car. ment at Gainsvllle. Fla., the entire company Mr. Lorian J. Howard, owner of the gave me a surprise, the occasion being the Howard Theatre, Chicago, 111., has leased that James Blankinship has secured the thirty-second anniversary of my birth. Unbe- playhouse In order that he may have more time exclusive confetti and novelty privilege with known to me the company had assembled In to attend to bis other ventures, among which the Will H. Welder Carnival and Midway Co. the Fairyland Theatre, directly after the night Is the beautiful Sans Soucl Theatre, one of for the coming season. performance. Mr. Johnny Jones, my esteemed Chicago's most popular and beautiful summer partner, and Mr. James Howard, manager of resorts. The house opens May 27, per ad In MCCARTHY AMUSEMENT co. LaBelle Fatima writes that a flre Fairyland Theatre, called at my office tent, this paper, antl only the best vaudevillians will broke out in her apartments at 358 Second requesting me to come to Fairyland Theatre be eligible to a place on the program. The street, Hoboken, but with little loss to her. and see a new film tried. On entering I saw Howard & Doyle Play Agency, under his man- The McCarthy Amusement Co. is She Is now at 310 Grand street. the entire company, and the band struck up agement, has an Increased list of popular plays the name of a new organization which "Dixie." The surprise was complete. Imme- for summer companies. Managers desiring light will take the road about the last week Madame Liljens, flre diver with the diately following. Mr. Tom Moss made a short summer plays will do well to write to Mr. Southern Carnival Co.. writes that mall Is de and eloquent address on behalf of the company Howard. in June. It will be under the manage- layed from ten to fourteen days on account of and presented me with a precious souvenir. In ment of Warren McCarthy, by whom the terrible washouts In Arizona. the way of a handsome solid gold watch with Col. I. M. Martin, of Chester Park, it is now being organized in Jackson- chain and diamond locket, and friendly greet- Cincinnati, left Tuesday of last week for New Mr. John T. Secord has the Electric ings, anil wished me many more happy and York to complete the organization of the Chester ville, 111. The company will operate Palace this season with the McCarty Amusement successful years. The surprise was so complete Musical Comedy and Opera Co.. which will about six paid shows, a merry-go- Co. He also holds the office of general manager. I hardly knew what to say. However, 1 re- be the attraction at the resort during the com- round and three free acts. Six weeks He sends regards to all his old friends. sponded with a few words of thanks, which ing summer. As musical comedies proved a have been secured by the management, but feebly expressed my appreciation. I shall more attractive form of amusement than comic Wm. Judkins Hewitt has been dis- always remember this occasion as one of the operas at the park last season, it has been four of these being band carnivals and charged from the Allegheny hospital after a happiest moments of my life, and preserve their decided by Managers Martin and Rogers to de- every bandman a booster. six weeks siege of typhoid fever. He can be gift as a priceless pearl, that which money can vote the coining season to the production of a addressed 1229 Arch Street, Allegheny, Pa. not buy. repertoire of bright and breeay productions of the former class. A well known soubrette, who CHATTANOOGA CANCELS On account of the extra large size of Notes from Ferari Brothers Shows Is now making a hit in one of the big Broad- Street Fair Special Issue, which comes out next United, The Zoo. Toledo: Business still con- way productions in New York, is waiting for Owing to some unfavorable condi- week, no advertisements can be received for tinues very good at the Zoo. In fact, we the arrival of Manager Martin to close a same later than 6 p. m. Sunday, March 12. are getting more than our share of business contract to appear with the Chester Co. next tions which have recently arisen, the of the show houses in Toledo. We have an summer. John Young and Frank Stammers, the Merchants' Association of Chattanooga, A street fair will be held In London, excellent bill on this week, consisting of the favorite Chester comedians of last season, have Tenn., at its meeting, Feb. 24, decided Ont.. August 7-12, during the return of the world famous Martinnettie Brothers. Miss already been re-engaged, as has also Hans S. to abandon the Spring Festival. The "Old BoyB." Write to Aid. Mathews. city hall, Stuart, singing comedienne: Watklns Brothers, Linne, who was the musical director of the for information, as the carnival will be held head to head balancers and acrobats; Ferari last company. While Col. Martin is In New chances are, writes President Bernard under the city's patronage. Brothers world famous group of performing York, the entire repertoire for the season will E. Loveman, that no other organiza- Miller's Shooting Gallery, Phillips' ponies: Jacko, the famous comedy riding mon- be given and good singers will also be engaged, tion will take it up, ana that there will Photo Studio and Cohen's Vaudeville Show key: Princess Pauline and her magnificent group and a contract will lie closed with a first-class be no Spring Festival in Chattanooga playod a two weeks' successful business stand of lions, tigers, leopards, pumas and panthers: New York scenic artist, who will paint the at Plaquemlne, La. They Join the Seeman- El Paso In the lion hunt, ami the clncinnta- scenery for the ten productions. this year. The Robinson Amusement Mllllcan Carnival Co. at Atlanta, Ga. praph with new and novel nlctures. The peo- In an effort to further make Ni- Co. was contracting to put on the at- ple of Toledo certainly embrace the opportunity agara Falls one of the foremost summer re- tractions. A new electric light plant, having to see the biggest and best ten and twenty sorts in the world and to add to It in an a capacity of one hundred and fifty lights, has cent show they ever had In their city, which amusement way, the city is to have a minia- just !>een delivered to the Smith Amusement Is noticeable by the large crowds that con- ture pleasure resort, and a parry of Buffalo BEAVERS TO HOLD STREET FAIR Co. at Its winter quarters. In case this one gregate at the Zoo every afternoon and evening, capitalists have incorporated a company with proves successful two more may be added In and It Is a general password In Toledo, "Meet a stock capital of $:tO.OOO for that purpose. The Birmingham, Ala., Order of the near future. me at the Zoo." Work at the winter quarters Directly opposite Prospect I'ark. at the head of Mr. H. LaShea writes that he closes is progressing wonderfully. Twenty-two men the tipper steel arch bridge, a plot of ground Beavers have arranged to hold a big his season with the Georgia Coon Shouters to are kept busy In different departments at winter has been leased for a term of years, upon which street fair and spring festival in Birm- rest up for the carnival season. He goes out quarters, building new and novel Ideas In the will be erected several concessions. The prin- ingham the first week in April. The with the Capitol Amusement Co., and will way of show fronts and amusement devices cipal concession will be a figure eight, roller event will be held on the streets and have charge of the Plantation Show. Mail will that will startle the amusement going public coaster, etc. The coaster will cost about $15,- reach him at Lansing, Mich. and astonish the carnival world the coming 000 and from the topmost track a splendid view will be free. The Smith Greater scMsnn. Carvers, builders, carpenters, black of the falls will be given. Several smaller Amusement Co. will furnish the at- C. W. Tyler's Vendome Electric The- sri/ths, wheelwrights and wagon builders, elec concessions will be erected and the whole will tractions. The Order of Beavers orig- atre joined the Fisk Syndicate of show* at trlcians and painters are kept busy, and some be illuminated by about 1.000 electric lights. inated in Birmingham, being composed Douglas, Ga.. last week. Mr. H. C. Benton is are working over time; and when the big show Work will begin on the establishment of this managing the Vendome during the absence of turns out in May it will lie without a doubt new resort as soon as the weather permits and of the business men of that industrious Mr. Tyler In Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. Tyler the largest, grandest and most complete amuse- before the summer months arrive the people city. promises a surprise In the way of electrical ment enterprise the carnival world has ever of the Falls will be given an opportunity to dances and effects this summer, and he expects known. see the great cataract from a new viewpoint. to have the finest show on the road. Notes from the Great Alamo Shows: The new company Is the Niagara Amusement HORACE GRANT SHOT Mr. H. A. Smith, correspondent for Our seventeenth week In Texas finds us at Co., and the directors are Samuel J. Lynch, The Billboard at Abilene, Tex., writes that he Coleman. Every show and privilege has made Louis H. Graeber. Samuel W. Hofhelns, Valen- While Dr. Horace Grant, of the See- had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Earl D. Jones, some money. Jessup's Ferris Wheel joined tine Miller and Samuel L. Robertson, all of man-Millican Carnival Co., was at promoter for the Dixie Carnival Co. Mr. Jones at Sequlne and has been a big winner, it Buffalo. 14 Tfte Billboard

I is also spreading. At the present tlm THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA Now, my dear reader, don't say he's it looks as if 1905 would see twice th PRODUCED one of those wise guys and can't de- TKe Billboard liver the goods. The best performers MTKKK1.T AT number of parks listed as there wer are laid off. I have seen three times 416 Elm e«r««. OilWlfUMtl, O., V. ». A. In 1904. Fortunately It is a perfectly It was not a New York audienci more performers in San Francisco this Long Ihitane* Telephone Mala 2m», |3S; quarter page, I1T.50. Me tion by the merry waves of the musi- I write this letter as a warning to premium wn cal comedy—the sparkling, rollicking without cessation of loud applause those eastern acts coming west. I concoction so popular throughout the there was a cry of "Tarkington." From know that as a matter of self protec- t /or w^« ••* aU rtnurw ami i the gallery to the orchestra pit came tion performers returning east report o«3 Canada, to a country? Already we can discern the Co. and tb oroiie»«. the cry for the author-dramatist. As a "prosperous western engagement", storm brewing, and Miss Pessimist is the curtain rose for the sixth time Mr at Tk" Amerira* ready with her shears for the curtail- but let me warn the performer who ment of the musical fringe. With the Morgan announced that Mr. Tarking- comes west to play the ten cent vaude- W. 0. M. d« , ton could not be found. The cheering ville house, not to bring too much 77ir iniiii luffHii V <*< A Ifewi Co ami M modesty becoming the squeamish old maid she balks at the sight of the continued. Presently Mr. Priestly came baggage. A good strong pair of shoes HtMWMeM thmld k< ma/If »v pott ojlot «r mnrn dragging the author on the stage will be of great service to him, and moriiu »rd«r. or nmMmd IWfcr orfdrCTMrf or mudo poj> skirted chorus girl, and she trots oui . . her vituperations. However, she be- Without uttering a word he smiled he will need only a bandbox, because Tta vtUtr exit** tHtieftfln to return tiiuoltcitn bowed and made his exit. A second expressage Is very high In this part manatcrlfl; oui > tfpfmdtntt should keep. com. longs to an age that is past, and her time Mr. Tarkington was brought to of the country. Wklnt tt it Vfeatxrv «• *Hr» «• tin in« naourte to the DonaUu* sical variety drive out straight dramas? BIRTHS. ance brought forth a disconnected Born to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. C. Frailer, Peorla, - I ««aond- CBot. Mo""- ( OJI« at Urn As between the drama—tragedy anc speech in which the author thanked the 111., Feb. 18, a daughter. straight comedy—and musical, semi- audience in behalf of Mr. Morgan, him- musical and quasi-musical comedy, self and the company. The timidity of MARRIAGES. there is not the slightest possibility the author is remarkable, and has been Miss Pearl M Robinson, youngest daughter of Saturday, March 11, 1905. of a clash. Both have their purposes John G. Uoblnson, owner of the Robinson Show, the subject of much comment. greatly surprised her relatives and friends Tues- and both are equally diverting to the The play opens with an outdoor scene The flnt form of Th« Billboard, which Inolnies patron of the theatre. lay, March 1, by eloping with Mr. Harry G. the last four adrartUinc P*CM, »oei ta yraai Given a little comedy, a comedian, In front of the Palace Hotel in Plat- Lamlcin, to Seymour, Ind., and becoming his Saturday morning. No advertismoBti for theae ville. It developes that Helen Sher- wife. Mr. Lamkln. a rliler with the Robinson pages can ba receivod after Friday. Oeatlnaeas some music and a bunch of pretty wood Is visiting at the home of Judge Show and well known In the profession, met hla advertisers wishing ebaage of copy or dlaoon- chorus girls, and you have a musical ntended bride In Cincinnati, Tuesday morning. omedy. Nothing hurtful, nothing de- Briscoe, and that John Harkless, city They boarded a train for Seymour, where a tinuaaoo must notify before Saturday. editor, is In love with her. The soft .Icense was secured and the marriage ceremony grading, Just the blending of comedy performed. After dinner at the hotel, the young and music into a melange both regaling glow of the evening twilight and the NOTICE.—The Billboard will net engag« ta natural beauty of the Indiana land- •ouple returned to the gueen City. When seen ratorn nnioUerte* pketocrapha. MMer. and instructive. It lets down none of by a Billboard representative, Gov. Robinson ex- :he superficial bars of morality, and scape is made good use of and enters pressed little surprise, as the groom had often prominently into the acts. The second met his daughter, and he knew that tbey had breaks none of the Mosaic Ten. And >een much attached to each other for some time. The Advertising Rate of The Billboard should the dear public demand that its act shows the side yard of Judge Bris- coe one evening a week later. The Miss Clalr Stores and Bert Somers of The Will be Advanced May 1 to 15 Cents dramatic refreshments be spiced with _nnocent Maids Burlesque Co., playing the Star a gallaxy of feminine beauty and third act, the climax, occurs upon the Theatre, Scranton, Pa., week 20. were united per Agate Line, Flat. same scene as the second. n marriage at the Elm Park Methodist Church, served upon a musical platter, why Feb. 24. After the evening performance a re- should It not be gratified? So, now, A most brilliant audience was pres- "eptlon was given them by the entire company nt. It was one of the social events assisted by the T. 8. E., Local No. 68. The Increased demand for and the Miss Pessimist, go bury your hatchet, and let's have a heart to heart talk on of the season. The papers of the In- Mrs. Josephine Barrows, known professionally scarcity of Japanese troupes te excit- diana capital are overflowing with as Josle Barrows, now playing with Her First musical comedies. 'alse Step Co., was recently married In Balti- ing much comment. The demand ex- Musical comedies are as numerous jraise for the production. Critics more, Md., to James Norval Smith, formerly as the varieties of matinee girls—and, claim much for the play and predict ending man of the same company. ceeds the supply In the ratio of about 'or it great success. J. M. O'Nell and A. Louise Baker, both of ten to one. What has become of them? >y the way, we've discovered another The Fortune Teller Co., were married at Parli, variety of the matinee girl this week :y., Feb. 27. Have they all slipped quietly back to n Cincinnati. She's the eleven o'clock WESTERN EXPERIENCES OF AN OBITUAKT. the fatherland and entered the army? girl, that goes to see Parsifal and stays EASTERN PERFORMER * * # all day. Ranging from the straight Daniel Mills, Jr., well-known press agent of musical comedy to the musical farce— (elth's Theatre,. New York, was found Insensible The several articles partalnlng to n the tracks of the West-end Railroad, and The street fair will enjoy greater ncludlng the entire gamut from led without regaining consciousness. His death vogue than ever in 1905. Our street tragedy to popular burlesque, with he vaudeville situation In the west- s a mystery to the police. ern states recently published in these fair special number which comes out •very variety of varieties thrown in— James Johnson, of the Broadway Trio, died here are opportunities for the dis- columns have met with the sanction ecently ID Brooklyn, after a four weeks' lllnea. next week, is far enough advanced at play of talent In any branch of the numerous vaudeville performers, •its wife, Mabel Johnson, Is now working alone this writing to enable us to predict >rofession. There are comedies where and The Billboard is constantly re- vltu the Innocent Maids Co. ceiving communications from those William Robyne, 81, organUer of the first with certainty that there will be more he demure little actress carries the rmphony orchestra west of Plttsburg, died In burden of responsibility; comedies who have been there". One writer and better midway companies on the Ikens the acts that go west to the t. Louis. March 2. where stalwart masculine talent enters Pearl Hammond, of the Polly Primrose Co., road. nto prominence, and comedies which person who goes to foreign countries led In Hartford, Conn., a few days ago. * * » 'eature a duo or trio of comedians with .o purchase diamonds, only to find Harry Morris, In New York City. Notice ap- The Barnum & Bailey Shows will ust a shadow of a plot to carry the hem paste upon his arrival at home; ears In another column. mother is glad he is returning east, open the season of 1905 in Madison ipectator through—and many more. J. M. J. Kane died In Tncson, Ariz.. March Musical comedy is a natural growth. and so on. One letter from a San See circus page. Square Garden, New York City, March There exists in the average playgoer ''ranclsco man we publish in full as George Becker, scenic artist, died In New 23. The New York Hippodrome will he desire for music. Consequently ollows: ork City, Feb. 10. probably throw open Its doors on the music entered into the entertainment. "The article published in The Bill- NEW COPYRIGHTS. board of Feb. 11 gave a very mild Idea same date. There will be a tremend- t pleased, made a hit and the man- vger was wise enough not to eliminate if the conditions existing; in the west DRAMATIC. ous rivalry between the two big insti- t. The times demand It. Business n regard to vaudeville business, "fo Coon a»d The Bootblack, black face sketch for tutions for public favor, and the stren- ^ares of the financier, the overworked he eastern performer it was a very -wo; copyrighted by Frank Cobln. lerk, the busy housewife, all demand mild way of saying, stay clear of the Hermlone, In one ac>; copyrighted by Thomas uons struggle will be watched with west; and to the western manager- 'Icklnson. ts retention upon the stage. The Khan of Tartary, In two acts; copyrighted keen Interest. Musical comedy Is a wholesome en- well, it made him wish that someone y R. M. Bruns. * # * ertalnment. Almost, if not entirely, had warned him while he was out The Land of The Leal; copyrighted by Julia The store room vaudeville theatres, )lotless, it relieves the tension and jf the west. Had I been warned I Worthlngton. would now be east and on my feet, The Magistrate, In two acts; copyrighted by which enjoyed sftch great vogue in the train under which most business men K. Grlgsby. abor. It arouses, enlivens and bright- ather than west and broke. But to The Only Boy; copyrighted by Helen Bommer. early part of the season, ana which ns. It dispels brain-fag and affords eturn to the eondition of things. The Paeslng of The Grandmother, In one act; western manager offers the eastern opyrighted by Mrs. 8. W. Holcomb. for a while seemed destined to create latural, refreshing recreation. As we A Point in Law; copyrighted by Jehn H. a nev and distinct department in the vould not thtnk of thriving upon the jerformer a large salary. If you want ame kind of food continuously, so the o stand a cut, all O K, If not, you The Sign of VIetory. in three acts; oopy- business, seem to be waning in popu- heatregoer, who hopes to find constant ay off, unless you have money suf- ghted by L. B. Spafford. larity. Here and thera, it is true, cient to get back east. It costs money Teddy's Trick; copyrighted by J. S. Peat. ellef in the musical comedy, week The Trading Stamp Fiend, In one aet; cnpy- they still enjoy very great favor, but after week, without ever patronizing o travel, besides, the average per- ormer Isn't burdened with cash. If ghted by Chas. Horwltc. for the most part they are on the de- he heavier legitimate dramatic pro- The Yankee Doodle Girl, i» three acts; copr- [uctions, will come to grief. It will ,rou do stand for a "cut", you can ghted by Fred Hylnnds. cline and their proprietors will gladly all In time. ount on working one week and lay- welcome the advent of the park season. Nevertheless, musical comedy is fili- ng off three, at least two. Why Is MUSICAL. ng a long felt want and it should re- his? Simply because the managers Any Old Kind of Beer; copyrighted b» Marcus * * * re booking all the acts they can get Wltmark & Sons. naln with us. We need it. Awake My Beloved; copyrighted by Marcos Traction parks still continue to mul- rom the east, promising a high salary ntmark 4b Sons. tiply and Increase at a moat amazing nd long, continuous engagement, when Became You Were an Old Sweetheart «f COLLINS SUCCEEDS MORRIS hey can only give three to five weeks, [Jne; copyrlglited by Marcus Wltmark & Sons. rate. An enormous amount of capital nd then have to give the performer The Grulse of a Deep-sea Going Hack; copt-- ghted by Marcus Wltmark & Sons. is being invested in this comparatively Sam Collins has succeeded the late wo weeks in some one house to give The Girl Who Cares for Me; copyrighted by new field. Some of th» new resorts larry Morris in the role of Gottlieb hat much time. What then becomes .•in-iis Wltmark & Sons. adjacent to the big cities involved fl- Gessler in Higgledy-Plggledy at Weber f the performer? He lays around Happy Jappy Soldier Man; copyrighted by Juslc Hall, New York City. He has vailing for work until he Is "on the :arti>s Wltmark & Sons. clal outlay which would have been It Happened In Nordlands copyrighted by een engaged to play the part during um." Perhaps he will, after awhile, [nrnis Wltmark * Sons. deemed fabulous a few years ago. In he remainder of the New York en- get a week or two, and then returns' Jullp Dance; copyrighted by Marcus Wltmark the smaller elties and towns tbte Idea gagement and the road tour as well. ome a much wiser actor. Sons. Billboard 21

AVIlls, Nat M., Broadhurst & Currle, mgrs.: Bnuscher Carnival Co.: Jackson, Ala., 6-11. Brooklyn, N. Y., 5-11; New York City, 13-18. Cooke's Clt.v of Jerusalem, H. Cooke, mgr.: Sa Woodland, Henry W. Savage, mgr.: Atlantic vnlinnh, (la., 10-17. WANTED...... WANTED City, N. J.. 8; Allentown. Pa., 9; Eastern 10; Dixie Carnival Co.: Abilene, Tex.. 7-11. FOR Klliabvtu. N. J.. 11; New York City, 13-18. Fiesta Carnival Co.. H. L. Leavltt. mgr.: Ocean \Vnrd & Yokes, stair & Nlcolal. mgrs.: New Park, Cal.. 12-10. York City, 6-11. Flsk's Syndicate Shows: Fitzgerald. Ga., 6-11 Williams & Walker, nurtlg 4 Seamon, mgrs.: HlKKlns & Woods' Carnival Co., D. J. HIgglns Philadelphia, Pa., 6-18. mgr.: Kosclusko. Miss., 27-March 11. Royal Amusement Co., H. H. Tlpps, mgr.: Me MINSTREL ROUTES. Rouge, La.. 6-11. Trip to The Orient. Bayrooty Bros., mgrs Bnrlow & Wilson's. Lawrence Barlow, mgr.: Greenville. Miss.. 0-11. Thayer, Mo.. 8; West Plains 9; Kennett 18. Verno Show. L. J. Stallo, mgr.: Pensacola •Beach & Bowers', M. C. Cookston, mgr.: Hast- ings, Minn., 10; Lake City 11; Alma, Wis., Fla., 1-11. 12; Durant 13; Meuorninee 14. rtockstader's. Lew, Charles D. Wilson, mgr.: TENT SHOW ROUTES. New York City. 6-11; Brooklyn, N. Y., 12-18. Cooper & Co.'s. M. A.. Hunt, mgr.: St. John Dumont's: Philadelphia. Pa., indef. La., 8; LaFourche Crossing 9; Thlbodauz 10 Faust's, Ted El.. G. D. Cunningham, mgr.: John Robinson St. Mnry 11; Paincourtvllle 12. Greensvllle, Tsnu.. 8; Johnson City 9; Bris- Glasscock's, E. R.: Kountze, Tex., 8; Lllsbee tol 10. 9; Jasper 10; San Augustine 11; Center 13 Field's, Al. G., Doc Qulgley, mgr.: Sedalla. Mo., Gushing 14; Tlmpson 15; Joplln, Mo., 20. 8; Topeka, Kan., 9; Wichita 10; Parsons 11; Jones', R. R.: Georglana, Ala., 8. Joplln, Mo.. 12: Springfield 14. Plttsburg, Norton Bros.: Lindsay, I. T., 6-11. Kan., 15; Atchlson 17; Leavenworth 18. Orion's, Miles: Butler, Fla., 8. HI Henry's: Ottumwa, la., 8; Washington 9; Muscatine 10; Iowa City 11; Kock Island, 111., 12. VAUDEVILLE COMBINATIONS. 10 BIG SHOWS= Kersands'. Billy, C. Jay Smith, mgr.: Newport Conklln's High-Class Vaudeville Co., James B Boss Razorback, and Assistant Bosses for all departments. News, Va.. 8; Soldiers' Home 9; Petersburg Henry, bus. mgr.: Marlon, Ky.( 8-9; Mur 10; Richmond 11; Culpeper 13; Alexandria 14; fresboro, Tenn., 10-11. Also Newspaper Man, who has had experience. Address Brunswick. Sid.. 15; Frederick 16; Martins- Ideal Vaudeville Co., J. M. Juvenal, mgr. liurK. W. Va., 17: Winchester, Va., 18. Beattle. Kan., 8; Ouelda 9; Sabetba 10; Mor Mahara's, Frank Mahara, mgr.: Milwaukee, rill 11; Leona 13. Wis., 8; Oshkosu 9: Waupaca 10; Stevens Lafayette, The Great, Show, T. G. Lafayette, JOHN G. ROBINSON, .... Terrace Park, Ohio. Point 11; Grand Rapids 13. Wautoma 14; mgr.: Detroit. Mich., 6-11. Rlpon 15; Cllntonville 16; New London 17; Orpheum Show (Martin Beck's): Minneapolis, Also want a few more SPECIALTY ACTS for Side- Amhurst 18. Minn., 5-11. Primrose's, Geo. H., James II. Decker, mgr.: Rogers Bros.' Vaudeville Co., H. W. Rogers,show. Address Chicago, 111., 5-11. nitfrs.: Lewlston, Pa., 6-8; Hollldaysburg 9; Sun's, Gus. American, Fred D. Fowler, mgr.: Lntrobe lll-ll. CAL. TOWERS, Muscatine, Iowa. Butler, Pa.. 8; Sharon 9; Meadvllle 10; Oil City 11; Tltusvilte 13; Corry 15; Kane ICi; MISCELLANEOUS. I. B. HENDRICKS, Advance H. A. RUSSELL, Manager JOHN T. OWENS, Treasurer Smethport IS; Port Allegheny 20. Aupnstine, Chas. Hine, mgr.: Potsdam, N. Y. Vogel's, John W. Vogel, mgr.: Winchester, Ky., 10-11. 8; Paris »; Shelbyvllle 10; New Albany, Ind., Crystal Eye Carnival, C. H. Gray, mgr.: Cas- 11; Madison 13; Evansville 18. tletou, Vt., 6-11. The H. R. O. Amusement Co. West's, W. H.: Sprlnggeld, 111., 11. DeFoirest, Prof. A.: Los Angeles, Cal., Indef. DfMora & Uraceta's Moving Pictures: Stuart, Starting North for the Summer Season BURLESQUE ROUTES. la., 8; Adulr II: Walnut 10; Avoca 11. Americans, E. D. Miner, nigr.: Milwaukee, Wis., Flints, The, II. L. Flint, mgr.: Council Bluffs, 5-11: Minneapolis, Minn., 13-18. la., 27-March 8. Lincoln, Neb.. 9-11; Topeka, -CAN USE- Blue Ribbon Girls, Jack Singer, mgr.: Chi- Kan.. 12-1SS. cago, 111., 5-11; Milwaukee, Wis., 13-18. Harris' Moving Pictures, J. C. Harris, owner Good Sleeping Car. Good Promoter. Two good Shows with good Bohemians, Thos. W. Miner, mgr.: Providence, and mgr.: Senatoba, Miss., 8; Coldwater 9; fronts. Free Acts to double in Stadium or good family of Acrobats R. I.. 0-11; Boston, Mass., 13-18. llernnndo 10. Bon Tons. Rush & Weber, nigrs.: Brooklyn, N. Ilewett. Illusionist: White Horse, Alaska, 20- can have Stadium on per cent. Band Men. Concessions. State all Y., 6-18. 23; Dawson 27-Ap. 10; Eagle City 24-May 20. Bowery -Burlesquers (Hurtlg & Seamon's), Joe Howe's Moving Pictures: Danbury, Conn., 10. in first letter. Address llurtlg. in-i.. St. Louis, Mo., 5-11; Kansas Lee, Victor, Illusionist: Lebanon, Kan., 10-11; City 13-18. Esbon 13-14; Burr Oak 15-18; Clyde 17-18. H. A. RUSSELL, Manajjer Brigadiers. Charles A. Cromwell, mgr.: Pitts- Marvelous Tatuni Co., Leon B. Neate, mgr.:LEESVILLE. LA.. March 7-12. MANY. LA.. March 14-19. IIUI-B. Pa.. 6-11; Cincinnati, O., 13-18. Tyler. Tex., U-8; Corslcana 9-11. Bryant's. Harry C., Extravanganza, C. H. Merrltt & Prltchard's Biographs: Hamilton, Kenyon. mgr.: Kansas City, Mo., 5-11; In- Cnn.V Illl.,. 6-8O-O.. dianapolis, Ind., 13-18. Perkins, Ell: Denver, Col., 10; Grand Junction Clierry Blossoms, Butler, Jacobs & Lowry, mgrs.: 13; l>;iii :n-t. Tex.. 15; St. Louis, Mo., 17. WANTED FOR New York City. U-ll; Scrantou, Pa., 13-15; Prescelle. Hypnotist, F. Wlllard Magoon, mgr.: Reading 16-18. Farmlngton, Me., 6-11; Sanford 13-18. the lid. Ihow of the City Sports. Phil Sheridan. mgr.: Boston, Quaker Entertainers, Dr. Franklyn, mgr.: Cul- Mass., 8-11; New York City. 13-18. bertson. Neb., 6-11. Cracker Jacks, Harry Leonl, mgr.: Boston. Shepard's. Archie L. Moving Pictures (North- Mass.. 13-18. ern), Geo. F. Hayes, mgr.: Merlden, Conn.. Dainty Duchess Rush & Weber, mgrs.: Phil- 8-»; Springfield. Mass.. 10; New Britain, adelphia. Pa., 6-11; Baltimore, Md.. 13-18. Conn., 13-14; New Haven 15-16; Hartford Devere's, Sam: Albany, N. Y., 6-8; Troy 9-11; 17-18. Providence, R. I., 13-18. Shepard's, Archie L.. Moving Pictures (South- Fay Foster Kurlesquers. Joseph Oppenhelmer, ern). Chas. B. Poor, mgr.. Kock Island, 111., mgr.: Washington, D. C., 6-11; Plttsburg. 8-D; Clinton, la., 10-11; Mollne, 111., 13-14; Pa., 13-18. Davenport, la.. 15-16; Iowa City 17-18. Sells & Downs Gay Masqueraders, Jos. H. Barnes, mgr.: De- Shipp's Indoor Circus, Edw. Shlpp, mgr.: Kan- troit, Mich.. 5-11; Toledo, O., 13-18. sas City, Mo., 6-11. A Strong Feature SISTER TEAM and a Few More High Class SiDE SHOW ACTS Gay Morning Glories, Scrlbner &. Drew. mgrs.: Stahl. Dr., Phrenologist: Los Angeles, Cal., Indef Rochester, N. Y., 6-11; Toronto, Can., 13-18. Townsend. Chas. H.: Roulette, Pa., Indef. High Rollers, Woodhull & Waldron, mgrs.: Address JOHN E. OGDEN, Box 574, Norfolk, Va. Reading. Pa., 6-8; Scranton 9-11; New York City, 13-18. Imperials, Williams & 'Burns, mgrs.: Toronto, I WROTE THE WORDS A RARE OPPORTUNITY. CLEARING OUT SALE Can., 6-11. I TT HU1L> ()t ..r Love Yoa... irvvin's Big Show, Fred Irwln, mgr.: New "She's Sleeping by the James." "No Loving WE NEED THE ROOM FOR STORAGE. York City, 27-March 11; Brooklyn, N. Y., Voice to Cheer." "She Was Born In Old Vir- 20 car loads of accumulated scenery In our storehouse for sale cheap at following prices: 13-25. ginia." and ' Ma Baby Got Ma Tuleirram." 'nterior or exterior Frame pieces all sizes, per niece. CUD: Ful Drops, any lizc, $10 to 115; Innocent Maids, T. W. Dlnklns, mgr.. Newark, Several sonits. of wulch I am the author, have ~ut Drops, any size. f5 to S10; Borders, any size. S». This sale will last until March 31. 1905, N. J., 6-11; Paterson 13-18. been used as SONG SUPPLEMENTS by TUB NEW Before oontrnctlnl for your ncenery for noxt season, drop us a line. WE WILL SAVE YOU MONEY. Jolly Grass Widows. Robert Fulton, mgr.: Bal- YOKK JOUKNAL and ST. LOUIS STAK. 1 Offer We have 25 carloads of second hand icenery which we can utilize In rebul.dlng IQOWI. timore, Md.. 6-11; Washington, D. C., -^-18. FOB SAUt TO COMPOSERS the privlleife of using Down town Office. Room 15 325 GIITUIIAMU Si P flnDQIPU studl° BnV. FOKT WOKTII. TEXAS. Merry Slaidens, Butler, Jacobs & Lowry, mgrs.: FOR THE Troy, N. Y., 6-8; Albany 9-11. Majesties, Fred Irwln, mgr.: Brooklyn, N. Y., 27-March 11; Albany 13-15; Troy 1(3-18. New York Stars. John S. Raynor, mgr.: Scran- Musicians Wanted ton. Pa., 6-8; Reading 9-11; Philadelphia Ina Lehr Tremendous Stock Go, FOR 13-18. Parisian Widows, Rush & Weber, mgrs.: Troy, Largest and best in the South. Under personal management of J. J. N. Y., 13-15; Albany 16-18. Gentry Bros. Dog and Pony Shows McGUINNESS, 8'U Fourth Av*., SOUTH NASHVILLE. TENN. Reeves', Al.: New York City, 6-11; Newark, N. J., 13-18. Cornet, Eb Clarionet, and Alto. Reilly & Woods'. Pat Reilly, mgr.: Chicago, 111., 5-11; Detroit, Mich., 13-18. Others write. Show opens at Bloom- PARK PRIVILEGES FOR RENTAL Rrntz-Santley. Abe Lenvitt. mgr.: Philadelphia, ington, Ind. Address E. C. JONES, Pa., 0-11; Reading 13-15; Scranton 16-18. pace for first class amusement devices of all kinds in ten Street Kailway Rice & Barton's Gaiety Co.: Cleveland, O., Handmaster, care General Delivery, Parks, finely located and well patronized. (Free admission). Reasonable 6-11; Buffalo. N. Y.. 13-18. ;erms to reliable parties. Also for rental—Bowling Alleys. Restaurants, Rose Hill Kngllsh Folly, KIce & -Barton, mgrs.: Mobile, Ala Boston. Mass., 13-1S. Vlerry-Go-Roun Is, Dancing Pavilions and Shooting Galleries. Address RimawarH. P. S. Clark, mgr.: Minneapolis, Minn.. 5-11; St. Paul 13-18. H. E. REYNOLDS, Purchasing Agent, 84 State St.. Boston, Mass. Thoroughbreds, Frank B. Carr, mgr.: Boston, Mass.. «-ll; New York City, 13-18. Wanted. Black Ton Tiger Llllles, Scrlbner & Drew, mgrs.: Buf- Aliont 2li.\H(>. must be in irood condition. WANTED FOR WANTED falo, N. Y.. 6-11; Rochester 13-18. Write, i-'ivlnu price and full particulars in Trans-Atlantlcs (Hurtlg & Seamon's), E. M. Hrst, letter. Rosentlml, mgr.: Paterson, N. J., 6-11; New II. K. HILTON. 127 S. Park Ave.. Lima. Ohio CHICAGO'S GREAT AMUSEMENT RESORT York City, 13-25. Utopians, T. W. Dlnklns, mgr.: Cincinnati, C11RK ST. MUSEUM (Formerly KOHL & MiDDlETON'S) O., 5-11; Louisville, Ky., 13-18. Curiosities, Freaks, Novelty Attractions and Sensational Features for the Curio Hall Vanity Fair. Robert Manchester, mgr.: Toledo, ORCHESTRA Wanted O.. 5-11; Cleveland 13-18. For FENN BROS. New Wairon Show: also Vaudeville Artists for the Theatre. Address all communications to World Heaters. J. Herbert Mack, mgr.: St. want Performers (man and wife preferred) Paul, Minn., 511; Chicago. 111., 13-18. that can double in concert. We open the tirst , M, HED6ES, Manager, - - 150 South Clark St., CHICAGO, ILL, Wine. Women and Song. M. M. Theise, mgr.: Saturday In May. Jersey City. X. J., 0-11. FKNN ultio., - - EtnbarraMB, Win. MIDWAY COMPANIES. WANTED QUICK Alamo Carnival Co., W. H. Rice, mgr.: Pub- llentlon of route prohibited. Any mall ad- For Sale-Black Top, A Living Wagon In good condition; state length, height, width; height dressed in care of The Billboard will be for- Lined, eood condition. 20 x 00. it foot walls of wheels, number of windows and lowest price in tirst letter. "Fred Starr warded promptly. with poles complete. .*t.\00. LUNETTE and write quick." Address Alabama Carnival Co.. Ed. Tyler, mgr.: Canton, Cabinet complete, best make. fM.VO. Address Miss., 6-11; Durant 13-18. JEAN P. WEITZMAN, - 103 Utica Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. Bnrkout Amusement Co.. K. G. -Barkout, mgr.: < . Orangeburg, S. C., 6-11. wrin* Huuxrimf *d* Mention "The BiSboard" when answering win. Mention "The Billboard" when answering mis. The Billboard

6-11; (Hathaway'a) New Bedford, Ma«a., 13-18. The Sign of The Cross (Western), J. W. Cone, Reeves & Young (Proctor's 2Sd St.): New York mgr.: St. Catherines, Ont., 8; Fredonla, N. Routes. City, 8-11. Y., 8; Salamanca 10; Olean 11; Bradford, Pa., Park Smith & Moran: Marlon. N. C., 6-11. 13; Corning, N. Y., 14; Canandalgua 15; ADDITIONAL ROUTES. Staley A Birbeck (Shea's) Buffalo, N. Y., 8- Geneva 16; Batavia 17; Oswego 18. 11; (Shea's) Toronto, Can., 13-18. To Die At Dawn, Isaac Newton, mgr.: New Martlnsvllle, W. Va., 8; Pleasant City, O., 8; (Received too late for clusincatlon.) Sims. Reouble (Bijou): Des Molnea, la., 8-11; Managers (Weast's) Peorla. 111., 13-18. Byesville 10; McConnellsvllle 11; New Lexing- Salvaggls, The Eight (Hyde & Behman'B): ton 13; Jackson 14; Shawnee 15; Athens It); If you want a Paying Attraction in ADDITIONAL PERFORMERS' DATES. Brooklyn, N. Y., fi-11. Wellston 17; Lansaster 18 Staley A Brockham (Keith's): New York City, Troy, Donna, Stock Co., J. L. Glass, mgr.: the" BAND LINE you will do well to Allaire & Cavllle(Gera) Superior. WIs., 27-Mar.ll Merrill, Wls., 6-11; Antlgo 13-18. (Bijou) Escanaba, Mloh., 13-18 6-11. The Holy City (Gordon A Bennett's Eastern). communicate with EDW. SEYMOUR Alllnel & Petro the Great (Colonial): Lawrence, Stuart (Hammerateln'e): New York City. 6-11. •Frank A Gladden (Smith's): Grand Rapids, Edward Taylor, mgr.: Dansvllle, N. Y.. 8; with his Band of America. Billboard, Mass., 6-11; Fall River 13-18 Warsaw 9; Perry 10; Auburn 11; Oswego 13; Archer'B, Geo.. Filipino Girls (Proctor's 58th Mich., 6-11. 1440 Broadway, N. Y. Tenbrooke-Lambert It Co. (Proctor's 23d St.): Fulton 14: Onelda 15; Utlca 16; Berklmer 17; St.): New York City, 6-11; (Paator'i) New Johnstown 18. York City 13-18. New York City. 8-11. Valmore A Harton (People's): Cincinnati, O., The Holy City (Gordon A Bennett's Western), Allmon, Joe (Empire): Ban Francisco, Cal.. 6-11. Henry Harrison, mgr.: Jonesboro, Ark., 8; Aldrlch, Charles T. (Poll's): Bridgeport. Conn., 8-11. Vane. Harry, Magician: Mer Ronge, La., 6-11; Poplar Bluff, Mo., 8; Cape Glrardeau 10; 8-11: (Keith's) Providence, R. I.. 18-18. Cairo, 111., 11; Paducah, Ky., 13; Fulton 14; Blue. Chas. C.: Pensacola. Fla., 4-25. Portland, Ark., 13-18. Texas Mule School Warren A Renshnw (Crystal): Cripple Creek, Hopklnsvllle 15; Henderson 16; Boonville, Bentham &. Freeman (Orpbeum): Springfield. Ind., 17. O., 6-11. Col., 6-11; (Crystal) LeadTllle 18-18. Bowery Newsboys' Quartet: Chicago, 111., 6-11. Wood A Ray (Arcade): Toledo. O., 6-11. The Show Girl with Stella Mayhew, Stair A 20 Head of SPOTTED Wagner Sisters (Academy of Music): Montreal, Nlcolal, mgrs.: Nashville, Tenn.. 6-11; Evans- Bljon Comedy Four (Lyceum): Philadelphia, Pa., ville, Ind.. 12; Owensboro, Ky., 13; Hender- 13-18. Can., 6-11. Trick Mules. Byrne & West (Lyric): San Diego. Cal., 8-11; Watson's Farm Yard (Keith's): New York son 14; Fulton 15; Cairo, 111., 16 Jackson 17: (Unique) Fresno 13-18. City, 6-11. Jonesboro 18. Wentworth. Rose, Trio (Ilammerstein's): New The Show Girl (Eastern), B. C. Whitney, mgr.; 11-2 HOURS FUN Bond. Frederick & Co. (Hyde & Behman'a): Youngstown, O., 6-11; Rochester, N. Y., 13-15; Brooklyn, N. Y., 6-11. York City, 0-11. Watson * Clifford (Hammerstein's): New York Syracuse 20-25. Want engagement for 19*5. Also have new Belssert & Scott (Keeney's): Brooklyn, N. Y.. The Ctngalee: Toronto, Can., 6-11. tio-foot tent complete. Send for programme. 6-11. City, 6-11. Brown, Harry (Keeney's): -Brooklyn, N. Y.,6-11. Weston. Al. (Hurtlg & Seamen's): New York The Wizard of Oz: Philadelphia, Pa., 6-11. D. BOYINGTON. San Angelo, Tex. Brooks Bros. (Casto): Lowell, Mass., 6-11; City. 6-11. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Stetson's): South Man- Westons. The Three (Orpheum): Brooklyn, N. chester, Conn., 8; Mlddletown 9; New Britain (Howard) Boston 13-18. 10-11. TMI KIND THAT Bloom & Cooper (Hurtlg & Seamen's): New Y., 0-11. Vernon Stock Co., Benj. B. Vernon. mgr.: York City, 6-11. Webbs. The Fonr (Keeney'a): Brooklyn, N. Y., SELL. 90eperiod Burke & Dempsey (Hurtlg & Seamon'a): New Mechanlesvllle, N. Y.. 0-11; Gloversvllle 13-18. SONG BOOKS nil. Was She To Blame (No. 2), E. L. Paul, mgr.: York City, 8-11. Wesley A Yeamons (Keeney's): Brooklyn, N. $7.50 per 1000. size 9x12: tl .50 per 100. size 10x 15. Cremvell.W.P. (Bicycle Hill): Cedar Rapids. Y., 6-11. North Bend. Neb., 13; Schuyler 14; Fullcrton Special books made to order. Trick books la., 6-11; Des Molnes 13-18. Yukawa. Mons. (Unique): Salt Lake City, 15; Cedar Rapids 10; Belgrade 17; Columbus for circus conjurers, price C3.50p«r 1009. Marie Cannon. Ed. (Bijou): Diiluth. Minn., 6-11; I'tah, 13-18. 18. trlrk cards, 81.50 per 1000. Send for general (Unique): Winnipeg, Man.. 13-25. Yohe. May (Academy of Music): Montreal, Why Women Sin: Perry, la., 10. catalogue. Conlon & Hastings (Casto): Lawrence, Mass., Can., 6-11. Was She To Blame. Jed Carlton. mgr.: Blue fi-11; (Cnsto) Lowell 13-18. Zimmerman. Al. A Pearl (Alhambra): Savannah, Earth, Minn., fl; Stacyvllle, la., 16; St. I WHIIESON, 240 E. Madison Si .Chicago, III. Case, Charlie (Hammersteln's): New York Ga., 6-11. Ansgar 17; Rlceville 18. City, 6-11. Zelda. (Chutes): San Francisco, Cal., 6-11. When Women Love (No. 2), Frank W. NaBon, Camllle Troupe (Hammersteln's): New York mgr.: Friendship, N. Y., 9; Olean 9; Eldred, Great Vaudeville Feature For Sale, City. 6-11. ADDITIONAL ROUTES. Pa., 10; Smethport 11; Mount Jewett 13; Costo & Nelson (Proctor'B 23rd St.): New York Salamanaca, N. Y., 14: Jamestown 15; Mer- Original, screamingly funnr farclal sketch. (Received too late for classification.) cer, Pa., 16; New Castle 17; Sharon 18. Four characters. Clever ipeclaltlcs. Music City. 6-11. Welch, Joe. A. W. Dlngwall A Geo. H. Nlcolal. Dolnn. James F. & Ida Lenhnrr (Howard): Bos- A Hoyal Slave (Gordon & Bennett's Northern), orchestrated. MOO handkome letterheads, pho- ton, Mass.. 6-11; (Poll's) Springfield 13-18. Dave H. Woods, mgr.; Ottumwa, la., Slg- mgrs.: Jersey City, N. J., 6-11; New York tographs, everything complete for Immediate Dolan. Alice Lyndon (Hurtlg & Seamon's): New City 13-18. production. Other acts. Apply NOVELTY Albla B; Fairfleld 10; Washington 11; Slg- Ward A Vokes. Star A Nicolal, mgrs.: New SKET- H Co.. 1144 Broadway. New York City. York City. 13-18. ourney 13; Oskaloosa 14; Knoxvllle 15; Buone York City, 6-11; Middletown 13: Newburg 14; Delavoye A Frits (Auditorium): Kansas City, 16; Manning IT; Dennlson 18. Mo., 6-11. A Royal Slave (Gordon A Bennett's Southern), Ponghkeepsle 15; Cohoes 16; Utlca 17; Scben- Del-eon. Clement (Hammersteln's): New York Fred Miller, mgr.: Meadvllle, Pa., 8; Erie ectady 18. City. 8-11. Wnlsh's Crystalplex Carnival, M. Henry Welsh, The Old Reliable DeOnzo & Elliot (People's): Cincinnati, O. 6-11. 8-10; Westfield, N. Y., 11; Wellsville 17; mgr.: Exeter, N. H., 6-11: Farmington 13-18. Corning 18. Edpi'rtons. The. Aerlallsts (Keith's): Providence. A Clean State with Alberta Gallatln. Thornton Established R. I.. 6-11; (Keltb'B) Philadelphia. Pa., 13-18. A Co.. mgrs.: Norfolk, Va., 8; Petersburg The Popular Resort of Syracuse. N. 1. 1H33. MARTIN GUITAR Emerald*. The Four (Star): Hamilton. Ont.. 611; 9; Richmond 10; New|K>rt News 11; Lynch- He-t guitar for the stage. It fills a hall l>e- (London) London 13-18. FELLOWS' PARK, Eckert & -Berg (Keeney's): Brooklyn, N.Y..6-11. hurg 13; Uoauoke 14: Winston Salem, N. C., cause the tone Is pure. Three sizes und five Forhes. The Marvel (Boston): Lowell, Mass., 15; Charlotte 10; Columbia, S. C., 17; Aug- VALLEY THr.ATRE AND HOTEL styles, machine head or ivory pegs. Send for usta Ga.. 18. complete catalogue. Including mandolins. 13-18. An Aristocratic Tramp, Kilroy & Brltton, mgrs.: having a season loneer than any other sum- C. K. MARTIN & C'O.. Mfrs.. Franklin. Miss Irene (Proctor's 23rd St.): New Leeciiburg. Pa.. 8; Vandergrlft 0; Sharon mer resort in Central New York, opening Nazareth. I'a. York City. 6-11; (Proctor's 5th Ave.) New 11; Meadville 13; Franklin 14; Tltusville 17; with the first warm flays and closing on the York City 13-18. Ford Sisters (Olympic): Chicago. 111., 8-11; Erie 18. approach of cold in the fall, desires all the SEND F O (Haymarket) Chicago 18-18. Anglin, Margaret: Buffalo. N. Y., 6-18. modern High Art attractions. Property is It'l the be.it cure for Otnorrlita or Foy, Eddie & Co. (Keith's): New York City,8-ll. Archer A Forrester's Blograph A Comedy Co., situated fifteen minutes ride from center of flleet. Never fall*, never 0trlcturpB. Fatima, Mile. (Keith's): New York City, 6-11. W. C. Archer, mgr., Shubencadle, N. S. the city of Syracuse and is reached by two PafDleM and atHlDleM. For men and Fredo & Dare (People's): Cincinnati. O., 8-11. 7-8: Stewiackle 0-10; Mllford 11. trolley lines having terminus on the grounds, womfn. Hotile >»>' mall In pUio pkg. Gordon Don & Mac (Phillip's): Richmond, Ind.. Bradford, Sophie C., Jas. M. Bradford, mgr.: and a 5c fare. •1. Booklet FRt'E. 6-11; (Castle) Bloomlngton. 111., 13-18. Somerset, Pa., 8-8; Meyersdale 8-11; Cumber- A CHEAT OPPORTUNITY FOR SOME TUB P. D. Co., 20E-203 l.iiyil Grant, Sydney (Keith's): Boston. Mass., 6-11; land. Md., 13-18. Hiii'd Building Detroit. Mich. P.O. (Keith's) Providence. R. I., 13-18. Baldwin A Hoffman's Museum & Glass Show, BIG ATTRACTIONS Gilbert, John D. (Hyde & Bebman's): Brook- Ueo. A. Baldwin, mgr.: Natchltoches, La., T-ll; Montlcello, Ark., 12-18. like Figure Eight, a Ferris Wheel or Merry- lyn N. Y.. 6-11. 1 go-round. After five successful seasons the Wanted- Quick Hnllman & Collins (Family): Mahanoy City, Pa., Curts Dramatic Co., M. H. Curts, mgr.: De- theatre has been re-leased to Syracuse Rapid 6-11. Kalb, Mo., 0-8; Maysvllle 8-11; Jamesport For the New Idea Floating Theatre. KEPER- Harlden Bros. (Family): Mahanoy City, Pa.. 6-11 13-15. Transit Co., which fact alone Is evidence of TOIRE PEOPLE. Those doing Specialties Henry, Eugene (Arch): Cleveland, O.. 6-11. Chamberlain's Big Show, L. J. Chamberlain, Its desirability. given preference. Leader to play Tromlione, Batch Bros. (Bijou): Debuqne, la., 6-11. mgr.: Driftwood, Pa., 8-8; Slnnauiahoning also Double Baes and Tuba. We pay ex- (Orpheon Davenport) 13-18. 10-11; Woolrlch 13-15. G. M. FELLOWS, Onondaga Valley, N. Y. penses. Armstrong & Chapman. Ashland. Ky. nillard. Robert & Co. (Proctor's 23rd St.) :New Creatore and his Italian Band. Howard Pew York City, 6-11. A Frank Gerth, mgrs.: Tacoma, Wash., 8; Harrison. Lee (Orpheum): Brooklyn. N. Y., 6-11. Victoria, B. C., 9; Vancouver 10-11; Belllng- The Astreleglcal Almanac ™n* "^J" Henshaw & Rancloll (Keeney's): Brooklyn, N. liiini. Wash., 13; Everett 14; Seattle 15-16; vest BY THE MOON. Predictions about Crops. North Yaklma 17; Spokane 18-19. WANTED Y. 8-11. Stocks, Weather, Future Events, Lucky Days Jeannette,, Rose (Canto): Lowell, Mass., 6-11; Davidson Stock Co., A. E. Davidson, mgr.: One black tent, lined, about 20x50 or 2.'x(iO. and Speculators Dally Guide. Ten cents. Dr. (Howard) Beaton 13-18. Brazil, Ind.. 6-8: Hammond 13-18. One Marque. 10x12, one "Train Robbery" aim. B. MacDonald. BINGHAMTON. N'. Y. Klralfy & Ashley (Kami): Troy, N. Y., 8-11. Dvorak-Davidson Stock Co.. E. Jack Devine, (Kdl»on ) and pictorial front for same. Also Keene. Mattle & Co. (Hurtlg & Seamen's): New bus. mpr.: I^echbura, Pa., 9-11; Belle "Tracked by Bloodhounds,," "1'ereonal." F O ft A l_ E York City. 8-11. Vernon 13-15; Monongahela Hi in. "Fairyland." (co ored) "Christmas Dream." FOUR TRAINED DOG8. Reason for selling Kltamura Troupe (Hyde & Behman's): Brook- DeKreko Bros.' Amusement Co.: Pensacola, etc. All the above must be In Al condition have other business. Forty Dollars takes the lyn, N. Y.. 6-11. Fla., 4-25. and cheap for cash, and shipped subject to> lot, with full Instructions how to work them, Klmball. Florence (People's): Cincinnati, O..6-11. Frankenfleld. Laura In Ghosts, Sanford Dodge, inspection. Address A. 91XH1T, Watertown, \VI». Rates Bros. (G. O. ll.i: Grand Rapids, Mich., mgr.: Brush, Col., 11; Sterling 13; Sidney, MARTIN KYNE. 12-18. Neb., 14; Alliance 15; Crawford 16; Chad- LeMaire & LeMarle (Lyric): Joplro. Mo., 5-11; ron 17. Gen. Del. - - Jacksonville. Pla. (National) Kansas City 12-18. Flsk's Syndicate Shows. Col. I. W. Flsk. mgr.: Machine Operator write. Leonard & Drake (Castle): Bloomlngton, 111., Montesuma. Ga.. 13-18; Fort Valley 20-25. DO YOU WANT MILITARY GOODS ? 6-11; (Bijou) Qulncy 12-18. HlKKins, David. Stair A Nlcolal, mgra.: Rich- BAND UNIFORMS. ARMY Or NAVV SUITS. Louie Bros. (Orpheum): Seattle, Wash., 6-11. mond, Va., 8-11; Norfolk 13-18. TENTS. GUNS end EyCIPMENT OF EVKRV Llttlefleld. C. W. (G. O. H.): Plttsburg, Pa.. Hammond, Pauline, Clifton A Whitman, mprs.: DESCRIPTION. From Government Anetion. No matter what yon want in tbat line I r.ap 5-11; Arcade) Toledo. O., 13-18. Newport, Me., 0-8; Greenville 13-15; Jack- supplj It. New or iecond hand. Send for Lucler & Vista (Orpheum): Brooklyn. N. Y.8-11. man 10-18. catalogue. B. B. ABRAHAMS. Li Rose, Harry & Co. (Keeney'g: Brooklyn, N. Irma Opera Co.: Haywarden, la., 11; Uock W» South St. Philadelphia. Pa. Y., 8-11. Rapids 13; Slbley 14; Hartley 16; Orange Leroy, Walter (Keith's): New York City, 6-11. FOR SALE City 17; Le Mars 18. Murphy & Andrews: San Jose, Cal., C-ll; Oak- Imperial Stock Co., Geo. H. Hamilton, mgr.: One BIO FRENCH ORGAN. 4 feet high, with 4nml 13-18. Dalton, Ga., 8; Meridian, Miss., 8-11; La- 3 New Hollers and Brass Trumpet, cost $350, (I see in the street fair notes in Makln. Lnur«nc« A Dale (Kelth'i): Philadel- Fayetts, La., 13-15. My price. *100. One Tent. 20 x 40. $75. One phia.. Pa., 8-11; (Maryland) Baltimore. Md.,13-18. Jerry From Kerry (Pattea & Perry's): Keyser, Tent, ai x 30, J40. Both tents good as new. The Billboard of March 4th, that the McDonald. James I'. (Orpheum): New Orleans, W. Va.. 10; FrOBtburg. Md.. 11; Bedford, >».. Have big Circus Side Show Front. « 10 x 1«, Monarch Carnival is organized and in La., 8-H. 13; Everett 14; Huntingdon 15; Hollldnysburg Taylor make, good as new. Also 2 12 x lt>. Arizona. The writer, M. Mitchell, Moore. & Llttlenold (Keith's); New York City, 16; Galltzln 17; Irvona 18. One Door. Main Kntrance. «-ll. Johnnie Took the One I Wanted. Stevens & PIOF. HILLkR, General Deliver;, - HOUSTON. TEXAS, gave the name Monarch to the Carni- Millward. Jessie & Co. (Hatnmersteln's): New Mossmati, inurs.: Weldon. 111., 6-8; Mt. val Co. last season. I was the first York City, 6-11. Pulaskl 0-11; Latham 13-15. Mirtgely & Carlisle (Proctor's 23rd St.): New Kennedy, James, Stock Co., O. E. Wee, mgr.: person to adopt it. The original Mon- York City. 6-11. Jamestown. N. Y., 6-11; Plttston, Pa., 13-18. arch Carnival Co. has its winter quar- Mackay Julia (Hyde A 'Bebman'a): BrooTtlyn, Kllttps' Hand. T. P. J. Power, mgr.: Blyth. Dogs for Sale. ters at Covinpton, Ind. WANTED—A N. Y.. 0-11. Eng.. 14-15; Sunderland 16-18; Seahara Harb«r A Troupe of Poodles, well trained, pure M«Ilch's Birds (Ornhlum): Brooklyn, N. Y. 6-11. 10; Glasgow, Scot., 20-25. white, all youne; one large Rhesus monkey. Conderman Ferris Wheel and one McCue * Cahlll (Trent): Trenton. N. J., 6-11. Mahara's Minstrels: Fond du fcac. W«»., 11. show. Addr. M. Mitchell, Mgr. Mon- Madden A) Jess (People's): Cincinnati, O. 6-11. Nevtus-Tanner. Kevins Bros., mgrs.: Flora, FRED DARLING. Lancaster, I'a. arch Carnival Co., Covlngton, Ind.) McFarland A McDonald (Trocadero): Chicago, 111., uVll; Klnranndy 13-18. IB., 13-18. Oo the Suwanee River. Star & Nlcolal, mgrs.: FOB SALE or on reasonable Royalty with Nawns, The (Orpheum): Brooklyn N. Y., 6-11. Elizabeth, N. J., 6-8; Hoboken 9-11; Wll- splendid special paper, two first-class musical Norfrocs. Blair A LaMaf (Keith's): New York iMiiiL-K.ii. Del.. 13-16; Easton, Pa., 10; Shen- conieillesi Address EDWIN O. GATES, care City, 6-11. andnah 17: Mahanoy City 18. Hlllboard. For SalB-MERRf-GO-ROUND Ogden. Helen (Flom's): Madison, Wta.. 6-11. Paige Comedy Co., Henry F. Wlllard. owner.; 16 Horse. '2 Chariots in first class condition O'Brien & Havel (Portland): Portland Me., 6-U; H. Martynne, mgr.: Greensboro, N. C.; 6-8; WANTED cheap. (Trent) Ti«nto», N. J.. 20-25. Winston Salem 8-11; Stat^vllle 13-1B; Ash- Obsterler Troupe (Hammersteln's): New York viBe 16-18. JOHN KRAMER, Billboard. City, 6-11. Parxlral. Henry W. Savage, mgr.: St. Louis, SKETCH TEAM Pelot, Fred A Annie (Family): Mabanoy City, Mo., 5-11. NOTICE—My Patent Galateas are the only ones Pa., 6-11; (Empire) Hoboken, N. J.. 20-2.1. Rays, The. SUir & Nlcolal, mgrs.: St. Loots, To change for a week. Ilo you play piano? made that work automatically and run by kero- Pero A Wilson (Proctor's 5tb Ave.): New York Mo.. 5-11; Kiyisas City 12-18. Ticket if I know you. sene oil, costing only two cents a day. Will City 20-25. ED. ROBERTS. Kvanmvllle Wl». Phillips AvSharp (Hyde Park): Chicago, Ul.,9-11. Royal Amusement Co., H. H. Tlpps, mgr.: Mer take more money than a Ferris Wheel, and (South ChiciKo O. H.) Chicago 13-18. Rralpte. La.. 6-11; Porthind. Ark., 13-18. costs you two thousand less money. All profit RofRer, Edward (Family): Hahanoy City, Pa., Sky Farm: Woodstock, Ont.. 8. for man »nd woman. Will clear $400 every Sidney, George, Stair ft Nlcolal. mgrs.: Nor- 100 LetUthiate Env|?ODCS 256; « week. Si-mi stamp for circular of the greatest 8-11. folk. Va., 6-11; Richmond 13»18. 100 Cards, 20c : postage. 5c. 5000 ffids. 11 .SO. etc. money getter In the ihow line on earth. CHAS. lllce, Eugene (People's): Cincinnati. O., fl-11. Samples. 4c. ELLSWORTH PRINTING CO.. E. WESTON, 4 Caruthers St., Lawrence, Mase. ••t.'iL'i'" Sisters A Sn.li Alfarabl (Cuto): Law- Shadows of Sin. C. Geo. Hamilton, mgr.: Chat- Mien. rence. Mass., 6-11; (Casino) Lowell 13-18. tanooga, Tenn., 8; Dalton, Ga., 9; Meridian, Elce A Elmer (Amphlon): Brooklyn, N. Y., Miss., 10; LaFayette, La., 11. Mention "The Billboard" when answering ads. Mention"Tke Billboard"vihen an*w*rin

coming. It Is now up to them to deliver the of the distributing In the field for Dr. Burk- goods to the shows and atop kicking. hart, of Cincinnati, lias become manager of The majority of the road men are very well the distributing department of the American satisfied and it Is only a few of the "booze Posting Service of Chicago. fighters" and disturbers who are causing all the trouble. A. H. Baumgardt of Albany, N. Y., The conventions are open, and If the road reports distributing 45,000 pieces for W. H. men have any grievance all they have to do Hill of Detroit. Mich.. 32,000 books for W. T. Is to bring it up at the conventions and not Hanson of Schenectady, N. Y., with 22,000 afterward. 1 trust this will be done at the pieces of three orders on the way. WE MUST COME TO IT and responsible task set before him." Denver convention and settled for all time. President Robert Koehler of the He therefore admonishes himself to The Alliance is only too willing to make ex- Minnesota Art Society announced in bis annual "hue to the line of business." amples of a few of the crooked men If the report to that organization that they were ready The Times, of Hartford, Conn., circus agents will only bring charges against to co-operate in all efforts to secure legisla- * * * them. The Alliance untl Its officers want to tion to curtail billboard advertising throughout printed an Item the other day that Is be fair anil Just to all. but It can not be when the state. significant. It said that a man took It is Indeed high time that he dis- they only air their troubles through the columns a walk along a single street In a cer- covered how purile are his efforts along of your publication and do not slgu their names The Pennsylvania Association has tain city, examined the posters on the certain lines. Never a master of plain to the articles. They seem to be ashamed to just Issued a new edition of Its constitution English he was outclassed at the start, do so. and by-laws which Is very comprehensive. It billboards and made the following list Now as to the action the convention took Is an excellent form for other State Associa- of what he saw: for the man who does not know now towards declaring The Billboard unfair, all I tions to pattern after, and Is undoubtedly the 1. A lady choking a gentleman In an to handle the tools he tries to work will say Is that Cincinnati people are entirely work of Mr. John D. Mlshler, president of the automobile. with will ever be a bungler and a responsible for It, and the very ones who have Pennsylvania Asosclatlon. 2. A gentleman pointing a pistol at a botch. Had he been a skillful an- been condemning the Alliance through the The limit in Police art criticism has man In a sickbed. tagonist we would regret his retire- columns of The Billboard caused The Billboard been reached In Richmond, Va., where Mayor 3. A gentleman In an automobile shoot- ment from the field and would say to be put on the unfair list. McCarthy, who recently had wall paper pasted ing over the dashboard at another gentle- You will certainly agree with me when I over some burlesque paper, has ordered the man. that it was too bad he had been sup- say there are two sides to all questions. The shop-keepers to remove all artificial legs, ased 4. A man whipping an old woman with pressed; but he was not even a good last two weeks we have heard one side and I to display stockings and shoes, from their store a rawhide. clown, for he was devoid of wit as trust this article will be published so the other windows. McCarthy had better take the rest 5. A colored woman beating a young lady side will have a hearing. What has been said cure; he's working too hard. over the head with a washboard. well as lacking in wisdom, so his above are facts. The object of the Alliance 8. The devil stabbing a gentleman be- buffoonery will not be greatly missed. Is to better conditions and to furnish both bill- The Board of Directors did a very tween the shoulder-blades. His pretentions have suffered two posting companies and circuses good men at fair sensible thing In changing the place of meeting 7. An old man stabbing another man In hard bumps within the past month, wages. We do not consider that the Alliance to Baltimore. St. Augustine's hotels are atroc- the back. Is perfect, and certainly better conditions can iously expensive, and the railroad fares to and 8. A strong man dashing a wicked man First, the Board of Directors, in their not be brought about by a few knockers. If from the old town would have been needlessly to the ground. calmer moments, decided to hold their there are any faults they should be taken up high. The action of the Board will be endorsed 0. A man threatening a woman with a meeting in Baltimore on March 7 in- with the officers or at the conventions and not and commended by every member of the As- dagger. stead of St. Augustine. This was in aired through the press where they only tend sociation. 10. A crowd of gymnasium girls point- to get good people down on an organization Ing pistols at some men. the interest of economy and was ap- which has done more for the billposters over Billboards, long the favorite mode of proved by twenty of the twenty-three tills country than anything else. exploiting numerous brands of whisky, are now While the Time's said that this hap- members of the Board. Next, the com- All I ask Is to compare conditions now on to be used to fight the "demon drink". A pened in one city, it might have men- mittee on the "New York Situation", the road to four or five years ago when wages preacher at Pawtucket, R. I., Is running a tioned any other city and the story were very small and the chances of getting temperance crusade and has announced that as whose nefarious report was so loudly the money at the close of the season were small soon as he can get money enough he will have would have been equally true. The proclaimed for its wisdom by the Able also. At present a good, first-class, sober, great posters depicting the evils of the drink Billboard's purpose in calling atten- Apologist, was compelled by the ex- honest and reliable billposter can always get habit put on the billboards. Well, all's grist tion to the Item is that there is a posure which The Billboard handed out work at good wages, for the circus does not that comes to our mill. growing sentiment In the United States want tlie crooks and drunks, neither does the If ever a paper was entirely devoid that this habit of depicting "blud 'n' to drop its "sand-bagging" methods Alliance. Very respectfully yours, of character, Intent and purpose, that paper and settle the "Situation" on business RICHARD P. PENNEY, Is the official organ. After nearly nine years thunder" scenes to advertise melo- lines that were satisfactory to A. Van- Denver, Col. of exlstance It is still not self-supporting. A drama has about reached the limit of Beuren & Co. When this matter is Chalrm' Board of Trustees N. A. B. P. of A. man that can not earn his own living Is the human endurance, and that it is about most pitiful of objects. No one has any use time something was done to cut it all settled up The Billboard will give or respect for him. That Is the way It Is the actual facts in the case and let ITS A GO with a paper. It Is a serious financial drain out. In different places in the East the billposters of the country draw on the Association and should be lopped off at local authorities have taken up the their own conclusions. Big $7.000,000 Foster Printers Combine Has the next meeting. question of suppressing posters depict- BUTTINSKI. Been Effected. The Billposting Sign Co. of Phila- ing scenes of violence, and in doing so delphia now have the piece work system In have made it extremely unpleasant for At a meeting of representatives of the several full operation, and the billposters who have the the comparatively innocent billposter. FUNEKAL OF EDWABD A. STAHLBEODT Interested companies In Cincinnati last week routes are perfectly satisfied. Under the pres- The agitation has reached a point the much talked of combination of poster print- ent system billposters are making from $25 to The late Edward A. Stahlbrodt, whose death ers was finally effected. The companies now $40 a week, and as their pay depends upon their where it is up to the billposter to was announced In The Billboard of last week, In on the deal are the Donaldson Lithograph keeping their paper In the best of shape ad- prove his complete Innocence by beat- was burled on the afternoon of Sunday, Feb. Co.. of Newport. Ky.; the United States Litho- vertisers are getting the best of service. Harry ing the public to the goal in taking 26, In Mt. Hope Cemetery, at Rochester. The graph Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio; the Courier and Lee Carey, who has charge of the men, has services were conducted by the Grand Com-the Erie Lithographing companies of Buffalo, perfected a new tally system which Is a success. a hand In the work of suppressing ob- mandery of Knights Templar of the State of N. Y.; the Metropolitan Printing Co., the Miner He will explain it In an address before the next noxious posters himself. New York, of which the deceased was an Lithograph Co. and the Ottman Lithograph Co., meeting of the Pennsylvania Association. Fortunately for the billposter he Is honored officer. A eulogy was delivered by of New York City. It is expected that the Board of Di- not without precedent in this mat- Past Grand Commander Charles H. Aruiltage. A capitalization of $7.000,000 has been agreed rectors will forever abolish the "big stick" at ter. For nearly ten years the bill- of Albany, N. Y. upon and Brown Bros. & Co., of New York Baltimore. As long as the raiders and their Rev. Peter Lindsay, D. D., and Rev. J. F. City and London, will finance the project. tools can recommend the granting of a "second- posters of Great Britain have main- W. Helmkarup, of Rochester, officiated at the ary franchise" towns like Cincinnati, Detroit, tained a "Censorship Committee" which residence. Dr. Lindsay spoke briefly of the MURPHY SAYS NEVER Cleveland, etc., will have no sense of security passes on all posters of objectionable career of Mr. Stahlbrodt, which he said was an or protection. It Is all very well for the big character, and says whether or not extraordinary one. He spoke of his many virtues fellows to buy all the plants that they desire, as a husband and father, as a business man, Editor of The Billboard. provided the owners of the plants are willing they shall be displayed on the boards and as a worker In the Masonic and other Dear Sir: It has come to my notice that you to sell. But when the owner of a plant la of the members of the United Bill- fraternal orders. Dr. Helmkarnp emphasized published In your paper of this week's Issue a not willing to sell, the association should pro- posters Association. The work of this the business Integrity of Mr. Stahlbrodt and false rumor pertaining to myself. It strikes tect him and not allow any measure to pass committee has had a good effect upon referred to his prominent place In fraternal me forcibly that the Editorial Staff of The which will coerce or tend to force him into a circles, which was due, he said, to his character, Billboard could be put to better use than to sale against his will. The "secondary fran- theatrical promoters. It hit some of determination and devotion to the duties de- writing articles that are aimed to assassinate chise" should be burled so deep that it never them hard at first, but they pretty volving on him. He declared that Mr. Stahl- an honest man's character. by any chance may be resurrected. generally understand in England that brodt was one of nature's gentlemen, always Trusting you will be generous enough to ready to help a weaker comrade. publish these facts: Pat Murphy was never dis- the "blud 'n' thunder" poster won't do. Members of the Associated Blllpostrs present charged from the Criterion Theatre, nor from ALLIANCE NOTES. * * * at the funeral were Mr. Samuel Pratt and Mrs. any other theatre where he was ever employed, I'ratt, of New York City; Mr. Barney Link, and has sixteen years of honest service In the W. E. Ferguson signed the Alliance The Billboard will not attempt to of Brooklyn N. Y.; Mr. F. F. Fitch, of Albany; advertising business In the city of Chicago to circus agreement March 1. go into the ethics of the question. That Mr. W. 0. Smith, of Klmlra; Mr. C. F. Fll- to be proud of, I remain. Oliver Scott last week signed the is not necessary. The fact is that hrlck of Buffalo; Mr. R. C. Campbell, of Chi- Respectfully yours, Alliance circus agreement for the John Rob- sentiment against the practice Is grow- cago, and Mr. Alex. Clarke, of New York City. P. F. Murphy. inson Shows. Floral offerings were tendered by each of the Chicago, March 3, 1905. ing, which should be a warning to the billposters present, also by the National Asso- Frank Purcell left Cincinnati, March theatrical promoter and the billposter. ciation and by the State Associations of New 4 to join the Barnum & Bailey advance force It may be good business for the the- York and Indiana. DAUBS. at New York City, March 6. atrical man to have his posters stir up More than one hundred carriages were In the W. H. Walker passed through Cin- National Secretary McCormlck, of a community to the point of revolt; funeral cortege, and many persons were unable cinnati Feb. 28. Chicago, is said to be both fair and able. He to attend the ceremonies at the cemetery through Is undoubtedly zealous and hard working. he gets the notoriety and then gets Inability to obtain conveyances. M. J. Herman of Chicago, was a Bill- out of town. But the billposter, who board caller last week. W. E. Burkhardt, stage manager of gets half of the blame, has to stay the Wilson Theatre, Mason City, Iowa, has PENNEY'S PUNCH Mr. Donald G. Ross, of the Protec- signed for the blllpostlng advance of the Sells- and face the music. And generally the tive Co., was registered at the Royal Ponclana Forepaugh Shows for the coming season. 'public is beginning to think that the Chairman of Alliance Trustees Hands a Few Hotel, Palm Beach, Fla., last week. The Billboard wishes to assure each billposter is more than half to blame. Hot Ones to Anonymous Letter Writers R. C. Campbell was loudest of all and every member of the Alliance that we are Already it is taking up the matter as In demanding the resignation of President Os- not fighting the organization now and will not an excuse for restricting and. In some walt, of the Indiana Billposters' Association. In the future, some of the officers to the con- instances, abolishing boards altogether. Editor The Billboard, Funny. trary not withstanding. Dear Sir: Just a few words regarding the The Street Commissioner of Scran- * * • stand your paper Is taking at present toward ton, Pa., has chopped down a number of boards The wise thing for the billposter to the ofllcers of the National Alliance. As one built by the American Company In that city, of the officers and also one of the circus com- without the necessary consent of the Mayor. MAGNETIC TACK HAMMERS! do in this emergency is to anticipate mittee at the recent conferences In New York Just the thing for tackluf tin and eardboai* the public by taking a hand In the and Chicago, I wish to emphatically deny the Salt Lake City, Utah, requires the signs. Every diatrlbo r ahoold bar* ens. suppression business himself. Let us accusations of the parties who have been fur- building inspector to issue permits for bill- Prices, with doable extension h«od. H iMkca nishing you those recently published articles, boards at -'•""• each and that the blllpostlng long, each, $2.00; triple extension handle*. 41 have a "Censorship Committee" and but who seem to be very anxious to withhold company furnish a $15.000 bond to Indemnify the iueiiei loag, eaeb $2.30. Send meaty with tbe let It be a real one, whose members will their names. It Is just such members who are city in case of accident. order. None wut O. O. D. take a firm stand and say that no responsible for the present condition of the Alliance. Whoever the authors of those articles Mr. L. E. Touff, formerly in charge The Donaldson LJtho. Co., Newport, Ky. more crimes shall be committed on the were I must say they do not know what they billboards. It will be easily accom- are talking about. In the first place the circus plished. Just as easily as it was when committee was composed of five members, three the Association said "we will post no of which were road men, two local men and myself, who represented President Joseph. It BILLPOSTERS more paper advertising cures for loath- is not a question of "home rule", but purely some diseases." The Canadian Asso- a matter of raising trouble by a few who do Marble's SPECIAL POTATO STARCH will stick. ciation has already taken a step in not know what unionism means. Take No Substitute. this direction and it will be a good Everyone knows that the standard of wages with circuses has been raised in the past three time to make the rule general at the years fifty per cent, to one hundred per cent., J. RUSSELL MARBLE & CO., Worcester. Mass. Montreal meeting. imd H has been done entirely through the Al- * * * liance; not through the efforts of some of those "booze fighters" who are constantly finding fault At last, the would be Apologist for with the Alliance and Its officers. BILL POSTERS the Board of Directors, has crawled The stand the circus committee took was for Have tbe best board* into his hole, or been pushed In by higher wages and a sliding scale, and we held THE JOHN CHAPMAN CO. and create*! location.) out for It and got It. Now, what would have his disgusted superiors. His latest an- been the result If we had accepted less wages In Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone 2314. 17 Opera Place. Chapman's nouncement is that tne main purpose for the road men? They would have accused Bulletin Service. Contractors lor Bill-Posting throuKbout tbe United States. of the "official organ" is to promote us of not trying to do anything for them. I Cuba and r«nada. Population: City, 826,902; 56 Suburban Towns, 70.OOO. the interests of out-door advertising, think the road men have gained more than the and that he, "therefore has a serious "home guards" and certainly have no kick Mention "The Billboard" when answering ads. Mention "Zl« BUttnard" when, cuumermg adt. 24 Tlrc> Billboard

IND. TER—Pryor Creek—J. A. Qulnn. LuA.—Pocatello—George Dash, box 272. PRIN ERS OF IOWA.—Corning—F. C. Reese. Monarch Balloon and Amusement Co. Des Molnes—W. W. Moore, Licensed Dlst. 1896—Horn* Office, 67 Hawaii St., Providence. R. I —1905 ARTIST. POSTERS ft KAN.—Ellsworth—Wm. L. Gaston. HAND BILLS Nlckerson—John E. Miller, B. P. and PROF. » CHAS HILLMAN. Manager. MR. W RALPH KINO, Treasurer, lix 70S, Pravldenc.. R. I Dlst. Night Ascensions witb Palne's Fireworks. Cannon Ascensions. Day Ascensions. Advertisements under tbls heading will be KY—Broaslhead—Broadhead B. P. and Dlst Co. Bicycle. Double or Triple. published weekly at the uniform rate of ten Russellvllle—Auditorium B. P. and Dlst. cents per Issue, or $4.00 per year. Co. Wr!te for circular. Balloon Repairing made at short notice MINN.—Rfmidjl—A. T. Wheelock. Ackermann-Qnlgley Lltho Co., Kansas City, Mo. Minneapolis—Gibbons Blllpostlng Co. THE BEST PARK ATTRACTION POSSIBLE TO OBTAIN IS American Show Print, Milwaukee, Wis. Wlllmar—urosby & Markham. Bell Show Print, Slgourney, La. C. H. Buck Co., Boston, Mas*. MISS.—*rookhaven—F. H. Wlmberly ft Bro. Calvert Lltho. Co., Detroit, Mich. MONT.—'Billings—A. L. Babcock. THE MAGIC KETTLE, or LIQUID AIR ACT, Carnival Poster Co., Minneapolis, Minn. N. YORK.—Cablesklll—Edwin F. Weatworth. Central Ptg. & Eng. Co., 140 Monroe, Chicago. Handled exclusively by THl THIARLMVOUIY MENCY. Room 827 St. James Bldg., Chicago Show Print Co., 140 5th ave., Chicago N. CAR.—Statesvllle—Rowland Adv. Co. Donaldson Lltho. Co., Newport, Ky. OHIO.—lllddletown—Anthony H. Walburg. New York. Park managers, Circus Managers, Carnival managers should write Enquirer Job Printing Co., Cincinnati, 0, PENN.—Altoona—Charles Edmund Grubb, 327 immediately. This will repay investigation. Great W. Ptg. Co., 418 Elm >t., St. Louis, Mo. 6th ave. Bennegan & Co., Cincinnati, O. Johnstown—Johnstown B. P. Co. Sam W. Hoke. 630 W. 62 St., New York City. CLfM LME, teif. The Saratoga if itie ItirllrwnJ. WKITAKER'S PUlSURf PIER AND PARK. Muss 111 Ion Sign & Show Print Co., Massllllon, O. PhoeniJtville—George K. Oberholtzer. QONCE88IOS8 FOK SALE,—Theatrical People waated for June. July aad Augum Flue«l Summer, Morrison Show Ptg. Co., Detroit, Mich. Newcastle—The J. G. Loving C. B. P. Co. Theatre In the northwest. 8eat> 1 71*1 people; llage J4z48i 14 hy SAJ uponlnir. Is built out over the water; 12 private boxes: tlnr balcony. All kinds «f privilege* »w<1 c-mcetmlona for rent. Popcorn. Peaniun. Caudy Motor Show Ptg., Mil". la. S. CAR.—Gaffney—Ed. H. Decamp. Ice Cream Clean, son DrlUt, Restaurant, Lunch 8t»nd«, Pa.mlatry, khuotii g liallery. sflr Bowling Penn Ptg. and Pub. Co., Philadelphia, Pa. TENN.—Memphis—Ward-McCauley. Clarence E. Runey, Rune.v 'Hides.. Cincinnati, O. AU*'>'M Bath Houses. Merry-Go-Rounds, all kind* of Etacka. Rart>«r sho,>, bhoe Pollening mauds. I want U. S. Lltho.. Russell-Morgan Print, Norwood, O. TEX.—Gainesville—Paul Gallla. C. B. P. and everything n«w in the way of slot machines. AdArans IBAAO \Vmr\n KU. <.<: K u. n 8t.. Kanaae City, Mo. Volunteer Ptg. Co., Keynoldsvllle, Pa. Dint. Wtlmans ft Bryant, 400 Main. Dallas, Tex. Yoakun—C. C. Tribble. d III. Only successful Park In Central I llnola. Wants W. VA.—Bluefleld—H. I. Shott. Mildred Park Amusement Ce., grgg: or attract.ODS on percentage. Large daily attendance, Has 80,000 people to uraw from. Write quick t\t ftbuvw company. JOB PRINTKR9. WIS.—Prairie du Chlen—F. A. Campbell. Church Printing Co., 41B Elm St., Cincinnati. O GEORGIA. Nonpareil Ptg. Co.. 425 Elm St., Cincinnati, O. Richmond—Highland Park, C. L. Davis. Newton Bros., Montlcello. Ind. Atlanta—Ponce DcLeon Park, William Sharp; Sellersburg—Glen Brook Casino, J. McM. Smith, Piedmont Park; Lakewood Park, T. M. Poole, cure Indiana Ry. Co. 57 E. Hunter st. Terre Haute—Riverside Park. F. Sir-lumen; TICKET PRINTERS. List. Augusta—Monte Sano Park Theatre, Geo. H. Lake View Park. J. C. Holden; Edward Ackermann-Qulgley Lltho. Co., Kansas City, Mo. Conklln; Lake View Park, Geo. H. Conklin. Slm.vne. Chicago, booking agt. The Dlepress Co., 35 Mill St., Cazenovla, N. Y. NOTICE. care Augusta Ry. Co. Vincennes—Electric Park. Ben S. Kellogg; Lin- Cedartown—The Summer Theatre, J. C. Knight, coln Park. Vincennes Am. Co. Park managers and otheri interested In this Jr. Warsaw—Wlnona Lake. list will cenfer a favor by bringing any errors Washington—Street Railway Park. WEEKLY LIST Of DISTRIBUTORS. to our attention. This list is revised and Columbus—Wildwood Park, Mr. Reldhead. corrected weakly and no effort is spared to Gainesville—Chattahoochee Park, W. H. Slacky. IOWA. Advertisement under this heading will be keep it reliable and up-to-date. Macon—Crump's Park, Bruce Conquer. published weekly at the uniform rate of ten Mobile—Monroe Park Theatre, Mike McDermott. Boone—Whltcomb Park. G. J. Prescott. cents per Issue, or $4.00 per year. Savannah—Tlvoli Park; Thunderbolt Park. 8a- Brighton—Brighton Park. ALABAMA. vumwli St. Ry. Co.; Tybee 'Beach; Casino Burlington—Elmer's Park. C. Ebner; Ferris Pork, L. R. Nash. Wheel Park; Madison Avenue Park, P. W. ARK.—Conway—J. P. Clark, box 92. Anniston—Oxford Lake Park, Annlston Electric Hohlrn. CAL.—Eureka—W. H. Matthews. 83(i 2nd »t. & Gns Co., Ludlow Allen, am. mgr. ILLINOIS. Cedar Rapids—Athletic Park. G. K. Barton. Sacramento—W. A. Caswell & Sons. Birmingham—Lake View, J. Wells; East Lake Alton—Al Fresno Park, Vernon C. Seaver; Rock Clear Lake—Whltaker's Pleasure Pier. 1. Whlt- OEO.—Atlanta—M. P. Roughton, box 554. Park, (i. F. McLaughy; Electric Park Ca- Spring Park. J. T. Porter. aker. :<02 E. 12th St., Kansas City. Mo. sino, Jake Wells. Aurora—Rivervlew Park. W. C. Bralthwalte, Davenport—Prespect Park: Scheutzen Park. ILL.—Chicago—John A. dough, 42 River «t. Decatnr—Idlewlld Pnrk. IT.'i Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. Des Moines—Ingersoll Park, F. Buchanan; Nut- East St. Loulu—W. H. IKsinar. Hunttville—Casino Park. Belleville—Fair Ground Park, Dr. W. Forgo; wood E'ark: in ion Park, Union Electric Co. Bdwardsville—Kellermann Adv. Co. Mobile—Mobile Park, Mobile Light and R. R. Huff's Park, J. L. Walrapp; Budwelser Gar Ft. Dodge—«. Ludlow—Lagoon, J. J. Weaver. N. CAR.—Statesvllle—Rowland Adv. Co. Cameron—Pinnae!*1 I'nrk. Moline—Prospect Park, J. F. Laldner. Maysvilla—IClectrlc Park. Denver—Union Park, J. R. Crabb; Rocky Moun- Paris—Reservoir Park. H. Dollarhlde. LOUISIANA. OHIO.—Cincinnati—J. J. Murphy & Co. tain Lake Park; Elltch Gardens. Frederick Peoria—Pflefer's Palm Garden. C. G. Pflefer, Columbus—S. A. Hyde. 2000 North Adams St.; Central Park, Al. Crowley—Levy Park. Fostoria—W. C. Terrill ft Co., 116 W. Tlf- Bond; Manhattan Beach Park; Denver Recrea- tion Park. Fresco Beach, V. C. Seaver. 88 State St.. Monroe—Summer Garden, A. S. Kuhn. fln st. Chicago. 111.; Terminal Park; Poplar Beach New Orleans—City Park. Park Commissioners; Martin's Ferry—J. F. Blumenbnrg. CONNECTICUT. Park. Fred P. Corning; Stone Hill Garden, West Knd. Jas. J. Cocnran; Athletic Park, Youngstown—M. Gleger. Bridgeport—Pine Rock Park, J. B. Sewell; F. Hill; Prospect Heights Park, W. S. Southern Am. Co.. props., Chas. E. Davis, PENN.—Carlisle—Wm. M. Meloy, box 49. Pleasure Beach. Nash; Sans Soucl Garden, Will Nash. mgr.: Scenic Railway and Midway, G. W> Dubols—O. H. Barl»w, 3 S. -Brady St. Danbury—Kenosla Park. F. A. Shear, box 42. Peru—Concordla Gardens. Preston; Andolon Park. East York—Richard E. Staley. Danielson—Wildwood Park, People's Tramway ftuincy—Ilalclwln Park. Mrs. T. 3. Baldwin. Johnstown—George Updegraves & Co. Co. Rockford—Ilavlam Park, Rockford and Interur- MAINE. PhoenlxvlUe—Geo. K. Oberholtzer. East Haddain—Maplewood Resort, Frank Saxon ban Ry. Co.; Chautauqua Park, F. Burt, To- Bangor—Riverside Park, J. J. Flynne, agt. Shamokin—John V. Berry. East Haven—Momaquln Park, J. A. Blake. ledo, O.; Harlem Park. Bar Harbor—Athletic Park, C. E. Llndall. Tyrone—C. H. Phillips. Hartford.—Werder's Park; Charter Oak Park, Rock Island—Watch Tower Park. Bath—Merrymeetlng Park, New England Pop- 8. CAR.—Columbus—J. C. Rlngley (at Charles- E. M. Salker, care Faslg-Tlpton Co.. Madi- Springfield— Mildred Park, Mildred Park Amuse- corn Co., les. ton). son Square Garden, New York; Capital Park, ment Co., props., Frank B. lies; Zoo, Chas. Brunswick—Merrymeetlng Park, L. B. & B. Phoenlivllle—C. C. Trlbble. R. J. McDonald, care Nelson Theatre, Spring- MoLaughlln, sec. Ry. Co. Spring Valley—Webster Park, Wm. E. Robin- TENN.—Cordele—P. D. Bancroft, Opera House field. Mass. East Auburn—Lake George; Lake Auburn Park, Bldg. Killingly—Wildwood Park, Worcester ft Conn. son. Arthur Cleetham. Harrlman—Harrlman B. P. and Adv. Ser- Kast€rn Ry Co. INDIANA. Madiion—Lakewood Park, H. S. Sweet. Manchester—Laurel Park. Anderson—Riverside Park, W. H. Moore, mgr. Old Orchard Beach—Seaside Park. Maine In- vice. Meriden—Hanover Park. W. P. Bristol. vestment Ct. Ltd., props., W. O. Smith, »»:JJI-A Y_I,~ ir(_.~ n«Bi* r« u r>' Connersville—Elmhurst Park, Chas. Bartlne. TEX.—Amarlllo—J. L. Summers. Indianapolis—Fairbank Park, W. Trou; Klssell's treas. and gen. mgr. Hlllsboro—H. P. Jones. Portland—Underwood Springs Park, E. A. New- Sherman—W. J. Harvey, box 169. Garden. Fred Klssell; Oval Park, Mr. New- by; Falrvlew Park, Citizen's St. R. R. Co.; man; Gem Theatre (Peake's Ul.), C. W. T. TJTAH.—Salt Lake City—John M. Waldon. New Haven—Savin Kock, J. A. Blake. Sprlnglake Park. Godding; Rlverton Park, E. A. Newman, am, WIS.—West Superior—C. A. Marshall, West Su- Pntnam—People's Tramway Park; Wildwood Eaton—New Park, R. Clifton. mgr., J. W. Gorman, booking agt., 100 Boyl»- perior Hotel. Park, Maurice Boom. Elkhart—Island Park, F. S. Tlmmlns, Main st. ton St., Boston, Mass. Rockville—Snlplc Park. Skowhegan—Lakewood Grove E'ark. CAN.—Montreal—C. J. T. Thomas, box 1129. Highland Park, E. W. Henshaw. Vancouver, B. C.—A. F. Morris, mgr., Evansville—Meeker Park, F. Burt, Toledo, O.; MARYLAND. Hastings st. Cook's Park Theatre, F. J. Sieffert, prop., Harry Laurance; Street Car Park, Ft. Wayne Arlington—Electric Park, A. Fenneman. Traction Co.; West Heights Park Theatre, Baltimore—Hollywood Park, Schanberger ft Ir- WEEKLY LIST OF BILLPOSTERS. inn and Power Co. Chas, R. Stlnson, Les., A. J. Campbell; Oak wln: Hotel Lexington Roof Garden; Pabst Waterbury—Lakewood Park; Forest Park, Moe Summit Park, Evansvllle St. Ry. Co. Gardens, K. E. Sternberg; Prospect Park, Morris; Bellevue Lake Grave. Jeffersonville—Forest Park, Cunningham; Ward- Grand Stockham: Klectrtc Park, H. Penne- Advertisements under this heading will be West Haven—Savin Hock Theatre. er Park. man; Goeller's Black River Park. F. Emmett; published weekly at the uniform rate of ten Winated—Highland Lake Park, Cbas. D. Alldls. Kokomo—Athletic Park, Kokomo Ry. * L. Co. Tolchester Beach. Tolchester Co.; Rivervlew cents per Issue, or $4.00 per year. DELAWARE. Lafayette—Woodland Park. Park. M. J. FlUslmmons, 516 Charles it.; Laporte—Tuxedo Park, J. C. Christian. Klrby's Park, J. E. Klrby; Kline's Park; ALA.—Dothan-J. E. Wise. Wilmington—Shellpot Park, Ferris Giles. Logansport—Cedar Island. Stoddard's Park; Herman's Park; Weber's- DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Madison—Beech Grove Park, C. R. Johnson. Park; Gymann Oak Park, United Ry. Co.; ASK.—Conway—J. F. Clark, box 92. Lakeside Park, United Ry. Co.; Rehobotb Cotton Plant—Boon ft Echels. Michigan City—Washington Park, Albert Cook; Washington—Rivervlew and Excursion Resortt, Chl-ftan-cy Beach. Beach, near -Baltimore, via. Queen Anne's Ry.; Helena—Fltepatrlck B. P. Co. E. 8. Randall; Glen Echo Park; Chevy Chaae Ferry Bar, Geo. Kahn; Holm's Summer Garden; Springdale—-Tite Saunders Co. Mishawaka—Battele Park, Chas. Nlckle, care Lake, Herbert Claude; Lawrence Garden, Century Theatre. Klefer's Park, Middle Klver; Fairyland, Frank CONN.—Stamford—Hamley Oeflnger. Joseph Daniels. Muncie—West Side Park Casino, Louis A. Har- Melville. ILL.—Bloomlngton—City B. P. Co., Coliseum FLORIDA. vey and Harry Lowe. Chesapeake Beach—Chesapeake Park. •Bldg. Jacksonville—Phoenix Park, Jacksonville Elcc- Montpelier—Pyle Park. Cumberland—Narrows Park Pavilion, Wm. Mc- Charleston—T. G. Chambers. trlc Co.; Crystal Roof Garden; Lincoln Park New Albany—Glenwood Park, Louisville and Cray. Chicago—A. Davis, 2W3 W. Van Buren st. (colored people), Jacksonville Elect. Co. Southern Indian Traction Co., props., Dr. Curtis Bay—Flood's Park, J. Flood; Flood's- IND.—Michigan City—J. L. Weber ft Co. [Pensaoola—Kufrlcan's Park, V. J. Vldal. Edw. R. Perry, agent. New Park Theatre, W. I. Fitzgerald. V> inn mar—E. 0. Burroughs. •Ybor City—DeSota Park. Peru—Boyd Park, J. A. Brwln. Frederick—Athletic Park. Xlie Billboard 27 LAST CALL FOR YOUR AD. IN THE Street Fair ISSUE It comes out next week. 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TENNESSEE. Chlckamanga—Northwest Georgia Fair. Oct. Llbertyvllle—Lake Co. Fair. Sept. 6-8. H. J. Lawrenceburg—Lawrenceburg Fair. Dates not Clarksvllle—Montgomery Fair. Dates not set. 3-7. T. W. Lee, pres.; M. C. Bond*, treas.; Cater, pres.; E. W. Parkhurst, treas.; J. B. set. Geo. M. Robtrts, pres.; Victor Obertlng, Jno. F. Shelton, pres.; W. R. Shelton, tre«B.; B. H. Wyatt, sec. Morse, sec. vlce-pres.; H. L. N»wlln, sec.; T. B. Mat- W. E. Beach, sec. Dalton—Fourth Annual Fair. Oct. 16-20. Frank Marlon—Williamson Co. Fair. Sept. 12-15. thews, treas., Petersburg, Ky. T. Reynolds, ntea. Jacob Goodall, pres.; Geo. H. Goodall, treas.; Lebanon—Boon* Co. Stock Fair. Aug. 15-18. UTAH. Geo. C. Campbell, sec. Lon Varntz. pres.; Isaac N. Caster, treas.; Salt Lake City.—Deseret Agrl. and Mfg. Fair. IDAHO. Mt. Carroll—Warren Co. Fair. Sept. 12-18. Jaa. Riley Mauser, sec. Oct. 3-7. J. G. McDonald, pres.; Wm. Boise—Inter-Mountain Fair. Dates not set. Jas. A. Warner, p*es.; J. D. Turnbaugh, trvas.; Mlddletown—Henry, Madlsoi and Dearborn Co. Bateman, sec. A. I'lnney, pres.; E. H. Plowhead, treas.; Cal. U. Freezer, sec. Fair. Ang. 1-4. Dr. C. B. Pendleton, pres.; WISCONSIN. W. F. 1','Urn. sec. Newklrk—Kay Co. Fair. Oct. 1-14. John Bare- T. E. Mowny, treas.; F. A. Wlsehart, sec. Chlppewa Falls—Northern Wisconsin State Fair. Caldwell—Canyo* Co. Fair. Date* not set. more, pres.; D. L. Buekworth, see. Mount Ternon—Mount Veruon Fsdr. Aug 14-19 Aug. 28-Sej>t. 1. A. G. Cox, pres.; W. W. I). D. Campbell, pres.; W. R. Sebree, treas.; Paris—Edgar Co. Fair. Sept. 5-8. Wm. H. I. M. Harlen, see. Fllnn, treas., Chetek; Robert. S, Clark, sec. J. B. Gowen, sec. Moss, pres.; R. G. Sutherland, treas.; S. B. Montpeller—Mootpeller Fair. July 11-14. Levl Kllbourn City—Luter Co. Fair. Oct. 2-5. Nat kewlston—Lewlston-Clark Fair. Oct. 16-21. Geo. MeCord, sec. UufTmaa, pres.; J. P. Hcrton, tifas.; Charles Wetsel, pres.; D. Wlnterraote, treas.; Geo. H. Hester, prea.. Jno. T, Raj, trees.; Cnrls Princeton—Bureau Co. Fair. Sept. B-8. Ja». L. Bnalth, «•'•. It. Campbell, sec. F. Osmers, see. M. Ennls, pres.. Walnut; B. B. Peterson, New Harmony—Posey Co. Fair. Aug. 22-25. treas.; Chas. L. Trimble, sec. Henry Bailey, pres.; Ezra Stephens, treas.; CANADA. ILLINOIS. Robinson—Crawford Co. Fair. Sept. 26-S. Sa- Geo. C. Taylor, se«. London—Western Fair. Sept. 8-16. Capt. W. Aledo—Mercer Co. Fair. Sept. 19-M. If. D. Tllla Shlpman, pres., Hardlnsrllle; H. W. Oakland Cfty—Oakland City Fair. Ang. 21-26. J. Reid. pree.; D. Mackenzie, treas.; J. A. Emersen, sec. Scawenku, treas.. Henry Coulter, sec., Hardlns- J. W. Coekraoi, pre«.; Geo K. Burbank, treas.. Nelles. sec. Avon—Avon Fair. Sept. 12-15. D. R. Bouton, rllle. J. M. Vand«w*r, sec. Toronto—Canadian National Exhibition. Aug. ].:'••-: W. G. Mings, treas.; Julian Churchill, Shawneetown—Gallatln Co. Fair. Ang. 22-29. Portland—Jay Co. Fair. Sept. 4-8. J. G. *!-S«pt. 12. J. O. Orr, sec. sec. Charles Carroll, pres.; Jim. ScKelligott, Crowell, pre«.( Walter M. Hayea, tr«a«.; Jas. Belvldere—Boone Co. Fair. Sept. 5-8. Jno. treas.; Marsh Wlseheart, sec. F. Gives, sec. Hannah, pres.; Wm. G. Gr«»lee, treas.; Shelbytllle—Shelby Co. Fai». Sept. 5-». J. Princeton—Gibson Co. Fal». Sept. 4-9. Wm. M. D. Perkins, sec. C. Westerwell. pres.; O. A. H»li«-rts, «rc. F. Parrett. pres.; Stewart Fisher, treas.; Jno. Blaekwell—Agrl. Fair. Oc*. 16-21. gprlngfleld—Illlnol* State Fatr. Sept. 60 Oct. R. McGlnnls, sec. Bushnell—Bushnell Fair. Ang. 8-11. Qeo. D. T. A. D. Barber, pres., Hamilton; Bdw. A. Roeknort—Rockport Fair. Aug. 22-26. T. C. List of Fairs Hell, pros.; J. g. Nunn*make, treas.; J. F. Hall, treas.; W. Garrard, see. Basye. pres.; Jas. A. Payne, sec. F. Johnson, sec. Wyoming—Wyoming Fair. Aug. 29-9ept. 1. O. Cambridge—Henry Co. Fair. Aug. 31-S5. L. J. Terre Haute—Terr« Haute Trotting Fair. Ang. ARKANSAS. R. MacClyneut. sec. 2»-Sept. 2. W. F. I jam,., pree.; Frank Mc- Wilkinson. pre«.; Henry White, treu.; Th«o. Watieka—Iroqonls Co. Fair. Sept. 4-8. H. H. Keen, treas.; Chas. R. Dufflo, see. Rogors—Arkansas State Fair. Sept. 26-H». J. Boltensteln, sec. [totalling, pret., Oilman; Will A. C«ney, Valparaiso—Porter Oe. Fair. P. W. Clifford, W. Walker, pres.; Ju». B. Talker, trens.; A. Carllnvllle— Macouptn Co. Fair. Ott. 19-1S. S. treas.; Jan. O. fleeter, sac. pres.; H. M. ETSJM, treat.; C. S. Pierre, M. Buckley, sec. T. Carmody, pres., Mllwood; A. M. Boring, INDIANA. sec. CALIFORNIA. treas.: Geo. J. Castle, sec. Warr«o—Warren Trl-Oo. Fair. Ang. 26-26. Dr. Carml—Carml Fair. Sept. 5-9. J. J. Dale, we. Angola—Steuben Argl. Fair. Oct. 10-18. Clyde Golusa—National Trotting Fair. Dates not set. W. D. BonlBrld, pres.v J. L. Priddy, treas.; Charleston—Coles Co. Fair. Aug. 29-Bcpt. 2. A. C. Carlln, pres.; Henry I.in.lv. tneat.; OrTilre L. W. Pulley, sec. W. R. Merrill, pres.; Tennant Harrington. J. Craig, pres.; T. T. Shoemaker, treas.. W. Goodale. sec. treaff.; Jas W. Scogjclna, sec. O. cilKMT. nee. Boonvllle—Big 'Boonvllle Patr. Aug. S8-8ept. 2. INDIAN TERRITORY. Talnre City—Ttilare Fair. Dates not set. H. tiinton—DeWltt Go. Fair. Aqg. 1-4. JBO. Glamer Pelzer, (ires.; A. U B««leh, tr«a«.; J. Ardmote—Agrl. ftAi. Nov. 13-16. WktUey, pres.; W. T. Ingmerson, see. Fuller, pres.; S. T. Newall, trew.; Hugh S. F. Richardson, sec. IOWA. CONNECTICUT. Maglll, sec. CHrlsnejr—Spencer Co. Fair. Aug. 14-19. J. C. Atlantic—On* Co. Fair. Sept. 25-28. F. C. Danbnry—Danbury Fair. Oct. 2-7. Samnel H. Delaran—Tazewell Co. Fair. Aoc. 28 Sept. 1. Halnes, p«es.; J. P. Chrisney, »ec. Schain, pre*.; J. A. McWald, treas.; C. S. Rundle, pres.; Jno. W. BalOD, treas.; G. W. J. W. Crabb, pres.; J. T. Culbertson, tre»s.; Corydon—Harrison Co. Fair. Aug. 2S-fept. 1. Brown, sec. RMdle, sec. J. O. Jones, sec. Dan F. Stout, pres.; Geo. W. Applegate, Jr., Bloomfleld—Kavls O». Fair. Sept. 19-22. Lyrne—Lyme Grange Fair. Dates not set. Wm. Fatrbury—Falrbury Union Fair. Sept. 4-8. J. trvas.; Frank R. Wrijtht, see. Burlington—Ilnrltujltim Fair. Aug. 1-4. Marrln. pres.. Hamburg; H. B. Slsson. treas., W. McDowell, pres.; T. S. O. McDowell. Decatur—Great Northern Ind. Fair. 8ept. 1. 0EOEOIA. berg, pres., Ualon Hill; W. J. Brock, treaa.; Jno. C. Peters, pres.; E. H. McDonald, treas.; W. W. Morrow, pres.. Alton, la.; G. D. Atlanta—Georgia State Fair. Oct. 9-al. Frank Len Small, sec. Dr. Wm. F. Myers, sec. KH>-in. trras.; J. C. Rlmpsoo, we. Weldon, sec. Knoxvllle—Knoi Co. Fair. Sept. 5-8. G. L. KendallTllle—Eastern Indiana Fair. Sept. 25-20. DeWltt—CllBtoo Co. Fair! Sept. 12-15. D. Culhoun—Gordon Co. Pair. Oot, 29. J. T. Mc- Lacy, pres., Gllsoo; Robt. Collins* treas.; 1 C. Brouse, pres.; Jno. Mitchell, trtas.; Armotitriiut, prei.; A. M. Priee, treas.. P. Vty, sec. R. W. Sweeney, sec.. Galesburic. J. S. Conlogue, sec. Butttafua*. !»•<•. Carnival Button*. St. Louis Button Co. Photo Button*. St. Loul• Button Co. Photo BlJrroffc, 8%. Loute Button Co. i Bw«ta St. Louis Button Co. 28 Xtie Billboard

Donnellson—Lee County Fair. Aug. 22-25; Jno. Anderson, pres.; S. C. Bell, treas.; J. S. Pull HalTner, pres.; Geo. Mattern, treas.j Chris man, sec. HalTner, sec. London—Laurel Co. Fair. Aug. 22-25. J. T. Duhmiue—Dubuque Trl State Fair. Aug. 21-27. Williams, pres.; E. M. Shelton, sec. T. J. Mulgrew, pres.; W. B. Baumgartner, Shepardsvllle—Bullltt Co. Fair. Aug. 15-18. S. treas.; J. W. Patterson, sec. W. Bates, pres.; O. W. Pearl, sec. Eldon—Bis Four Dlst. Fair. Sept. 5-8. Uniontown—Uniontown Co. Fair. Aug. 8-12. KlUora—Hardln Co. Fair. Sept. 5-8. R. B. Sam P. Sturgls, pres., Dekoven, Ky.; W. C. "Cracker Jack" i.\nk. pres.; W. M. Murray, treat.; H. Bland, sec. Martin, sec. MAINE. A delicious Pop-Corn Confection, packed in moimi-pro.il packtvtfe* Ihsl keep Klkader—Elkader Fair. Aug. 2225. Jos Lamm, Acton—Shaplelgh and Acton Fair. Dates not it fresh a lonf time. A quick seller for Parks, Circuses, Picnics. Fairs. pres.; A. J. Carpenter, treas.; J. A. Kramer, set. Z. G. Horn, pres., Ilorns Mills, N. H.; sec. Blanch Bray, treas., Itoss Corner; Fred K. Theatres. Traveling Theatrical and Medicine Companies and all places of Fairfax—Prairie Valley Fair. Aug. 29-Sept. Bodwell, sec. amusement. We also manufacture a full line of live-cent PACKAGE CON- 1. E. Heaton, sec. Foxcroft—Plcataquls Fair. Dates not set. W. •Talrfleld—Jefferson Co. Fair. Sept. 12-15. J. P. E. Parsons, pres.; C. C. Dunham, treas.; F FECTIONS and the famous RELIABLE POP-CORN BRICK. Inform us where Mnnatrey. pres.; H. V, Downs, treas.; R. C. W. Leland, sec., East Saugervllle. Sayers, sec. Gorham—Cumberland Co. Fair. Sept. 4-7. Jos. you hold a. confectionery concession, and we will send samples tv nd prices. Fonda—'Big Four Dlst. Fair. Aug. 8-11. Jaa.L. Robinson, pres., So. Wlndham; F. D. Sea- Mercer, pres.; C. F. Llnnan, treas.; R. M. Har- man, treas.; C. H. Lelghton, sec., Cumberland RUECKHEIM BROS. ®. ECKSTEIN. CHICAGO rison, sec. Hills. Greenfield—Adair Co. Fair. Sept. 5-7. E. M. Readueld—Kennebec Co. Fair. Sept. 26-28. Bonney, pres.; H. R. Smith, treas.; J. S. Cavl- Juo. 11. Swift, pres., Oakland; C. H. Stev- ne*8, sec. ens, treas.; L. O. Tebbetts, sec. llumliohlt—Humboldt Co. Agrl. Society. Sept. THE LATEST FAD! THE LATEST FAD1 12-13. L. C. Trauger. pres., Livermore; E. A. MARYLAND. Wilder, treas.; Jno. Cunningham, sec. Tlmonlum—Maryland State Fair. Alex McCor- Indlanalo—Warren Co. Fair. Sept. 12-15. C. C. inick, Pres., Fullertou; Jas. P. Reese, treas.; Reynolds, pres.; Wm. Buxton, Jr., treas.; Lee Jas;* Nussear, sec., Luthervllle. Washington's Birthday Talbott. sec. Frederick—Frederick Co* Fair. Oct. 17-20. Buttons, Hatchets. Badges. Noveltlen. Largeit line of St. Mak-oni—Poweshiek Co. Fair. Aug. 22-24. Geo. C. N. Hargett, pres.; D. V. Stauiler, treas.; Patrick's Day Shamrock's. Bows. Emblem Pi IB. Ornaments. W. Royce, pres.; W. J. Johnson, treas.; Jas. J. Roger McSherry, sec. Plpei and Pendants. Valentine and Easter Goods. Car-.lval. Nowak. sec. Rockvllle—Montgomery Co. Fair. Dates not set. Street Fair, Summer Resort Goods. Ah tbe latest and up- Mitlvern—Mills Co. Fair. Sept. 5-7. W. R. Lee Offut, pres.; Jno. J. Hlgglns, treaa.; Jas. to-date fact*. SEND FOB OATALO6UB. .lohnsun. pres.; O. A. Straban, treas.; I. J. T. Bogley, sec. License to Butt-In Badge. License to Butt-In Fob. Swalu, sec. MASSACHUSETTS. (3 50 per gross. M.Oti per gross. Manchester—Deleware Co. Fair. Sept. B-8. Ben Sheldon, pres.; Lafe Matthews, treas.; Jno. Clinton—Clinton Fair. Sept. 13-15. Col. Jno. Pentouy, sec. E. Thayer, pres.; L. Field, treas.; Warren W. F. Miller, Manufacturer and Importer, Mauson—Calhoun Co. Fair. Sept. 5-8. T. Grif- Goodale, sec. fin, pres.; B. E. Sebern, treas.; C. G. Kas- Cunningham—Hillside Fair. Sept. 20-27. Ward 134-136-138 Park Row. New York. key, sec. A. llarlow, pres.; D. E. Lyuiau, treas.; C. F. Masseim—Massena Fair. Sept. 18-21. Burr, sec., Uingvllle. Maquoketa—Jackson Co.' Fair. Sept. 5-8. JosMarshneld—Marshnel. d Fair. Aug. 23 25. Col. Dostal. pres.; Fred Fischer, treas.; B. D. H. A. Oakuiau, pres., North Marshneld; M. Ely, sec. Herman Keut, treas.; Israel Hatch, sec., North The Pierce Amvisement Co. Mwitlcello—Great Jones Co. Fair. Aug. 28-Sept. Marshneld. 1. E E. Hicks, sec. MICHIGAN. WINTER QUARTERS, STATESVILLE, N. C. Mount Ayr—Ulnggold Co. Fair. Sept. 5-8. R. Allegan—Allegan Co. Fair. Sept. 26-29. A. H. A. U. PIERCE. Director Gen. M. Bowley, pres.; F. E. Sheldon, treas.; Thos. Foster, pres.; Roy Wllcox, treas.; W. H. War- Campbell, sec. ner, sec. j. M. oviBSTRizrand j. H. SOOTT. Gen. Agenu. The Cleanest Amusement Enterprise on Earth. Mt. Pleasant—Agrl., Fair. Aug. 15-18. Bad Axe—Huron Co. Fair. Sept. 18-22. M. Nashua—'Big Four Fair. Sept. 5-8. G. H. Dibb, pres.; Chas. E. Thompson, treas.; Flnley Illnkley, pres.; W. F. Getch, treas.; J. A. D. McGregor, sec. Yarger. »ec. Croswell—Croswell Fair. Sept. 27-29. A. A. WANTED..., ....WANTED National—Clayton Co. Fair. Sept. 5-8. Jos. Sutherland, pres.; J. B. Nlfferman, treas.; A. First class Moral Shows on percentage or by privilege. All kinds of priy- Matt. pres.. St. Olaf; H. C. Howe, treas., R. Martin, sec. Monona; Henry Luehsen, sec.,' Garnavlllo. Detroit—Michigan State Fair. Sept. 11-10. ileges except gambling, for sale. Troy Fair, Sept. 12-15, Troy, Pa. Newton—Jasper Co. Fair. Sept. 12-15. Andrew- Eugene Kineld, pres., Bay City; C. W. Young, D. F. POMEROV. Secretary. Stewart, pres.; S. G. Russell, treas.; C. W. treas., Paw Paw; I. H. Butlerneld, sec. Campbell, sec. East Jordan—Charlerolx Co. Fair. Sept. 27 29. Northwood—Worth Co. Fair. Sept. 11-13. Neta Jacob Grotf, pres.; Chas Hipp, treas.; Roy ?7"T!*5BWs»t Factory pf Its kind itTAh** Thorson, pres.; Chas. Beckett, treas.; E. H. b.ieimun, sec. tYated Leaflets in- Colors showing Nov Miller, sec. Ionia—lonla Dist. Fair. Aug. 29-Sept. 1. Geo. IMOVELTIES Mar Ogdeu—Boone Co. Fair. Sept. 6-8. Wm. Hlland, L. Keiner, pres.; E. A. MurpUy, treas.; W. ST. LOUIS CONFETTI CO.. 12 Commercial St., St. Louie., Mo. pres.; Julius Kunst, treas.; C. B. Clark, sec. Walter Smith, sec. Orange City—Sioux Co. Fair. Sept. 20-22. A. Ironwood—Geogable Co. Fair. Dates not set. Vander Meide, pres.. G. L. Van de Steeg, C. E. Honk, sec. UOHFETTi, PAPER HATS, CANtS, WIFE BbATERS, SLAPPtRS. i treas.; H. Slikkerveer. sec. Iteed City—Tri-Co. Fair. Sept. 12-14. A. C. w Covero s Ottumwa—Ottumwa Dlst. Fair. Aug. 22-25. Goebrt'iid, pres.; L. K. Purkhurst, treas.; T. Flags of »J1 kinds. Send for prior-list. Ued Oak—Montgomery Co. talr. Aug. 21-25. H. Welsh, sec. X THE NATIONAL FlAC CO.. 1012 Flint Street. CINCINNATI, OHIO. Shenandoah—Sbenandoah Fair. Aug. 14-18. MINNESOTA. Sioux City—Inter-State Live Stock Fair. F. L. Austin—Mower Co. Fair. Sept. 12-14. J. J. Nelson — Nuckolls Co. Fair. Sept. 20-29. Eaton, pres.; A. T. Bennett, treas.; F. L. Furlong, pres.; Geo. Robertson, treaa.; J. E. Stanton — Stanton Co. Fair. Sept. 5-8. A. THE NORTH WEST 6A, FARMER'S Wlrick, sec. Davlsou, sec. Speuce, pres.; Jno. Scblndler, treas.; W. H. Sutherland—O'Brien Co. Fair. Aug. 28 Sept. Ilird Island—Uenville Co. Fair. Dates not set. Ilyland. sr-c. I. J. C. Brlggs, pres.; R. C. Jordan, sec.; Frank Selleu, pres.; J. M. Malulln, treas.; York— York Co. Fair. Aug. 3-12. M. B. Atkins, FAIR ASSOCIATION OF J -B. Murphy, treas. Frank E. Ettlckson, sec. pres.; C. N. Bearer, treas.; T. E. Bennett. Tlpton—Tlpton Fair. Aug. 29-Sept. 1. W. B. Jacksi.n—Jackson Co. Fair. Dates not set. T. sec. GHICKAMAU6A, GA. Ilia It, pres.; J. W. Wright, treas.; L. J. H. Magulre, pres.; Samuel Larson, treas.; NEW HAMPSHIRE. Kowell. sec. D. T. Wheaton, sec. Will bold tbelr Hecond Annual Pair net. s«. Victor—Victor Dist. Fair. Aug. 15-17. S. Mus- Madison— Las qul Parle Co. Fair. Sept. 20-22. Claremont — Sullivan Co. Fair. Oct 3-5. Jno. M. setter, pres.; Jno. Steffy, treas.; J. P. Bow- Howe, pres.; Edw. J. Uosslter, treas.; Jno, This fair wai a great tucceii last year. Hont Jas. J. Little, sec. D. Ayer, Bee. Itaclns, Balloon AMenMou and Farmer*' Si lint!, sec. Marshall—Lvoli Co. Fair. Oct. 4-6. Nashua— Nashua Fair. Sept. 4-7. J. J. Doyle, Wapello—Wapello Fair. Aug. 9-12. Kedwood Falls—Redwood Co. Fair. Sept. 27-29. pres.; M. C. Mullen, sec.; J. Tollls, treas. ulbltt will be tbe principal teitnrei this ira West Liberty—West Liberty Fair. Aug. 22-25. St. Paul—Minn. State Fair. Sept. 4-9. What Cheer—What Cheer Dlst. Fair. Sept. Il- St. Peter—Nlcollet Co. Agrl. Fair. Sept. 14-10. HEW JERSEY. For cooceaaioni writ* B. H. WYATT, «*e. ls. Jas. Stephensou. pres.. Rose Hill; Jno. C. W. Carpenter, pres.; H. J. Essler, treas.; Trenton — Inter-state Fair. Sept. 25-29. M. B. R. Howard, treas.; Geo. A. PofT, sec. E. S. Miller, sec. Margerum, sec. TELL US Williauisburg—Wllliamsburg Fair. Sept. 12-14. NEW MEXICO. E. O Harrington, pres.; Jas. Brannon, treas.; MISSOURI. What you have In the way of ('has. Fletcher, sec. Howling Green—Pike Co. Fair. Aug. 15-18. Albuquerque — New Mexico Territorial Fair. '.Vlnneld—Eastern Iowa Dlst. Fair. Aug. 22-25. Jas. E. McPlke, pres.; Ed. Briggs, treas.; Sept. 18-23. W. H. Greer, pres.; J. E. Hern- HIGH CLASS AMUSEMENTS, Jno. Gladd, pres.; Will D. Garmoe, sec. H. M. Strotuer, sec. don, treas.; D. K. B. Sellers, sec. Cape Giranleau—Cape Glrardeau Co. Fair. Oct. NEW YORK. J. C. SIMPSON, Sec'y Iowa State Fair, DES HO NES. KANSAS. IH M. L). A. Glenn, pres.; H. A. Astoltz, Ballstun Spa — Saratoga Co. Fair. Eugene Wls- Anthony—County Fair. Aug. 7-12. treas., E. H. Eugleuian, sec. wall, pres.; W. L. Cavert, treas.; N. V. Wit- Chanute—ChaHute Fair. Aug. 29-Sept. 1. A. Cartilage—Keuuell Fair. Sept. 5-8. Miss Emma heck, sec. Margaretville—Catsklll Mountain Fair. Aug. E. Tlmpune, sec. Knell, sec. Batavla—Geness e Co. Fair. Sept. 1322. Jno. 22-25. H. M. Coulter, pres.; Wm. Mungle, Clay Center—Clay Co. Fair. Sept. 5-8. D. H. Carutuersvllle—Peniiscott Co. Fair. Oct. 24-28. Lons, pres.; II. H. Bostwlck, treas.; Albert treas.; Thos. Winter, sec. Myers, pres.; E. E. Vincent, treas.; E. E. Dexter—Stoddard Co. Fair. Aug. 8-11. K. -Brown, sec. Mlneoln—Nassau Co. Fair. Sept. 26-30. Geo. Hoopes, sec. llarrisouvllle—Cass Co. Fair. Aug. tt-11. H. V. Boonrllle — Boonvllle Fair. Sept. 5-8. Henry Mc- W. Smith, pres.. Hempstead; Thos. G. Bacon, Eldorado—Butler Co. Fair. Oct. 2-7. Hurst, pres.; J. R. Vandeventer, treas.; Duu- Clusky. pres.. E. B. Palmer, treas.; H. J. treas., Oyster Bay. Lott Van de Water, Jr., Eureka—Eureka Fair. Aug. 15-1S. J. W. Rob- cun Uussell, sec. Vollmar. sec. sec., Hi-mpstead. blus, pres.; Wm. Johnston, treas.. C. H. Holdeu—Johnson Co. Fair. Aug. 15-18. Wm. Brockport — Monroe Co. Fair. Sept. 27-30. Chas. Newark Valley—Northern Tloga Fair. Aug. Welser, sec. bieele, pres.; C. E. Starkey, treas.; E. K. J. White, pres.; Warren B. Conkllng, treas. ; 29-31. Chas. H. Barnes, pres.; E. F. Beldon, Fredonla—Fredonla Fair. Aug. 22-25. T. J. Steele, sec, Fred H. Shafer, sec. treas.; G. E. Purple, sec. Cooper, sec. Keuuett—Duuklu Co. Fair. Oct. 18-21. Cambridge — Cambridge Valley Fair. Sept. 6-9.Onelda—Onelda Fair. Sept. 20-23. A. L. Nix- Great Bend—Barton Co. Fair. Aug. 28-Sept. 3. Nevada—Park Driving club. June 27-30. S. Jerome B. lUce, pres.; Henry A. Qua, treas.; drlf, pres.; G. L. SchuUe, treas.; C. C. Tower, Ira D. Brougher, pres.; Louis Zutavem, treas.; A. Wight, pres.; H. M. Duck, treas.; W. E. E. B. Norton, sec. sec. W. I'. Feder, sec. Clark, sec. Cuba— Cuba Fair. Sept. 12-15. E. G. Wasson, Orangeburg—Rockland Co. Fair. Sept. 5-8. T. llMtchinson—Central Kansas Fair. Sept. 18-24. Milan—Merchants' Fair. Dates not set. C. A. pres.; H. C. Morgan, treas.; Geo. H. Swift, W. Springsteen, pres., Talman; D. T. Inglls, lola—Allen Co. Fair. Aug. 14-19. Schoeue, pres.; J. H. B. Smith, treas.; R. B. sec. treas., Spring Valley; Elbert Tnlnian, sec., McPherson—Agrl. Fair. Sept. 11-10. Asu, stc. Downsvllle — Downsvllle Fair. Aug. 22-25. M. Spring Valley. Marysville—Marshall Co. Fair. Sept. 12-15. F. Oran—Scott Co. Fair. Dates not set. W. B. Melnhelf. sec. Owego—Tloga Co. Fair. Sept. 12-15. Lewis S. U. Powell, pres.; S. C. Schmidt, treas.; E. L. Stubbleneld, pres.; Elwood Allen, sec.; P. Pj Dryden — Drydcn Fair. Sept. 10-22. Geo. Cole, Leonard, pres.; A. W. Parmelee, treas.; L. W. Miller, sec. Muisuaii, treas. pres.; D. T. Wheeler, treas.; J. B. Wilson, Kingman, sec. Newton—Harvey Co. Fair. Sept. 26-29. D. W. Paris—Monroe Co. Fair. Sept. 5-8. E. M. sec. Penn Yan—Yates Co. Agrl. Fair. Sept. 12-15. Wllcox, pres.; C. F. Classen, trees.; J. T. Alexander, pres.; J. li. Phillip, sec. Fonda — Montgomery Co. Fair. Aug. 28-31. C. J. Huson, pres.; Geo. H. Remer, treas.; Altell. sec. llicn Hill—Rich Hill Fair. July 11-14. Jno. Wm. B. Charles, pres.; Edw. L. Edwards. Jno. E. Watklns, sec. Newton—Harvey Co. Fair. Sept. 26-30. Klunipp, pres.; Henry Ciirlbtuian, treas.; W. treas.; J. B. -Martin, nee. Sandy Creek—Sandy Creek Fair. Aug. 22-25. Norton—Norton Fair. Aug. 29-Sept. 1. Geo. F. Tygard, Jr., sec. ouverneur — Gonverneur Fair. Aug. 29-Sept. 1. Ward W. Stevens, prop.; Geo. T. Smith, Mouliiin, pres.; Win. F. Garrlty, sec. Sedalla— .Missouri State Fair. Aug. 21-2U. J. S. F. Hiirtlcy, pres.; F. T. Whitney, treas.; treas.; H. Louis Wallace, sec. Oskaloosa—Jefferson Co. Fair. Sept. 5-8. A. P. A. Potts, pres.; J. E. Uippy, sec. Edw W. Dullle, sec. Sandy Hill—Fair. Beb. 8-11. Hicudon, pres., McLouth; W. F. Luch, treas.; Shelblua—Shelblna Fair. Aug. 2)-Sept. 1. E. Greene— Riverside Fair. Sept. 12 15. L. E. St. Schenevus Valley—Fair. Aug. 16-18. H. Ber- Geo A. Patterson, sec. \V. Woriand, pres.; N. 11. Parsons, sec. John, pres. ; E. S. Walker, treas. ; C. Winston, nard, pres.; E. J. Goddard, treas.; W. A. ottuMa—Ottawa Fair. Sept. 5-9. M. Potter, Surlugneld—Springueld Dlst. Fair. Sept. 11-lli. sec. Pier, sec. sec. Ivan Ling, pres.; Herman J. Meyer, treas.; HimilMirg — Erie Co. Fair. Dates not set. Jno. Vernon—Vernon Fair. Sept. 26-28. F. A. Seni-rii—Xemalia Fair. Aug. 30-Sept. 1. V. B. W. T. /.igbee, sec. A. Kloepper, pros.; W. II. Abbott, treas . ; Cody, pres.; D. W. Hart, treas.; C. G. Sim- Fisher, pres.; C. C. Scovllle, treas.; W. Warrecsburg—Warreusburg Fair. Aug. 2S-Sept. J. C. Newton, sec. mons, sec. II. Fltzwater, sec. . Jnu. biirailkill, prrb.; Frank Mai es, treas.; Hemlock— Hemlock Union Fair. Oct 4-6. B. H. Warsaw—Wyoming Co. Fair. Dates not set. Sterling—Rice Co. Fair. Sept. 4-9. Sy. Sanders, sec. Westbrook, pres.; W. B. Thurston, treas.; W. H. Roeper. sec.; Irving G. Botsford, St. Julin—Stafford Co. Fair. Aug. 23-25. H. R. MONTANA. Frank A. Thureton, sec. treas.; Wm. K. Webster, sec. r,ns>. pres.; O. B. Sbepard, treas.; Geo. E. Ilerklmer — Herkinier Co. Fair. Aug. 28-31. Watertown—Jefferson Co. Fair. Sept. 5-8. H. Moore, sec. Bom-man—Inter-State Fair. Aug. 29-Sept. 1. F. Henry Edlck, jr.. pres; . B. Manlon, treas.; K. Cole, pres., Evan's Mills; E. C. Marson, Smith Centre—Smith Co. Fair. Aug. 22-25. L. Benepe, pres.; H. L. Casey, treas., J. M. I. P. KasbHch, sec. treas.. Adams Center; W. R. Skeels, see. F. U. Burrow, pres.; Hy Williams, treas; S. Smith, sec. Hornellsvllle— Hornellsvllle Fair. Aug. 23-Sept Whlta Plains—Westchester Co. Fair. Sept. 25- C. Rice, sec. NEBRASKA. 1. L. D. Whiting, pres.; Charles Adstt. treas.; 30. Moses W. Gay lor, pres.; Jos. B. Lee, Tupeka—Kansas State Fair. Sept. 12-15. Albion—Booue Co. Fair. Dates not set. Jno. Clyde E. Sbnltz, sec. treas.; Edw. B. Long, sec. Winflrhl—Cowley Co. Fair. Sept. 2U-29. W. O'Nell. pres.; Jake Greene, treas.; U. L. Itbnca — Tomkins Co. Fair. Sept. 4-7. Fred E. NORTH CAROLINA. J. Wilson, sec. Krooks, sec. Bates, prea.. W. B. Georgia, treas.; A. G. KENTUCKY. Auburn—Neuiuha Co. Fair. Aug. 29-Sept. 1. Geming, sec. Burlington—Alamance Fair. Oct. 23-25. J. A. D. E. Long, pres.; W. U. Bansueld, treas.; Johnstown — Fulton Co. Fair. Sept. 4-7. J. L. Long, pres., Graham; R. A. Freeman, treas.; Fern Creek—Jefferson Co. Fair. Aug. 15-18. C. C. Snow, sec. Getman, pres., Gloversvllle; C. P. Wlllard, J. A. Turrentlne, sec. Brynn Williams, pres.. R. F. D. No. 11, Lincoln—Nebraska State Fair. Sept. 1-8. W. treas.; Elmer J. Dorn. sec. Charlotte—Mecklinburg- Fair. Oct. 24-27. Dr. Buechel. Ky.; Dr. H. P. Stivers, sec., R. F. R. Mr Hi ii. pres., Lump City, Neb.; Ed. Mela- Ittle Valley —Chattauragu s Co. Fair. Sept. H. J. 'Brevard, pres.; W. J. Chambers, treas.; I). No. 11, -Buecbel. Ky. tyre, treas., Seward, Neb.; Robt. W. Furaas, 5-8. C. R. Roades, pres.; E. L. Campbell, W. S. Orr, sec. Georgetown—Elks' Fair. Dates not set. R. H. sec., Brownsville, Neb. treas.; J. H. Wilson, sec. Greensboro—Central Carolina Fair. Oct. 10-13. Buttons, All Kinds, St. Louis Button Co, Eagle Buttons. St. Louis Button Co. St. Fair Buttons. St. Louis Button Co. Pair Buttons. Biitinn Co The Billboard 31

June 26-July 1. Chas. Gatehell. M. D., 100 State st. M.y 9 CIRCUS PERFORMERS AND MUSICIANS Chicago Advertising Novelty Mfrs.' Assn. Sallna—Kansas Bakers' Aasn. Con. April— For MansHeld's Big Pavilion Shows. Performers that do two or three turns in big show Con. March 7-9. Ben B. Strone, Cosbocten W. W. Bowman, Concordla, Kan. Preference given those Doubling Brass; an attraction fot Free Exhibition. Leader for Band Ohio. Topeka—United Brethern Genl. Conf. May —. and Musicians who have had Circus experience. Concert people who can do Turn In big show Chicago—Natl. Metal Trades Assn. Con. MchTopeka—Protestan. t Episcopal Church Diocesan or Double in Brass. Man u> put on Side Show. Other good Circus people write. H. O. Cun- 23-24. Robert Wuest, 1416 Union Trust Blilg., Con. May —. Rev. C. B. Crawford. ningham send me your address. Show opens at Tidloute. Pa,., May 6th. Will buy Somersault. Cincinnati. Ohio. Topeka—State Dental Asm. Con. May —. F. Chicago—Wholesale Saddlery Assn. of the U. O. Hetrlck, Ottawa, Kan. Do«. Address. w j MANSFIELD, S. Con. June 12-17. Henry Othmer. Wichita—Inter-State Threshermen'i Con. March SIMCO, ONT., CANADA. Chicago—Western Gas Assn. Con. May 17-19. 15-18. James W. Bunbar, New Albany, Ind. Chicago—Natl. Assn of Co-operative Mutual KENTUCKY. -WANTED TO BUY- Insurance Go's Con. March 7, 10. W. B. Beattyvllle—Jr. O. U. A. M. State Council Con. Lincoln Lee, treas., 1220 P st., Lincoln, Neb. Sept. 12. M. C. Bane, state sec.. Vancebnrg, Chicago—Womans' Prohibition Club of Amer- Ky. A Complete Tent Show Outfit ica Gen. Council Con. June —. Rev. Emma Earllngton.—C. O. G. C. Gr. Commandery Con. Pow Bander, Oakland, Cal. April 13. W. B. Moore, 2327 W. Chestnut at.. Suitable for Vaudeville under canvas. State what you have and rock-bottom price for Chicago—Labor Con. June 27. Eugene V. Debs. Louisville. Ky. cash. Also want to hear from Vaudeville people in all lines. Address, Chicago—Board and Track Supply Assn. Con. Frankfort—I. O. R. M. Grt. Council Con. Mch. —. J. N. Reynolds, 1660 Monadnock May 9. Henry W. Ray, Grt. Chief of Re- GEO. S. CHA.LLIS, Rochester, Pa. Block. cords, Maysvllle, Ky. Manager Grand Opera House. Chicago—Amalgamated St. Railway Employes Lexington—Optical Assn. Con. Apr. 18. C. H. Mch. —. Jno. B. Foley, 362 So. Satlna st., Bowen, Winchester, Ky. Syracuse. N. Y. Louisville—Knights of Honor Gr. Lodge Con. ' Doctors, Medicine People and Showmen Chicago—Natl. Assn. Stove Mfrs. of U. S. April 11. A. J. Hess. Why handle rocky goods when you can handle goods that will sell them- May 9-12. T. J. Hogan, 1400 Auditorium Louisville—United Confederate Veterans' Natl. selves? Electric Belt* from £1.00per doz. uo. Large variety to select from. Tower, Reunion. Juno 14-16. Wm. E. Mlckle, maj. Electric Jars, 75c doz; Electric Insole*. 87Hi- doz. pairs: Soap. * MO gross; Chicago—American Railway Engineers and genl.. New Orleans, La. Fine Medical Batteries. Send "5c for Sample No. 14 E. B.. exp. prepaid. Maintenance of Way Assn. Con. Mch. 21. I. Louisville—Dlvlnlon of Ky. Sons of Veterans V. Latest out. One third cash reaulred. Trial order will convince. Largest C. Frltch. 1502 Monadnock Block. S. A. State Encampment. May 22. Chan. K. Manufacturers of Electric Bolt* and Appliances in U. S. A. Establlihed Decatur—Royal Arcanum Gr. Council Con. Apr. Stebblns. 824 llth St., Newport, Ky. 187H. Lecture and price list free. II). John Rlley, gr. sec., 76 Monroe St., Chi- Louisville— Royal Arcanum Gr. Council Con. The Electric Appliance Co., Burlington. Kan. cago, 111. Mch. 21. Alex. M. Woodruff, gr. aec., 208 Mattoon—State Letter Carriers' Assn. Con. Fifth st. May 11. M. T. Finnan. Bloomlngton. 111. Lonlsvllle—Gr. Army Dept. of Ky. State En- PUMPS, CLOGS and Peorla—Electric Medical Society Con. May 17- campment. May 23-24. T. F. Reyland, 217 18. W. E. Klnnett, M. D., Yorkvllle, 111. KnIrticld ave., Bellevne, Ky. Rock Island—State Medical Society Con. May COMEDY a Specialty 16-18. E. W. Wels. Ottawa, 111. LOUISIANA. SEND FOR LATEST CATALOGUE. Sparta—Reformed Presbyterian Church Synod Alexandria—State Public School Teachers' Assn. Con. May 25. Rev. J. W. Sproull, 22A North Con. April 6-8. Nicholas Baner, 610 Camp J. R. GRIFFIN. ave., Allegheny, Pa. st.. New Orleans. 164 Post Street, Rochester, N. Y Springfield—State Undertakers' Assn. Con. Jnnt Baton Ronge—I. O. O. F. Gr. Lodge. March 13-16. H. M. Kllpatrlck, Elmwood, 111. —. Louis Kretz. SHOES INDIANA. Crowley—I. O. O. V Gr. Encampment. Mch. Anderson—U. A. O. D. Gr. Grove Con. Jane —. Paul C. Marks. —. Stephen I. Wright, 15-22 Lee St., Indian- New Iberia—Gr. Lodge Knights of Honor of ELECTRIC LIGHT LUNG TESTER apolis, Ind. Louisiana Con. Men. 13. Henry Walters,Souvenir Postal Card, Picture Machines and 100 other varieties. Write for Evansvllle—State Master Plumbers' Assn. Con. gr. reporter. No. 814 St. Charles st.. New Mch. —. Mrs. H. Y. Newman. Orleans, La. llst Evansvllle—State Master Horseshoers* Assn. Mew Orleans—Knights of Temperance Gr. En- - SLOAN NOVELTY MFG. CO., Con. April 12-13. Wm. Elmendorf. camp. April 24. John R. Todd. 932 N. Ninth Street, PHILADELPHIA. PA. Indianapolis—Order Eastern Star Gr. Chapter New Orleans—Protestant Episcopal Church Dio- Con. April 26. Mrs. Nettle Ransford 5 The cesan Council Con. May 8. Rev. H. O. Windsor. Duncan, 221 Wlnn St., Alexandria, La. New Hot Seller— AvMomtMtc flopping Squawking Birds Indianapolis—Natl. Turn. Teachers' Con. June New Orleans—International Rail Road Ticket 'our mailed for i dime to try. Sell at nickel each. Catalogue of Agents'Specialties and —. Dr. Arthur Knoch, Cincinnati, O. Agents' Assn. Con. April 10-12. C. G. Cad- Staire Goods Free. Address CHAS. E. MARSHALL, til Beekman St.. New York City. Indianapolis—Switchmen's Natl. Con. Com- wallader, 430 So. 45th St.. Philadelphia, Pa. mencing May IS. M. B. Welch, C30 Elllcott New Orleans—Knight's Daughters & Son's State FOR M I. OR TRADE. sq., Buffalo, N. Y. Con. April —. Mrs. T. 8. Neber, 2020 60 ft. Kouid Top 9 ft. S!de Walls. MU; »mo Stereop. Indianapolis—I. O. O. F. Tx>dge Con. May 17- Blenvllle ave. tlcon (III. WANT 4 x«) tent. Old Plantation banner. WANTED... 18. W. H. Leedy, gr. sec., I. O. O. F. Bldg. Shreveport—State Sunday School Con. MchF.. J WHITE Box 4S, Rock Hill, S. C. Agents for small show; also canvasmen and Indianapolis—Rebekah State Assembly. May 21-23. Dr. J. P. Scott. vaudeville people. No Boozers. No tickets. 1R-16. I,niiis Langpahr. Lebanon. Ind. MAINE. WANTED AT ONCE. You make good or close at once. Show opens Indianapolis—State Laundrymen's Assn. Con. A SHALL TROUPE OF TRAINED DOGS, a Bath—Y. M. C. A. State Con. May 5-7. April 1st. Address M. LeROY, Genl. Delivery, April 2-3. F. E. Henderson, Muncle, Ind. pair of trained Monkeys, a 60-ft. round top Evansvllle, Ind. Madison—Women's Relief Corps and Ladles' of Bath—State Letter Carriers' Assn. Con. April with a 40-ft. middle piece. Must be In first- G. A. R. Cen. June 13-15. 20. George E. Donnelly. Portland, Me. Portland—I. O. O. F. Gr. Lodge Con. April 19. class order. State breed of dogs and what FOR SALE—Ellison Universal Picture Machine, Madison—G. A. R. State Encampment. June tricks they do. Must be cheap for cash. Ad- 4 lenses, long and short distance. 1,000 feet 13-15. E. E. Powell. Geo. B Brackett. Belfast. Me. Portland— Prot. Episcopal Church Diocesan Con. dress GEO. MITCHEL, Columbia, S. C. N. B.— of films. Rheostat Electric Burner, Calcium Mlshawaka—Indiana Catholic Order of Forest- Top must be of 8-ouuce duck, with a 10-ft wall. Burner, with hose wrench and gauge; one dozen ers' Con. June 13. Andrew J. Schlck. 309 N. May 17. Rev. Edward D. Johnson. Bruns- wick. Me. pose slides; two set of late song slides. The 4th St., LaFaj-ette, Ind. Agents and Dealers Wanted everywhere; ex- first man with $80.00 takes the hunch. All as Rising Sun—Reunion Masonic Assn. June —. Portland—I. O. O. F. Gr. Lodge Annnal Con. April 12-13. Geo. E. Brackett. Belfast, Me. clusive territory given for new make, life size good as new. J. R. GALLAGHER, 501 W. Robert C. Nelson. "BROWNIE" chewing gum, love letter writing, Main. Lexington. Ky. West Baden—T. P. A. Con. April 14-18. Portland—Knights of Templars Sup. Com. Con. Oct. 18. Chas. A. Maxwell. 8 Cedar at. and fortune telling machine, also six other new- West Baden—American Nurserymen's Assn. Con. style vending machines now ready to place on June 14-16. George C. Seager, Rochester, Portland—I. O. Good Templars' Annnal Session. FOR. SALE. April —. Geo. E. Brackett, gr. sec., Bel- the market. Send stamp for particulars to Seven-foot Balloon and Parachute, good condi- N. Y. fast. Me. THOS. II. SHERBORNE. Mfr.. tion. Must sell. $S5.00. C. A. BELMONT, 686 Wlnona Lake—Presbyterian Church Gen. Assem- 29 So. 3d St. Philadelphia. Pa. bly. May 18. Rev. W. H. Roberts, 1819 Watervllle—N. E. O. P. Gr. Lodge Con. April Swan, Terre Haute. Ind. 5. W. L. Qnlmby, Bangor, Me. Walnut at.. Philadelphia, Pa. WANTED—Strictly first-class side shows and MUSICIANS WANTED. INDIAN TERRITORY. MARYLAND. outside attractions. West Michigan State Fair For 26th U. S. Infantry Band. Sober and re- Cblckasba—Knights Templar Gr. Commandery Annapolis—Y. M. C. A. State Con. Mch. 24-26. Assn., S. J. WEBER, Sec., 89 Pearl St., Grand liable men. 5 Bb Clarionets, one solo Bb Cornet, Con. April 20. Joseph S. Marrow, I. T. G. F. Tibhltts. Bond Bldg. Rapids, Mich. one BBb Bass, one Eb Bass, one alto Saxophone, Chlckasna—I. O. O. F. Gr. Lodge Con. April Baltimore—Shield of Honor Gr. Lodge Con. one Tenor Saxophone, one Oboe, one Piccolo, 11. G. H. Alexander, Muskegon, I. T. April I8-1B. Wm. Hunnlngham Mfrs. Record WANTED LADY AERONAUT. Send Photo and one solo Alto, one solo Trombone. Those who Chlckasha—Rebekah State Assembly. April 11. Bldg. tate wages expected. THE Bt'RBANK BAL- double in string preferred. Inducements to good Mrs. Alice Schmidt. So. McAIester, I. T. Baltimore—I. O. O. F. Gr. Lodge. April 17. LOON CO., 51 Arlington St., Nashua. N. H. men. Plenty of outside engagements. A nice John M. Jones. climate, located in city San Antonio. Texas, IOWA. FOR SALE—One Mills (Owl). $10; 1 Mills which has 85.000 Inhabitants. Address CESARE Arbor Hill—Old Settlers' and Soldiers' Reunion. Baltimore—A. O. U. W. Inter-State Con. April Judge, $10, 1 Mills Egypt, $2.50; 1 Berger TARSIELLA, Hand Master 20th Infantry Band, Sept. (2nd. wk.) C. C. Stewart, sec. Baltimore—Sona of Temperance Gr. Dlv. Con. Mills Dewey, $20. 1 Collie Sampson Lifter, Fort Sam, Houston, Tex. Cedar Rapids—United Commercial Travelers' April 27. $12.50. To be sold at once to settle estate. Gr. Council Con. June 9-10. Chas. R. Olm- Baltimore—Christian Endeavor Workers' Natl. Send one-quarter cash to cover express charges. FOR SALE—1 ..nils Deweys. 3 Chicago's al- stead, Sioux City, la. Conf. July r,.io. W. M. Robinson, 321 W. H. B. FORREST, 129 Washington St., Glouces- most new, f. o. b. Old Orchard. St. Louis, Cedar Rapids—Knights of Honor Gr. Lodge Carroll ton ave. ter, Mass. Mo.. $50.00 apiece. Address O. SCHALLER. Con. April 1-11. J. G. Graves, gr. reporter. Baltimore—Y. P. S. C. E. International Con. Cedar Rapids—Twenty-ninth Con. Ancient Order July 5-10. Van Ogden, Tremont Temple, OPEN AFTER MAY 15th—Mt. Orab Opera WANTED FOR MED. SHOW—Good Sketch Workmen. May 9. B. F. Behkopf, gr. rec., Boston. Mass. Mouse: stage 17x.'i(l, good scenery, new piano, Team that put on nets and have good specialties. Des Molnes. Baltimore—Rovnl Arcanum Gr. Council Con. and everything In first-class order. Straight Good all-around Comedians. State all you do, Cedar Rapids.—Gr. Lodge of The Degre* of Mch. 24. Wilbur F. Smith, gr. sec., 18 W. rent or percentage. J. W. KIBLER, Mgr., Mt. and very lowest In first letter. Show opens Honor Con. May 9. Mrs. lona M. Shryock, Saratoga st. Oral), Ohio. Mav 1st under Tent. A. J. ROGERS, Bogard. gr. rec., 1408 So. Main st., Hurl Ing ton, U. Baltimore—Gr. Lodge of Maryland I. O. M. Mo. Council Bluffs.—State Retail Grocers' Assn. Con. Con. Mch. 22. Elmer Bernard, gr. sec.. NOVKI.TY May 9-11. R30 West Baltimore nt. Of nil kinds will lose nothing In pending cata- FOR SALE—Mills Swinging Punching Bags, In Council Bluffs—State Federation of Labor. Be- Baltimore—Protestant Episcopal Church Dio- logues and prices to YANKEE MBERE, 1107 good shape, at $30 each. B. M., 1622 N. New ginning May 9. J. H. Strlef, Sioux City. la. ••e«nn Con. May 24. A. Sapplncton. Md.. Water St.. Lecompte. La. Des Molnes—Iowa Improved Stock Breeders' Telephone Bldg. Jersey. Indianapolis. Assn. Con. Aug. 25-Sept. 1. W. J. Ruther- Baltimore—Order -B'rlth Abraham Con. May WANTED—To Buy. Hire or take an Interest ford. Ames, la. —. Leonard Lelsersohn. 30 First St.. New- In a good platform attraction, or show. All FOR SALE—Organ Pipes, wood, 3 octaves, good Des Molnes—Modern Woodmen of America State York City. ivrite. T1PTON. Erie. Pa. for musical artist. $20. GEO. STOCK, 1323 Ccn. May 3. F. K. Stebhlns, Iowa City, la. Frederick—M. W. of A. State Con. May —. Main St., Cincinnati. Ohio. Des Molnes—Lutheran Augustana Synod of N. Dr. T. S. Eader. A. Con. June —. Crlsfleld—I. O. R. M. Grt. Council Con. April Ocean Wave Swing for sale, cheap; good as Des Molnes—State Opticians' Assn. Con. June 26. E. E. Allison, 3605 Falls Road. Balti- new. organ, tent, and all complete. For par- —. J. G. McMssters, Cedar Rapids. la. more. Md. BAND BAND ticulars address E. II. MALLARY. Elkhorn, Wis. Des Molnes—Iowa Christian Con. June —. Hagerstown—Fraternal Mystic Circle Gr. Ruling Will furnish hand for Big Show. Side Shows. B. S. Denny. Con. April —. Will W. Nyman, 6 Court Parks and Beaches. Piny the latest music. FOR SALE—.1-legged heifer calf, healthy and Des Mollies—State Sportsmen's Assn. Con. Mch. Place. Moderate prices. Address PROF. LUCA OPI- all right; age 17 months, weight 500 Ibs. 14-16. L. C. Abbott. Marshalltown, la. Hngerstown—Firemen's Con. June 14. H. T. CELLA, 33 Minot St., Boston, Mass. Price $25. JNO. G. COOPER. Ames, la. Des Molnes—State Wholesale Butter, Egg and Levely. Annapolis. Md. Poultry Dealers' Assn. Con. Mch. —. Hagerstown—Jr. O. U. A. M. State Council Des Molnes—State Telephone Assn. Con. Mch. Con. April IS. C. 8. Davis. 109 N. Baca St.. 14-16. Charles C. Deerlng, Boone. la. Baltimore, Md. Dubuque—State Electrical Assn. Con. April ...WANTED... 19-20. H. I. Green, Cedar Rapids, la. MASSACHUSETTS. BIG MANDOLIN TREMOLO Sioux City—Genl. Congregational Assn. Con. Boston—Railway Claim Agents' Assn. Con. —FOR THE— May 16. J. O. Stevenson. Waterloo, la. Mav —. C. A. Thein. LaSalle St. station. STREET PIANO Sioux City—Protestant Episcopal Church Dioce- Chicago. 111. san Con. May 16. Rev. S. R. Hoyt, Har- Boston—U. O. P. E. Supreme Colony Con. April SEEMAN & MILLICAN CARNIVAL CO, Good condition, perfect tune. $75. Just the lan, la. 5. H. S. Tycadwell. thing for shows or Arcade business. Complete Stanton—Swedish Lutherans of the U. S. and Boston.—New England Cotton Mfrfl.' Assn. Con. To open season at Anlston, Ala., April 3: Good Statue Turning to Life, or Galatea, cost $200, Canada Con. June 9. John G. Dahlberg, April; 2B-27. Sec.. 45 Milk St. strong freak for platform show. Fat man. price $50. Handsome Front, 18x28 feet, good ii7ci :;.Mh St.. Rock Island. 111. Boston.—Knights of Honor Gr. Lodge Con Midget, Skeleton. Freak with small head suit- as new. $20: two Electric Shock Machines, and Washington—United Presbyterian Cbnrch Genl. April 12. O. 8. Maywood. 17U Tea Wharf. able for Wild Girl Show. Will buy big snake, one Punching Machine, Mills Make, price $5 Assembly. May 24. Rev. D. F. McGIll, D. Boston.—Naval and Military Order Spanish- party with performing seals. Write. Will each. Will trade any of above for wood-top D., Allegheny, Pa. American War Natl. Commandery Con. May consider any proposition that looks good. Ad- Mutoscope. Address CAPT. W. D. AMENT. Waterloo—State Federation of Women's Clubs —. Capt. John T. Hilton, ree. In chief. dress F. L. LANGLEY, care Atlanta Hotel, Box 524. Hot Springs, Ark. Con. May 12-14. Mrs. T. J. Fletcher, Marsh- Atlanta, Ga. alltown, la. Waterloo—Iowa Legion of Honor Con. May The balance of the Convention Lilt is omitted Do you want a Trunk Mystery with bag and 16. J. H. Helm, Cedar Rapids. la. this week on account of pre» of advertising-. three straps and traveling case for $25; Fish- Waterloo—Iowa State Billposters Assn Con. It will ho published next week. FLUHIRT STOCK CO. ing Trick with pole. $4: Flying Lamp and ta- May 26. Chas. T. Kindt, Davenport, la Man for characters and heavies, to manage ble, $10; My latest Handkerchief Production, WANTED—Piano Player. Specialty Artists, stage; also small Soubrette. Others write. something .new. for $100; the latest Rising KANSAS. Dramatic People. Long season. Salary sure. Fares advanced to those we know, or who fur- Card Trick—cards all leave the glass, $100; Emporla—Royal Neighbors of America State Address Manager, 520 West Ninth Street, Cin- nish good references. Address LEN SHIELDS, Latest Flag and Handkerchief Trick, $150. Con. April 10. Mr*. M. C. Plainer, box 218, cinnati, Ohio. Business Manager, Salt Lake City, Utah. PROF. J, H. COREY, Pittsfleld. Mass. Topeka, Kan. Mention "The KObaard" when answering ads. Umtlim "3SU Mention "Tkt Kl&oard" wAm anmrt 32 Trie Billboard Shamrocks Shamrocks Shamrocks No 2 Golden Harp Shamrock Plain Shamrock Price per doz ft'. 15 No, I 1'laln Shamrock. Per gross $1.10 It Is made In Ireland's in/nii= (=>F=CDJ=»>ak-r-EfoiJ HAIIP•afl B ^IWC BB No. 3 Shamrock with Red Rose most heraldic color, of Center. the richest emerald hue. I'rk-e per doz S»U5 and Is a great low priced nntiflTN RUUdr Per gross J1.25 leader. o-io r ** „.«.* -^ ME No 4 MtloneiRllihon Shamrock Price per dozen ... .10 10 272 E. Madison St., - CHICAGO ^*fc .•,,,...•.,..,,„*>.*> Per grosi iO 65 BnSt., - CHICAGO ^^^^"* Pur gross »1."3 N? N* WRITE FOR. OUR CIRCULAR OF SEASONABLE SPECIALS ^ >€

PRODUCTIONS The Will H. Welder's Carnival Who want Real Hit numbers Opens Season 19O5 May 8th. Wellston. Ohio. 20 Weeks already Booked. should not overlook. : : : Can offer Long Engagement and Liberal Terms to Small TRAINED WILD AMMAL SHOW, Easy of Transportation. Cin also use a No 1 PLANTATION. Must have »well fronts. Good opening for Gypsy Camp, Button Galleryj Striking Machines, and other legitimate privileges. No strong graft goes. WANTED, to complete American Gil- "SHUT TIGHT Vaudeville Show Lady Pianist, Female Contortionist, Sister Team (musical act or song and dance), and a good hot Serio Comic Turn who does Skirt Dance. All ladies must be young, good lookers, first-class performers and appeal- on 'banyhoo. All vaudeville people address J. J. MAGEE, Asst. Mgr., 007 N. llth St., Philadelphia, Pa. Shows, privileges &c., address WILL II. WEIDEU, proprietor and manager, Coalton, Ohio. DOSE WINKIN', jf. g._\Ve will always make room for a show of merit. BLINKIN' EYES" Tbe rii"m Artistic Coon Lullaby ever written- Yon ran'i belp but wulntle It, and >our I'ret iu-i \\ .,.i'i kren «un. s, ii.t lor WHY DO YOU SUPPOSE III ..!<•«-!.>lli>l copy. OVER 5800 OPERA HOUSES AND HALLS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA ARE USING The Thompson Music Co,, OUR SCENERY. 275 Wabash Ave.. Many of them the finest in the land. Our prices CHICAGO, - ILLS. must be right and our work satisfactory. NO OTHER HOUSE IN THE WORLD CAN SHOW SUCH A RECORD. The BIB ELI WHEEL When in need of Scenery for your stage, why not the concentrated extract of tnechan- get the best. We will make prices satisfactory. cal skill and years MOORE'S AUTOMATIC of experience on SET SPINDLE. the road The BIG SOSMAN &. LANDIS, WHtrL when up THE BEST EVER. MADE. and the Little We are the Inventors and sole manufacturers CREST SCENE PMNTIN8 STUDIO, - - - CHI3S60, ILL. "hee> when d ,wn of Moore's, Notice: We have Several of the QUEEN AUTOMATIC SHOOTING Very B»st Car- GALLER.Y, STAR. GALLERY, BOU :W A N T E D ! M 1 v a 1 Companies LARD And the latest Compressed All and parks of this Holdout. Hi.-r. Marked Cards. Inks, and al iMiintry request- the latest street and lioase goods. Send a Inir us to send them once for our free catalogue. apurchaser to R. A MOOR.E MFG. CO.. lxx>k a N*w Bin Eli wheel on attractive 923 Wyandotte Street. : KANSAS CITY. MO terms. Be wise and write us. World's Greatest Dog and Pony Shows ELI BRIDGE CO., Roodhouse. III. For Season IMS. VfsiCIAXS. BO.S* CANVASM\X. WORKINGMEN In all departments. Musicians address I'KOF. o. V BDEK. 924 W. Fort St.. Detroit. Mich. All others address Robert H. Hartley, D. (i. MAKKLE. Watertown, Vila. ADVERTISE FOR SALE— One Up-Town or Freak Wagon, nearly new: the celebrated perform nt A Ten Dollar Note for a Flyer ...COIN.OPERATED ... horse "Phylsls" and propert'es necessary for complete act Shetland Ponies for hale at al WILL CARRY A IS-'WOKO CLASSIFIED times. A few Choice Dogs. Hani I'nl forms. Street Parade Klankfix and Trappings an ADV. INTO A MILLI<>N HO/IBS ONB TIDE other show property. For further particulars address F. SCHNEIDER. Lessee. Water- Thl- IB Ui" List. Wbere e'.te can you gel a town. Wls. better combination lot the money. AMUSEMENT DEVICES, lioston Herald, Omaha Bee, rhlla. No. American, HufTalo Courier, Suite 10-11, Hartley Bld« , Syraci se Herald, Roch. D. & Chron., IMttsb irg Dispatch, Providence Telegram, 40.5 Fourth Avenue, - - PITTSBURGH PA. Wanted... - „ .Wanted St. Louis Globe Dem. Cleve. Plain Dealer, Send for new Catalogue - just out. Ilaltin ore Herald, Des M. U. & Loader, Contractprto build a "Cave of the Winds," "House of Trouble" and Clncln mtl Enquirer, Denver Republican, a Bamboo Slide with Moving Stairway, at Lakemont Park, Altoona, Pa. Wnshl icton Post. San Fran. Chronicle, Contractors send in estimates and blue prints at once; lowest responsible bid- Milwaukee Free Press, Atlanta Constitution, For Sale Cheap-Privilege Gar der gets contract. Minneapolis Tribune, Dallas News, Formerly used by the Andrews (ilass Palace Detroit Free Press, Chicago Inter-Ocean, Co. Length :is ft. 10 In., width » ft Couplers, ALTOONA AMUSEMENT CO., L T. SHAMAN, Pres., ALTOONA, PA. Indianapolis Sentinel, Kansas City Journal. attachments and air brakes In good shape: Give This LUt A Trial. 4-wheel coach trucks with:;.: Inch steel tired RUDOLPH 6UENTHER. 108 Fllttn St, H?w fork wheels. Address Twin Gift Scenic Studio. Minneapolis Minn ELBERTON OPERA HOUSE Write for Combination Offers. Magazine LlBte AGENTS I — — SXREETIV1EIW ! ELBERTON, GA. POPULATION SOOO STRIKE HARD JAPAN, Our new l'.io.ri Signet Hat Pin la winner, sells at tUbt. stylfsb and Under new management. Being remodeled. Want good attractions to open Tuataew March bong U proving a tremendous hit reliable; gold llll-d top of bem everywhere. quality. Inft'ala beautifully en- right away. Open time following, write graved, giving the appearance of C. B. P»EKSE, Manager. If I 0«Jy Had My Meal Ticket Bought. 0 pfnu. jro per ci Profit to Agents. Signet Pins have never "Words by Dave Chaberf. Dilute by nob Kellogg. before been ottered at our ex- Jnst Out. Profe»ft1on*la £«nd For Them Vow. trem°ly low figures. For Carni- CARNIVALS AND SHOWS on Percentage UOBKKT 1). KELLOGO vals. Fair*, etc., nothing could Publisher at Popular Music. equal them as they sell them- for LUUA PARK at Mansfield, Ohio. 6IS Stelnway Hall. Chicago. selves. Every lady wanis one. orders tilled In any quantity Park contains some '20 acres ; opens May 8th, trom factory same day received Sample Hi cents. and is a money maker. Address (J W^ BAHL MgT. :,. 1'ort Angeles. Wash. ZOA MATHEWS. Savannah Electric Co., Savannah, Ga, SText to last on bill of headliners, and making tremendous hit. ARCADE ARTISTS NATIONAL MI'SIC CO. liavr a lot of nung Two Automatic No. 36 Reglaa Mu.Ic Boxes, a bar- HEATRE, Toledo, week Feb. 2

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Any and all kinds of Hi^h-Class Sensational Acts suitable for Wild West—Cowboys, Lady Riders, Late the Greatest Fancy Ropers,' Expert Marksmen, Mexicans, Cos- sacks, Arabs, Cingalese, Troupe of Japanese, Feature at Park and Fair Cavalrymen, Zouaves, Boomerang Throwers, TRANS. MISS. EXPOSITION, Omaha, 1898. Ground Acts, Acrobats, Impalement Act, Trick GREATER AMERICA EXPO- House, etc., etc. SITION, Omaha. 1899. Managers, PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION, MUSICIANS FOR TWO BANDS. Buffalo, 1901. MADISON SQUARE GARDEN, Your Attention New York City, 1903. FOR SIDESHOW—Punch and Judy, Ma- WORLD'S FAIR, gician, Lady Snake Charmer, Tattooed People, St. Louis, 1904. AN ABSOLUTELY NEW Midyets, Freaks, Comedians, Singers and Dancers, AND NOVEL DEPARTURE. Musical Act, Bag Puncher, Strong Act, Perform- 51 DIFFERENT TRIBES OF We are in a position to supply at all times Bands of ers to double in Concert, Orators, and All-Day Talkers. Real Long-Haired Indians from the Reservations North American Indians of the Far West, with all their War Paint and Feathers, introducing their Native Dances, Dog Personal Letters of Endorsement from Feasts, Ancient Ceremonies, Costumes and Village Life, with their Tepees and Wigwams, and in —Wanted, General Agent- President Roosevelt. Senator Foraker, Senator Thurston. Senator Scott, Senator Platt. Lieut. charge of reliable managers and interpreters. General Miles, Gen. Joe Wheeler. Governors Odell, Durbln. Stone. Van Sant, Nash. Warllrld. State clearly the number of Indians you want. Bosses and Workingmen Francis; Wiiliam Jennings Bryan. Eiihu Boot, Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Sisters of Charity. SPECIAL AKBA.NGEMENTS MADE WHEN BOOKING Public School*, Prof Frederick Starr, of Chicago for All Departments . . . University, and many other notables. NOTED CHIEFS. There is No Stronger Park Attraction ONE OF THE MANY. FOR THE ADVANCE. than a Real Indian Village. "Mil. FituDEitiCK T. CUMMINS. General Manager Indian Congress. PRESS AGENT=. CONTRACTORS, CAR MANA- DEAR SIH:—I desire to thank you for the cour- FAIR MANAGERS—An Indian Congress is without tesy of a special performance yesterday after- GERS, BILLPOSTERS, LITHOGRAPHERS, PRO- noon, and to express my appreciation of the doubt the greatest spectacular, sensational, and pleasure It traveme. Your Congress is truthfully GRAMMERS, and 24 HOUR MAN representative, and the living picture you pre- educational feature in the world to-day. sent of Indian life and customs is most interest- ing, besides being of great educational value to The real Indian will soon be a thing of the past, those who have never seen the American aborig- ALL PRIVILEGES TO LET, inal amid liis natural surroundings. The care and every man, woman and child will welcome an you have taken in the selection of types and in their presentation is most commendable. opportunity of enjoying a parting glimpse of the Yours truly. WE FURNISH PRIVILEGE GAR, Signed, NELSON A. MILES. Noble Red Man amid his natural surroundings STATE ALL IN MUST LETTER. Lieutenant General." while engaged in his primitive pursuits. Address all communications to COL. FREDERICK T. CUMMINS,(Chl*f L*kota) Main Office. Teutonic Building, 5th Ave. and Washington St., CHICAGO, U. S. A. CARNIVAL GO. WANTED for WANTED FOR THE: WANTED GREAT VAN AMBUR6 SHOWS .PINE BEACH. Circus people In all branches. Strong outside attraction. Riders. Bar Performers, Aerial With First-class Show* for SHAM BATTLE, week of June II to 17. CXCLE SAM wll give a Acts. Acrobats, Gymnasts. Leaper*. Tumblers. Contortionists, wire Acts, Clowns and any SEUIESof SHAM BATTLES every day on In- waters of HAMPTON ROADS In full view of other acts sultabl" for a circus. For the Side Show: Lady Bair Punchers. Dancing Girls, PINE BEACH. \Ve have Norfo k, Portsmouth. Berkeley. Newport News, Hampton Plieobus. Impalement Act. Lady that can do Second Sight and Tell Fortunes and any act suitable for Old Pulnt Comfort, within 30 mlnu'es of Pine Beach. Uncle Sam N spending thousands of Side Show. Performers addre»s DAN LEON. Equestrian Director. Side Show people address dollars to make this the greater event this country has ever si-en. So there will bo no Doc. OSHOHNE. Privll ge people address BEHT Bow BUS. \Vaiters.CooksandPorlersaddresi question about getting the p- ople, for we wl,l have them from all parts of the country. This V. A. GAVIN. State lowest salary and number of acts In first letter. is the place to get tirst money. State all in first letter. COLUMBIA AMUSEMENT CO., VAN AMBUR.G SHOWS. KANSAS CITY. MO. - - - H. O. SHEFFIELD STATION J. H. LIVINGSTON, Mj?r.. 211 CITIZENS BANK BLDG., - . . - NORFOLK. VIRGINIA. WANTED QUICK FOR THE Wanted-PIANO PLAYER SOUTHERN AMUSEMENT CO., One that eau Double Brass or play Bass Drum in band. AIso good Com- GEO. CORY. Prop. CURTIS VE ARE, Mgr. edians that play some instrument in band. Must be ready to join on wire. Electric Theatre people for Old Plantation Show, and one or two other money Stat* lowest salary in first letter; long season. Address WILL. CONKLING, ettingshows. Must have good fronts. Privilege people come on. Address Mgr.. Marion, 111., March Hth and l»th. f >odson, La., ens Big May Festival. Vlncennes, Ind.. April 30th. ALSO PLAIN MIRRORS FOR WALL ORNAMENTS FRED. HEWITT iivlleges write. Add. Fred. Hvwltt. Washington. Ind. WM. SIEBERT CONSTRUCTION CO. • - 17-19 E. 26ih tt, C IDABO, ILL Mention "The Hillboard" vk< n answering adt. Mention "The Billboard" when answering ads. •71» >- Mention " The Billboard" when answering ads. 34 Xtie

HENRY BROWN, BARLOW MINSTRE 'PROFESSIONAL VAUDEVILLE EXCHANGE, J. A. COBURtf, Manager and Owner. Suite 51O, 59 Dearborn St.. CHICAGO. LACAL MANAGERS—Plesue note Hint tbU U NOT Ibe »o called Uarlow & VAUDEVILLE AKTI8T8. when laying off In \vii«..n'» minstrel*, but a Strletly HlghelaM, Modern Attraction. Chlcasro. call or write we for Olub Dates. Wires-Mail—At all times via Billboard—Surest most direct—CINCINNATI, OWO ZOUBOULAKIS, COMIB-O-PIASTIC ARTIST, (Funny Paces) A Great Juggling Act NOVELTY MUSIC ARTIST. MR, & MRS. NELLO Park Managers, address care Billboard Permanent address. Tbe Billboard HEADLINERS WITH BUSINESS MANAGER BICYCLE BILL ROBT. A. BRACKET! (LYMANN. HOWE Moving Picture Co. No.3) PHIL SHERIMN'S i \V. P. < It ICS\l KM, < Great Lariot Twirlor and Trick Cyclimt. Has some open time. Address BILLBOARD. - - CINCINNATI AT LIBERTY City Sports Co, TWIN BROS. MARRIOTT Eccentric Comedian The Noisy Soubrette Manipulators. Care Blllbaard. JACK BURDI SEASON I9O4-S. 530 LBS. BIG 17 YEARS OLD. OPEN FOR BRCOttS. Ciri Th* BilUisarH PHIL SHERIDAN : : CRISSIE SHERIDAN 5 FLYING MOORES-S WEST & BARTRAM PAT BIG AERIAL and CASTIN6 ACT IN A NEW ACT FOR For open time address BARRETT BROS., DAN VAUDEVILLE, BURLESQUE, FARCE COMEDY or DRAMA . Comedians. 816 F. St, WHITLET, - MUNCIE, IND. 15^5 E. G9th STREET, AT HOME CHICAGO, ILL WASHER BROS. ADELAIDE MARSDEN, THE FAMOUS BOXING MIDGETS. LIBERTY.. ..AT LIBERTY Height 3 feet lu.nches. and 3 feet 11 Inches Illustrated Songs. Permanent address care The Billboard. New Steam Merry-Go-Round For Season of 1905. Will join good Carnival Co. State terms. ALI-HUNTER & ALI, THE GREAT NICOLI T. H. FORD. Portage, Pa. MAGICIAN and ILLUSIONIST Acrobatic Noveltonlans. LIBERTY Permanent Address, 43! THE BILLBOARD. CHICAGO Small Dog and Pony Show Complete. With or without HUrh Dlvlnir Ponies. Featuring the Talking I'ony. MILLS and BEECHER, JOHN ENNOR, Address CAKL H. CLAKK. (ienural Delivery." (COLONY, KAS. Traresty Artists. TRAVELER, LECTURER, ERTERTAINER 1905 AT LIBERTY! 1905 IN TRAVELOGUES. Roman Standing and Chariot Driver. Would like to learn Hurdle Mule Act. PAN-AMERICAN FOUR, Address, - . BILLBOARD Address HOWARD MISNER, care The Billboard. LILJENS, THE ONLY WOMAN AT l-IBERTV. Leonard-Stockwell-Barnes-Stockwell. CHEAPEST OFFERJVER MADt I A good siring BSHK and Tuba player. Would like to have position at Summer Kesort or Springs where tnore Is a dancing pavilion or casino whlcn uses an Shafer-Still well-Shafer, FIRE HIGH DIVER BIG BARGAINS orchestra. AiJdress C. L. WEIFOHD. Danville. Va. -IN- Musical Artists. AT LIBER.TY Of THE WOULD. A BLAZINB HIT Irish, Dutch and Blackface Com- The sensation of the century. Have "At Liberty" edian, Singer and Dancer. Sober and fine lithos. For terms and time, 1905, reliable. The Barnum of Its Kind. address MME. LILJENS, care The Billboard, 172 Washington St., Chicago JOHN DOUGHERTY, CARDS 134 N. 24th Street, - Camden, N. J. ONE TIME Huttmann, Butters & Carrt GORDON SHEPP&RD, VIK IAN A"H> one Inch of space, one time, $1.00. and larger AT LIBERTY THEATRICAL LAW, ces up to seven Inches at tbe same rate Suite *i? Teutonic Bldg.. IT2 Washington Bt., CHI- per Inch. FRANK HASSALL THEATRICAL ARCHITECT Slnirlne. Dancing. Talking. Irish Woman. CAGO. ILL. Tel. Main 3187. Auto. 8MX. FOUR TIMES Theatres, Opera Houses, Change often. •• seen at Alamosa. Colo. Price. REFINED MUSICAL ARTISTS. -•-m1. or --'-'.i. half down and balance $40 per week. Address all communications to Permanent addr., THE BILLBOARD, Pete Connelly, I. I 0 IMIN t II.. t . - - llHTHlltto, ColO. BLACKFACE. MONOLOGUE. ECCENTRIC. Chicago, Illinois. Open for Vaudeville. Minstrel or Bnrlet>que. GILLA Play parts. CRYSTAL THEATRE. Evans- The Acrobatic Jew and Gay Beubn-tte. Tille. lnil. Regards to Gllllhan & Murray. March and April open. Address care THE FBOFESSIONAL BILLBOARD. Chicago. fflL TRUNKS LIBERTY "Better than the Best." James Shelby Shows Bronrtwuy. New York City. James T. Brady WANTED—Xo Ouy GEO. W HUSSEY, Manager. Treasurer, or Agant. Summer STILL ON EARTH AND COM- Two or three dozen Large Magnifying GlaBtei lor a VeDtrl'oqulst. Park Maftagera address 62 W. 98th Park or Theatre preferred Address care View Show. 1»K. J. FOSTER. Corpus Cbrlstl. Tex. St.. New York Clly. Empire Theatre Bide., San Antonio, Texas INGk TO THE FRONT FAST. Mention "The Billboard" when answering ads. Mention "The Billboard" when answering ad*. Mention 1k« BiOhonrtl" when. m*u>ering ad*. Mention, "The P&hoard" when answering adz. TZie Billboard 35

IN VAUDEVILLE "Rice and Old Shoes,99 Twenty Minute Sketch, by W. G. Rose. "AW. FINE! • Write for open time. Week of March 12, Arcade Theatre, Toledo. Permanent address: COLONIAL THEATRE. CLEVELAND, Onio. PRIVILEGES LIONEL LEGARE'S WANTED EAUTIFUL Mammoth Spiral Tower EXPERIENCED UGKROE The Biggest. Most Fascinating and Versatile* Open-Air Sensational Attraction. 99999 E AC •••••••• During the last four years It has been the star fea- ture of a number of the most successful fairs and B—VIRGINIA— carnivals in America, and lias played numerous re- Car Manager, turn engagements. The exhibition not only con- The most popular resort on the southern sists of the many feats performed upon the glolie in Write or wire ine care Fran- coast. The home of excursionists, drawing the ascent and descent of tower, but in addition to from the entire state. Exclusive ground and them It Includes many marvelously clever, unique cis Valentine, San Francisco, pavilion privileges to let; percentage or cer- 1 LARGEST and sensational feats, originated by Legare and per- tainty. Season opens May £*. Address formed by him only, (iorgeoim Fireworks and Elec- Calif. ED. C. WARNER. C.W. REX, Academy of Music, RIchmofld.Ya /GRANDEST trical Effects during nitrlH performances. SENSATIONAL For particulars of this, the most Write L"EB FOH bVBBYTlttNd Gigantic, Crowd Attracting. Nov- FOR SALE—Moving Picture Camera, Klectrlc ATTRACTION elty Feature, address 9999 Light Blower, Shocker, Photoscope. anil Na- tional Photo Machine; 5 wood Mutoaeopes, 6 ION EARTH. LIONEL LEGARE, Iron, electric piano, l>ox ball Alleys, Merry-Go- Cor. Market St. aid Park Ire, BETHLEHFM. PA. Round, Galatea. Alligator Boy, Flying Lady. MAMMOTH SPIRALTOWES Laughing Cnllpry, Moving Picture Outlit. Tent, Snake Show Outfit. Drop Picture Machine, Mill WANTED Punchlne Itng, Self-acting Swings. Stereoptlcon 1 Outfit, Magnets for dice table, Printing Outfit. AT ONCE. Wanted things of all kinds for customers. Tell me what you have to sell or want. Honest ACROBAT, must be good Ground HARRY DAVIS Amusement Arcade dealings, no misrepresenting. Largest dealer Tumbler: prefer top mounter capable in r. S. LEON LOEB. 323 Main, Frankfort, Ky. of doing back and forward doubles, P. S.—Can place reliable picture show for season to work in novelty act. State height OPERA HOUSE BLDG.. PI PTSBURG, PA. resort near Cincinnati. and weight and who with last. State WANT to hear from Freaks and any other Features (tillable for Curio Hall; also lowest salary and all yon can do in Lecturer. Name lowest salary in first letter. ,T. Frank Stanley, write. Myers, Glass WANTED FOR tumbling. Address ACROBAT, 61 S. Hlower. wire. TO LET—Booths for Card Writer. Battery with futures' photograph* for postals and buttons. Pop Oorn and Candy, and any other legitimate Concessions. 6eo. W. Hall, Jr., Circvs and Menagerie. Clark St., Chicago. Care Cigar Store. MAN TO LEAD BAND. Cornets, Baritone and iitlii-r musician*. Also Billposters and working Address DAVIS, men In all department*. Address OEOKGB W. HALL. Jr., Kvansvllle Kock Co, WIs. P. S.— Have for sale a 45-ft. baggage car, with FOR SALE GRAND OPERA HOUSE. PITTSBURG. PA. 12-ft. state room, equipped for passenger service. Also want a IM>SS cnnvasman. MOVING PICTURE MACHINES, Second- NOTICE to Artists Booked at the hand and New; also Slides and Films, f-OK cheap. A bargain -one LUBIX, Ex. Side show banners, punch and van, snake charm- Model, with Stereopticon Attach- er, dancing girls, arch door, all new, $30.00. ment, complete, $50. One Professional UNIQUE THEATRE, Caprn Orshestrlon $350.00. Spindle $.V, 8x8 foot red striped top $12.00: trained monkey pick- Stereoptlcon. new, $15. Second-hand AKRON, OHIO. out $25. Turkish flagolette, reeds, etc., all Films, Kood subjects, at f> cts. per ft., new; will buy or trade for small cylinder street and up. Get my list. The Vaudeville Season will close SATURDAY, MARCH llth, 1905. piano. J. L. POR/i'Z. Fostorla, Ohio. CHAS. CARDELL. 135 E 53d St., - CHICAGO, ILL. FOR SALE. Show Wagons—8 Tableaux, 3 suitable for R. U. Show. Big Gold Shoe (Old Woman In The All Dales are CanceledShoe). One open Den, 2-horse; one Tent 80x120; one set Tom Scenery, Stage and Frame. One Entire change of policy to Stair & Havlin's popular priced Attractions. complete Tom Show, 1.1 wagons, all ready Street Men ACHILLE PHILIUN. manager. to set up. Nine head of Shetland Ponies, $75.00 The greatest money fetter ever produced. each. Add with address stamped envelop. C. G. 150 percent profit. Startling demonstration "ew Morning and Night Street Featurts, no Car- PHILLIPS. Cortlnnd. Ohio. requiring two minutes. Take In the money as fast as you can hand them out. One man niyaltr buf ,ome(fcing entirely new by the sold 10? in 4* minutes; another S3 in 41 min- utes. Handsome cash prizes for nest record PRIVILEGE MEN, each month. Write to-day. MISSISSIPPI NEW MEXICO TERRITORIAL FAIR ASSOCIATION HERE IS A BARGAIN. CHEMICAL CO., Jackson, Miss. SEPTEMBER 18th to 23rd. Inclusive La«t year, attendance r.'0,000. All kind* of privileges for sale—eTerythlng goes. Address 100,000 Folding Boxes. DON'T BELAY— IHE HARVEST IS OK. D. K. B. SELLERS. Secretary, Albuquerque. N.Mex. Attractive r> and 10 cent packages for Salted PILLOW TOPS, the kind that hai your pic- I'panuts, Lemon Drops. Kutter Scotch, Molasses ture, or any other you furnish: pictures do Kisses, Assorted Cliwolati'S iiiul I'rize Boxes for not fade and can be washed. Have fine line sale nt n liargnln. Write for samples. 8\VKET of FEATHKR I'l.OWERS. Prices and goods WANTED! I'AXllY COMPANY. Salt Lake City, Utah. Any one with $1,000 Cash to put out small Dog and Pony Show. I have outfit complete, Tents, etc. Or L would join partner with Ponies and Dogs. 20 years experience Can organize cheaper than any one Give entire Attractions Wanted POP CORN BRICKS show and concert with 5 people and carry band of 10 pieces. Those meaning For the (Ireat Klkader Fair, Elkader, Iowa, A Brr Aug. 22. 2.1. 24 and 25. All privileges incident Pop Corn coods of all kinds. Privilege men business address J. W ROZ.NO, Koesler's Buffet, 51 S. Hark St., Chicago, Illinois. to a fair for sale. Want to hear from cood write for prices. moral shown. Address J. A. KRAMER, Sec., 8ARDEN CITY POP CORN WORK6. FREE ATTRACTIONS. BAND and Klkader, Iowa. Green & Son, Props., - - Chicago Good Moral Shows for 5ih Annual FX>R SALE ...WANTED... FIREMEN'S FREE STREET FAIR One tW.foot round-top, lace center, all rope*, COL.ORKCOLORED TALENT Al. KITTANVINGKITTAMVivn . PA.DA . poles, stakes, marque 20 lights, t! uniform For OLD PLANTATION— Quick. No tickets. coats, one large Rhesus monkey. Address GEO. H. PKOCTOK. West? Tex.. Mar «-ll July 3l«o Aug. 5.1905 Vim. Schneider. Mgr. FRED DARLING, Lancaster. Pa. Waco. 12-30. Dr tl.OO Worth ot TKK-KS l«r *5 < vn«. We send first-class apparatus and full Instruc- WANTED amafic Stock People & Vaudeville Acts tions. Imp's Enchanted Bottle, Disappearing IX>NG BNOAGKHBIVT ST'« K. Cigar, 2 packs of trick cards, Magic envelope. Good paylngSTEAM MEREY-GO-ROUND. Paper tearing trick, and the great bird call SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS costSi.500forSl.100. for Imitating all kinds of birds and animals. Address COL. HAMILTON. Meridian, Mtis., March 9-10-11; Lafayette L»., Mareb ].

THE EVANS BEE-HIVE A 1905 production. Can be run when all others are barred. Can be used for jewel- ry or money. Has two way combination, works with set. PRICE, - - $35.0O

THE IMPROVED CAMEL BACK SPINDLE The only controlled spindle ever made without a gaff; can be examined at any time by anyone. Tripod is one solid casting. $1000 to any house in the world that can produce its equal. Transparent adhesive dice, the new work for banking crap games. Never sold before; made by us only. Price per set, $4 OO. Koulette wheels, com- plete with 1000 Harris checks, guaranted 5 years, $180.OO. Send for our new catalogue with the cut prices, free. H. C. EVANS & CO., 125 CLARK STREET. - - CHICAGO. ILL.

DO YOU Want to Reach the Trolley Parks? A large percentage of street railway and traction companies are now operating parks and pleasure resorts for the purpose of increasing their summer traffic Manufacturers of amusement attractions are enabled to reach these electric railway companies in the most thorough and effective manner through the advertising columns of the STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL Specimen copies and advertising rates on application. Publication Offices: - - 114 LIBERTY STREET, NEW YORK Park Location Wanted For "FIGURE 8" ROLLER COASTEP. Open to any reasonable prop- osition if you have a REAL location. Park must have BIG population within WANTED...... WANTED 5c car ride. Preference given to parks that operate on Sunday. Must be able to give an eight or ten year lease State attendance, how many seasons park has been operated and whether or not admission is charged to park; also opposition and its attractions. Dog and Pony Show- Glass ShowKEYSTONE AMUSEMENT CO., 801 Publication Bldg., Pittsburg, Pa, Also any good Novelty Show. Privilege people get in line, we show around REFERENCE: MONONOAHELA NATIONAL BANK. I'lTTSBTKc;. Pittsburg during month of May, where money is like water. Can use Al Acrobatic act in Coliseum. Also want Single Trap act. WANTED J. FRANK HATCH SHOWS, WANTED SUIT E 1227 PARK BUILDING. F»A. PLANTATION PEOPLE Those playing brass (firec preference. State experience, who you have been with and WANTED - TO LEASE lowest salary. No tickets artless T fenow you. Address The CASINO PARK, Huntsville, Ala. L. G. KELLEY, care JONES-ADAMS CO., DILLON, S. C. STRAIGHT OR PERCBNTAGH. Write quick. ,t. VI. G/VST, xicji'-. . Huntsville, Ala. WANT GOOD DOOR TALKER Kid Benson and Jake Ptorkman write. Show opens April 3rd. Hello Henry! Have WANTED FOR. WANTED Privilege Car. do you want part of It'!

GOLLMIR BROS, GREATEST OF AMERICAN SHOWS Twenty-four Horses, four Sleighs and Electric Motor. Address Lady Rider with or without Stock, Boss Proportyman Address GOLLMAR BROS., Baraboo, Wis. FOR SALE-MERRY-GO-ROUND J. W. F.. earn The. Billboard. Mentio* " The Billboard" when axtmaritg odf. Yentim "Tkt. BUOmtnT wW anmMrm* wia Mention " The Bt/ffioard" when annoerino ad* Mention "Tht ^Hllhoartt" when anxuxring oAx. Time Billboard 57 SHOW TENTS Again we wish to bring before the notice of our friends in the tented show business the fact that we are equipped to manufacture anything needed in the line of Tents, etc., for Circuses, Wild West Shows, Black Tents for Mov- ing Picture Work, Merry-Go-Round Tops. Bowling Alley Tents, Candy Tops, Flags of all kinds, Kidd & Baker Lights, Rope, Duck all widths and weight, Drill, Twine, Needles, Palms, etc. If you are desirous of placing your orders where your instructions will be carefully carried out, and where your work will be properly and promptly ex- ecuted, and where your inquiries will receive our special consideration and your business will be appreciated, send it to us. Write for our 16-page list of SECOND-HAND Tents. BAKER & LOGKWOOD MFG. 00., 415-417 Delaware St. KANSAS CITY, MO.

AUTOMOBILE No. 1. Peanut Greatest Attraction OF THE KIND ARIZONA Roaster Is the place where you can Incorporate most cheaply, most promptly and most Best Route to. ,,, Yet Invented safely All of the important features Our handsome catalogue is free and fully describes this machine. Also of the incorporating business are in- many other styles. Hand, Spring cluded in the Arizona statutes. We California and Steam Power. Rotary Pop- are the pioneer i ncorporators. Terms, Corn Poppers, Roasters and Poppers blank forms and copy of our laws free Combined, Ice Cream Freezers, Cab- Colorado inets, Tubs, Steel and Porcelain; for the asking. Address Iron Cans, Dishers, S«da and Ice THE Cream Spoons, Ice Shavers, Ice Texas Breakers, Milk Shakers. AKERS INCORPORATING TRUST CO, Crystal Flake Room 405-406 Fleming Block, The celebrated article used so ex- PHOENIX, - ARIZONA. tensively for improving Ice Cream. St. Louis Sample and Recipe free. KINGERY MFG. CO., WARREN J. LYNCH, W. P. 0£PPt. 106-108 E. Pearl St., CINCINNATI, 0, Gu'l Ha. 4 Tkl. IgL im. G.n ' P 11 i Virginia Homes ClMOINNATI. 0 You learn all about Virginia THEATRICAL PROPERTIES. lands, soil, water, climate, re- sources, products, fruits, ber- ries, mode of cultivation, UNITED STATES PATENTS SUMMER and EXPOSITION ATTRACTIONS AND FOREIGN AND • prices, etc., by reading the COPYRICI TRADE-MARKS A SPECIALTY.— VIRGINIA FARMER. MECHANICAL EFFECTS worked out. Everything Send lOc. for 3 months sub- used back of the Curtain. Address scription to ATES. And make yon a fortune. If you have a THE MORSE COMPANY, FARMER CO., PLAY, SKETCH, PHOTO, ACT, C. A; MORSE, Manager, - - 341 W. 44th St.. NEW YORK SONG or BOOK that Is worth anything, Box B. EMPORIA, VA. you should copyright It. Don't take chances when you can secure our serv- JUST RECEIVED—A NUMBER O ^ ices at small cost. Sendfor our SPECIAL OFFER TO INVENTORS before applying for a patent, it will far you. HANDBOOK on ' / Ye 'a&r A vu re patents stnt FREE. We advise if paten ta- ble or not, FREE. We incorporate SIBERIAN CAMELS, STOCK COMPANIES. Small fees Consult us. Also Lions, Lionesses, Hyenas, Pumas, Zebras, Indian and POSTERS WORMELLE & VAN MATER, African Antelopes, Llamas, Kangaroos. Managers, RHESUS MONKEYS, $8O DOZEN tahimbia Copyright & Patent Co. Inc. WASHINGTON, D. C Fresh caught Python Snakes, monsters and small, to arrive In IN PANELS March. ELEPHANTS, TIGERS, LEOPARDS, JAGUARS, etc. to arrive The Newest in Window Paper—Can be placed early In April. where no other Is allowed—ONE-HALF THE COST of LITHOS In equal quantities. Send MEDICINE MEN. LOUIS RUHE, 248 Grand St., New York for samples. Herbs, beautiful $1.00 package, 3 mo. THE LIFE'OGRAVURE COMPANY. treatment, $11.72 gro. Soap, white or Main Office and Works. La Crosse, Wis. green, $1.35 gro. Tooth Powder, tine CHICAGO IMPROVED SET SPINDLE, Eastern Office. 1S58 Broadway. New York City. package, $5.76 gro. J. T. R. CLARK, $25.OO 912 Waluut St., Kansas City, Mo. New Automatic Spindle, $35. Only Original Camel Back. $20 P. 8.—For rent. My elegant combination car. DICE AND MAGNETS LIST FREE QLASS BLOWERS—We are manufacturers of Agents^Solicitors roadmen's supplies and can furnish the best Flint DEANE, 1057 Ciniral Ave., Cincinnati, 0. Tubing at 12c. a lb.; Flint Cane at Uc. a lb.; Colored Get In Line with our Cane and Tubing at 16c. a lb. We make all kinds of GlaBB Noveltlen. Send stamp for catalogue. CHICAGO VIAL <£. MFG. CO., GREAT NOVELTY CARDS. 1533 West Lake St., Chicago. 111. S. & B. C. WEINHAUS WONDERFUL SELLERS. Samples 10 cents 722 Peni Ave, PITTSBURG, PA. prepaid. Positively none free. SHETLAND PONIES We are still selling the "MAMMA IT WONT FOR SALE—All prices, sizes, age or celor. WHOLESALE Frank Witte, breeder, 30 E. 8th, Cincinnati, O. GOME " card atthe same old stand. Watches • Jewelry - Cutlery GREEIM & CO., SONG BOOKS, (1.00 per 100. Thousand Lota SOI Wells St., - Chicago. 111. 17.50. A trial order 1» all we ask. CARTER Send JS.OO Deposit for C. O. I). Shipments. BOOK CO.. S11 8. B'way. 81. Loala. Eastern Representative. WM. QREBN. No. 1 2527 N. Opal St., Philadelphia. Pa. SCO SINGERS /VI-M SINGING A Vaudeville Act*. FACE GLOVE—Great French Discovery, to be Sketches. CAN'T I F»LAY WITH YOU II worn over the face at night, after taking make-up Mrs. A. W BROWNE 6end2c stamp THE BB3T CHILD SONG EVER WRITTEN. Jos. F. HOBTIZ. off. Also a formula, free from all grease, to rub Into skin, leaving It transparent white, removing all PLAYS205 E. Huron St., Chicago for prof, copy and lUc for orchestration; a lldee, 95 a set. llth St. Opera House, Phlla., Pa. wrinkles. FRENCH CHEMICAL CO., Canandalgua. N. Y. PRICE tl. Ko stamps. JlVtion " The Billboard" when OMMrfay ads. Mtntim " Tht BiOboard" twtew aamtrmg culs. MaUim " Tue Rillhnn.nl" «,/,«, nnmriuo ad* Mention " The BOOioaTf mAa -A Ttie Billboard FAIIT FLOSS CANDY ACHINE An inTMtment paying 500 peroeat. Oocuplaa only two feat of spao«. E&.SJ to operate. Spins Sugar Into Fte»«y, Feathery Candy, any color or flavor. Patented Jan. 31, 1899, and Jan. 6, 1903. Other patents pending. Infringe- ment* will be prosecuted. For further Information write THE ELECTRIC GAUDY MACHINE CO.. IASHYILLE, TENN. Parisian Ice Cream Cone Cooking Ovens, The Greatest Money Getter at the World'* Fair. A bonanza thli »«a«on at «tr««t fain, ity (aln, baseball ( plratta. soda fount* and all gathering. Thousands of dollars made by oonceiilonalrei Delightfully flavored eakei made la tbe shape at tbe World's Fair selling onr Delicious Ortsp of cenes. filled with delicious Ice oream. which Ice Cream Cooei. A brand n*w Idea from Purls. can be eaten M yoa walk or stroll along with- Tbe greatest oome-baok seller erer Introduced. out lulling the finest glares or clothes. They sell In hot or co!4.weather. fiver too percent profit. Simple Ho ofrals: nglu and portable. Write for o»i»icxtne. I-nil par- ticulars. Mcret formnlas, «to. LANIER & DBIESBACH, Machine Works, 788 Poston St., MEMPHIS, TENN, Show Printing: Type and Engraved Poster*, D«to«, Merakte and Dodger*. HENNEGAI& 00, • atlo*. Quick Work on abort aotte^-" ... ; . .: .. T.i 8th, near Main, CJMGINNATI, CmtWO ,HQf HUT, 1H-136 Eft ti., Chlcigc Printing for (enl Shows, County PrHIITiyR-.pv'"r"'!i'i«i= raUIIVD--b«aetf avltype Singer Bros,' New Book of Specialties , 4

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e Sim ELEVEN STREETMEN THE WATLING PRICE. $1.00 FANCY IRON Weighing Machine S26.00 It works while you sleep, built to stand the weather and rough usage. The Idi-al srale for outside use In Parks and Resorts 825 8end for Illustrated cat- alogue of our full line of Slot Machines and Scalas. We refund your money If goods are not satisfactory. Watling Mfg, Co, SEND FOR OUR CATALOGUE. 153-155 W.Jackson St., carry everything sold by Street Mer- ts:—Fountain Pea Outfits. Jewelry Lots, CHICAGO, - ILL. Notion I.MS. Auction Lots. Memo Books, Branches: 01*88 Gutter Knives; Flynn's, Hull's and PHILADELPHIA. - - I'A. P«erl'S8 Knife Sharpeners; Rug Needle Out- PORTLAND. - - -OKBGON. flu. German Collar Buttons, Combination Dippers. Watches. Jewelry, Cut'ery, Station- Please mention thv paper- ary, Staples and all the L vTE>T NOVEL- flF/M. Write for Cataloffu*; milled free. JHRYOGK TODD NOTI8N CO. 01T N. Fourth Street. ST. LOUIS, - MO. Crystal Park, EVANS & CO., Manufacturers, BUFFALO, N.Y. LOCKPOR.T. N. Y. FOR SALE—A good Ferris Wheel, Conderman's make, slightly used part of a season; also Located in the heart of the city, 572 several Nickel-in-the-Slot Tonophooes as good as to 582 Main St. Opens May 1st, 1905. new. Will sell Wheel, also Tonophonee cheap, We are ready to book any and all good going In other business. Address or call on attractions for our Free Midway. Per- MARTZJ">os nonnellsvllle. Pa. centage preferred. Address The above is a sample of our tl.OO halftone. Suitable for heralds posters, letterheads and newspapers. Send for complete line o Samples. Cute delivered prepaid when cash accompanies the order. Do You Want To Know Crystal Park Amusement Co,, Send us your photograph and $100 for a trial order. This will oou- What Is doing anywhere at any time In any line? If so. It Is our business to tell you. If 572 Main St., BUFFALO. N. Y. vinoe you more than anything we can say. "you don't know what you want, ask some- body." We can help you out. POCKET PANTS CREASES AND RIBBON Knoxvllle Engraving Co. sis Bate St., Knoxviiie. T AND THE IRONER. Heat It on the gas or PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU, lamps. By mall 26c. DRYER SUPPLY CO., 145 E. 23d St., New York City. L. til 206 E. Fourth St.. - CINCINNATI. O The Billboard's Free Emergency Service, TUMBELI MANAGERS In need of people by reuon of accident, sickness, indisposition •THE NEW GAME or death are invited to wire us at either Of oar offices stating their require- ments. All such wires are immediately bulletined on a very large black board For PARKS, SUMMER RESORTS, CARNIVALS and STREET FAIRS with which each office Is pro Tided. Many actors, actresses, performers, musi- cians and agents who are at liberty look in on us daily and they aJways read The most startling and amusing game ever put on the market. the bulletins on the board. This is a quick means of getting in touch with As a money maker, puts all the old style table games to sleep. the right people. This service is gratis. All Want Ads sent w for publica- tion are also posted the moment reoei red, and Managers frequently get appli- For Particular*, oall on or address. oatton before the paper containing their ad comes out. KLEIN & MILLER. 43 LEONARD STREET, NEW YORK CITY. At w Patentees and Manufacturers, „ THE BILLBOARD PUBLISHIN6 CO., our CHICAKO, 17! Washington St. IEW TORI, 1440 Brwdwij. CtlCIIIATI, 411-18 Elm St Elks & W, A, A, Indoor Fair Actor*. AetreMea, Performers. Tlii.l. l,m., Klx-rrtrlau*, Stajre Ilai»d», AAf-uli CONCESSIONS and ATTRACTIONS of all kinds wanted for Indoor and Advance Mem. AT LIBBatTY, In !»«w Vorfc, Chicago of Olnelnnanil are Fair from March 27th to April 1st. It's a good thing. Invited (o call at oar (HHcm and reglctor. JOHN KAISER, Chairman, Wabash, Ind. Special Attractions Wanted by SHELBY COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ONTARIO BEACH PARK For entire week September 5th to 9th, 1906. Must be new and thrilling. ON THE NEW YORK CENTRAL. Address J. WALTER ELLIOTT, Secy., Shelbyville, Indiana. MAY 30th . . SEASON OPENS . . MAY 30th February 27. Sensational - Oriental - Acrobatic - Performers PERMANENT ATTRACTIONS, Also Sie Hassan Ben All's Now Booking for Toozoonin Troupe Summer Season Animal Show or Dog and Pony Circus And Cbe IS Whirlwind! of ARABS the Desert. Address N. Y. City. For Terms Address JOHN J. COLLINS, Rochester. N. Y. RATERSO1N TRUNKS For Show Parade*, Hone and Pony Aet>, Al- •fin *5 75 CASH 30 in *« 5O Pnrpotei, etc. Bend for price ll>t. 5$ n» le oo WITH. 401« 97 50 nred br M. SCHABHBS, 012-614 Met- :<:) in »« 35 ORDER Send for <-m». Horse and Poney Plumes £ropolitan Are., Brooklyn, N. Y. run in-'1*111 i< TRUNK A MI BAG « «».. 15SC Colombia. Are., Philadelphia, PH. Umtim " TU MUlboard" what ontatrimg od». Mention "The Billboard" when answering aAt. Mmtian "Th* BMhoard" Wum omtMrui* ml* Mention "The Billboard" when answering ml*. Billboard

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