T, I. 'WILION‘.» ‘ OrdereforAdvertlsing. Papers and ' 1. Printing Will Receive Prompt * ' .- Attention by Addresslniz ‘5. ' Box 104. Wilton. Little Helen Sturges of ‘Cannors, is on the sick list. . The next meeting of the Country club will be with Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Lambert of South Wilton. Mrs. Eli Bette of Cannons, who has been suffering from the grip, is now convalescent. " ‘ ‘ | The Reading Circle - will meet' with Mrs. Henry Ch‘ichester to-morrow af- t , ternoon. Miss Lottie Wilson of Norwalk‘ has been a recent guest of her aunt, Miss Baymond of Belden Hill. . Albert Quickof London, who has been stopping with his sister, _Mrs. quand, left on Monday for Bethe]. Ernest Hunt of New York was the . guest of his brother-in-law, J. C. .De Witt, during the last week. The Woman’s Auxiliary will-meet at St. Matthew’s Rectory, this after... nobn. ' Mr. Wancke, one of Cannons’ pros- perous farmers, is delivering his fine : crop of Hungarian grass to Norwalk merchants. ‘ _ Casper Zoellinger of South Norwalk and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Underrimer were guests-of Jacob Miller on Sunday. The meetings of the Orange in Wes- ton are often attended by our Wilton farmers who report much valuable in- formation gained. The Wilton members of. the D. A. R. will attend the meeting of their Chap- ter at the Central Club rooms Norwalk, tomorrow afternoon. . » The hospitable residence Of Justus Raymond was the scene of gaiety and enjoyment on Friday evening last. A large number of guests being enter- tained. A number of friends from N or- walk were present. The annual meeting of the Mission Band was held at-the residence of Mrs. Augustus Merwiu on Friday afternoon. - Miss Sterling of Stratford was present and read an interesting report. A fit- ting tribute was paid to the memory of ' Miss Car‘rie Comstock, the late vice president. A dainty lunch was served ' at the close of the program. ' The rite of baptism was administered to Florence Hazeldine, the little daugh- ter of Mrs. Slack of Philadelphia, at St. Matthew’s church-on Sunday. The devotees of whist, the members of the Vetel'an club, meet every week . for' duplicate . whist. .. A ,. strict silence, . under penalty of a fine is observed throughout the game. . The ladies of the Congregational church met at the Parsonage on Wed- nesday last, and devoted their time to Home Missionary werk with gratifying results. ' ~ The Board of Belief met at the town hall on Monday. Another meeting of the board will be held on Saturday. The pet goat of the Miller boys, was hit by a falling tree on Saturday and is now sufi'ering from a "swelled head.” An especially interesting meeting of the Christian Endeavor Society was held on Sunday evening. Letters were read from Rev. Eamee and wife of ’Col- orado, the grateful reciprents of the Xmas barrel. The meeting was led by Mrs. Stephen Thayer. August Rux of the Cheese Spring road was attacked by a mad dog on Sunday. Mr. Rux seized a heavy stick and killed the animal with one blow. The dog was' a hound that had been reaming in the West woods. The social meetings of the. Magazine club, which met with sucn furor two years ago are to be revived. The rst one will be held at the residence of Mrs. Hill, this Friday evening, Janu- ary 22d.- We all retain pleasant memor- ies of the last meeting, which was so i agreeably entertained by her. A “lit- erary symposium,” which has been prepared by an, efficient committee will be the order of the evening. It is hoped that all the members of the . Magazine club will be present. a to HURLBUTT STREET. f The Independent’s Hall or club room was raised last Wednesday, Frederick _o Partribk acting as head carpenter. . The building is located on West Main street near the house of William Abbot. . At present each club numbers ten each. A pool table will be provided and one cent a game will be charged to the members. No games will be played ‘ between 12 o’clock p. 111. Saturday and ['12 p. 111. Sunday. Any one making a disturbance of anykind will be fined. No hard drinks of any kind will be al- lowed in the building. For the accom- F modaticn‘of the club, cigars, tobacco 1, and candy will be kept. ‘, The Norfield Grange held a business meeting at the house of John Jackson Monday, January 11. Mrs. Jackson has been appointed “Flora” and is a delegate to a meeting of the Pomonia Grange meeting at Shelton. , Miss Lillian Bennett, 'of N orwa'k, has been visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Jane Bennett. ' The Rev. Mr. ‘—_ -w l; Hutchins, form arly cf NewHavenwas aboutjthe place last week , § .. \ ' Frost. .dren. taking the Connecticut Bible Society’s religious censuo, which is ’taken every ten years. James B. Bedient and wife, Mrs. Stuart and Miss Ryder spent Sunday in Danbury. _ The Eastern Division or ”Wilton Sporting Club” has its building about completed. The officers are said to be Charles Ambler President, William Geoppler Treasurer and Percy Knapp Secretary. CHESTNUT "HILL. William S. Gorham is the happy father of a little one, born Jan. _17th. ivy OBITUABY. CHARLES T. RAYMOND. ~ The sad news reached Norwalk from Stamford, that Mr. Charles T. Ray- mond had expired with unexpected sud- denness there, Wednesday. Mr. Ray- mond was in his 41st year and a Son of Samuel Raymond, President of the. Raymond & Comstock Hat company of South Norwalk, and was the brother-in- law, by marriage, of General Russell the New York firm of Hitchcock, Der- mody & 00., Hatters’VF'irs. He was a young man of kindly and winning dis- position and'was esteemed by all who knew him,fdr his upright,generous and attractive qualities. His last days were clouded- and sad dened by a mental malady, which has terminated his earthly career, and at a time when all the bright hopes and prizes of a joyous and prosperous career seemed opened up before him. He leaves a widow, Dudlena P., daughter Of the late Dudley P. Ely and two young sons, with hosts of friends to mourn the close of an earthly career so unusually bright in the pros pects of success and usefulness. D. B. LOCKWOOD. , Judge D. B. Lockwood, one ofthe leading criminal lawyers in Connecti- cut, died at his home in ‘Bridgeport, Tuesday after an illness of a few days. Judge Lockwood was a man of large stature, being about six feet three inches tall, and until a recent ill- ness weighed about 335 pounds. He had always been one of the prominent figures at the meetings of the famous Fat Men’s association, of which he was president for several years. Mr. Lock- wood was born at Weston, January '7, 1827. He was graduated from Wesleyan University In 1849, and was admitted to the bar in 1851. He enlisned in the Second Connecticut Light Artillery in 1862. He leaves a widow and five chil- ______...___‘- .— Attached. An attachment for $7,000 has been placed on what is knoWo as the Fred Mead residence on Union Park, to cov- eraclaim of Stephen H. Holmes for 84,000; the Holmes, Keeler & Selleck Co. for $2,500 and E. K. Lockwood & Co. for $500. The papers were served by Deputy sheriff Lyon. The place which is now in Mrs. Mead’s name is heavily mortgaged. _ Broke His Leg. ' A horse belonging to Andrew John- son of West Norwalk, fell and broke one of its legs on West avenue last Wednesday,and later was put out of its misery with a well directed shot froma revolver in the hand of Ofiicer More- house. WAS IN CONSTANT MISERY. —— A Carpenter’s Life Saved by ”the Puritana. Treatment. 1‘ R. George H. Denny is a carpenter who has always worked in the vicin- ity of South Northfield, Vt. He is about 35, tg'ight, ener- getic and favorably known. He lives near the head- quarters of Dog River, on the high land that divides the waters of the Connecti- cut and Winooski river; Here is his statement: . . “About a. year ago I was taken with kidney trouble in one of the worst forms. I was passing from. four to six quarts Of water every 24 hours, and my trouble finally ran into diabetes. I had had kidney trouble before, and had some- what recovered when the second 'attack came last fall. I employed a. doctor all last winter, with no favorable results. I worked all the time, but was in con- stant misery, and if I had kept on I would not now have been alive. ' The dis- ease reduced my weight from 180 to 145 pounds, and during all the time I got no relief until‘I began to use Puritana. I commenced the. Puritana treatment last April, and used three or four bot- tles. The first results were felt in my stomach, which improved rapidly, so that I could eat and digest my food com- fortably. The next result was that my bladder was restored to its normal con- dition. I have been well all summer, although I left off using Puritans. in June. I think Puritans. is the best reru- edy that I have ever known, and un- hesitatingly recommend it to others, for whose good I publish thls'leitter. . .. (Signed) “George H. Denny.” This is only one example of what Puritans. cain do and is doing every day for suffering men and women. Puri- tans. is the prize formula. of Prof. Dlxi ' Crosby of Dartmouth College, and by its action on the, stomach it cures trou- bles of ,the' blood, nerves,"hea.rt,, liver. kidneys and other vital organs. a,“ ' ‘-——- w. ._ fa...- -—-~ | The deceased was a member of: -m. Senator Platt to Succeed Himself. ' HABTFOBD,CONN. ,J an. 19, 1897.—Both houses of the General Assembly to-day, I by separate action, elected Orville H. i Platt, of Meriden, United States Sen- »‘ star, to succeed himself, for ‘six years, from March 4, 1897. The vote in the; Senate was unanimous—24. In the House the vote was 19624 to, for Joseph R. Sargent (democrat), of New Haven. Both houses will meet at noon to-mor- row in joint convention and ratify the . “election. _ ' , i Of'United States Senator Orville H. Platn'wbo today, at Hartford. is re- elected to succeed himself, the able, honest and fearless Colonel Osborn. Editor of the democratic New Haven Register, hasthis to say, in his Sunday letter to the New York Herald:— "Senator O. H. Platt, Connecticut's senior representative in the upper branch of Congress, indeed dwells ser- enely and securely in the affections of his party in this State when it rises up as one man and says to him. ‘Well done, good and faithful servant,’ go on with thy labors. It is a compliment not usual in these days, when the ambitious would slay with the weapons known to practical politics, without waiting for dead men’s shoes. The speeches which were made in the legislative caucus, and which resulted in his nomination by acclamation, do not give a stranger an adequate picture of him. Judge Roraback likened him to Sherman and Quay, ‘peers of the Ienate,"and Joe Barbour revived the familiar comparison of Platt to the martyred Lincoln. As a matter of fact Platt possesses neither the intellectual timidity of Sherman, the political sagacity of Quay, nor the philosophy of Lincoln: He isa more courageous man than his Ohio colleague, and a cleaner man politically, than the member from Pennsylvania. His resemblance to Lincoln isapurely physical one. He is tall and gaunt, homespun in every lineament of his face, and awkward. He is not as shrewd as Lincoln was, for he does not possess Lincoln’s powerful sense of humor. Like Lincoln, how- ever, he is free from cant and humbug. Taking him all and all, and not leave ing out his intense partisanship, for he is a partisan to the backbone, Senator Platt is an industrious, conscientious man, who has grown very useful to his State and his country, through nearly twenty years Of service, and who enjoys the respect of his fellow citizens. His dominant quality is his hard common sense, which is furthur strengthened by more sentiment than he is given credit for. He is neither brillant, imaginative nor magnetic. He is “a splendid type of useful New England citizenship, which is something more tangible.” . In personal appearance, Senator Platt, now in his later and riper age, strongly resembles his warm and life- long personal friend and predecessor In the Senate, our gifted townsman, the late Orris S. Ferry. Like Ferry too, Platt is as free from airs or cant or de- ceit, as unselfish, and honest, as was the late lovable Ferry. God bless him. ‘0: Frederick Smith, aged ”‘30, a house painter, fell from a staging at Anemia Wednesday afternoon and was'instantly killed. ‘ —Place your adv. in the GAZETTE checkerboard directory. ' iregarded as for the good of the regi- ment. ’It is hinted that there will be His. promotion to the captaincy'followed ——Advertise in the GazETTE. TliEil‘EWOFFIGERS. . Thelel'ectiOn-aof James Sheridan as colohel’and of Charles W. Hendrie as lieutenantgiccliinel of the Fourth regi- ment,ia1t.- .y-Bridgeport Monday, was confidently anticipated, and the elec- tion of the Major caused no surprise either. as the GAZETTE some days since announced the names of the suc- cessful officers. The promotions are considerable strengthening along the line 'of filling-companies to the full ratio and in other ways improving the stand- ing 'Of‘ the regiment in the service. Col. James Sheridan certainly ought to feel proud of his election and it is the . first time in the history of the Fourth regiment that the office of colo- nel h'asbeen unanimously tendared to any ofiicer. But it is no more than his due as in the opinion of his brother officers there is none so well equipped to fulfill the duties of regimental com- mander as he is. He has been in the service since 1868, when he enlisted as a private in Co E,~ 8th regiment. He was a private but a- short time and was soon promoted to corporal and sergeant in turn. He he- came second lieutenant in January, 1871. A few months later the company wasiohanged into Co. E, Fourth regi- ment. In May, 1874, he was promoted to first lieutenant, and remained in » i'oifihe till February, 1879. when he re- signed. He was out of the ranks for ust 13 days, and returned to his com- pany as first lieutenant again. 'He he- came captain of Co. E in 1880. He was promoted to major of the regiment in 1892 at the time Capt. Rus- sell Frost was made colonel. . In'lci vic life he has been a pro minent citizen of Bridgeport the major portion of his active life. He was born in Ire- land, and his father was an officer in the British army. Col. Sheridan came- to this country at an early age. and has been a resident of Bridgeport the last quarter of a century. ‘ He is a member of the board of Assessors of that city, Col. Sheridan has the appointment of seven commissioned officers and four non-commissioned officers. His most important appointment will be that of adjutant of the regiment. He will prob- ably name his stafi‘ within a week. Lieut. Col. Charles Hendrie of Siam ford enlisted as a private in Co. C, 4th regiment, April 29, 1886 ‘ On Dec. 27, 1889 he became quartermaster sergeant and on Jan. 27, 1890 he was elected sec- ond lieutenant of the same company. in July 20. 1891 and on J one 28, 1893 he was elected major of the second bat- ( talion. He is well and favorably known ‘ in civil life as in military circles, and is a great favorite among the officers and men of the regiment. Major Merritt F. White of the First battalion is a resident of Bridgeport and a member of the firm of J. S. White & Son. He entered the service as a pri- vate in Co. B, Feb. 18, 1884. He was elected corporal Nov. 17th, 1888, second lieutenant J une 3, 1890 and first lieuten- ant Jan. 1892. On Augut 9, 1892 he was elected captain of his company and is regarded as a model officer. Major Fitch enlisted in Co. C, Stam- ford, Nov. 19, 1888; became corporal, Aug. 3, 1891; second lieutenant, Aug. 24, 1891; first lieutenant, Nov. 18, 1892; captain, July 19, 1893. He resigned in January, 1895, and was re-elected cap- tain Jan. 9, 1896. He is a model ofiicer and the members of his company regret that they are obliged to part with him. Tl will For Farmers and Villagers. for Fathers and Mothers, in Sons and Daughters, for all the Family. W ill in Ill prominence, IIITIDIIL ,HIILY amily. With the close of the Presidential campaign THE TRI 'BUNE recognizes the fact that the American people are now anxiouslito give their attention to home and business interests To meet this condition, politics will have far less space and until another State or National occasion de— mands a renewal of the fight for' the principles for whic THE TRIBUNE has. labored from its inception to the pres ent day, and won its greatest victories. , Every possible effort will be put forth, and money free y spent, to make THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE pre-eminently a use. was washed ashore yesterday. NEWSPAPER, interesting, instructive entertertainlng and indispensable to each member or} the Tribune (both Papers} ONE YEAR FOR ONLY $1.00, ”W... , We furnish The Weekly Gazette and New York LWeekly HishomewasinAdrian, Mich. CASH IN rooms aromas To THE GAZ ET E Write your name and address on a postal card, send it to Geo. W. Best, Room Tribune Building, New York City, and a sample copy of THE NEW YORK WEEKLY TRIBUNE will be mailed to you. e. A. FRANKIE. THE HAIR CUTTER No. 1 Gazette Building, Norwalkfig no'r AND COLD cans . The Hawaii Fire Insurance (It Has now Completed ts 32d SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS YEAR. And has notoutstanding a dollar of unpaid losses or claims for losses. No some com ; pany insures for less A . G. McIlwaine,Pres..G. B. _ F, 3. Shaw. Sec. Geo. B, Cowles, Resident Sec- St. JohnNice-Pre” Charles E. Nodine a former resident of Bridgeport but lately of Lee, Mass, died in that city on Sunday. He was at the time of his demise the defendant is a suit brought .by Esther J. Wood of, this city, in which the plaintiff claimed $5,030 for breach of promise. It is posy sible that the suit will end‘ with the death of the defendant, though it may be that it will be prosecuted against his estate. For years he conducted a large milk'route and managed the Sterling farm in Teumbull. Later he branched out in a dairy business at Bridgeport and then purchased the feed ‘store of Clarence Swan on State street. It was while conducting this business that he acquired posessron of Glynallyn farm in Lee, Mass. ' When Mr. Nodine announced that he was to move to Lee, he‘also announced that he was to be married, his choice being a Miss Maher of Bridgeport. The couple were married and at once took up their reSidehce on the farm in Lee. Soon after the marriage the friends of Mr. 'Nodin‘e were surprised to learn that he had been made the de- fendant in a breach of promise suit, .in which Mrs. Esther J. Wood of this city claimed $5,000 damages for a wounded heart. The suit was returned to court and is still on the docket. During his life Mr. Nodiue denied the charges in the suit. Warner & Ferris represented Mrs. Wood. ,..>_.____....__.. T0 MURDER THE SULTAN. The Young Turks Say Re Is a Mad Dog and Must Be Killed. LONDON, Jan. 18.—-The Young Turk agitation is spreading in the Balkan pe- ninsula. Placards posted on the walls of towns denounce the sultan in unmeasured terms. One placard which was torn down by the police Of Philippolis was printed in red ink. This has created a great stir and alarm among the Turks, as it is believed to indicate a determination to resort to vi- olent measures. The red printed placard read: “Sultan Hamid is 'knovgn to be mad, and our reli- gion prescribes us to kill every mad dog. The Young Turks, who have hitherto ab- stained from bloodshed, have now decided to assume the title of revolutionary and in future will use arms against the sultan and his followers. It is our duty now to kill, burn and ruin everything connected with the Yildiz kiosk. We shall blow it The proclamation concluded with call- ing upon the Turks to seek revenge, in- forming them that the hour to strike had arrived and adding, “Let every true Mos- lem do his duty.” ne Tins Found Biol—lame. BALTIMORE, Jan. 19,—The man who Was found wandering on the streets of Baltimore last, Wednesday withoutknow- ing who he was, where he came from or home is in Sumeld, Conn, and that he had a lady’s watch and $450 in money when he left home. 31: Hotel For Boston. BOSTON, Jan. 18.——A tract of land con- taining 17,623 square feet, at the corner of Charles Gate East and Commonwealth avenue, has been conveyed to Arthur Grim- shaw, who proposes to build there a. very large and fine fireproof family hotel;which, with the land, it is stated, Will cost $1,- 000,000. The Rest of the Party Shot. BONNY, Guinea Coast, Jan. 18. —A message has been received from Captain Boisragon and Consular Officer Locke, two of- the survivors Of Consul Phillips’ unfor- tunate expedition, stating that the re- mainder of the party were shot while on their way to Benin City. Germany's Population. BERLIN, Jan. 18,—The oflicial figures of the census just completed show the total population of the empire in December, 1896, to have been 52,279,901. The total population of Prussia at the same time was 31,855,123. Kyle In the Lead. PIERRE, S. D., Jan. 18.—The first Pop- ulist senatorial caucus was held, with no nomination on the last ballot, which stood: Kyle, 29; Locks, 12; Plowman. 11; Goody- koontz, 9. Another caucus will be, held tomorrow. Delgado Is Worse. HAVANA, Jan. 18.—Henry Delgado, the American who is a. prisoner at the hospital at San Ambrosia, is worse. Consul “Gen- eral Lee has requested that the young American be given better attendance. Dervishes Looking For Fight. ROME, Jan. 18.—Massaua advices are to the effect that a body of dervi'shes, be- lieved to be the advance guard of the en- tire dervish forces, has entered the Kedaref district and is moving on Agordat. Washed Ashore. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla, Jan. 18.—The body of Clarence Cladding, who was drowned while tryingto reach shore from the yacht Cocheco of! this coast two weeks Rotor Percy a Suicide. NEWARK, N. J., Jan. 18.——Edwa.rd Per- cy, a-member of a theatrical company, committed suicide here last night by in- haling gas in his room at Brady’s hotel. A Load 0n BIsICOnsclonce. ALBANY, Jan. 18.-—State Treasurer Col- vin has received 20 cents conscience money inclosed in an official envelope of the New York state assembly. Accompanying the money was an unsigned note containing the words, “Even 20 cents is too heavy a burden when the conscience has to bear it. ’ ' Genes-Al Morgan Retired. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—-Briga.dier Gen- eral Michael R. Morgan, commissary gen- eral of subsistence, was placed on the re- tired list Of the army today by operation of law on account of age. - He graduated from the West Point Military academy in July, 1864. Guide rat's-11y Injured. - SABATOGA, Jen. 19.—Benjamin Tanner of North River, a well known Adirondack guide, was fatally injured by a runaway team at North River. - ~~_....—-fi nun-an.» "5”" 31min. how he got here has regained his memory : -and .nowsays- he. is; John "Allen, that-his” * ‘ 3.. NEW" YORkIIIETTEE Chauncey, M. Depuy is world-famous ' for his jokes, and his reputation as a serious thinker often suffers from his almost continuous performance as e , . wit. It is not often, however, that the . “members of the press are‘ victims oi his Wiles; but in the case of his re ported engagement they seem 'to havd .been misled by their own desire for a story. When the announcement was made that Miss Collins was engaged to Re chid Bey, and was really not to marry Mr. Depuy, the latter laid back in his ~Chair at breakfast and laughedalong. mellow laugh. “That’s the best joke I’ve had on the boys of the press since I declined to accept a nomination for President,” he soliloquized. “Over eighty columns of assertion and denial in the New York papers alone! I told every one of ’em it wasn’t true, but they refused to believe me.” Miss Collins, on her mother’s side, is a relation of the Vanderbilts., Her grandmother was Mrs. Horace Clark. a daugher of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Her mother was Miss Lulu Clark, who became Mrs. Clarence Lyman Collins. Mr. and Mrs. Collins were divorced, and the wife married an Englishman named Midford. and upon his death, a Frenchman called Souverville. Upon her death, which occurred two years ago, her fortune de- scended to the daughter, Miss Edith Collins. Mr. Collins also married a second time, his present wife being formerly Miss Rose Beecher, an ac- tress. - Thirty-five men with pointed beards sat down to dinner in'a restaurant in Fifth avenue not long ago. They were members of the social .organization formed by men who are addicted to the Vandye variety of whiskers. Every member of the society has to subscribe to the following oath of allegiance: “I do solemnly swear by my heard that so long as I shall remain a mem- ber of the Society of Point-ed Beards I will support and defend the beards of my fellow members. be well as my own, against all harbors, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, and will allow no man to pluck me by the beard and throw it in my face.” The invitations were printed on crimson paper, and bore at their head a representation of a he-goat rampant, bearing in outstretched paws a huge tankard of a fluid resembling beer. The waiters were false Vandyke whiskers, as the society would not tol- erate smooth-faced men about it in- any capacity. A Washington man who came to New York for a visit and probably didn’t have enough money to pay his hotel bill, tells a Star reporter what Impressed him most in the metropolis. “I think I 'Was most struck,” he said, 'T'b‘ymaf dachshund that I saw trudging calmly up the street at the busiest time of day. Youknow the animal. He looks as if nature had started in to make a lizard. and finding that he was growing too big, had turned him into a dog. His body doesn’t stand more than five or six inches from the ground, and his paws look like flippers on a seal; He’s the most extraordi- nary anatomical specimen I know Of” “But you surely don’t mean to say you hadn’t seen a dachshund before.” “Oh, I’ve seen the animal many a time. It was the environment that made him interesting. .He was the only creature I met there who looked as if he hadn’t been having his leg pulled.” . Some years ago it was discovered that dead walls and roofs in this city ' had a value that the tax assessors didn’t take into consideration, and the discovery developed a set of men who made it their business to secure op- tions on all desirable spots and hold them for a rise in the market. The dead walls and roofs were in demand for lithographic advertisements rang- ing from Dr. Cureall’s pills to the lat- est' melodrama. ~There are scores of brokers now who deal exclusively in dead walls and advertising spaces, and Some of them have grown wealthy in the business. They keep a sharp look- out for all improvements in old build- ings or plans of a new building that give promise of a dead walker of a temporary wooden fence on whica lithographs may be'displayed. The bill poster buys the advertising rights on these places, and then he rents them out again at from 200 to 500 per cent. profit to the theatrical agents or pat- ent medicine men, as the case may‘be. For instance, a manager of a theatre not long ago paid a bill poster $125 a month for the right ‘to advertise on a board fence around a big building that v as being: constructed in the Tender. loin district. A bill poster who has grown old in the business said not long ‘ ago that there wasn’t an available ‘ dead wall in New York that wasn’t controlled by bill posters. Some of these energetic advertisers send agents ' all over the city at intervals to deco- rate every ash barrel with little dodg. ers that are known as “snipes.” When ' dead wall advertising was less com- mon than it is now, the theatrical man- agers valued it more highly. Their lithographs could be read ata glance, and they were not surrounded by lithographs of rival managers. The displays on the bill boards and dead Walls are now so numerous that they are confusing, and the managers and - the bill posters have very nearly come to an open rupture. CYRUS THORP. Time of Content. Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes once said that when he was young he liked his praise in teaspoonfuls, that when he got older he preferred it in tablespoons, . and that in advanced years he was content to receive it in ladies. .. m.._.—...-... _._. --_ -.--~.. .. .41, . .. ., .A..._-. -_-
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