Show J m SIGN PAINTING IX THE HOUGH How Fences and Kami arc Dashed With All Sorts of Advertisements No said an advertising sign painter I doesnt take much money or much enterprise to stick a few thousand little advertising boards along the railway and uagon roam it I air ery cneap ihat board there for instance six inches by three feet in size costs only 30 per 1000 Thats only 3 cents apiece Very very cheap A couple of cheap boys with a cheap horse and wagon can put up 200 oem o-em in a day The lettering is all done by stencil You can get em four feet long for 40 a thousand 5 feet for 50 am sOon Take that heavy board with the trimming a foot wide and six feet long painted in blue and white thats only 50 cents when ordered in 500 of 1000 lots That will wear through many years Theie isnt as much of the sign advertising advertis-ing business done as there was years ago The newspapers are monopolizing everything every-thing This snipe work along the railroad road fences and country roads hangs out about as well as anything Of course the patent medicine firms send out their own men who do nothing else but travel and paint We have done a good deal of that work for Chicago merchants As a rule sniping is the best and it doesnt cost anything V < s9cla em < on anywhere But where there is a really good fence or bar it is usually taken uPright up-right quick Fences are sometimes sold but not often Barns usually bring 5 There are mighty few farmersthat wont permit their bars to t ba daubed for 5 I though once in a while we strike a crank that you couldnt buy for love or money I remember one case out on the Niles Centre gravel road A f fanner had just put up a beautiful barn iwith cleatings cupalo weather vane everything nice I was all ready for the painters We came along and found the farmer gone to town His wife was at home Did she want the barn painted for nothing She was undecided Finally we found out she wanted a new cloak and we gave her an order for 5 toward the new cloak on I the house we were working for and told her wed paint the barn nicely and the little advertisement would not hurt it The cloak order caught her and we went to work When we got through with that barn it was black from gutter to gable roof and all except where we had put on 01 the white letters Just as we got through the farmer came home He hardly knew his own place and came near driving by Mad He was the maddest man you i ever saw He was going to arrest us shoot us burn the barn down and all I such things But his wife got her cloak and the black and white still stands Sometimes we work a good fence on the sly Many a time have I crawled through a field on my hands and knees with my bucket and brush hung around my neck in order to get 3 fence and get it painted unobserved I painted a splen did fence once and was nearly all the afternoon at it when the owner was planting plant-ing potatoes right on the other side of it I Once he actually sat down on the ton ni I the fence and when he got up had a streak of paint horizontally across his pantaloons But he never discovered the job until after had got away When a job like that is done there isnXmuch USP to kickChjcago Herald tmuc1use |