The New York herald., 1877-01-14
KING OF THE BILL sTICKERs.


ANOTHER INJUNCTION TO RESTRAIN PAuLDING
FROM COVERING" OTHER PEOPLES BILLS
HIS CAREER AND ITS TERRoRs.
war among the.bill posters is tho meeting OF two
silent terrible forces something very like mortal
conflict People who read from the street windows
such lines in bold letters 'Forbdden Fruit" 'Mss
Multon' and 'sLemons' form adequate concep-
lion OF the watchulncss aud warfare neces-
saryto keep these conspicuousy displayed.
Scarcely week passes that tho manager OF somo
theatre is not in despair because his bills have boon
covered During the last week the obscrvant
traveller around New York might havc read In tho
course of his peregrinatons announcements lkc
these, edwin Booth Walking for That Cake" ''rho
Happy Mokc Forbidden" "All for Her Divorce"
"Danr Drucc Tanning the Shrew," "Tho American
Azurcnc Female Dathcrs,' and 'Niiss Mutton Tony
PASTORS Lemons. y Ii he had known the meaning of
these dreadful phrases he would have bscn aware that
another battle between the bill posters imminent
aud tho courts would be again invoked TO exert their
Intellectual authority shield tho bill boards from such
dreful desecration. Paulding was evidently at work
more compel the theatres to employ him and
his rivals of the business and on Saturday
Dir. William Reagan, OF No. 26 Ann street, died an
undertaking In the Court of Common Pleas, asking for
injunction the King of the bill stckers
from violating tho autonomy OF other princes in the
same line.
TIE KING OF THE BILL sTIcKERs.
Mr. Henry j. Pnuldng, who deserves this title by
the spirit and gallantry with which he maintains his
pre-eminencc acquired his regal authority IN tho
same way all predatory chieains who preceded
him. As the good King Arthur aided BY his Knights
ofthc Round Table, put down all the turbulent kings
OF Britain, the great King Pauldng has overcome
all rival bill stickers He is however, not the first
ruler who the terror OF his peculiar domain
Nixon, OF untragrant memory, who died suddenly In
the Tombs morning from dslocaiion ol the neck.
was not only before hlm IN actual kngship but IA
hger's Office OF metropolitan theatre More than
once did the valiant Tooker tremoe at ms demands
employ through the fear engendcrcd by his arrogance
II iur assume that Nixon would mover have muir
dered Peicr but for the facility he acquired IN that
direction by browbcatng theatrical managers Ifthcy
resisted him no threatened them, and they were gen.
In from his approaches he covered their thrceshcct
posters with the worst rubbish that sought publicity
AS Sixoxs SUCCESSOR.
Paulding his successor in the kingship, If not so
bold, is not less terrible. Managers have fewer
lrcmbIe before him, but hoy have no less rea
fon 10 fear him. lie defies his rivals the theatres and
man in New York. 1t is only week or Two since he
fined $50 for deiyng the authority OF ono OF the
pay $3.50 for differing with the courts regard to his
rights Ia his own Kingdom. And now he has been at
u again covering tho sovereignty OF Mr. Reagan with
tsod moral weekly newspaper Mr. Paulding covered
his bills with the ''gutter snipcs OF naughty place
OF resort the west sdo when Mr.. Reagan llcd
his fences with Information touching soap and black
Ing Mr. Patldng washed and polished them after his
own fashion. Reagan's bllboards not safe day
night frnm lauldng's iucursons, and It was plain
that he must either overcome his adversary or nllow
his domnions be swallowed up In those OF the king
Of the bill sckers To this end he has just applied 10
Judge Joseph +. DAILY restrain Pauldng and his CO.
ndutors aud the law and the offender will again meet
face aco OF these fine mornings.
STICKING OTHER
II will thus be that bill sticking as an occupa
tion is exceedingly precaricus, and that the pill
stickers who are always at war with the theatres and
with each other, people one would prefer not TO
meet the dead hours Of the night When they
comparative peace, however their occupation is an
index OF the prosperity OF those who furnish mankind
with amusement or with SOAP When the bill stickcr
Is busy the rest OF tho world In the height OF enjoy
menL When the bill sticker is Idle the business of
amusement at low ebb or the unwashed and un-
polished poor buy either soap blacking.
Just the prevailing theatrical stagnaon WORKS
stlckers but all the tribe The flaming pictures of
impossible scenes IN impossible dramas In these dull
times seldom adorn dead walls and fences Nowadays
bill stickcrs not oiten ntrustcd with tho fattering
portraits OF seading ladies or pictures OF distn-
guished sars'' in the most marvellous OF attitudes.
The of the theatres Is dull that does not
even pay to advertise. II Is this perhaps that puts
Pauldng his aud induces him 10 try to mako
bill sticking both Improbable and impossible to his
enough the king OF the bill stickers and that there
Is his kingdom for the princes OF his pro-
fession At any rate lie has again dched the law and
the courts but 1t remains to be seen whether Reagan y
wrongs be rcdrcssed or whether Pauldng is to
commune TO exercise his sovereignty undisturbcd.