The Dickinson press., 1901-04-20

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IS are lowering. about waiting to be
sent out, and everywhere are gay EVIL
dences Of the results Of all this labor.
"Who w the men that paint these
heroic pictures one sees on unused
wallis and lofty ~fences?'' asked a. re-
porter Of mi Of the men who keeps
these subordinates busy.
"They are not the people you think
them, I fancy" was the answer. Elm
stead Of being daubers, with about the
ability necessary to WELD a whitewash
brush, our best men are real artists.
By this ! mean that many Of them
have had years Of training in drawing
and color work. Several Of them have
studied abroad In the ateliers OF well
known men. Aman whom 1 saw paint
ing a head on a wall yesterday is q
night Instructor in a Brooklyn art
school. Recently one Of our men paint
ed ;on q large wall the biggest portrait
ever attempted. He had studied FIVE
years in the Paris art schools"
"Why do they Take up this work?"
"The other doesn't pay. It's q 8
of 'commercialism in art They find
that they can't make the real thing
pay, SO they come to this common
calling. There's money in It. Why,
our star painters get $50 q week. The
daubers, who put In backgrounds,
don't earn more than SO or SIG a
week"
The men who paint the designs In.
various inaccessible and conspicuous
places have with them small copies.
Of the designs to be reproduced. Long
experience makes them expert in tac-
~curately tracing the design upon the
chosen surface. Although the familiar
advertisements scattered over the city
seem exactly alike and n face seems
the exact counterpart of another, yet
closer inspection will show various
points Of difference. In the casefOfSa;
very familiar picture which is display.
ed from one end Of the United States
to the other, when It was first brought
out one man was hired for the sole
purpose Of painting that q design,
and to do this he travelled from Maine
to California. 5~as-ssss$S
""Not the least Of our diflculties,''
said the advertising man, .'is finding
places to put our signs. We hire men
who do nothing else hut goYabout and
obtain permission from owners to put
up billboards. on their premises, use
a vacant wall or decorate q fence or q
root. It needs great tact to do this.
When there are objections, they must
be overcome, and after this is done
the owner often gets the idea that his
available spaceSis worth thousands Of
dollars to us and to him. The expe-
riences Of advertising men among
farmers and tramps would make .
mighty interesting book"
"Why do you say trampsf'
"Oh, the tramps$are oursworst enc
mics. They build fires behind onr
billboards and burn them or else tear
them down out Of sheer wantonness.' ~.
When asked about the price a3blank
brick wall In q conspicuous part OF
New YorkSwould bring to it's owner II
he let 1t for advertising purposes, the
advertising man laughed and said he
could not tell that, but.he did not mind
saying that he was now paying $4,000
a year rent for q wall in the middle OF
the shopping district. .sThis Is not an
unusual sum to pay he added. s.for
such prominent positions"
Advertising Arms are liberal sub
scribers to all art magazines, particu.
|larIy to those French art periodicals
which display the newest drawings of
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