New Britain herald., 1914-07-22
ID BILL" K|LL|P
 WAS DEAN OF fAk|RS
Recently Near PittsbuIg Aged
 90 Years.
(New York Worldly

(NeW Ork w OTlO.)
 Old Bilf'- Killip, the dean of street
 lrs, died near Pittsburg few
 ks ago. aged about 90. He had
 n living by his wits from the time
 was a boy of 16 in New England
 toring broken down horses and
 ing them as sound.
 was Killip who introduced the
 cred Dancing Turkeys From Per
 and later Uncle Abe's Hair
 hightener," warranted to staight-
 he kinks out of the kinkiest wool
 ever sprouted on the head of a
 pred brother. For 40 years he was
 peripatetic tooth extractor, draw
 teeth with his thumb and forefin-
 lis office was a buggy. and he veled all over the country attract"
 crowds by playing a banjo, sing
 song in deep bass, and rattling ar filled with thousand evidences
 his dexterity. No charge was made
 extracting an aching molar, but managed to sell many bottles Of
 Sovereign Toothache Remedy
 tween pulls. To relieve the monot- S he occasionally sold the Magic lin Eradicator," small cake of Ap guaranteed to remove stains bm the clothing, stains from the len and stains from the character" draw attention he covered his |rse with a scarlet robe and his own Ire head with a thick father until had piled up cone-schaped, bthy helmet. A dollar bill was Fapped around one of the cakes of hp and covered with an outer tapping of tin foil It was then rown into a box with a hundred her cakes. similarly covered. and e audience was invited to pay 10 hts for grab and try to pick out e prize. New Workers who can go ok 30 years will recall the soap man Hing his ''eradicator'' in Nassau and in streets and lower Broadway.
 Had Dancing Turkeys.
 "Old Bills" main achievement, Iwever, was one of the cleverest and Dst amusing catchpenny tricks ever rpetrated although it couldn't be esented in New York today without lCk dCIlOI1 Dy II0 o. V. <1. 1A- ed, it didn't last more than two ys in this city in 1865, just after e surrender at Appomattox. The en old street fakir made 1t a rule
 avoid large cities; he gathered in 5 dollars from rural communities. le temptation to get some of the sol- ar money at the close of the war. wever, was too great, and Bill lrted his show up near the Hay- arket. He carried tent on sort blackboard, and on top of the flat 1ed-out canvas was a rectangular X covered with a black cloth. From thin, at intervals, could be heard g "gobble-ubble-u of turkey elk. An observant old philanthro- ;t discovered the trick on the second y in New York, and his threat to II the police drove Bill and his out.
 across the river to Jersey. He lveled without interference from rsey City to Trenton, thence to mden and from there west and 1th.
 The erection of the tent and the lging of the feathered performers ok less than an hour, with the as- tance of a couple of country boys. Ie box carried on the blackboard IS really a barred cage, six feet long, IT feet wide and five feet deep. The of and ends were of pine, and~the or was of thin sheet iron. Iron bars
 small diameter gas pipe formed g front and back sides and gave full view of two gaunt turkeys, lose necks were bare of feathers used by thrusting their heads be- cen the bars in vain. efforts to es- pc from their dance house prison. Outside the tent was a banner