Automatic Age

6
T h e A u t o m a t ic A ge
Cub Reporter Sees
Reorganize Inter­
locking Vending
His First Machine
Corporations
A hmumorous article is found in
New Y ork— The Trans-Lux Day­
light Picture Screen Corporation, has
signed a long contract with the P ro­
jector Advertising Corporation, o f
which Bert A. Atwater, V ice-Presi­
dent o f the Wm. W rigley, Jr., Com­
pany, is President, fo r the rental o f
a minimum o f 5,000 automatic ma­
chines especially designed by the
Trans-Lux Company fo r advertising
purposes.
The other officers and directors of
the P rojector Advertising Corpora­
tion, which will exploit Trans-Lux
devices exclusively, are: Harry A.
Shields, form erly o f the W rigley or­
ganization, now President o f the Hoff
Vending Corporation o f America,
which company distributes exclusively
W rigley gum in penny packages in
vending machines; Henry S. Parker,
o f the.firm o f Joseph W alker & Sons;
Maurice E. Davis, President o f the
Davis Equipment Corporation, and
Stephen Peabody, Jr., o f the firm o f
Peabody & McKenna.
The new advertising machine util­
izes some o f the m ost important
Trans-Lux
patents, including the
Trans-Lux screen. It makes possible
the display in colors o f twenty to
thirty advertisements which rotate
automatically.
A New Operator
Y our sample copy o f A U T O ­
M A T IC A GE received and will say
it is something to be appreciated by
all operators. I am a small operator
just starting and want the new Age.
A m enclosing check fo r $1.00 fo r 1
years subscription and would like to
have all back numbers if possible to
get them.
W M . F. ROGERS,
R. D. No. 2,
Lancaster, Pa.
© International Arcade Museum
the Savannah (Ga.) Press, apparently
written by a yokel reporter:
“ The ingenious method alleged to
have been employed by J. B. Neely,
Ran Carswell and Albert Kemp, the
later two colored, in converting chew­
ing gum machines into money ma­
chines is very interesting. The men
were bound over to the city court
from police court
yesterday
on
charges o f operating gambling houses.
Each machine has three disc wheels
with various fruits inscribed about
the rim o f each wheel. The operator
puts a coin in the coin slot and
mashes down on a lever which turns
the three discs o f the machine. These
wheels revolve a number o f times and
then stop. Certain fruits stop at an
indicator which is located about mid­
way o f the machine. I f one fruit on
one disc and the same kind o f fruit
on the other disc stop simultaneously
and parallel with the indicator the
m oney machine “ pays off,” it is al­
leged. The amount o f return varies
in accordance with the amount agreed
upon b y the operator. Each chance
costs five cents. I f three fruits o f
the same kind stop parallel to each
other and the indicator then more
money is won by the person pulling
the machine, it is alleged.
Sometimes the person taking the
chance would receive nothing while
at other times he would get nickels
ranging from tw o to twenty in num­
ber, it is alleged. The money is al­
leged to have been paid by the oper­
ator when the player won.”
A Pittsburgh Operator
Please find check fo r ($1.00) fo r
which enter my subscription fo r your
magazine. I like it as I saw your
sample o f the January issue. W ith
all best wishes fo r success.
M. G. H U R N E Y ,
156 Olympia St.,
Pittsburgh, P«a.
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