Automatic Age

T h e A u t o m a t ic A
Convention and
Exposition
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keeping rooms in addition. The ar-
^ngem ent fo r space at the hotel
saves a lot o f time in going back and
*°rth to the convention hall. Both
conventions will be held on the mez­
zanine floor o f the Great Northern
®°tel in two conventoin halls donated
by the management.
L et’s All B oost
Reserve your space at once because
*le sooner you reserve the sooner you
Set your salesmen boosting the con­
vention. The salesmen are livewires,
and several o f them have been to the
AU TO M A TIC AGE office lately to
Set cards to hand the operators. I f
can get fifty or a hundred sales­
men who travel throughout the coun­
ty to boosting the convention we
have an army o f operators on
hand.
The manufacturers are preparing
organize am ong themselves and
they Wjij have some interesting busi­
ness to discuss. The manufacturers
committee on organization is as fo l­
lows:
H. F. Hance, Hance Manufacturing
~o> Columbus, O.; Earl D. Fuller,
l ” e Northwestern Corporation, M or-
111.; Irl E. LaGrange, the Pulver
^°mpany, Inc., Rochester, N. Y .; J.
McNutt, the Michigan Coin Lock
r'Onipany, Indianapolis, Ind.; P. C.
^mith, o f the Exhibit Supply Com­
pany, Chicago; and O. D. Jennings,
O. D. Jennings & Company, Chi­
cago.
Committees working on the Con­
a t i o n and Exposition are made up
r°m members o f National Operators
Association and are as follow s;
finan ces, John Hilgers, Chairman;
Exposition, E. H. Funke, 3055 N.
estern Ave., Chicago, Chairman;
.R e c e p tio n , William Zimmerman,
Chairman;
A
committee
on
entertainment
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headed by Messrs. O. E. W agner and
W m. Sheade.
Mr. George A. Grastorf, was ap­
pointed secretary o f the national con­
vention matters. He may be reached
at 4902 W est Adams St., Chicago,
and his telephone number is Austin
7220.
Pigeons Patronize
Vending Machines
“ In fron t o f a candy store in
Broadway, Union Hill, N. J.,” writes
G. L. Androus, a New Y ork designer,
“ is a glass globe peanut receptacle.
A boy dropped his penny in the slot,
taking out the peanuts. Tw o pigeons
flew up, each pushing the other away
to get his head in the opening fo r the
pieces o f nuts left.
Afterward I
dropped a penny in, leaving some
peanuts in the opening. The pigeons
flew up as before and fought each
other to get what was left.
“ They kept flapping their wings to
keep themselves in place, as there
was nothing they could rest on. A s
I have your paper I always look fo r
your interesting articles. Only I wish
they could be longer. The pigeons
made me think o f you. I think you
could get them to take food out o f
your hand.”
There can be no doubt that the
descendants o f the rock pigeon o f
Europe, living often as free citizens
o f our American towns, have evolved
somewhat. They show bits o f wis­
dom acquired from nibbing albows
with us. Many a man feels in the
telephone slot to see if an unretrieved
nickel is there.
J. O T IS S W IF T ,
In New Y ork W orld.
Ready for Business
The International M ultoscope Reel
Company, o f 643 Gardner street.
Union Hill, N. J., who recently sus­
tained some damage to their plant,
report they are now prepared to take
orders
fo r their
multiscopes in
greater quantities than ever.
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