' At least two tickets are given for every
place we put a piece of paper on. These tickets are numbered
and signed. Now, if a fellow out in Kankakee, we will say,
should chance to tear down the bill, when he presented his ticket
at the gate on the day of the show, it would be refused.
He'd pay or stay out."
"But how would they know he had taken down the poster,"
questioned Phil.
"Checkers follow along at intervals and check up every piece of
paper we put up. We send the record of our work to the car back
of us and they in turn send our and their reports to the car
behind them."
"It is a wonderful system, indeed," marveled Phil.
"Yes. To go back a little I will say that this is a 'scout car'
or what is known among showmen as 'the opposition car.' It goes
only where there is trouble, where there is opposition.
For instance, more than half a dozen shows are coming into
this territory, this season, and it is up to us to cover
every available space with our paper before their cars get
on the ground."
"But will they not paste their bills over yours, over those you
have already put up?"
"They seldom do. It is an unwritten law in the show business
that this is not to be done."
Teddy had come up to them in time to hear the last remark.
"I thought there wasn't any law, written or unwritten, in this
business," he said.
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