Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1917 — Down With the Street Sign. [ARTICLE]

Down With the Street Sign.

Signs that encroach upon the streets are a nuisance that ought not to be tolerated, and Philadelphia streets will o be safer and less cluttered up if the police will really the recent, municipal ordinance limiting the size and position of such structures. Signs of this character belong in the same class as overhead! wires. They are disfiguring to the streets over which they hang .and they introduce a distinct element of danger at time* of storm or f fl£e. We have been to indifferent or Indulgent in the past, dnd the growth of the signs under the stimulus of com- . petition has pgSsed the point of toleration.— Philadelphia Public Ledger. , *■ .••..Lx-..’. ft" - r • • :... . .. ...