Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1917 — POLES AND WIRES HURT CITY [ARTICLE]

POLES AND WIRES HURT CITY

Los Angele# Newspaper Complain# of Conditions Which Work Harm in Many Other Municipalities. The residents of Los Angeles are to be congratulated ir the city .shall Quickly acquire the privately owned lighting systems and avoid the multiple pole-and-wire systems now borne by the northeast districts. In the latter, in Gnrvnnza and Highland Bgrk districts particularly, more landscape beauty has been blotted out in a few months than the residents have been able to create In several years. Poles and wires are everywhere, trees despoiled, private property rights violated. in stringing wires without permission, apd all the evils ushalty attendant upon service by employees protected in their vandalism JET clyll service. It Is most sincerely hoped that acquisition of existing lines by the city will result in the removal of at least two-thirds of the present Jun-. . gle, for the district Is now despoiled. —Los Angeles Times.