PARK AND CEMETERY. 
IX 
THE BILLBOARD CRUSADE 
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private property, and if eventually it 
is entirely upheld, which seems probable, 
it will be the opening wedge to success- 
ful legislation against billboards through 
out the United States. 
The letter is from L. E. Desbecker, 
corporation counsel of Buffalo, and 
reads as follows ; 
“Judge Hazel of the Federal court 
of Buffalo yesterday filed his decision 
in the billboard case of the Gunning 
System vs. Fire Commissioners, by 
which he holds that the ordinance which 
prohibits and penalizes the erection of 
billboards more than seven feet high 
is a valid exercise of the city’s police 
power. As the complaint, however, al- 
leges that the structures involved in the 
action are not billboards, but bulletin 
boards, he permits it to file an excep- 
tion to the plea, with a view of deter- 
mining this question. The structures, it 
is claimed, are not billboards, because 
bills are not posted or pasted thereon, 
all advertisments, etc., being painted 
on tin which is tacked on the wood. 
I have little fear of this issue and I 
am quite confident of winning the case 
on every point.” 
Atlantic City Passes Ordinance 
An ordinance regulating the erection 
of signs has been passed by Atlantic 
City. N. J. Some of the terms are as 
follows ; No structure shall be used as 
an advertising sign attached to a build- 
ing whose surface exceeds fifty square 
feet, without a permit from the bui d- 
ing inspector; detailed plans must ac- 
company applications for signs; the in- 
spector is given authority to inspect and 
condemn unsafe signs; a certificate of 
approval shall be given for all signs 
properly erected; fees shall be charged 
for signs at rates ranging from $3 for 
100-foot signs, up to $30 for 600-foot 
signs ; a penalty, not to exceed $100, 
may be imposed for violation of the 
ordinance. 
Widespread Legislative Action 
Pain to the eye of mankind seems at 
last about to produce a long-delayed re- 
bellion, says Collier’s Weekly. After 
a bitter fight a tax of one cent per 
square foot per year has been placed 
upon billboards in Los Angeles, re- 
turning some $52,000 a year to that city, 
which has twenty-five miles of bill- 
hoards. New York City, through its 
assistant corporation counsel, John P. 
O’Brien, ts waging a war on illegal bill- 
boards. Five suits have already been 
entered against the O. J. Gude Co. The 
Chamber of Commerce of the city, of 
Pittsburg is undertaking the restriction 
of billboards in that city, and similar 
action is being taken in Cincinnati. Bos- 
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