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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
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of wooden construction and elevated from two to six feet 
from the ground. 
“The owner's name must surmount eveiw billboard. 
“Their construction must be approved and a permit issued 
by the building commissioner. 
“Wooden fences shall not be more than eight feet high. 
“Alterations of billboards and signs must be made within 
sixty days and fences immediately.” 
Building Commissioner Bartzen has been especially active 
in the crusade, and recently tore down some particularly 
offensive boards on a building opposite the City Hall. 
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Councilman Revelle, of Seattle, Wash., has introduced 
into the council of that city an ordinance regulating the 
erection of billboards and providing a fine for the violation 
of the law. The ordinance was referred to the fire aild 
water committee, and is as follows : 
“Section i. It shall be unlawful for any person to place 
or erect any billboard for the display of any advertising 
matter on any lot within the city of Seattle less than fifteen 
feet from any marginal line of such lot, and it shall also 
be unlawful for any person in control of any lot, as owner 
or agent, to knowingly allow or permit any billboard for 
the display of any advertising matter to be placed or" erected 
less than fifteen feet from the marginal line of such lot. 
“Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to place or 
erect any billboard for the display of any advertising matter 
on any lot within the city of Seattle at a greater height than 
six feet, and it shall also be unlawful for any person in 
control of any lot, as owner or agent, to knowingly allow or 
permit any billboard for the display of any advertising matter 
to be placed or erected at a greater height than six feet 
above the ground. 
“Sec. 3. Any person found guilty of any violation of this 
ordinance shall be fined in any amount not to exceed $ioo 
or imprisoned for any period not to exceed thirty days, or be 
both so fined and imprisoned.” 
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The Minneapolis Improvement League has started a vigor- 
ous agitation to remove the signboards which flank the 
entrance of the Central Avenue Bridge, as part of the clean- 
ing-up for the approaching convention of the G. A. R. 
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The Civic League of Red Wing, Minn., has adopted the 
novel method of offering prizes to school children for remov- 
ing advertising signs from telegraph poles, trees, walls, and 
other places and the local paper reports that they disappeared 
“as if swept away by a cyclone.” Eight prizes were offered 
for the largest bundles of the offending signs that were 
brought in. John H. Rich is president of the League. 
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Alderman Fuhrmann, of Buffalo, has drafted an ordinance 
to be introduced into the Council, in which it is made un- 
lawful to erect a signboard or fence more than seven feet 
high without permission of the Common Council and all 
such structures now existing are declared nuisances. More- 
over, all billboards are to pay an annual tax. The fee for 
such a license is placed at $25 for every fifteen feet of 
horizontal frontage of each billboard not over seven feet 
high, and $75 for every fifteen feet of horizontal frontage 
for each billboard more than seven feet high. All licenses 
are to expire on April 30th of each year, and may be re- 
voked by the Mayor at any time if the structure so licensed 
shall be held by him to be a menace, detriment or nuisance. 
Village improvement societies in a number of Massachusetts 
towns have been active in tearing down or securing the 
removal of obnoxious signs. In Blandford, a number of 
leading citizens started on the war path and tore down all 
they could find, even painting out signs on rocks and walls. 
“In the town of Franklin,” says the Frainiughain Tribune, 
“the Village Improvement Society secured authority to remove 
a big painted advertisement from the mammoth boulder near 
the Republican bridge. A letter recently sent to the flour 
manufacturing concern in the West brought back a reply 
that the concern was sorry for any trouble its agent had 
caused and requested the Village Improvement Society to 
charge the bill to the company.” 
At Wellesley, strenuous action on the part of good citizens 
transformed into kindling wood several great billboards that 
obscured the landscape and were otherwise an offense to the 
beauty of the town. 
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