New-York tribune., 1901-12-06

sent A letter to the Fine Arts Federation pc
cause this is a representative body OF men, VIZ
] have no doubt will recommend some siSh
,rbicb will ne of beauty as well a good gulde
I have asked these men either to appoint d SUI SUI
committee to consider this question OF 10 pei
nit me consult them in Whatever way 'e'
please. D., .as+;o-s al
ready Some would have the name OF the strtet
nr;nted on the sign in the same direction as the
street runs and others favor the scheme Mhc.
was partly introduced a year OF Iote re, .paat
nlacing the name at right angle with the stree.
The particular kind of sign Is not SO llPol 'i =.
as regularity in the placing of the signs. as AS -
stands now there is a different scheme every
few blocks.
7, order +o learn exactly where there are signs
and whore they have been destroyed, Mr.. Cantor
will take trip over the city as far as possipie
in an automobile on Monday. He said yesle'uaS
, that it would probably be some time before ne
could decide exactly what kind Oh sign ousii'
to be adopted ,,,
Here are two of the hundreds OF letters witch
the Borough President-elect has received Inc
first which recommends Commissioner Nearby >
plan, follows:
une also have been interested in the mater OF
street signs am not one OF those nose, amps year
or so ago; that well meant e11or, 10 @ si,e
@ IL DID not go far CROUCH My idea to
improve upon the plan OF the SomnsSioigIa Ia mn ~
On streets and avenues through which M run sur sur,
| face cars ! would put on the paIt oI tlle .t
| facing the roadway the name OF the cross street
on the corner of which the lamppost was Stdhuiiis
on the sides of the lamps facing up and COW" .iie
avenue place also the name or number OF the the
street and on the part of the @ lamp ann
the houses put the name or nunper Oh liie az
Thus for instance, person is riding say IN "A Am n
| eter6am-aye II is to be presumed he knows ne is
| in Amsterdam-ave., and doesn't need TO ne n n
! formed of it at every street crossing what ne ne
the street he is crossing. If he is walking up or
| down the avenue he knows he is in 1t and ne can
the side OF the lamp the hahe vi ui"e' VI
| 7 hold that persons riding nowadays in the fast
running street cars cannot @ zen @ ns on sj5es ~
the iamps particularly if the weather is damp
! rainy and windows are blurred and steamy- one
| needs the sign square In 'front.'.
| The round boulevard lamps, as 1hey are calleo,
are the worst as the signs are IN small ngures
over the reflector. Where electricity has dlspiaced
gas lamps some other means of Illuminating signs
will have to be provided but 1t should Ir9 be on the
| lines suggested. L. r. BlNGHAM
! No 7O4 st Nfcholas-ave
The second letter, from a Quaker of Bristol
| Penn, follows:
Jacob A. Cantor, President-elect of the Borough OF
| Manhattan. New-1ork >,
! Respected Friend: Although personally stranger
TO thee my interest having street signs properly
| placed at intersections in this town lncites me to
incose clipping from the Newly ork letter to The
| Public Ledger" and to add my testimony 10 the
writer's in regard to the woful lack of these in
| dispensable helps strangers in getting around
| the city. Some months ago, riding through Fulton
wonderfully plain way in which the street corners
there marked, the signs being SO placed that
| they were easily read from the swiftly moving
! electric cars thus facilitating rapid transit and
giving the stranger sense OF ease SO almost en-
! Hoping that thy efforts In this important part OF
| u1unfcipal housekeeping will be successful &c
| theV now are in any city in this country or in
/ Europe. and with my best wishes for the new ad-
| your city, am, with respect thy friend.
| JOHN c. MAUI.E.