Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-02-06
WHY NOT ABOLISH
THE BILL BOARDS?
This is the Question Women Are
Discussing at Meeting This
Afternoon.
WANT TO BEAUTlFY SALT LAKE
President Hewlett of Manufacturers
Association Behind the Move
ment---womcn' Program.

AT . meeting OF the Womans club
this afternoon nj tho home OF Mrs, A,
V, Taylor In Proportion place, tho club
women viii probably launch question
Of uuiting all women Of the city In
movement for n more beautiful Salt
Lake, Under the general question OF
what Can n Woman DO Towards
Making Greater and More Beautiful
salt Iakc2" the items that az present
AFRO detriments TO the citys growth.
viii be discussed, and treated Of length.
II IL probable that the bill board
nuisance win come In for general con-
alteration, and that arguments Will bo
advanced by Mrs, Taylor why these
boards should be abolished completely
In the residence districts and restricted
IN size In the main business districts,
OBJECTIONABLE SIGNS.
Reasons for making this change are
that boards do the city no good. IN
the way OF revenue. and bring IN very
little revenue to local parties. They
are owned chiefly by n sun francisco
Arm, and advertise mostly an objection
able class Of goods such as whiskles
and beers, which make poor reading
when one has to have them standing
next door to his residence, or perhaps
10 his church case IN point comes
from the Seventeenth ward. whore the
people have just erected ward chapel
at a large cost, and have done much to
beautify its grounds However, on the
next lot, huge bin board advertises
whiskles and Il must be seen by all
who gather there for worship as they
enter or leave the building
II Is also held that the bill boards
are unsafe In case Of high winds, and
are gathering places for thugs where
they can safely wait for victim. More
important than his they are frequently
used by small boys ~ n rendezvous, as
behind the protection they smoke their
first cigarettes and learn profanity such
as they seldom hear except in such
places.
OTHER CITIES ARE FIGHTING.
The bill board nuisance has become
such In the past few years, all over
the country the boards being built
mostly at the instance OF eastern con-
Germs which desire to place advertis-
ing generally across country and look
on this as good means TO do Il, Los
Angeles Is making n fight on them now.
the east generally Is taking It up, and Il
ia probable that the discussion this aft
ernoon win lead to campaign in Salt
Lake.
PRESIDENT HEWLETT OBJECTS.
President Hewlett OF the Manufacture
ers e. Merchants association states that
he liz heartily I'm favor OF the movement
against the bill boards and win bring
II before his association. They are
pubic nuisance, he declares ana are UNI
slightly and Objectionable 10 residents.
In this way they net 20 reduce property
values on lots adjacent 70 where they
stand and he would like to see them
limited strictly 10 the business district,
and then confined to small sizes
PROGRAM IN FULL,
The full program for this afternoons
meeting Is as follows;
school Problems" Prof Christensen,
city superintendent of schools; (u) duet,
'Angelus' -Chamlnade, Oh Utah state
Anthem" Radcliffe. Miss Emily Larson
and Mrs. r. n, Cook. duet, overture
20 Oberon"--Von Weber. Mrs. p. n.
Cook and Miss Edith Burns: What
Women Can Do TO Make a Greater Salt
Lake" Mrs. Allen r. Sanford and Judge
f. +. Cohurn solo, "Stlll is the Night"
---Abt, Miss Emily Larsen; what
Women Can DO to Make a More Beau
tifu Salt Lake" Mrs. George Gatrell,
What Club Women Can Do for the
City" Mrs. Gleason S. Kinney; piano
solo. Hank Harkl the Larkl"-Schu-
bert-Llsst, Miss Edith Burns.