The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-03-26
Outdoor Art Association To Seek
To Secure improvements in
Kenosha This Summer
AFTER OVERHEAD SIGNS
Will Also Seek to ELIMINATE Objec-
tional Bill Boards and Painted Signs
on Walks-Plan For Erection of
Fountain to be Carried Out
(From Fridays Daily.)

The Kenosha Outdoor Art Associa-
tion made elaborate plans for the
spring and summer work at the meeting
held at the Y M c. A. auditorium last
night and the work planned will include
a fight on overhead signs Of all descrip-
tons, a demand for more diserimina-
ton in the erection of bill boards, clean
er back yards and streets, the abolition
of chalk and paint signs on walks and
the erection of suitable drinking
fountain in the down town portion of
the city.
The meeting passed several resolu-
tions and the work of carrying on the
various crusades as planned viii be
taken up at once and it is expected
that the City Council will be bombarded
with petitions asking aid for the work
The first crusade will be against the
signs overhanging the various portions
Of the business district of the city
This is a movement that is being push
ed in nearly every large city in the
middle west and it is claimed that there
is an unusually large amount Of work
for the association to do along this line
in Kenosha. It is thought that there
is an ordinance against such signs but
if this is a fact it has not been located
in the city code by the attorneys of the
Association. It is probable that the
City Council will be asked to pass a
strong ordinance for the regulation Of
such signs. At the meeting last night
many signs along Main street were
specifically discussed it being held that
they were positive danger to the ped
estrians of the city.
The Association passed a resolution
demanding that the police of the city
at once put an end to the practice of
writing and printing signs on sidewalks
with chalk and paint and it is thought
that this action is taken as an especial
warning to politicians seeking office at
the city election. It is pretty certain
that the members Of the association will
be unit against any candidate who
seeks to secure political preference
by using the walks of the city as a
place to promote his candidacy. It is
claimed that this is absolutely against
the law and the attorneys Of the Asso-
citation will make every effort to see
that the law is enforced.
The bill board proposition furnished
a knotty problem for the members of
the association. It was claimed that
the bill boards were going into many
residential districts Of the city and there
is something to be done in the near
future to put an end to this nuisance
1t is probable that the members Of the
Association will take some steps to get
at the owners Of property on which
bill boards are placed and with their
aid seek the elimination of them.
The matter of the erection of the
public drinking fountain was taken up
by the Association some time ago and
the present officers are planning to carry
out The plan during the present year
Within the next few days a letter will
be sent to the Common Council asking
for permission to place an ornamental
fountain at the intersection of South
and Main streets where there is a flow
ing artesian well. Several plans have
been suggested to the members Of the
Association but no plan will be adopted
until after the permission Of the Coun-
Gil has been secured. The Association
already has small fund for the cree
tion of the fountain and it is planned
to make IN effort to secure a fund by
public subscription. This work will be
taken up in a very short time.
Miss Helen Lester who has been most
active in the work Of the Association
in the capacity Of secretary has resign
ed her position and Fred S. Schroeder
has been elected to fill the vacancy.