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Show STREET SIGNS ARE BEING PLACED The long-delayed task of placing street slgna iu position about the city waa begun this morning by a force of men under the direction of the street department. - The signs are handsomoly made, largo white letterB being printed on a blue background. Tho material is heavily enameled metal and each Bign is attached to a board with brass scroWB TheBe boards are then morticed mor-ticed in position on the corner poles of the Merchants 'Light & Power i company wherever the same are con- venlont. In tho absence of poles at tho desired point, posts, ten feet long and bIx feet by six inches in thick-nesB. thick-nesB. are inserted m the ground to a depth of three foot, making thorn substantial and durable supports Tor i the signs. These posts will be paint-l paint-l ed a dark green to harmonize with s the lfcht polB. Tho department has |