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Show I 00 BILLBOARDS !. CANNOT BE .. I ERECTED ( I President S. W. Anderson of the J Utah Billposting company appeared WL m before the city commissioners to pro- Sf' I test against the action of the city xjfc- I government in opposing the placing of Bk- " J billboards on the ruins of the Ec- I i cles block, at Washington avenue and Bfcfrl Twenty-fourth street He stated that Bfffil he did not know he was breaking any Fl city ordinances by establishing blll-BsfJSB blll-BsfJSB boards there and that his company pJEwfj had been granted a license to estab-l&ttgl estab-l&ttgl llch beards !c the city. Hffal Mr. Anderson said the bills that JEnJjB would be placed on the boards would gK&l not be unsightly but, on the contrary, HrwM thoy would bo creations of beauty. He JH said they would bo Bteel billboards, Ptifim and would contain advertising matter t$9m that would not be distasteful to the ffsB most fastidious. SffiBj Xo action was taken last night. yyB During the afternoon, however, the & billboard company was stopped from jEtfl erecting boards pending action on tho Blly part of the commissioners. HJ Before the commissioners today S M W. Anderson, manager of the Utah H Blllpostlug company, presented a pe- Hfl tition asking the board to permit his K j company to erect a fence around the H ruins of the Eccles block on Washing- H I ton avenue and Twenty-fourth street H to be used for advertising plates made H of galvanized iron, H The request was made In behalf of H the "David Ecdles Company," nnd tho RBI petitioner stated that the boards MM would be used only for "pointed H signs," and that no paper would be 5H used, except with the consent of the H hoard of city commissioners. It was H also stated in the petition that the !H structure would be built under the (H" direction and supervision of the city II building inspector and that the blll- B boards would o made attractive. B The matte waB referred to the B board of commissioners as a conimit-jH conimit-jH ' tee of the whole. In tho meantime B fence-building at the place has been H discontinued. |