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SLOGANS OF CITY WELCOME SIGNS TO DISAPPEAR
Street Committee Will Blot Out “Drive Fast and See Our Beautiful Jail.”
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 15 February 1923]
“Silent Policemen” are again to make their appearance on the city streets. The streets are to be flushed in the night instead of in the day as done now, and the “welcome” signs standing at the various entrances to the city are to be “house-cleaned” and re-worded.
Such are the recommendations that are to be made to city council as a result of a meeting of the Streets Committee held Monday night. These recommendations will be incorporated in the committee’s report to the council and will probably be discussed at tomorrow night’s session.
The silent policemen are to be installed on Cross and East Main streets, Hellems avenue and East Main, Burgar and East Main streets, North and West main streets, Ross and East Main streets and Cross and Division streets. They will be substantially built with concrete base and will last for a number of years. The silent policemen will be made in Welland.
This committee claims that the flushing of the streets at night will be much appreciated by the business men in the business sections of the city.
Visitors to Welland, if the recommendations go through, will no longer be greeted with the words: “Drive slow and see our beautiful city; Drive fast and see our beautiful jail.” Instead the signs placed at the various entrances to the city will say, “Welcome to the City of Welland,” and as the visitor leaves he will read, “Thanks, come again.”
The signs which are to be placed upright and painted anew will be erected on North, East and West Main streets.
RAILWAYS WILL HELP BEAUTIFY CITY
In co-operation with the Horticultural Society’s scheme for the beautification of the city, the Grand Trunk Railway system will in the near future send to Welland an official who will confer with the Society relative to the beautifying of the company’s grounds here. D. Ben Coleman, president of the society, had also received word from the Michigan Central Railway that it intends to improve its grounds.
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