Our Lounger

Our lounger lias been askeil innumerable times why he doesn't say somethinij about the streer car service. He has heard enough coraplaint trom people to fill columns. Some of these complaints are 11founded and others might be remedied would the directors look at their own real interests. A street railway is a semi-public Corporation. The public have rights in it, as have the stockholders who put their money into it. The interests of the stockholders and the public are linked together. All the public want is good service. Good seivice would prove advantageous to the pocketbooks of the stockholders. It is unnecessary to remark that the street railway service is not as good now as it was a short time ago. The cars do not run with the regularity that they formerly did. From this cause many of the patrons of the road are relapsing into the habirt of walking. When a man does not know whether a car will be along in live, ten or twénty minutes, he won't wait after two or three experiences in waiting, but walks. Then he feels like kicking at the company, and so it is fast becoming fashionable to kick at the street railway. ich car on the road does not make as many round trips as it formerly did. This results in longer s between cars, the disappointment of the public and the loss of ares to the company. On severa! different nights a car has been . to wait half an hour on a h. This is a dead loss to the company and a great anuoyance to ■ public. e company, Our Lounger has informed, is trying to run ■ iut a superintendent. As well it any other business be run out a head. There isn't a pribusiness in the city that could ;m without a head. For in show the difnculties of it, it was nine o'clock last week Wednesday morning before the cars vfere running. There was no head to direct the clearing of the tracks, and no salt. It is money out of the pockets of the company to do without a superintendent. . When a superintendent is appointed, his orders should be given him by the board of directors. Xo director should individually be allowed to interfere with his work or with the men. To gep good service everything should be systematized. The organization should be as strict as a military organization. Orders should come down through the proper authorities. The public are í interested in efficiënt service and henee Our Lounger feels himself privileged to kick. There is no question that the street raihvay has been a good thing for Ann Arbor, that it has a fine track and that its equipments are good. There is no one in town who would regret to see any move made that would injure the road more than Our Lounger would regret it, henee as this is a semi-publie corporation Our Lounger feels it his duty to cali attention to. signs of deterioration in the service. If the cars run more frequently, many more fares would be taken because man y more would ride, and by this very fact the public would be so much better accommodated. One of the nuisances which greatly annoys a number of our -citizens is a whistle attached to a peanut roaster, which keeps up a continual shrill whistle very wearing to the nerves. Our Lounger has heard that those who are forced to hear it for houas everyday cannot become accustomed to it.