Will Make No Trouble

WILL MAKE NO TROUBLE.

The Michigan Central Cannot Interfere With the D., Y. & A.A. Line.

The Evening Times Saturday exploited a story that the Michigan Central was about to take steps to prevent the Detroit, Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor railway running, on the ground that their charter gave them an exclusive franchise, so that no road could parallel their line within a distance of five miles. Henry Russell, the attorney for the Michigan Central, says he never heard of any such scheme and that there is nothing in it. It is hardly necessary for Mr. Russell to deny the story as it would be clearly impossible for the Central to prevent the electric line running. The electric line is not a railroad in the legal meaning of that term. For instance a city gives a street railway the right to use its streets and adjoining property owners have no redress but a city could not give a railroad the right to use of the street of the city, unless the road paid damages to the adjoining property owners. This is only one instance where the courts have made a plain distinction between a railroad and a street railway.