The Freight Business

THE FREIGHT BUSINESS.

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Of the D. Y. and A. A. is Rapidly Growing.

The freight traffic of the Detroit, Ypsilanti & Ann Arbor railway, says the Tribune, promises to be a splendid and profitable branch of the business of that line. Every day two shipments are made from its office depot on Griswold st., and two shipments are received back at the same place. The receipts from in bound freight averages $10, and for outbound freight, about $25 per day, and it is expected that the total receipts will be increased to more than $100 per day by June, 1900. Ann Arbor takes about half the freight, and Ypsilanti is next in volume, but shipments to Wayne are daily increasing. A good deal of the freight consists of vegetables and groceries, although trunks and all light articles usually carried in express cars on steam railroads are also taken. Sometime ago the police complained that the handling of freight in the Wall street of Detroit was an obstruction to the business of that thoroughfare, but the manager told Supt. Martin that when the wholesale houses on Jefferson ave. ceased to block up the sidewalks -with goods that he would also stop doing so.