Pavement Or Sewers?

The coinmon council has on hand a propoeition to pave Main street from Ann to Liberty, the city to pay for the street intersections, and the owners of property bcnefitted to bear the remaining burden. Of course the paring of this street would be a fine thing. It would add to the beauty of our principal thoroughfare and be a. big card for Ann Arborenterprise, (thoughthe cordingup of broken down lamp posts upon the corners of our principal streets for flve or slx uioiillis at a tluie, tully attcats to the latter). There is one thing to be considered, however. The street once pared will last probably flve or slx years without repairs, if the work is done as it should be, and then there will be constant expense to kep the same in good condition. Our streets are naturally excellent. The land is rolling and the soil being entirely of gravel or uand, Ann Arbor knows very little about mud. l Bereis one tblftg, thoufh, that Ann Arbor does ned. She needa sewerage. Tliere is no city in the state or nation better located for an admirable system of sewers tlian Is this city. Located upon hill, a sufficient fall can be obtained, at comparative small expense, to carry off the filth, slops, waste water, etc, which at present is drained into underground vaults and cewpoola, and thrown upon the earth or in gutters to poison the atmosphere and the solí, and left to penétrate into cisterns and wells and breed fever und malaria everywhere within our limita. Two or three large sewers running tbrough different sections of our city, which could be reaehed from nearly every house by Binall drains constructed of tile or other material, WOUld l tliO mcano of making Ann Arbor one of the healthiest cities in the country, as it is to-day one of the liandsomest. We oflër this as a suggestion, that instead of expending money npon a parement to beautify three blocks upon our principal business street, the same amount be expended in running a large sewer through one of our principal streets to the river, to save the health of ourselres and our families. If we could get one constructed, its excellent work in purifyingour streeU in carrying off fllth from ceaspools and underground drains which filis the earth and air with malaria and death, would soon commend itself in such a way that othera would surely follow.