Some Wise Suggestions On The Booming Question

Editou Courier:- ïliere is much being said about booming or advertlsin,, Ann Arbor. Mnny costly, and with tb money raisable in Ann Arbor, inipracti cable schemes are proposed. Yet tlicre i one method whicli seems to me ver_ simple and very practicable and very in expensive, which does not seem to hav attracted the attention it deserves, an tliat is to properly take care of the peopl who come here on the numerous anc well attended excursions to Michigan' great university town. Ann Arbor's ad vantage for homes is unsurpassed in th west and, for the money expended, in th whole country. The best way to adver tise it, is to have people look these advai tages over, they will bear inspectiot Wc may go to expensive methods of in ducing people to come here and look th city over, and at the same time neglect t show the town and make a pleasant im pression on the pereons who come o their OWB accord. Tlie larger part o Ann Arbor's prosperity must com through the university. Tliat prosperit must come chieily through the favor o the people of the state. If when the come to see their university and its towr they are allowed to drop off the trai with the town entirely strange to them and are left a prey to seltisli hackme and other fonns of extortion, the cit will get a bad reputation for civility, an there will be no feelings of gratitnde t Ann Arbor and the university, when a appropriation s under consideration by the state press and the legislaturc Suppose tliat ten or twelve extra men are sworn in as policemen on days o excursions, men who are urbane an( know liow to make thenjselvcs agreeable whose duty it is to point out to peopl the direction from the station and froin each other, of the town, of the universit; campus, of our beautiful cemetery am other beautiful walks and drives abou the city. This would not be expensive and a few men would be a sreat help to a great many. IIow great a help, any one knows who has ever tried to see the sights of a strange town in a day's time In addition to this, it could be arrangei tbat large vans, capable of carrying tei to twenty people could be gotten togive a two hour's excursión about the city and its beautiful suburbs for a charge of live to ten cents each. The vans would make money on ordinary occasions. The city's oflïccrs could explain the different routes and assure the people of the responsibility of these conveyances, everybody would küow wliat lie was doing and buv ing, and be satisfied. A day spent this way in Aun Arbor a visit to the grounds, museums, art rooms and buildings generally of the university, with people about these places who could explain to them what they saw, another visit afoot or in a chea conveyance to the cemetery and a two hour's drive through the city and its suburbs, would be a dayn ever to be forgotten. Some from every crowd would decide to come and live in such a pleasant place. The city would ncrease. The expense would be trilling aiid the university's constituency would be moredirectly reached than by any complicated and expensive advertising, and would require no new machinery to' opérate the system. Will the citizen's meeting next Monday consider it, and so arrange the coming o] every crowd to Ann Arbor, that its visit will not be a disappointment from inability to (ind wliere to go and what to see and what it ií, as has been in the past?