That State St. Crossing

Ed. -The great wonder of tne aay is tuat tne peopie ortmscicy have just found out that the north end of State street is a nuisance. I passed up this street over flfty-four years ago. It has been traveled ever since- I travel it now twenty times where I did once five years ago. I built a good house one lot east of Stite street, where I live so as to be handy to my farm and I am not the only one that travels it in the same way. The students and children coming from the north part of the city and townto the college and high school, and the peopie to the churches, come up this way. The travel increases every year. What would it cost tue city to buy this piece of road if they had not got it, and if they hadn't, wouldn't they be sure to get it. If the railroad wasn't there probably the city would run without it . Corporatious cause nuisances sometimes, bo in this case. This Corporation bought the Central road of the Htute, with State and Detroit streets running across that roail at that time, and they knew that they would have to guard the crosBings. What have they done f or the city? They made the citizens pay enormous rates of freight until the Toledo road was opened. Of e we want a new depot. You have heard what the man coming to Michigan told his wife that somebody said: " VVhen you pass the ruins of the old breweries and come to the worst old rat-trap of a depot on the road, that is Ann Arbor." State ntreet ought not to be closed, but División street at the north end should be made f our roads wide. N o approaches to the city should be lessened, but every access made better. ISAAO DüNN.