Our Max About Town

One great annoyance to those who attend entertainments in university hall, is the repeated encores (aven at the close of each pieoe of music, vocal or instrumental, rendered, whether good, bad, or indifferent. Generally speaking an audience is satisfled with the program as arranged, and don't care to listen to a repetí tion of it. It would be well for the counoil to go a little slow in granting petitions for more electric lights. With the present number, 63, the cost of lighting the city is considerable, aomething like $2,000 over that of former years, but the city was never lighted so well as now. Unless there can be a ourtailment of expenses in some other direction, $6,000 is all the city can afford to pay for lighting the streets the present year. I would like to ask the city fathere why thoy do not order the old coal sheds on Miller avenue removed at once. That ;hey are a nuisance no alderman will atempt to deny. Perhaps members of the resent board remember the opinión of ;he railroad commissioner, given on a visit to this city one year ago, on this rery subject. Residentsof the third ward eel that something shonld be done and he unsightly sheds removed without urther delay. As I hear nothing more about a street railway, I have come to the conclusión ;hat the project "died a bornin'." At aay rate the project clid not pan out au he projectors antieii'iited. Perhaps thev asked too much from the council, who did not see fit to grant tliem a monopoly of all the streets. It is safe to say, Bver, tnat ït wul be a long time perore 3apitalis(s will invest ui a street railruad n Ann Arbor, unlesn tliey are given an exclusive franchise. Whether such a road could be made to pay, is another qufestion. I uu pleased to know tbat several members of the board of education take strong grounds iu opposition to building 3chool honses iu the air. There is plenty at roora adjoining the high school for the roposed new building to have every room on the ground lloo-. This making scholars climb several rlights of staira, s wroug, and if the doctors are correct n their opinions, is the cause of verv nueh sufiering in :fter years. Archi eohural beauty is all well enough, but ;he heulth and comfort of those who at;end wchool is of far more importance. Phen, give us more school houses, all on ;he ground floor. While the Toledo, Ann Arbor and líorth Michigan railroad has undoubtedly been a great benefit to the people of his city, in more ways than one, it is, nevertheless, a fact that at times it jecomes a serious nuisance. I refer to :he obstruction of a number of streets ihrough which the road runs, and the inoonvemence to those who are obliged to cross and re-cross the track. The train men defy the law and it is an everyday occurrence for them to blockade the crossings from ten minutes to half an ïour. The matter, I un aera tand, bas Deen brought to the attention of the city authorities, but for some reason they have ;hus far refrained from aoting. As I read of the terrible floods hroughout Michigan, one thing suggests ïtself to my mind, and that is, havent he prohibitionists seen the effects of too much water? Still, I am aware that the jrohibitiou question is one in which many people differ. They are honest in ;heir conviotions, no doubt, and while one class favor a stringent license law, as the beat means of regulating the liquor traflic, others belieye that absolute Drohibition is the all-saving power. But, while so many persons think that a litlle wine is good for the stomach's sake, and when there are so many of the upper i'inlum who lav in a supply of beer aid other liquors, and indulge on the quiet, :emperance men and women must be discouraged at the outlook. From an examination of the poor mas:ers' report, I see that one of the chief items is the amount of wood bought durïn the winter months. Now, thi& wood is purchased from dealers in this city, in small quantities, and in many cases not only a poor article is furnished, but it will not hold out in muasurement. An order tor nalr a cora or wood at the yard, meaos half a cord, and the ei ty puts up íor this amoimt. But this givíng of sliori measure to those who are dependent on the city, will apply with equal force to others who purchase wood in email quantities. To my mind one thing is clear: if the authorities would lay in a stock of good wood.say 200 cords, in the fall of the year, by letting the contract to the lowest bidder, there would be a great saving to the city. There is is suificient room in the rear of Firemen's hall, so the council would not be compelled to lease ground on -which to store the wood. The question is one well worthy the consideration of the council.