Our Man About Town

1 f couuty and city officials will set the example, they should not oomplain because men and bays will romp over the oourt yard lawn. To ask an officer to enforce the ordinance in this particular case, seems a little brash. In iny perambulationa, I Dotice that mauy property owners have either repaired or laid new sidewalks, and the good work should go on until the city can lay claim to having the best walks of any place of itn size iu the state. In some portions of the city, partioularly in the eastern part of the fonrth and sixth warda, there seems to ,be very little force from the water works, and property ownere oomplain when attempting to water their lawns. "What is the matter mid the hose?" Ten dollars, it seems to me is a pretty big pnce to pay for watering the court yard lawn, and vet this is the amount allowed at the recent meeting of the cotinoil. It would hare been much oheaper to have hired the driver of Robison's sprinkling wagon to have done the job. I heard sometime ago that the citizens' committee had issued a pamphlet relateing to Ann Arbor, but I ventare the assertion that not one in 500 has seen one of the wonderful books. Are they to be stowed away in some back room, and m time flnd their way to some paper mili? Those persons who pereist in trotting horses over the fifth ward bridge adjoining Swift & Co's mili, in violntion of law, deserve to be summarily dealt with, and I think if an example was made of one or two say, o the re would be more careful about driving faster than a walk. I often wonder if it will be the good luck of the residente of the third ward living weet of Allen's oreek, to live to see the day when the old dilapidated ooal If the present board of aldermen had the sand they would order the sheds' down instanter. The incesssant whistling of the switch engine on the Toledo road, between High and Liberty streets, at all hours of the night, has become an intollerable nuisance, and if the council has any power to abate it, I believe the citizens who are kept awake will appreciate the efforts of the city fathera. In my walks around town, 1 notice at a number of corners, where the electric lights are, that the email boya congrégate and try to see ïf they can hit the Klaas globe which is over the light, by throwing stones. The oouncil would do well to fine one who deliberately cracka or breaks one of these globes. Kesidents of Ingalls gtreet are tormented almost to death by cows running at large. They graze on the lawns, run through gardens, and trample down graas, just as ïf there was no ordinance Dreventing cattle and horses from running at large. I think the officers should give this matter their immediate atfention. The attent ion of the board of heult h , I understand, has been called time and again to a nuisauce in the rear of the clothing store of Blitz & Langsdorf, and why it has not been abated ere this is a puzzler. Since warm weather set in, the stenen bas been awful, and yet this firm and othera doing business in the block have been obliged to grin and bear it Daring the coming season I am infornied that t heater-goere are to be treated to a large number of first-class entertainments. Already man y attractions have been booked, and the list is increasing wit h each succeeding week. I, for one, congratúlate the management of the opera house in bis effortg to secure artists of unquestioned ability, and o national reputation. I confesa I was disgusted at the conduot of certain parties the night the street preacher was talking on the corner of Ann and Main Btreets. They hooted and hallooed, and attempted to break the meeting up, but he held bis ground and spoke for nearly an huur, in which he told sonie pretty plain truths, which his hearers would do well to ponder, more especially tha hoodlums and scum who thought the man a fanatio. 1 notice that a good many citizens re tain their boxea in the postoffice. They probably prefer to do this until the f ree delivery system is perfected, when it is safe to say, they will surrender them. Of course it is a new thing, and it takes time to arrange it, but I doubt if there in any city in the state, or any other state, with the delivery only two weeks oíd, where a better record can be shown, than bas been made here. In Adrián il is confusión woree confounded. It is bad enuugh in all conscience to see men reeling with intoxication on the streets, but it certainly looks worse to see a woman in this condition . Such a sight is seldom witneesed in our beautif ui city. And when such a case occurs, it leads one to ask the question, "who is that woman." As she passed tbe opera house Saturday evening last, she could hardly hold her equilibrium, and with sbame be it said, small boys shouted and grown men hooted as the poor uufortúnate victim of drink was making her way homeward. In Btrange contrast witb the borse watering trough on Huron street, is the arrangement at the foot of State street. Here eitber a horse or doublé team can quench their tbirst without being obliged to climb an elevation. The tank for horses is only about two feet from the ground, and of the same size as the one opposite the oourt house. There is only one improvement I would suggeet, and that h that the ohain holding the cup at the State street fountain be lengtbened . I notioed Sunday tüat persons who drank were obliged to bend themselves up like a jack-knife in ordr to get the cup to their lips. When the free delivery systeoi was established, postmaster DuflTy was anxious ;o cover as nmch territory as possible, and for overal daya the carriers nearly walked themselvea to deatb. It began to teil on them, and now the districts iave been obanged, and it is quite poesi)le they will not be enlarged until the government grants the postmaster's request for an increase in tbe number of carriers. To look at the amount of mail received at the office daily, one oan only wonder how the present forcé hayo succeeded so well in covering their routes. )l conree there bas been some confusión, jut give the postmaster time, and I venure the assertion that there will be no cause for complaint. The drinking trougu for horses is still he matter of much unfavorable oomment, and people wonder why it was jlaced in one of the principal business Btreeta, and in front of the tinest buildng in the city. In the first place it is too high by three feet, but to obvíate tbis dilliculty in a measure, several loads of stone and gravel have buen piled in the street at the base of the "monument" for horsen to climb. It has been Buggested that iron steps be erected on either side as a better means for them to reaoh the top. But throwing all jokes aaide, the trough should be removed and iet np near the skating rink, or an iron jHsin secured from wbich half a dozen ïorses oould drink at the same time. I was surprised that the council did not take some action regarding it at Monday evening's meeting. I see by a Detroit paper that a large 'orce of men have commenced work on the Toledo, Ann Arbor and Cadilao railroad at Farwell, and that it will be pushed to the Muskegon river with all possible dispatch. The road will cross the Flint & Pere Marquette at Clare, and run parallel with that road to Farwell. From there the road will proceed to Lake Oeorge, some eight miles north of the above place, where a new town will be platted, and which promises to be a model village. Jas. Ashley, jr., is one of the movero of the enterprise, and be will father the new place to be known as "Lake Oeorge." Thus is the road being pushed toward Lake Michigan. It required just such men as the Ashleys' to open this new route. Aun Arbor is indebted to them for the road to this place, and I think the citizens feel they have been well repaid for the money advanced in furthering the enterprise. This road, as everyone knows, has been of incalculable benefit to our citizens. who will alike be beneñted by the extensión northward from Mt. Pleasant. Business has increased ten-fold within the past two years, and it is only a question of time before the road will be one of the great trunk Unes of Michigan. I say all praise to Qov. Ashley.