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Our Man About Town

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Day
16
Month
March
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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I wonder what is the matter with the Hamilton blook. Three deaths from diphtheria following one another oloaely . Has our board of healtb thoroughly investigatsd and examined the building. I tee Tecuniseh has organized a business men 's assooiation, tor the purpose of ' booming" the town. If ït does no more for Tecumseh's interests than Aun Arbor's business nien's association has done for this city, I do not thiuk that town will "boom" very f ast. We were glad to see the Register oall nttention to the bad condition and the debris around some of the buildings on the campus. On a bright warm sunshiny day it, is deoidedly unpleasant to walk in that part of the city. I wonder ;he residents east of the campus, do not complaiu of the nuisance. The other day I happened to overhear one old lady teil anottier that she had ust been buying a pair of rubbers, that she did not need them as she had one pair, out that she had been told rubbers were going up in prioe, and would soon be one dollar a pair, and so sbe hnd purchased some while she could for fifty cents. The Oermans of Adrián Lave formed a democratie olub and will organizo at once. !ors vigorours oampaign. Now I say let our Qerman citizens folio w their example and we could have one of the most vigorous democratie clubs in the state as we have such a largo Qerman population. See to it boys and begin your work at once. The cross walk corner of State and E. Ann streets is sadly in need of more dirt or else a new walk ought to be luid. All during the mild spell it was aloiost imposBible to cross it and many went out of their way to avoid it. There ought to be a new one also put down trom the Boudinot corner over to Mrs. Hunt's. As soon as possible our sidewalk committee should attend to tbia. I do not see why meat naarket men when they send their orders to the various parts of the oity, cannot see when the meat is put into baskets that each piece is oarefully wrapped in paper and protected from the dust and dirt whioh is constantly to be found in the atmosphere. One can see cart af ter oart go by with the oontents exposed, and I know that I, for one, prefer my meat straight, and I guess othors feel hkewise. The Ann Arbor dog is f ully as smart as those of our eister oity, Detroit. One of that city's papers ohronioled an unusual sight last week, that of a dog riding upon a horse'a back for a considerable distance. Friday I saw a horse and cart driven by two boys.andupon the horse partly standing and parlty crouching was a spaniel who seemeel to enjoy his rather novel positionjthe horse jogging along apparently unoonsoious of the peoulisr burden he was carrying. Now is the timo to begin to think of having a general cleaning up of all back yards. Let our citizens at once see that their premisea are put in ñrst-class con dition. What is more unsightly than to see a yard filled with numerous piles of ashes, old tin cans by the bushei, old Blioes and rubbers soattered around! If each person would see that his grounds are clean and in order I know, and so do all of us, that there would be no prettier place to be fonnd than our university city. Last Friday night after most persons had retired a sudden shrill screnming waB heard in a certain part of the city, whioh was imniediately annwered in like manner blocks away, arousing many from their sleep. The first thought was that Ann Arbor had been surrounded by a band of " Comanches " who were signaling to one another. But 'twas found the noise was made by a party of students who had been spending tbe evening togetlier, and after separating for their respective boarding houses mdulged in this little side play. I cannot blame tlie boys for wauting to "holler" sometimes. 1 would state thatin converaation with tbat teacher who was accused, in a communioation in the Courier, of visiting a child sick wit h dipb theria and then going to hia class room, he Baya - and he is a g( ntleman of his word - that he visited Mrs. McMahon's sick cbild saturday night, and took theprecautioa of weanng a cast off aait of clothes, cbanging them for another suit, in an uuocoupied room in the Hamilton block bef oro going for a physician. Tliat be never visited the child but once, and then on Saturday night. This gentleman did what any one woald have done under like circumstances. In traveling around through th city I notice in many localities the " odor " which permoates the air, and wliicli is not only dlBagreeable and oppressive but positively injurious. As warm spring come on this will beoome more and more offensive, and our healih offlcers will have to be on the alert, and compel people to attend to the places whence these odors emanate f rom . I know our offlcers iry to do everytbing in their power to have our oity free f rom offenRive odors and unsightly places, but it requires tuem to be constantly looking about them, and diligently attending to what oomes under tiieir especial care. I was talking with one of our prominent phyBician8 the other day wheu he said that Ann Arbor is in a very bad sanitary condition: that as soon as the weather would permit a thorough cleaning of all parts of the city ehould be attended to, and unless this is done there would be a great deal ot sickness next summer. This gentleman also advocates the building of sewersand says: "It is a disgrace ihat a city the size of Aan Arbor and with all her aristocratie airs should not have a complete system of sewerage.' It is a p'ty that we have not more men who feel as this man does upon this subject, if we had, sometbing might be done. The Courier this wetk has a very sensible talk on bealth. I am glad to see that somebody else, besides the Demoorat, is waking up to the all important question of sewerage in Ann Arbor. It is indeed high time that our citizens reahzed the great necesaity of sewers. It is a disgrace tbat a oity the size of Ann Arbor has not a public aewer. If our booming :ee was worth a cent, the first thing tbey would do, would be to more for sewers. Tbe Courier saya " there are hundreds of jaras where manure la piled up and rot:iog in the yards." On one of our most beautifíil etreets there is an immense pile of thia disguating refuae, and smell, well [ should say so. Just wait a few weeks and I guess your nostrils will tell you tbat sewerage is needed. I wish that these " dolightf ul " odors could only be ' enjoyed " by the business men's aasooiation as they are the men who are " booming" the town, when perhapa they would quiokly exert themselves to do aomething to make our city olean ana healthy, if we cannot have sewers.

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Ann Arbor Democrat