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Our Man About Town

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
June
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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This seems to be the season oí tbe year when our city is infestod with burglars. [ hear that around the lumber yards and Ireight hous8 mnny men are loafing day afterday, and such men ought to be looked after. Something ought to be done to break up this burglariziDg, and our officials had better put on their thinking cap and see what it will bc. It is hoped that every ellort will be mado to raiso tbe $5,000 tax Monday, and if this can be done, and I have no doubt but what it will be done, as the citizens can see the money is badly needed and unloss tuis amount is raised the city will be poorly off for funds. Let every citizen do nis duty and go to the polls Monday and vote for the $5,000 tax. I was talking with a prominent citizen the otber day and lie made this, remark: "Now let our business men 's association and our "booming" committee show what stuff they are madeff in endeavoring to raise the tax Monday Let them work "tooth and nail" for it and it can be done. "So say all of us, let them all pull together and this $5,000 can be raised . A humane, society waa organized at Pireman's hall Tuesday evening. In every city such a society is needed, and in my opinión 1 think this organization will find plenty of work to do in our city, for not a day passes, when apon the streets, but what I see brutality shown to animáis and especially to horses, and sometimes I think it would be a good thin if the dumb brutes could turn and rebuke tlieir masters as Balaam's ass diJ.J The board of health says, "clean up, clean up, and put the city in a good sanitary condition." This is as it should be, and when it has been necessary for any of these gentlemen to speak to a person who bas been delinquent aboui cleaning up his premises, it has been done, but soou to be in just as bad a condition as before. I think when persons have been spoken to several times about soine nuisance, which with a little trouble can be done away with, and they will not keep things up, then resort to other measures What is the matter with the electrio light? Sunday night the city was as black as Erebus, and if ever a light was neaded it certainly was then, when the ky was was blaok with clouds and the rain coming down in torrents. Again, Wednesday night no lights. In calling up, by telephone, the electric light worki to find out the reason of this darkness, Thb Democrat isinformed that it was o rdered by the city council. It leems to me rather vtrauge to want to leave all things in darkness, especially Sunday nigbt, in the midst of a raging storm. I guppose, though, we will have to submit to the inevitable. I hear that we have a regular set of burglare in our midst. For a nuinber of weeks past several petty burglaries have been committed and the poor tramp has been condtmned for it all. Perhaps tliey are the guilty ones, but I am told that in oertain parts of the city many worthless men hang around, once in a while doing a few hours' work, and yet always seem to have plenty of moDey. No man can live without money, and if he will not work for it he raust get it unlawfully if he has it at all. When men loaf week in and week out what can be expected but they will be suspected, especially if, after a burglary, they are seen to have considerable money. While walking near the depot one day this week I noticed the improvementi boing made on Detroit street near the railroad bridge. The widening of the street will undoubtedly be of some benefit, but will it be wcrth what it coats? The sacrifice of those two grand old trees which have been cut down to make room for the sidewalk is a great loss to that part of the city. The great beauty of Ann Arbor lies in her handsome and wellshaded streets, and it peeme to me that the city fathers might have spared those trees. The Michigan Central railroad - heartIcbs Corporation, took great pains to save those trees while building the depot, to have them destroyed now by careless worknien. I have hoard our officials se verely censured for this action. "Woodman spare that tree." In walking along the river rond one day ast week my nostrils were greeted by a most unsavory smell and I proceedcd to nvestigate from whence arose 8uch au ofTensive odor. Nothing could I find, ut as I went onward the sniell grow worse and worse. Soon I carne in view of :he slaughter houses and then I knew at once how to account for it, tho wind beug in jast tho right direction to bring it o my nostrils. How the people arouud hero can stand it, besides the cbildren of he fifth ward school are breathing the ainted air uil day in the school house, I lo not see.and now that summer is coming on something ought to be done about it. Such a place is noccssary for the people ut it ought to be located at such a disance from the city that none of its pestiential odor could reach here. A friend at our elbow BUggests that a crematory might be established to consume tho offal iid t li iis abate the mal-odorous nuisance. jet our board of health investígate.

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Ann Arbor Democrat