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Our Man About Town

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
December
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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The passengers on tho motor line are sreatly disgusted at the condition oí ,he road at the junction on Packard st. l'he mud and sliish at that point is certainly not the pleasantest thing in the world to wade through to board a car. A number of signs have recently been written at the junction by somebody who is unwilling to stand the nuisance without a few shots at the city fathers. Some of them read as lollows: - "This is the famous aldermanic carp pond. "Minny, Minny in the brook, the strcet committee will catch you by a hook, "And they will put you in a fryinfj jan, and chew the rag until election as best they can. " A tnatter was brought up at the council meeting last Monday night, which certaiuly deserves attention by the board oL public works, under whose jurisdiction it properly comes. When the snowplows make their rcunds on our sidewalks, they are obliged to skip those walks which are raised on stilts irom the ground. The reason ior this is that the horses often refuse to walk over such a place, and because of the railings the snow plow is too wide to pass along these walks. It was well suggested that men be employed by the city to shovel off these walks. The expense would be slight, and it seems hardly fair to force the property owners to clean ofE the walks themselves, and at the same time pay to run the snow-plowF. The truth of the old proverb, "Au ounte of prevention is worth a pound of cure," was fitting-ly illustratcd last Saturday night. At midnight the marshal called all pólice from their beats, and inarehed them in a body to the north side. The reasou for this sudden move, was that the marshal' had recoived word that a dogfight would occur over there, in a buildinp near the north end of the Ann Arbor railroad bridge. When the building was surrounded by officers, the door was broken in, and lo! A more peaceful scène was nerer Been. A party of local gentlemen of liesure were seatec at a table and partaking1 of a frugal repast of bread and coffee. It is said that the fight didn't occur - and if it didn't it was doubtless due to the presence o: the officers.as OurMan has great doubt that so many sports would jjather in that loriely place to picnic at midniyht on coffee and bread, if something more hvely wero not tofollow. With tüe opening of tho sleighing seuson tlie drivers of bobs and sleiglis are annoyed by sruall boys who jurnp on the ruuners to take a ride, Our Man thinks tliat tliis is a daugerous practice, but where the drivers are good-natured and careful, there is not 8) much risk as when the children persist in boarding bobs agaiust the driveis' vvill. When a driver ret'uses either out of bad nature or because oí some reasouable excuse, ani the cbildren persist in tying their sleds to the runners or perching on the sleds of the sleigh, the driver is very Hable to "whip behind" or to start up bis horses suddenly to jolt the children oif. Now Our Man can admit that thjre are cases when the drivers are justilied in refusing children a ride, but there is never any excuse for jolting them off in the middle of the road. This is a very dangerous thinii to do, as the little folks might be run over and badly hurt by passing teams l efore they coulc piek tliemselves up and reach the ■Idewalk Our Man attended a meeting of the Salvation Army at tlieir new hall on S. 4th ave. and was disagreeably surjrised at the way most of the audieuce jehaved. When one goes to a revival meeting ho expects to see more or lcss elig'ious entlmsiusm, but that is ajvery different thing from moekery and lxorish interruption of the speakers ind singers. This is what the Salvation lassies have liad to contond witli in their meetings here, and because the.y bear it patientïy, that is no reason why the hoodlums should persit in ralsioff disturbances there. On the eveninff when Our Man attondod the meeting1, the lassie who wore the serjfeant's collar was obliged to plead with some rouhs in the hall, to either leave the room or behave thumselves. She then stated that she would have them arrested and would apoear against them, if milder raeasures were of no avail. Our Man admires the lassie's pluck and thinks that if tho disturbances should continue a few arrests would have a Wholesale effect on the hoodlums.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat