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The Mayor's Message

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Parent Issue
Day
22
Month
April
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mayor Hiscock's second annual message to the eommon council was a conoise and business-like document reviewing the year of municipal history just completed, and calling the at.ten.tion of the aldermen to the weak as well as the strong places in our city government. His suggestions with respect to brick paving in the business portions of the city are wise and timely. The recommendation of the purchase of a suitable site near the boulevard for a city park should also meet with favor. The city is at the present time entirely without anything which may be dignified with the name of city park. The site offered is well situafed for that purpose, convenient and suitable in every way. It can be secured now at a nominal sum. lts purchase will be a step which the people will never regret having taken. The Democrat would commend to the parties who seem determined to prove Ann Arbor to be a disorderly city, whcther the facts warrant that conclusión or not, a perusal of that part of the message which deals with the enforcement of law and the preservatlon of order within the city. The mayor ehallenges anyone to nan dty where the laws are better enforced. His challenge will not be accepted for the reason that its acceptance would simply exposé the ignorance of i who questioned the truth of his claims. The Democrat congratúlate Mayor Hlscock upon the uniform success which has attended the flrst year of iii adminlstratión. n Is to be regretted that President I-lutchins and varioua members of the Univereity faeulty do not aj ihe actlon of eongress in relatlon to the Cuban matter, but as the govcrnment has managed to wiggle through nutneroua crises In rhe past without thi vice or consent of the professor is barely possible that it may ue able to do so upon this occasion. It has been offlcially determined that Captain J. F. Sehuh can do hií oonstituents more good by staying at home and attending to the duties of the county clerk's office for another term, than he can lïghting mosquitos in Cuban swamps. A Saginaw dispatch in the Evening News this week states that the taxpayers of that city are protesting against laying any more asphalt, that laid last year having proved entirely unsatisfactory. Times please copy.

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Ann Arbor Democrat