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Hawks & Angus Have Balked

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
January
Year
1902
Copyright
Public Domain
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Hawks & Angus Have Balked

On the Matter of Grade Separation

Proposition Expired

Mr. Hawks Intimates That He will Not Pay for the Improvement

Mayor Copeland asked Alderman Arthur Brown to write to Hawks & Angus to see if the position of the latter on grade separation could be determined.

Tuesday Mr. Brown received a reply from Mr. Hawks which looks as if they intended to do nothing towards this improvement.

"I don't know why electric lines should be carried into politics," said Mr. Hawks, "and I do not know why a bridge should be carried into the newspapers."

Mr. Hawks informed Mr. Brown that he didn't see any reason why they should want to elevate the Ann Arbor railroad tracks and intimated that if Ann Arbor gives Boland a franchise modified to suit him on the strength of $10,000 of securities which are not made public, then Ann Arbor out to do something when it comes to talk of Hawks & Angus putting up $30,000 cash.

The position of Mr. Hawks is that on November 6 Mr. Angus made a proposition that if Mayor Copeland would get a written agreement from the Ann Arbor road to elevate their tacks and if Mayor Copeland would get Hawks & Angus a temporary crossing over the Ann Arbor road, then they would donate $30,000, but "we must know in ten days."

They hold that their proposition expired on November 16 last.

It looks as if grade separation is a dead duck in the Ann Arbor pond for all time to come unless the city builds bridges at every street crossing. At the same time the council should make Hawks & Angus come to time, when they ask anything more of the city or seek to cross the Ann Arbor tracks.