Coler Denies The Interview

Bird S. Coler, ex-comptroller of New York City, who delivered a lecture at Ann Arbor Friday, went to Jackson Saturday afternoon in company with W. A. Boland, and left for New York on the late train. Mr. Coler expressed himself to a Jackson reporter as highly pleased wlth his western visit and particularly so with his visit to Jackson and Ann Arbor. He is interested wlth Mr. Boland in the Jackson street railway, but not in the suburban lines. He said Saturday that he was much pleased with the condition of the road and believed it to be a good investment. In speaking of the new suburban car now running between that city and Grass Lake, Mr. Coler remarked that he had never seen a better one, and he had ridden in nearly all of them. He spoke of the wonderful growth of the electric lines, particularly in Michigan, and said it could have but one effect- the improvement both morally and physically of the farming community. He believed there would be business enough between Jackson and Detroit for both the Boland and Hawks-Angus lines.

In reference to the interview in Friday's Free Press, in which Mr. Coler was made to say that a combination had been effected between the two lines, he said: "Oh, that was simply newspaper talk, and it was not reported as I said it. I do not know of any combination being formed."