A Church Tramp Visits Ann Arbor

A CHURCH TRAMP VISITS ANN ARBOR

BUT HIS IMPRESSIONS POSSESSED LITTLE OF VALUE

What He Thought of the Churches -- He Came With Preconceived Notions But Acquired Little Information

A church tramp visited Ann Arbor a  week ago Sunday and gave his impressions in three columns in the News Tribune Sunday. His impressions can, however, be completely summarized in a few words. University hall "with its dome looks like an old fashioned county court house, flanked on either side with wings still more inferior looking, having somewhat the appearance of soldiers' barracks." St. Thomas' church "is a fine new stone edifice with a grand tower standing in a commanding position on a hillside." St. Andrew's is a "neat, modest little stone structure without either tower or steeple." The temperance oratorical contest was "a cold and perfunctory affair." The Methodist church was "not elegant, gorgeous, imposing or even beautiful -- just a good, comfortable inviting looking place inside." He wanted a railing put up in front of the Methodist choir lest some lady might faint and fall over. He was also greatly concerned about some possible immorality in the city and directed all his inquiries to that topic, without any tangible result excepting two or three vague innuendoes which if correctly reported confer little credit on the judgment of the persons making them. The church tramp failed to find the sad state of affairs he expected, although he didn't say so, and his innuendoes in his article reflected more against himself than others. The truth is that there is probably less immortality here, numbers considered, than in any other college in the country.