Mayor's Statements Harshly Criticized

The board of public works held their regular meeting Monday night and received bids for the paving of Ann street. Lennane Brothers of Detroit, and Clarken and Schneider were the bidders. The bids, however, were held open until the next meeting of the board, so that communication may be had with the county supervisors, relative to finding out whether the latter will agree to paying part of the cost of paving.

The other work of the board was of a routine character. Toward the close, however, the matter of street repairing was brought up in an informal way and Mayor Copeland was quite bitterly criticized for his recent statement regarding the amount spent repairs within the past five years, which he said was larger than ever before and at the same time commented on the poor condition of the streets.

It was said that the most of the appropriation referred to had not gone for actual improvement of the streets, but for the building of sidewalks, etc. It was also stated that the mayor had appeared before the board on several occasions and criticized the alleged expenditure of money for street repairs and had refused to sign warrants for the pay of workmen engaged in street repairing.