Music Feature Of Local Saloons

CITIZEN INQUIRIES ABOUT THE ORDINANCE ABOLISHING IT

Says That Music Ought to go and Believes Aldermen Ought to Push Measure Against it

Some weeks ago there was an ordinance which passed its second reading in the council, prohibiting the use of music in saloons. Since then there has been nothing heard of it. There is a story about, however, to the effect that considerable influence has been at work to prevent the passage of the measure. Wednesday a business man, in commenting upon the strange silence that has been maintained since the ordinance was introduced and the fact that no effort seems to nave been made to have It passed, said:

"It seems to me that someone is derelict in this matter. The ordinance to abolish music in saloons was a good one and it ought to have gone through. There are some places in this city where music is used for no other purpose than drawing a sort of trade in which women play an important part. I am not so much opposed to the graphophones which are used in some of the saloons, but I draw the line at pianos. I once visited South Clark street in Chicago, where every saloon has a piano and they are all the resort of the lowest class of men and women. When I hear the pounding of some of the pianos in the saloons about here I think of that visit to Clark street. It seems to me that some of the saloons in Ann Arbor offer too much of certain sorts of attractions now, without having the piano addition. I hope the aldermen wild push that ordinance through."