That Adrian Street Car Line

That Adrian street car line

Mr. Hatch promises it will be built

Wants rights extended

So they can build this summer - nothing shows yet but franchises

Mr. W. B. Hatch, the Detroit lawyer who is promoting the proposed electric line from Ann Arbor to Adrian, was in the city last week and expressed hopes of the company being able to build the line this coming summer. 

The Everett syndicate failure made it extremely difficult to finance a new line, but that has now been settled and Mr. Hatch says their financial man tells him there will now be no difficulty. 

Mr. Hatch says the franchises from here to Adrian expire in June and November, 1904, excepting the franchise in this city which runs out next month. Mr. Hatch will apply to the council at its next meeting for an extension and says he is willing that a clause shall be put in the ordinance permitting any other road that should desire the streets to be given a franchise of them on condition that they will permit the cars of the Adrian line to come in on them on the payment of reasonable traffic charges. He says he does not desire to tie up these streets by a franchise to his company, but simply that the Adrian line be made sure of the privilege of getting into the city, as without such a right it could not be built.