Street Railway Settles By Giving City Note For $3018

The suits between the city and the Detroit, YpsiIanti & Ann Arbor Railroad company have been practically settled. West Huron street is to be put into condition for travel by the company, which has agreed to fix up its track, and the company is to give the city its note for $3,018 for one year at 5 per cent interest in settlement of its part of its paving tax and for crosswalks which the city was compelled to put in and the gravel on West Huron street.

The questions in dispute were amicably arranged last week and the officials of the road together with Mayor Brown, City Attorney Kearney and the chairmen of the street and sidewalk committees walked over the line on West Huron street.

The marked contrast between the present city administration's methods of doing business and those of the last administration is shown in the above item. There is no fuss and feathers about the present administration. It is not piling up law-suits, but it is doing business in a common sense business method. One by one the old claims of the city for money due are being settled up without expense to the city, as they are being looked after.

When Mayor Brown came in, the court calendar was loaded up with city cases, many with such technical defects that the city could not win. These cases have rapidly been disposed of and while the city is not giving up any of its rights, it is so conducting business as to maintain those rights without stirring up innumerable suits at law.

The settlement above referred to removes a case from the docket, the city getting all it asks for and while the money does not come in at once, the city gets 5 per cent interest on the note for a year, during most of which period the city will have a bank balance drawing only 2 per cent interest.