Mayor Files Another Veto

MAYOR FILES ANOTHER VETO

Protect Against Placing Another Fire Hydrant

ON OAKLAND AVENUE

Says It Is Unnecessary Unless Ann is to Give Water Company a Present

Mayor Brown Filed the following veto, late Wednesday afternoon, which fully explains itself:

To the Honorable the Common Council of the City of Ann Arbor:

Gentlemen- I hereby disapprove of so much of your proceedings of July the 20th as relates to the location of a fire hydrant on Oakland avenue. I find a hydrant at the corner of Hill and Oakland and one at the corner of Tappan and Oakland, and two on Packard street, one just south of Arbor street and one south of Arch street, all of these hydrants are within seven hundred feet of the location of the proposed new hydrant and one hydrant is less than six hundred feet. It has been the policy of the city in times past to establish hydrants about seven hundred feet apart and the chief of the fire department, who has had some fifteen years' experience in his position, informs me that this hydrant is not needed for fire protection and that this part of Oakland is as well protected as any other resident district in the city, therefore unless you wish to increase the revenues of the Water Company $40 per year, I can see no reason for locating another hydrant in this district.

Yours truly, 

ARTHUR BROWN,

Dated, July 22, 1903. Mayor.