For A Route Into The City

Toledo-Ann Arbor Directors Looking Over Ground

WILL USE STATE STREET

To Packard -- From there Several Route are Mention -- Will Decide Tomorrow

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A party of capitalists and stockholders in the Michigan & Ohio Electric railway -- the new Toledo-Ann Arbor line -- arrived here Monday evening, coming across country in three automobiles. The party is composed of Gen'l Manager L. L. Austin, John O. Zabel, E. W. Warren, M. J. Wilcox, G. W. Soules, L. W. Knisely, Congressman J. H. Southard, and Chas. O. Soules, all of Toledo. O., T. H. Jaugk, J. W. Pero. J. H. Clauss and P. L. Van Alstyne. of Fremont, O., M. R. Bacon, of Wyandotte, John Chrystal, of Detroit, and Wm. Ford, of Cincinnati.

The party are making the trip for the purpose of definitely deciding upon the route for the new line and looking over the course as laid out by the engineers. Their work in this city was to decide just what streets were most practicable for entrance, and which they should ask the council for a franchise upon. It is definitely settled that the line will come up on State street past the Athletic field, but there is some division of [opinion] regarding the rest of the route down town.

The engineer of the road has serious objections to climbing the State street hill thus bringing them past the campus and the party rode about the city Tuesday looking up the most feasible route to get down town and avoid the objectionable climb. One of the suggested routes is to come up State street to Packard, thence over the D., Y., A. A. & J. track to Fourth avenue and down Fourth to the center of the city, but several others have also been talked of.

The party left for Toledo at noon and were to meet in Toledo Tuesday when it was expected that final route would be decided upon. The gentlemen of the party expressed themselves as very much pleased with the prospects of the line and say that the work of [construction] will be commenced at once and that it is hoped to have the line completed as far as Petersburg this fall and to Ann Arbor by early summer next year.

One of the party also stated that while nothing definite had been considered yet regarding continuing the line to Whitmore Lake this would probably be done finally.