New Route For Electric Line

Ordinance Committee Meet to Look Over Routes

A Compromise Proposed

Gen'l Mgr. Austin Present - Company is Sure to Come and Route is Sought that will Please All

The ordinance committee of the common council, Alderman Fischer, Hutzel, Bangs, had a meeting Tuesday evening with Gen. Manager L. L. Austin, of the Ohio & Michigan Traction company, over the franchise this company is seeking admitting this latest projected railway to our city.

After considerable study of the map the committee finally agreed to modify the original draft of the ordinance so as to permit entrance over State street to Packard, up Packard to Fifth avenue on the D. Y, A. A. & J. tracks, north on Fifth to William, thence west on William to Fourth avenue, then north on Fourth to Beakes street, thence to Broadway and north along the east side of the river toward Whitmore Lake, or north on Fourth to Kingsley, thence west on Kingsley to Main and north on Main.

Whether this arrangement will be satisfactory to any more people than the other that was proposed remains to be seen.

Some objection was made by Mr. Austin to iron poles over portions of the route through the city and to paving and sprinkling between their track, but this will be easily gotten along with.

Of course there is no certainty that the route the line will eventually take has yet been decided upon, but undoubtedly progress is being made toward a solution.  The committee is going about the matter with the question of the road coming settled in their own minds and with the desire to find some route through the city that will be satisfactory to the residents along the streets as far as possible and also satisfactory to the projectors of the road.  The solution of this problem is not dead easy, but some solution will be found,  The sentiment is that Ann Arbor must have the road and consequently the route will be found.