Sewers

Since the inaujuration of the water works system söme way of disposing of waste water, and closet debris bas been becoming more and more necessary. All have adrnitted it, both frora economlcal and sanitary reasons, butthe well-known dislike of a bonded debt has prevented action. No complete sewerage system could be put into the city streets at less than $100,000, for which it has not been thought best to tax, even the next generation. But now a plan has been devlsed to liave the city build the maln sewer, letting the property owners to be benelitted most build the lateral sewers. This is a wise compromise betweun the interests of the municipality and the lot owners, as botU are well servet', and neither are burdened thereby. All will be helped by the improvement. The money will be spent here, giving our laborers steady summer work, not only for this year, but afterwards as individuáis put down their pipe. The present time could not be more favorable, as the breaking of the sewer pipe trust has lowered the price of pipe over 75 per cent. It is safe to say tliat the people of Ann Arbor spend over $10,000 each year in cess pools auil their cleaning. One block alone, on Main street, pays $70 per year for these things. After they are built the cost of keeping up sewers is only nominal, for Instanop, Kalamazoo, with twice our population, pays $250 annually. Sewers attract residents and institutions. As a case in hand we may inform our readers tliat within the past few weeks Ann Arbor was visited by some wealtliy capitalists who were looklnjï up a site for a private insane asylura. They intended to purchase a hundred acres of land, erect handsome buildings; lay out jrrounds with trees, artificial lakes and Orive-ways, and spend a couple of liundred thousand dollars to establish such au institution as is at Canamlaigua, N. Y. For the advertising which the 300 doctors leaving here every year could have afforded, they preferred to lócate at Ann Arbor instead of at any one of the other points under consideration. Such au inbtitution must have sewerage connections, and when they found none could be had here they gave up the idea, to lócate at Flint. Thus was lost what not only would have been a great ornament to the city but a considerable source of revenue - all because we had no sewers. Let us see to it that we do not lose any thlnsr more for that reason. A word to the wise, etc There is no job in this, as mlght be the case in nearly every other way, and voters are safe in endorsing it.