Very Good For Detroit

A recenl Issue of tlie Waslitunaw Kvcnng Time?, a daily newípapor tliat circuales in Aun Árbol and Ypsilanti, conuiiKíl ii cartoon showing President .edyavd siUlns: with bis back turned, i" vliat looked like a lake bctwecn tlie cities f Aun Arbor and Ypsilanti, apparently avinjí liimself Crom sinkinr with eitlier normous hand on tbe fair twln cities. Tlie tcxt acoonipanylng ihe cut set orth that I'rositlent Lcüyard was not as irt'e B8 one niijfht suppose from the contrast, but that lie was big cnough to ovor tlie idea convcyed. And it was liarged that Ledyard bad sat down upon cities, and tliat lus back was turned to ver y appeal forcbeaper freight and pasenger rate, especially ignoring the Ity'a lights in the matter of comniutation ates ot tare for Detroit business nica vho were desirous of residing in tlio-e itics, and wlio wou'd use the road in lielr dally business going to and fro. 'he Times conclnded with a demand for omnmlation rates such as were once D.joyed, and that tbe people would not est content until the rates were granted, nd th rea tened Lcdyard witb tbe contructlon of a competing railroad some i y. In tlie absence of President Tedyard 'rom the c'dy, a reporter of tbe News laid he cartoon before Supt. Miller to day, vho amused bimself wlth the situation of lie president, and, on readinjj the text, aid: "I want to teil you a story. Some Ime ngo I visited a brother of iiiine in turorR, II)., on tlie Chicago, Burlington t Quliicy, wlio was in business in tbe own. I found him in a very despondent ondilion, owing to tbe extreme dullness f trade, and on inquiry advised liim to ell out for wbat be could get and leave lie place. I also found that the rest of he merebanta were in a like condition of epression, and that it was the direct e? uit of a coramutatlon rate granted bj' lie railroad comi'any, such as Ypsilanti nd Ann Arbor want. As soon as the ow rate was granted patrons of the Lurora merebants went to Chicago to do Uicir trading, and the local merchants utl'ered accordiugly. A rate such as hose cities desire, i f the paper is correct, wonld be an excellent tbing for Detroit, iut would have a marked tendency to ntensify tlie dullness in business now pparent in Anti Atborand Ypsilanti. "But the business, actual or proepective, oes not warrant the Michigan Central n maklne such a rate, and it might be aggested that railroads, like all otber rade and transportation lines, are disincüned to do a losing business. Some ime aft", for the accoinmodation of business men of Detroit and the important OWÍ18 along the line, where the freight wai ranted it, we relleved the necessarily slow way freight trains of car load lots of way f rt iglit and attached them to tbrougb trains. As it stands now. a merchant of any of Ihose places can buy bis goods n Detroit to-day and have them on the siding in bis city at 7 o'clock to-morrow morning."