The Motor Line Stopped

The decisión o the supreme court, iirecting tliat an injunction issue from the eireuit court, restraining the Ana Arbor & Ypsilanti Street Railway Co. from running its ears past the Nichols property, "as a1 present eonstruct;d" was carried into elfect last Friuing of an injunction ly Judge Kinne, of this circuit, and the serving oí the sanie upon the officers íiinl employés of the road. Thi r rtainly a question as to what decisión oí the supreme court really means, each side claiming a different construct ion. Nevertheless the officers of the road deemed It best to obey the mandates ol i lic court, and as i consequence, dtecharged ;til their employés, houscil tlieir cara and motors, and have quit business. This was probably the best metliod ïor the company to pursue. This road lias cost the eompany who own it about $100,000 clean cash. It ís a great enterprise. It is an enterprise that none but public spirited men would ever have inveeted their money in, for it takea years of waiting for capital to be rewarded. But it builde up the country through which it passes, and is a great convenience and benefit to the people of Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, -and those living in the eastern part of the country who have business at the county seat. In time, when those two cities shall have beconie larger, and the street on which this line runs more thickly populated, the company muy be able to pay a dividend apon the investment, but it will be a long time before this is realized. In the meantime these enterprising men who have put their money into the road could have it in bonds and mortgages and draw from 7 to 20 per cent. interest, and liad no trouble, and been eminently respectable people, to whom even the Unvyers would doff their hats although realizing that they (the lawyers) would never make a cent out of them, under such circumstances. It is the pushing, energetic, go-ahad citizen that builds up a comlnunity, and he is the one who tsteps on the toes of the fossils and snails who turn and fight against advancement and progrese. Ann Arbor has not taken a step forward for years and years but there has been some one to object and fight ngainst it. Ypsilanti has experienced the same thing, and so has every community. From hand to mouth- The pipe.