A Comparison

Detroit has a population of 200,000. Ann Arbor has a population of 10,000. Thus Detroit is 26 times larger tlian Ann Arbor. Detroit expends on au average over $80,000 eacli week to keep up the cost of its city government. Ann Arbor expends about $800 each week on an average for the same purpose. "Detroit's expenses are easily one hundred times greater than Aun Arbor's though she is only tvventy-six times as large II Aun Arbor's expenses were as great in proportion as those of Detroit, it would cost $8,000 a week to run our city. People who complain about the city taxes, and about the wonderfiilly high sxpenses here, onght to compare the sanie with those of other cities, and thus and out how fortúnate we are here in A.nn Arbor.