How It Looks To Others

Prof. Albert J. Volland of Racine, Wis. in conversation with a Courier scribe this moruing, said in effect : "I am astonished at the condition Anu Arbor is in with referance to dust. It is almost intolerable here. With us, at Racine, we manage the dust nuisance in this way : "In the early spring sonie r?sident of a street will take a petitiou and secure a majority of house or properiy owners on that street. This is presented to the council who refer it to the board of public works to investígate. "The board takes the petition and finds out if a majority of property owners on the street have signed it, then tliey make out an estímate of the cost and the amount which should be assessed to the city by reason of street crossings. This is reported back to the council. "The council then advertises for bids for sprinkling the street for the season, and each property holder has his or her share, according to frontage, assessed in the regular taxes. "This way appears to be very satisfactory, for all of the principal streets of Racine are spriukled in this way, and every year more and more of the side streets come into the scheme. "There is little or no faultfinding, the manner of securing the desired end being so eminently just to all concerned. "And the saving from the ravages of dust, to say nothing of the comfort of the people, is very great. "It is a wonder to me that Ann Arbor, so progressive and wide awake in almost everything, should wallow along as she does in dust, especially when the remedy is so simple. "If you will ouly try this scheme once I feel sure that it will never be dropped. At any rate it is worth experimenting with. aêt