Wants The $5,000 Raised

To the Editor : Owosso voted on the 22d inst, 675 to 6ö, to raise $25,000 and twenty acres of land to get the Toledo & Ann Arbor R. R. shops. Ann Arbor once raised $5,000 for some railroad; and yet there are croakers who say itcannot vote money for similar purposes now. How is it that Ann Arbor did it once; how is it that Owosso has done it, if we cannot do it again ? Owosso is alive ; the vote was unanimous, almost. Shonld not Ann Arbor vote $5,000 for general advertising and outbid Owosso at once to get the shops ? We think so, and hope to see an earnest movement in this direotion. Now is the time to advertise. The money we expend will come back four-fold. The Business Men's Association should lose no time in getting out the red-line edition of their pamphlet on Ann Arbor with an illuminated cover. We shall need it immediately. A splendid beginning has been made here. A boiler shop has been secured, and the T. & A. Company will run a side track to the boiler shop and have all their boilers repaired here. The boiler shops will probably bring twenty families here. Just vertise our city and we can get 100 families in a year - safe families with money to invest here. Let us be wide awake. Let us vote the $5,000 and spend a reasonable sum at once in extensive newspaper advertieing. Business men know that this pays tbem, and it will pay a? us a city. Every property owner and every laboring man in the city will be benefited. Rush forward this booming, Mr. Editor. ■ Ann Arbor is passing her village stage ; is on the road to ereat prosDeritv.