Street Car Line

A well-known business man of this city gave a Eecister reporter a "tip" yesterday, of somethiog big "a brewing," and following up the clue a seneme was unearthed that promises big things for Ann Arbor, and is told below in the words of a prominent citizen who admitted the conspiracy : ''Since you are onto the proposed venture, I suppose I might as well teil you the whole thing. A number of monied men, who possess suffloient capital to carry out what they undertake, have dcided to Hiake a proposition at the next meeting of the common council lookiog to the establishing of a belt line of horse street cars in this city. The proposition - the particulars oL which I am not now prepared to state - is a fair and equitable one, and if the project receives any reasonable encouragement from the city it will be carried out. The plan is to lay a track from the M. C. R. R. depot up State-st to N. University Ave., up this street to Washtenaw Ave., and Orleans-st, thence on Orleans-st, to E. University Ave., down this avenue the Madison-st, down Madison to Packard, then down Main st to the depot. It will also be laid between State and Main on IIuron,and on William-sf, to T. & A. A. depot. A uniform fare of five cents will be charged, and it s the intention of the company, if the line is established, to hold cars for opera house patrons, and also to have cars at all late trains You can say that this is to be a bona-fide proposition and that we mean business." This is certainly the first big streak of dawning metropolitanism that we have ever had. The other psuedo street car company Vanted so much that their proposition received but little attention, but from the above statement it is to be inferred that men are at the bottom of this who will push it to a realizaron, it given half a chance. This ciiy certainly needs a street car line, and it would be a big stride in its advancement.