This Should Be Stopped

Editor of Register :- I hope that you will allow me a little space in your paper, to cali attention to a species of misdemeanor in many young men which is to be noticed very frequently upon our streets. I refer to the frequency with which young girls and respectable ladies are accosted and insulted in the e vening by persons who are strangers to them . In my residence of scarcely more than ayear in thia city, have been surprised and shock e d by he number of times that I have myself een young men step up to ladies in the evening and press their company upon hem, until it became necessary for the adv to use ihe most severe language to force the rufflan to depart. At one time a lady was forced to request me as I was jassing, to protect her froin the ad vances of a man who persisted in following her and speaking to her, whenever there appeared to be no other pedestrians near. Another lady told me that her little girl, üfteen years of age, had several times been frightened by young men wno accosted her. Among the number of young men who come to Ann Arbor yearly, there must be of course many in whom brutal instinctsare predominant; but it is the duty of the authorities to see that these fellows are check.id in iheir rude behavior or that some of their number are made examples of. If the authorities cannot or will not do their duty, it is the place of the citizens to see that their wives and daughtersare protected from insult, Many of these ruffians dress well and affect the air of gentlemen, and it would be awholesome lesson tosome of them if they were taken in hand and flned judiciously by our pólice justices. Yours respectfully,