Another Plan To Boom Ann Arbor

Ann Akbor, January 20, '91. Editor Argus: - One of the most respected and honored citizens of the county, a resident of our city, said to the writer only a short time since that Ann Arbor much needed a "First-Class Hotel," and that it would pay. Everyone knows the need. Should such a one be located on a corner lot, have a large dining room in it, the college societies would take their suppers there, and the University instead of offering its alumni and guests a poor apology of a cold lunch, would give them a first-class warm dinner. Besides, rich men who came here to visit their children would patronize it, and a prominent business man here said he would board there himself with his family during the summer, and if it had good rooms and spacious piazzas, it could be filled with summer boarders. This would open the way to booming Ann Ar)or as a summer resort. This can be done, Mr. Editor. We have the prettiest city in Michgan, fine drives, beautiful scenery, graded streets, gas, electricity, pure water, street railways furnishing cheap rides, but at the same time he pleasantist to be had in any conveyance; and the city is just as cool a place as can be found inland, and our boarding houses are all open f rom July ist to October. Let us )oom the city for a summer resort and fill it full of visitors. At Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., he hottest place in New England, hey have summer schools of Botany, Natural History. Chemistry, etc., and we should have all of them ïere. It is a much more pleasant place ro spend the summer than at Cambridge and will cost far less. Prof.Trueblood has started a School of Elocution. Let others start lar schools and fill the city with eachers also. All this can be done. The ball can be started this year. Talk it up, Mr. Editor. It will benefit us all. Who speaks first about t, especially the new hotel? Yours for boomine