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7 ROM DEATH CLEANING UP zAri 44z AVOIDS ARREST BY KILLING HERSEL i 1 dia the a PLANS WIRELESS ELECTION CLERK ON TRIAL SECOND TRIO IS REE CASE I 1 BROWN AT BUTTER SALE Kinas or 5 plays the It should have been done years i thinks it ought to have said Aid the nlnv the nnhiip 6 MICHIGAN STATE GRANGE BOD LOCAL BREVITIES PRICE IS ASSAULTED stolen property but was acquit MV i the from sub 4 Hie his the the girl 1 1 I ti nt Central' police station on iWair AH Came Out and He Suffered Very Under Doctor Three Months and No Perma nently Cured at Expense of $2 I Robt Moran Plunges for Maud Mitchie Bernice Pierson and Lena Hallsor Reformers and Philanthropist Are Alarmed at Conditions That Now Prevails WHITNEY ACQUIRES CHICAGO THEATER CALLS REV RILEY CUTICURA REMEDIES WORK WONDERS IMMORALITY DISEASE AND ILTH ABOUND KOCH TO ASK OR NEW LIGHT RATE Would Cut Electricity Charge of Sixteen Cents a Unit to Ten cent bad asphalt Twenty first curb brick' River Me west line of ifth to Third curb 25 Most Beautiful and Best Dressed Woman in Pitts burg a Suicide Not what you pay for your labor'but what you expect in results During the day you get 20 per cent more work than at night unless your factory is well lighted Increase the capacity of your fac tory by installing the ICE BREAKS AND GIRLS DROP INTO ST CLAIR THOS CLARK ADDRESSES STATIONARY ENGINEERS Members of theM Cooley Na tional Association of Stationary En gineers visited the the Clark Wireless Telegraph Co at Cass and State streets last night wherd they listened to a lecture and witnessed remarkable demonstra tions by Thomas Clark inventor of the Clark wireless telegraph sys tem Mr Clark announced that he had achieved a great measure of success along the line of a wireless tele phone and lie' permitted his hear ers to look at his instruments Mr Clark said that he had already suc ceeded in transmitting the sound waves from the human voice with out the aid of wires from the lab oratory to the dock station the foot of Wayne street He said that all other experiments in wireless telephoning so far had been with direct unobstructed lines but that by his system he proposes to trans mit the voice through the earth re gardless of obstructions i He gave demonstrations in dark rooms which brought down the real ism of a lightning storm and a beau tiful display of electric waves and sparks from wires carrying a volt age of one million Commissioner Haarer Sub mits Budget of Esti mates It Was ormerly Run for Mil lionaires Pleasure and Will Be Changed Now Hume West Drops Ont of Sight Hume West the broker whose conviction in Judge court was sustained by the supreme court has not appeared in court for sen tence Nothing has been heard from Julius Rosenthal his bondsman who was summoned to produce West Judge Phelan stated yester day that! unless West appears thi morning he will start an inquiry into the causes of the delay the health department Bay Henry charged with causing the death of Corianna Hebert by reck less driving was found guilty of manslaughter in the circuit court and is the second of the trio to go free The case against Henry De Lorge remains to be tried but as the evidence is exactly the same in both cases it is believed DeLorgewill also go free The prosecution was unable to produce anyone who actually saw the wagon run over the girl or who saw the girl run across the street in front of thewagon ARE OR A drop of the mercury to 10 degrees above zero before said Weather Observer Conger last night a rise is probable It is snowing some out' in Montana but there is no indication of any of it around here rlght A Mr A Barnett proprietor of a general store tn Avard Oklahoma tells in the following grateful letter how Cuticura cured him and hit cf terrible eczemas: "My little boy had eczema head was one solid sore all over ealp hte hair all came out and he suffered very much I had a physician treat him but at the end of three months he was no better I remem bered that the Cuticura Remedies had cured me and after giving him two bottles of Cuticura Resolvent according to directions and using Cuticura Soap and Ointment on him daily his eczema left him his hair Eew again and neither he nor myself ve had any eczema since As to his own case Mr Barnett Bays I suffered with eczema a burning itching breaking out on my face for snore than a year 1 took treatment from physicians for several months which did no good I was then advised to try Cuticura I tookix bottles of Cuticura Resolvent and used Cuticura Soap and Ointment freely every day I began to improve aoon after starting to use them and when I had taken the six bottles of the Resolvent fny face had become clear I had good color and all eruo itions had left me use the Cuticura Soao and Ointment in our family now for general use ana it Keeps our SKin bo ft and healthy I cheerfully recoin mend the Cuticura Remedies for all cases of eczema (signed) A Bar est Avard Oklahoma Mar 30 1905" CepKt External aad Interna) Treatment for arery maw SvAVn a 1 tsafi iw nf CialEaura a vistiusm rw nisei Wc (in! Term ef ChoeoUt CoUS Pllle Me per riel a unw wi onen are ter Dreg Ckem Corp Mol Propt Beeton MnUeS rnn AU Ureut th BUs Scalp ud Bair' Grand Rapids Pere Marquette ill sell round trip tickets from 11 points one fare plus 25 cents Rate from De troit to Grand Rdpids and return $371 On sale Dec 10 11 Return Dec 15 The two left hand views were taken in Tin Can Alley where murder and other crimes are of frequent occurrence Its inhabitants are principally colored It is here where rats as big as cats play tag These two right hand views were taken at 307 ranklin street Note the dilapidation and neglect 'of the children Mr Randall calls particular attention to this place Asks to be Arrested '7 want to give myself up tired of not getting anything to eat or having a place to sleep Lock me up" said Richard letcher to Lieut Thomas Lally yesterday letcher is 57 years old and a cook He said that he had stolen an overcoat and sold it In Windsor for 50 cents story was found to be true and'he was accommodated As th'a man insisted that he had not eaten for two days he looked for ward to a meal with joy Tt is 'Tin R1UWSK because it is giving the public the I fi rl fi VnI 1 1 nrz A Jf Vllt? liaiiajl Cl LC7 Ll nstpnfi or me piays me puniic wants "I propose to add the theater to my list and use it as a producing house? I will play musical come dies and light operas Samuel Ger son who is managing it for the present owners and who was for years the manager of the Garrick theater? in' Chicago will be in charge for Mr Whitney says the theater is one of the prettiest and finest in the country It is elaborately decorated and excellently arranged and he aims to makev it one of most popular playhouses Chicago December 7 The New theater was 'the only en 'playhouse in this country and which was backed by a num ber prominent local business men today transferred to Whitney of Detroit? The deal does not Interfere with the present sea son of tlie theater Thos NV ItMimmonr Suea Zanger or alleged false: imprisonment and prosecution former Justice of the Peace Thomas itzsimmons asks Gustave'' Zanger the fur dealer to pay him $20000 Suit was begun yesterday in circuit court It is in connection with the famous fur robbery for which Miller 'was sentenced to spend five years in prison itz simmons was charged with receiv ing ted WEST SIDE STREETS TO BE IMPROVED plague spots where dis ease pauperism and immorality are nurtured are engrossing the atten tion of local reformers and philan thropists Tn the district from the river northward to Canfield avenue and eastward from St Antoine street to Orleans it has been declared that the conditions among the poor are fully as deplorable as they' are in any city in the country not even excepting the repellant tenement district New York The famous Tin Can alley which has furnished police court stories humorous arid otherwise is unquestionably the most popular abiding place of the festive disease breeding germ in the city Bounded by Napoleon and Winder St Antoine and Hastings streets it affords an interesting story in desolation and filth The is a collection of tumbledown shacks garbage and refuse of all kinds and is inhabited principally by colored people Rats as large as full grown cats play tag there and the odors like King Claudius's offense smell to heaven Another on Orleans Street Scarcely more wholesome is the de lectable byway known as the Jap anese village which is located on Orleans street The slums are peopled by a cosmopolitan popula tion embracing Russian Jews ne groes Hungarians' Italians and in vestigation of the housing condi tions has disclosed the fact that as many as forty persons are crowded into an eight room house in one sec tion Health Officer Kiefer declares that his department is sadly handicapped by the lack of sufficient appropria tion for necessary help He has five plumbing inspectors to look after sanitary work' and three officers from the police department ai as signed to investigate cases when complaints are made With reference to the plan of de molishing the hovels with which certain parts of the city are ridden Dr Kiefer says the process of the law in regard to condemning build ings is so cumbersome it becomes impracticable The city physicians report a good deal of illness in the quarters inhab ited by the indigent poor Typhoid tonsilitis and bronchial troubles are the most prevalent forms of illness At a recerft meeting of the Social Conference club Rabbi Leo ranklin proposed a plan for the formation of a company for the pur chase of grounds and the erection of adequate dwelling places for the poor charging them or the societies that pay their rent a fair rental guaranteeing to them conditions that will make it not only desirable but necessary to observe the ordin ary rules of health cleanliness and morality Time to Sound Alarm Rev William orbush of the Woodward Avenue Congregational church whose knowledge of the conditions locally is the result of personal investigation says it time to sound the alarm is growing said Dr orbush we should awaken to the necessity of preparing for the conditions that confront us in this matter Generally speaking the city is a beautiful one but its residents should not allow its bequty to dazzle their eyes when passing unclean alleys Dr plan is a good one but in the meantime more urgent measures should be taken I think it would be a good Idea to organize neighborhood im provement societies after the plan of those in other large cities members of these societies embrace residents of a designated neighborhood who are pledged to report to the health department vio lation of ordinances looking to cleanliness etc in their neighbor hood In this way the city can be divided into little health protection districts and complaints will pour in upon the health department Then the authorities will be com pelled to provide the necessary as sistance Tin Can alley could have its neighborhood society as well as Piety hill and would be the slogan all around Conditions Bad as Elsewhere public appeal In a matter of this kind will not avail The city Is becoming so large that the growth of slum conditions is in grave danger of being Randall who was employed by Dr orbush to photograph scenes of squalor and misery in the loathsome quarters of the city arid who displayed several of his pic tures at the last meeting of the So cial Conference club declares that he is of the opinion that the condi tions of the poor in Detroit are as bad as anywhere In the country yet the tenants of these miserable hovels are paying more' exorbitant rents than are demanded in other cities for similar abodes Mr Randall called particular at tention to the house located at 307 ranklin street two views of which are presented DETROI1 PLAGUE SPOTS WHERE HUMANITY HERDS AND DISEASE ILTH IMMORALITY AND CRIME PREVAIL 1 a if Lehigh Walley Railroad? Double Track Scenic Highway to New York and Philadelphia andall east points This is the route of the famous Black Diamond Express A delightful route for passengers to the east Address Roberts Traveling Passenger Agent 7 ort Aid Max Koch city treasurer elect will ask the council ordinance committee to report to the council an ordinance fixing the maximum rate to be charged by the Edison Illuminating Co at ten cents per unit instead of sixteen cents as now charged At the meeting of the ordinance committee a week ago Aiderman Koch asked the committee in the presence Alexander Dow of the Edison companyto recommend an ordinance fixing a flat rate of about seven cen ts per uhit' It now ap pears that the aiderman did not de sire'' that an ordinance be passed he has known for some time that the supreme court declared it invalid in the case of the Columbus ordinance desired that Mr Dow ex plain to the comniittee what' his company was willing' to said Aid Koch has Intimated that he may give a better rate but that rit will not be given if an or dinance is passed ordinance which I will pro pose will not change the jexisting minimum rate of four cents per unit 1 believe? the city will be abundantly able to the courts that ten or twelve cents per unit is Values Honesty Reputation at 93000 that her reputation for honesty was assailed 'Hattie' Janowr ski of 75 Goldner' avenue yester day started suit in circuit court against Moriaritys coal at 1385 Michigan avenue fori $3000 damages? The plaintiff says' that Moriarlty delivered a half ton of coal to her and that later one of agents came and took the coal away stating that she had not paid for It and was Intending to cheat and de fraud JShe says it was paid for Nell uneral Held uneral services over the remains of Neil McLean were held yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at 167 Jef ferson jayenue The services were under the auspices of Aerie No 82 Order of Eagles of which Mr McLean was a prominent mem ber The body wns escorted by the Aedie to the Pere Marquette de pot The burial will be in Saginaw where Mr McLean had business terests and was past worthy grand president of the Saginaw 'Aerie of Eagles George Ade has rewritten in Ahis humorous way the story of Rip Van Winkle Jt Is one of the" features of tomorrow's ree Press Accused of Stealing Shovels John Kemmick it Is alleged with just twenty three shovels yesterday according to a complaint made at police headquarters by Jacob Wilde his employ er Wilde is a contractor working for the Home Telephone Co which owns the shovels John is 35 years old and resides at 91 State street He was arrested last night by Patrolman Pollard and locked up a larceny Work Tied Up ollowing a special call for a meeting of the council to consider the Injunction proceedings Instituted agalnoi trio village and Contractor Bramley of Cleveland River Rouge trustees for a brief ses sion last night The meeting held was brief considering tho weight of the proposition: to be dealt with a resolution was adopted instructing the president and attorney of the village to take the necessary steps to meet the petitioners It only re mains for the case tpbe tried out the work' on the sewer will be at a standstill 1 Port Mich December 7 Rev Sam Bettes a roving evange list who formerly made his home in this city arid who has gained con siderable celebrity is having a strenuous time preaching the gospel in the southland 'from reports just received here He appears to be leading a moral crusade at Raleigh and on Saturday afternoon last while giving an exhortation from the postoffice steps was' as saulted by a peace officer whoso of ficial conduct he was assailing legs were jerked from un der him while In the midst of one of his most forceful statements hnd he fell so hard that his collar bone and shoulder were broken and an arm dislocated After being rescued by the police Bettes despite his In jured condition remounted the ros trum and continued his attack Policeman Sued for Divorce Charging extreme cruelty Mary lorence' Huber yesterday began In circuit court for a divorce from Peter Huber policeman She alleges he came home one night threw the lamp on the floor and chased her all around the house choking her when he caught her She escaped from house and spent the night' with a neighbor They were married April 19 1899 and have 'two Infant children Despite Injuries He Remounts 'f Rostrum and Continues Speech Special to Detroit ree Press Pittsburg December 7 Miss Eth el erver 25 years old committed suicide in her apartment in the Elsinore at 3 this afternoon as Detective George Cole was seeking admittance to place her under arrest for forgeries aggregat ing $i40C and the theft of mends worth $1000 The victim was considered being accompanied by some of most beautiful and best dressed in Pittsburg and for a time was a nightly visitor at the most fash ionable cafes in the city usually most wealthy and prominent men being much sought after ac count of her unusual beauty Miss erver with her mother Mrs Alice Attle came here from' Steubenville about two years ago or the past few weeks they have been living in the Elsinore the girl being employed by Arthur Span a doctor" who made his home with them Span discov ered that his name had been forged to many checks He accused Miss erver He also demanded the re turn of two diamond rings which ue loaned ner sue gave nim rings Span later discovered that diamonds had been removed the settings and paste stones stituted He complained to thepo lice and with Detective Cole went to place Miss erver under arrest She saw them coming and running to the kitchen fired a bullet into her brain The officer broke in the door and found hen dead car tracks' 5 Porter to Bridge brick be car tracks Third River tO UI I) VOV XV 4 Brooklyn to Twelfth brick'' Sixth Michigan to Bagg cedar Hamilton boulevard from boulevard to Pin gree avenue BEYER CHARGED WITH ALSELY CREDITING VOTES Echoes of the recent election were heard in Justice court yes terday afternoon and' more will be heard this morning The case against rank Beyer charged with false ly crediting 113 votes William Keiieher candidate for represen tative came up for trial Owing to the inability? of Judge Durfee to be present the examination could not be concluded yesterday Walter Oldfield chief deputy in the office of the county clerk Capt A Stewart Precinct Detee'tive Horrigan Charles Boyce and rank Brozowski the latter two on the election board were the wit nessas Ail admitted that errors were often made in counting bal lots but none of them could figure out how a mistake of 113 could be made Boyce and Brozowski testi fied that Beyer called a large num ber of the ballots 'the witnesses stated that It took from 1:30 in the afternoon Until 2:30 the next morn ing to count 600 ballots a ern tunnel iiist be constructed in time" said Aid Brozo "During the last hard times would have been a good opportun ity to have built such a tunnel be cause It would have given employ ment to many needy said Aid Kingsley am considering the advisabil ity of having the city clerk obtain data regarding tunnel plans from any other city that has already tested a simjlar said Aid Goeschel When the ordinance is up for re considerationj'ion motion of Aid Vernor the fid visability of extend ing the district may be considered in view of the fact that it is not far reaching enough Those sweet littleKatzenjammer kids get into trouble get him out of trouble and then get into trouble A themselves The comic supplementx'wlnv The ree Press tomorrow is full of laughs ERRY AVE BAPTIST CHURCH SECCRES NEW PASTOR erry Avenue Baptist church has called Rev Riley' of Detroit Minn' to commence his pastorate January I and he has accepted Mr Riley comes to this city un der very auspicious circumstances He is in the prime of life arid leaves a city where he has had fine devel opments as the result of his efforts The call was unanimous and the new pastor takes charge of a church made up of a united people entirelyout of debt and whose edifice is sit uated in one of the growing parts of the city Mr Riley came here on a visit November 15 and occupied the pul pit of the church morning and even ing The impression he made at that time resulted in this unanimous call Knights of Pleasure will hold their annual election ot officers at the Crystal theater this evening at 11 Annual meeting and election of officers of Detroit Boat club yachtsmen will be held this evening at in the Wayne hotel Tomorrow Newell will speak at 7:30 In Central Presbyterian church Bates and armer streets on "Why Did Jesus Christ Have to IMe? was the subject of a paper Margaret" Bea at the meeting of the Lnlty club at irst Congregational Unitarian church last evening Chaplain George Jones now sta tioned at ort Wayne will speak at Mc Gregor mission tomorrow evening at 7:30 Mrs William Allan is the soloist Mrs Della Toms charged by Miss Belen LeRoy with larceny by conversion of jew elry valued at 1000 pleaded not guilty In Justice Sellers's court yesterday Her ev amination will occur next Tuesday Ball was fixed at 31000 Vladimir Glzinski 454 rederick street Paul and Nellie Szymanski and Anthony urst charged with selling liquor to mi nors waived examination in the police court yesterday All were held to the re court for trial under 3500 bonds Division No 1 A holds its twen ty seventh annual election of division of ficers tomorrow afternoon st 2:30 sharp Judge Alfred Murphs1 will give' an ad dress to the members at 3:30 to be followed by a social session and smoke up Wednesday and Thursday December 12 and 13 occurs the annual bazaar St Episcopal church in the church parlors ourteenth and Howard Domes tic and fancy articles will be offered for sale and home baked goods are to be a specialty the Is the subject onwhich Dr Charles Seymour will speak at the Church of Our ather tomorrow evening in his historical course In this lecture he treats also of Louis XI and th laM days of knighthood The public is in vitea to these lectures Preceding them Mr ruttchev arlvM a abort nrvan toaclnnlnc at 7:15 WAS HELD UP ATER DE TROIT MAN DESERTED Indianapolis Ind December 7 Thomas Brown came to Indian apolis from Detroit today to attend the sale of 66000 pounds of butter had been in a storage house for a year and a half Incidentally Brown was arrested on a charge of deserting his wife Edna Brown 816 North New Jersey street Tt was through a suit which she filed asking support that the butter was held so long in the storage house His wife charged in her suit against him that $850 of the money he invested belonged to her They had been married about three months when he left the city site charges with another woman leav ing her and his enormous of butter behind him Brown is now associated with a produce con cern at Detroit Beattie Came to Be Tried Soon Detective Lombard was in Bay City yes terday with subpenaju for several residents of that town who are wanted to appear Id Detroit to testify in the case of Al exander Beattie a traveling salesman arrested April 12 last on a charge of em bezzlement "of 3260 36 from his employers Parker Webb Co The case has been postponed again and again but it will finally come to trial in a few days Beat tie formerly resided in Bay City In the budget of estimates for west side streets to be repaved" and resurfaced as submitted' to 'D Commissioner Haarer yesterday by Supt Brunnell there are eleven parts of streets to be repaved and twenty one to be resurfaced These average only about three blocks The largest job is 'Bark street from Adams to Peterboro street for which an estimate for creosote block will be asked Howard street from Wabash to Twentieth street is seven blocks long jt is a resurfacing job for which brick is recommended The commissioner considers it a very small budget and he said that for the east side will be much larger The aidermen of the west side have big list of streets that the commissioner has been instructed to include in his estimates Those that are not included in the list recommended by the superintendent to the commissioner will be submit ted as a class upon which the board of esti mates wielded the ax unsparingly last spring Only a few blocks of repaving between the tracks of thethree lines are included The west side list is as follows: Repaving Bagg to Trumbull curb 50 per cent bad asphalt Brooklyn Baker to Porter curb 25 per cent bad cedar Cherry ifth to Brook lyn curb 25 per cent bad ceddr Eighth Michigan to Plum 25 per cent bad cedar ifth River to Con gress part of curb gone brick Sec ond Michigan to Plum curb 25 per cent bad asphalt Third Alexan drine to Canfield curb 25 per cent bad asphalt Parsons Woodward to Cass curb 25 per cent bad asphalt: River btanton to 25 per cent bad dina pavement to brink: Jov Cass per cent bad asphalt Vinewood Michigan to railroad brick Resur facing: Baltimore Woodward to Second' cedar ort iifth Trum bull brick River Clark to McKins try brick: Sproat Park to Cass as phalt Sibley Woodward to Clifford asphalt Third Selden to Alexan drine asphalt: Twelfth street Put nam to railroad brick Willis Third to Greenwood' cedar: McKin stry River to railroad brick Grand River' subway to McGrpw How ard street Wabash" to Twentieth brick Kirby Lincoln to Trumbull cedar Michigan Trumbull to Wa bash brick Park Adams to Peter boro creosote block Warren Twelfth to ourteenth cedar War ren Wabash to 'ourteenth cedar between car tracks: Third to ort creosote blockBs kcr Brooklyn to Twelfth brick'' Sixth Michigan to Bagg cedar Hamilton DOWNTOWN DISTRICT ILLED WITH CONDUITS Lodge Gives Up Port Huron Mich December The Port Huron Lodge of the An cient Order of United Workmen has given up the ghost The officers became dissatisfied the finan cial condition of the institution and qulti in a body during last month POWER Absolutely Pure free from alum or phos phatic acid MS KO SUBSTITUTE Underground Measure Comes Too Late to Be of Service AGAINST HEN SEEMS WEAK City Mich December 7 Girard one of the "Three SUBURBAN SITINGS 'J Trentonshas a new club ami if its object is as unique as its name there is little doubt but it will be popular The "Shoot the Moon" club as it is called' will meet to night at the Commercial house for a business session GAS ARC LAMP zThe most of the best light for the' least money Detroit City Gas Co 5144 230 Woodward Ave "Every Penny That Sinclair" Coal CoStS is there in quality and economy a dollar ofalue in every Every ton of Sinclair coal is all no slate stone or shale That means you get the benefit from every lump 3 no clinkers fewer ashes less work more heat ind out for your self Phone your order to Main 4692 East 1295 or 1296 Grand 828 SI NCI AIR I Macomb and Warren Avenues 1 5 Down town office "57 Gratiot near Public Library ORDINANCE SAVES THREE IS BELATED Promptaction on the part of Rob ert Mpran of anns saved thfrid young women of Grosso Pointe from death! in the icy waters of Lake St? Clair yesterday morninc The three1 Miss Maude Mitchie Bernice 'Pierson and Lena Hallsor were trying the ice near the shot in the vicinity of Miss Mitchie home was appar ently firm they ventured farther out when the ice suddenly gav way and all three were precipitated Into the water which was about feet deep 'tA three young women clung ta the the Ice rind cried for help Mr Moran who happened to be in the vicinity plunged In and succeeded in assisting all three to climb out on the 'firm ice and tn pulling himself out after them Mr Moran declares that all three of the young women behaved with re markable coolness and presence mind and that this fact alone ren dered their rescue possible May Stop Electric Railway Dearborn and Ecorse townships threaten to go to' the 'supreme court if necessary to stop the construction of the new electric railway which is being built through these two townships from Dearborn to Detroit Residents of the two seem willing grant the right of way providing the company will give reasonable concessions in way of fares speed and Dearborn recently procured an in junction against the railway com pany restraining ittfrom continuing with the work Now a similar writ is threatened by tile township offi cers of Ecorse i 4 REV SAM BETTES 3 't Mr Whitney' Who was found in his office at the Detroit opera house last Confirmed' the foregoing dispatch and said: New the ater was founded by Chicago busi 1 mnnsl nrl 'm 1 1 AM I rou frit ihn if" Du VAnca rvn 1 Vk Vi II Vll UlU 1 i advisable to construct a tunnel for sake It is called the cxii vvucd cun ia Allied btuu Aiu iires uuusvHvif ui igHiixiur ui Lite uiiuer ground wire ordinance WS HEM ONE SOLID SORE It develops that the ordinance passed at the meet ing of the common council Tuesday night will have no effect as it now stand becauste only a few wires the district specified are now overhead Practically all wires of the police and fire departments within the mile circle were placed in conduits 'this year As applied to these two de partments the ordinance is about a year behind The wires of all pri vate corporations arc undergiound in many instances miles beyond the section defined in the ordinance The district stated In the ordinance is bounded by De quindre street the' north line of Gratiot avenue and' High street ourth avenue and' the Detroit river Within this' district the only over head wires are 'those of the public lighting commission between Riv ard street and Dequindre street and a few south of street The feed and trolley wires of the are excepted in the ordinance be cause of 'the franchise terms Wires Already "Underground The fact that' practically all wires regarding the disposition of which the civic government has authority are already underground within practically a mile circle has given rise to discussion "to the effect that an wire should be con structed outward from the mile cir cle The reason for designating the mile circle as the? outward starting point is because the "down town streets are practically filled with conduits pipes and sewers At 'sev eral street it is said at the city office there are as many as thirty or forty con duits and pipe: lines filling the streets 'City Engineer McCormick and Commissioner Haarer said yesterday that in their opinion it would seem to be? impracticable to construct a tunnel in down town streets of the city and that the al leys are in many instances In even worse condition tunnel probably could be con structed outside the' mile said Engineer McCormick The lat ter recalls that during the Pingree regime a man was employed to see If he could ferret out a route for a tlinnAl "svsitAm tn rnnEflfn nil ATAntrin wires and pipelines Mr McCormick in the' courts andf in the meantimo nas no record snowing wnat results If any were obtained although over a year was devoted to the work As a matter of fact the department of public works and the' of fice do not know the location in streets of conduit cobwebs These officials knowv however that the are practically with vast assortment or conduits ind Opening about Griswold commissioner was asked he apswered s' "Woodward? Worse Michigan Jefferson ort Gratiot and Grand River? Just as he declared Engineer 'McCormick produced a series of conduit charts which in dicate that at many street Intersec tions It may be difficult to drive a nail without 'striking conduits tried to construct a rrian hole in an alley near Shelby and Larned streets recently and the workmen probed about for several days be fore they? 'located opening through the jam of said the engineer course a 'tunnel would require to be not deeper in the ground than the sewers' be cause it must'be drained" A few aldermen discussed the practicability of taking up enough conduits to make way for a tunnel They find that a well known prin ciple of law confronts such a plan In that property of a private cor poration can not be converted to public use or damaged unless faircompensation is paid To change ex isting conduits? into a tunnel would involve an expense that these same aiaermen aecnne to consmer May Extend District time the city will A MATTER HEALTH I 1 THE DETROIT REE PRESS: SATURDAY DECEMBER 1906 4 HliW muTKni TIllfflUllM lllffr Wftgrlf A 'I i'''' 9 a 71 I numi nrjon: k'? lliriin lllWMMl TWIITri tv I MbSk I I MWi I Iz Jt Wr i a :5 I 7 1 7 ml zzz zv Vsz zz ZZZZ Ls Zv vC zxmwZ "zz 'z I vz KJ IS MTWYS' s' S' Sy th? 4f zt4zz Jz" XVzz 4 r'ztf 4 J'x 4 AZV zs 5 jB z' 3 VC 'i Im i ii BBII a zzsz iz 0V wro rjari'amrjitfTwaw azzza a jmm ima i Ttocr rr" it vk linn1' 1 7 teri 1 1 zJ Ji IV 1 I 1 ft 'i i iK H'r I wsss WfSz i zx s' Cmzmv XrZZAV A a 5 rv "7 vX 7 zz 5' TV 'i V'sirV JHm I ERBWriBill afc" I 1 1 M'fo'g Kt jgaat'gr 2E Bi 'flEWlsL s' 7 0 I.