Ann Arbor In Great Danger

ANN ARBOR IN GREAT DANGER

of Losing a Valuable County Trade to Ypsilanti by Not Looking Ahead

PROMPT ACTION IS NOW IMPERATIVE

Or the Saline and Manchester Trade Will All be Drawn to Ypsilanti

The Saline Board Has Given a Franchise to Ypsilanti Parties. A Committee Should be Appointed at Once and Measures Taken to Bring the Line to Ann Arbor

The rivalry between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti for the county trade is growing more intense. Ypsilanti is having her innings and unless the merchants of Ann Arbor wake up, they will find too late that Ypsilanti merchants have taken away a good part of their trade.

A week ago the Argus lifted its warning voice . It repeats the warning tonight. It will now take quicker and more active work on the part of Ann Arbor merchants to save the Saline and  Manchester trade, which has hitherto come to Ann Arbor in preference to Ypsilanti. While Ann Arbor has been sleeping Ypsilanti has been doing business, as the following Saline ,  dispatch to yesterday's Free Press witnesses:

Saline, February 21. - The common council last night, after a long consultation with the the representatives from Ypsilanti, passed the  franchise granting the new electric road from  Ypsilanti an entrance into the village. The line is to be completed by November next.

The D. Y. & A. A. road does not care whether they connect at Ann Arbor or Ypsilanti but Ypsilanti has now secured the right of way in Saline, which a little work on the part of  Ann Arbor would have prevented as the Saline  people would rather come to Ann Arbor than to Ypsilanti.

The Ypsilanti council is still considering granting a franchise but their consideration will be short. But while they are pondering and  before the D. Y. & A. A. road take up these franchises, Ann Arbor's business men should send a committee to see President Hawks, and lay before him in a forcible manner the advantages of having the line come to Ann Arbor.

After the last article in the Argus on the subject, several gentlemen agreed to circulate papers getting up a business men's association. These papers should be circulated before 10  o'clock tomorrow. A meeting should be called  at once, a committee appointed to look into  this matter and the trade of Saline saved.

Had we had a live business men's association, the Saline line without doubt would have come  to Ann Arbor. It will be built this summer and there is now instead of a certainty, a chance of saving it. Ann Arbor must hustle and hustle quickly. For with this trade will  go Manchester and the whole southern and southwestern part of the county.

There is no time to do business for our chants like the present.