The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-06-19
BOUttyARDtRS PROTEST
AGAINST INVASION OF
BUSINESS ENTERPRISES
Complain Vigorously of Con-
slant Encroachment BY Gar
ages and Other Concerns
HURLBUT IS CRITICISED
Say Commissioner Makes No Eff
fort to Preserve Thoroughfare
For Residence Purposes

East Grund-blvd residents Who live
near Woodwardaye. appear TO be-
growing increasingly apprehensiye
ever the invasion of the Boulevard by
business concerns. During the last
few years the fght TO preserve the
Boulevard as an exclusively residence
district has several times been car
ried TO the supreme court, and now
with the foundations under way for
an additional garage on the south
side OF the Boulevard next door 10
the residence OF Mrs. Elwood T..
Hance, the flames OF neighborhood In
digHation are beginning TO break out
anew.
ON thu northeast corner OF Wood
ward and the Boulevard stands the
Ford Auto Co garage. This is an at
rGctiye tRree-story building and
would probably have caused no
trouble among the neighhors IL Il
we're not for the side entrance on the
boulevard The complaint is that
this has caused an unsightly break in
the grass plot lining the Boulevard.
1t is not only the roadway leading to
the garage that is criticized. but II Is
also pointed out that the automobiles
OF the firm stand along the Boulevard
for a long distance, causing the chauf-
leurs to tramp down the grass and
make an ugly mud path along the
curb
On the southeast corner there is q
drag store and back or IT,, the garage
that was built some years ago by A.
IT Henry The present garage was
first used as q tire filing factory. but
was converted into a garage after the
residents Of the neighborhood had
complained OF the odious smells
emanating from the factory Now
another garage is being erected on
the property adjoining this garage on
the east
The authority of the park commits
sioner to guard the Boulevard from
this sort OF an invasion has been the
question OF chief Importance each
time the controversy has gone 10 the
supreme court. and there is some
tendency among the residents OF the
neighborhood TO criticize Park Com
missioner Myrtle p. Hurlbut on the
ground that he has not taken a firm
stand against the owners Of the in
truGing business enterprises and in
favor Of the residence owners.
Commissioner Hurlbut seems not
TO be able TO lay the right construc-
ton on the city's end OF it." said X.
l.. Robertson. owner of a large apart
ment house in the first block Of the
East Grand-blvd The commissioner
Is not alive to what the city owns
here and is throwing il away in a
ruthless manner A few years ago
tho approach TO the Boulevard at
Woodward-aye was a veritable park,
but now il has all gone 10 rags
DR.. A Thinner, No, 3073 East Grand
blvd, was also inclined to criticize
the park commissioner.
''The commissioner is too accommo-
dating TO the business concerns that
want TO come onto the Boulevard
said DR.. Thuner IF he would show
some fighting spirit and tell them
that he would put shrubbery and
trees where IL would hide their build
ings and interfere with their road
ways things would be different. But
when We had a protest meeting In
tho Cadillac hotel at the time when
the A. NJ Henry garage was about TO
be built Mr. Henry said right out in
the meeting that he had a permit
from Hurlbut for roadway through
the parking space. Hurlbut denied
that he had given such a permit, but
instead OF announcing that he would
fight the question out 20 a finish,
neekly said that he didn't see how he