The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-10-07
NC. DEPOT LOOP
COMES
UP NEXT MONDAY
City and ID. u. II. Will Make
Fresh Attempt to Reach an
Agreement on Extensions
WORK ON JUNCTION.AVE.
LINE is ALSO HELD UP
Residents of Several Streets In
Proposed Route Petition
Council for Change

The attempt to reach an agree
ment on the new Michigan Central
depot extension. which the d. U. X
refuses to build under the provision
of the resolution passed by the coun.
ell, has again been postponed until
next Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock
when the mayor, the members of the
council committee on public utilities
the street railway commission and
the corporation counsel will meet
| with the officials OF the D. u. K. tC
talk over the matter.
Mayor Marx wanted to hold the
| conference Tuesday Afternoon, but
Aid. Lodge, chairman of the public
utilities committee. said he would be
out OF the city for the balance oil
| the week.
Il am informed that the ID. U. r.
has purchased the rails and IL ready
to go ahead with the construction
OF the extension as soon as terms
| are agreed upon" said Aid. Lodge
| III this Is true, the extension can be
built in few weeks. and another
weeks delay will not inconvenience
| anyb body, as the new depot will not
be ready until some time In Decem-
| Der.
Work on the Junction-ave. ex-
| tension, authorized by a resolution
of the council last Tuesday night
will also be held up for week al
least. The residents along the pro-
posed route, and not the d. U. R.,
are responsible for this delay. Res
idents on Allendale. Seebaldt and
Larchmont-aves. and Thirty-fourth-
st., have filed petitions with the
council, protesting against the lay
ing of tracks on these streets.
Aid. Freiwald. of the Fourteenth
ward, asked Mayor Marx to veto the
resolution already passed, 80 that the
petitioners in his ward could have
q hearing. II the mayor does not
veto the resolution before Tuesday
night, Freiwald will offer a rescind-
ing resolution. A meeting to which
all persons interested in the proposed
route Of the Junction extension, are
to be invited. will be held In thu
mayors Office some day this week.
Aid. O'Brien sees in the delay over
the terms of the depot extension, q
scheme of the real estate dealers ia
compel the widening Of Dazelle and
Elizabeth-sts., to accommodate q cal
line connecting with Woodward-ave
above Grand Circus park. The alder.
man declares that members Of the
city plan and Improvement commits
sion are behind the plan to boost
real estate valuations on these
streets.
IL fought those same people last
spring and defeated them on this
same proposition" said the alder
man. when the plans for the es-
planade were prepared. they tried to
include In 1t provision for the
widening OF Dalzelle-st. Now they
are trying another move to put their
scheme over.
THE court proceedings to con-
denim the property in front Of the
depot, have been delayed for no
other reason than to give these fell
lows q chance to work out their
plans. 1t is shame that q city
as big and wealthy as Detroit has
not more pride than to allow visitors
coming to the city to step out of a
beautiful depot into an alley and
with no street car service. 1t will
be necessary to provide visitors with
bodyguards IL the city does not clear
away the unsightly shacks that now
spoil the view in front Of the depot
and furnish dark corners where
thieves and thugs can waylay
people"