The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-09-01
Will Lecture Members on
Economy in Effort to Pound
Down Tax Rate
WANTS RAILWAY BOARD
TO TAKE UP SUBWAY PLAN
Fishing Trip Up North Browns
Executives Face and Fills
Him With pep"

Mayor Oscar b. Marx returned 10
his office, in the city hall, Saturday
morning. after twoweeks' vacation
spent among the northern trout
streams. The mayors face Is brohZeo
and he declares that he never lei'
better physically in his life
A week from next Monday after
noon. the mayor will call q meeting
OF his cabinet. This Will be the nrst
meeting OF the mayor with the seV,
era! new department heads appointed
! by him. He will outline a plan OF
economy that he will ask the diner
ent departments TO pursue with the
end In view OF reducing the tax rate
next year. The rate for the present
year was the highest in the history
OF the city.
The mayor will also get into COM
munication with the members or the
municipal railway board as soon as
possible and urge them TO take up
the subway proposition without de-
lay. Last year the council commit
tee ON public utilities took up this
important matter, and made a pre-
| liminary investigation. Aid. Charles
w. Burton. chairman OF the commit
| tee, gathered a lot of valuable data
from engineering experts and this Will
| be turned over to the commission.
| There il also q balance OF over $4,000
| in the fund appropriated for the sub
way investigation and the commission
10 ,Al "a N
tinuing the investigation. The com.
missioners will be without other
funds for developing any OF the plans
they might have In mind until the
validity OF the verdier law Is passed
upon by the state supreme court.
Before joining his fishermen friends
at Lovells, Mich. Mayor Marx visited
Milwaukee, where he was royalty en-
tertained by Gus Germans" The fame
that the mayor has acquired through
the compromise settlement with the
street car company preceded him to
| Milwaukee. There the street car
company Is operating under 35-year
franchise granted several years ago.
The company sells IL tickets for SO
cents. The Milwaukee officials told
Mayor Marx that they were chagrined
because they had not secured better
terms. The mayor also investigated
the incinerating plant there, and was
much pleased with IT, The commits
sioner of public works here has an
appropriation for an incinerating
plant, but is having a hard time
finding a site for it, According to
Mayor Marx, the Milwaukee plant Ia
not offensive In any way. The mayor
thinks that a good site for the in
GENERATING plant here would be the
present location Of the garbage col.
lecting station at the foot of Twenty.
fourth-st.
While In Lovells, the mayor had a
number OF exciting experiences. He
caught as many as nine brook trout
In one day, which he considered a
good average. inasmuch as his party
old not care to wander too far away
from their base OF supplies Also
while playing conductor on toy
wagon pulled by the youthful on
spring OF one OF the d. u. r. ofiicials.
the mayor met with an accident and
tore the seat of his trousers. The
mayor did not mind the destruction
OF his trousers. but the spill &C.
Cured in front Of the club house and
the veranda was crowded with ladies.
The mayor bowed himself into the
lake and was rescued after dark by a
D. U. r. attorney In a motor boat.
Speaking OF the vice crusade. May
or Marx declared that he would prob
ably take hand in It. providing the
police commissioner needed any as
sistance.
/ Il have every confidence In Com
missioner Gillespie" said the mayor.
III he has decided that total elimina.