The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-04-24

y. Arnold, and having submitted 70
the street railway commission a re
production value" OF $32,000,OOO, with
a promise OF more millions to come
as soon as President Hutchins can
think of points to attach them TO
needs a city appraisal that will justify
It's figures
Either the mayor and his advisers
have been lulled TO sleep be the tact
full ID. IT, z men, or they have hypno
tized themselves into the, belief that
1.-THE company has sue2sDl2 turned SStB
esh s.&oE theY are falling into me y;
u. r.. game without hesitation. TIC
get an appraisal by the city that viii
lend strength to its own figures, the
ID. u. r. must see TO II that the city
employs an appraiser who Is not IN
friendly to corporation claims Inc
first move has been successful, &C
cording TO those we'll informed. in the
commissions Invitation tn-neaA-Ant
timer E. Cooley the engineering
department OF the University of Mich
igan. to advise it regarding a staff OF
experts.
Already il is being whispered about
town that one of the appraisers To be
named by the commission, with the
advice of Prof Cooley, will be Theo-
dore II. Hinchman, Jr. Mr.. Hinchman
is a member of the firm OF Smith
Hinchman e. Grylls. He is close
friend of John F. Dodge. for whom he
has done considerable work. He has
done work for the city, In the ID. P.
w, and was the author of the opinion
favorable to garbage reduction
plant His integrity is above sus
picion-but he is believed TO be a
man in full sympathy with corporate
flnanciering.
Why should Prof. Cooley advise the
appointment of Mr.. Hinchman as the
citys expert? Mr.. Hinchman was
graduated from the University OF
Michigan IN 1893, with the degree oil
bachelor OF science. In 1894, he was
assistant TO Prof Mortimer f. Cooley
Their friendship has always been
close.
"Mr. Hinchman owes a great deal
to Prof Cooley" says Mr.. Willlie.
"It's only natural that they should be
great friends. And there isn't a bet
ter man living than Ted Hinchman.'
go 1t appears that there are two
men at least on the street railway
commission who would favor Mr..
Hinchman as the city's expert.
Mr.. Hinchman is close friend of
Prof. Cooley. Prof. Cooley is close
TO Bion ]. Arnold Cooley, Arnold
and A. b. dupont worked together in
Chicago, in the interests OF the Chi
cago street railway company. 1t Is
Prof. Cooley who has been lecturing
about the country about corporation
values, claiming that So per cent, in
some cases, is not too high an over
head charge--a figure which compe-
tent engineers declare has been I'M
heard OF until the corporation engi-
neers began To- wish il on the people.
The reason Mr.. Wilkie has not been
an ardent admirer Of municipal own
ership is that he has seen enough
politics in his Ave years as member
of the water board to make him fear
for street railway system from
which politics cannot, perhaps. be di-
vorced.
I'm a Republican, and have never
bottled the straight Republican tick.
l.
+ think that the Republicans are just
as bad as the Democrats when IL
comes to claiming the spoils. In the
water board, | have always stood tor
efficiency. detest the spoils sys-
tenn. | don't believe I've appointed
more than four or FIVE men during
NV incumbency. You remember the
house-cleaning that took place awhile
ago? That made me sick.
IL must say that admire the man
ner in which the municipality owned
lines I'm European cities are run.
was pleased with the system In Glas-
gov and in Belfast. Then we went
10 Amsterdam, and when saw the
clean. brightly-painted cars there
operated by men in clean uniforms
men who moved with snap and vim
and showed themselves onto their
Jobs. said TO myself: FMS must
he a municipally-owned railway And
Il was. You can tell the difference
all over Europe, between the muni
cipal railways and those operated by
private companies.
81 don't know Prof. Cooley. but my
son studied mechanical engineering In
the University OF Michigan under
him. | know Ted Hinchman thinks
very we'll of Prof. Cooley.
what my policy shall be, ! dom
know. The street railway business Il
new to me. AIR. Dodge said they
wanted someone with a mechanical
turn OF mind. and guess I've go
that. But you may rest assured, moth
ing is going TO be done with my con
sent until I am absolutely sure tina
II ia all right"
/ So Mr.. Wilkie takes his place of
the street railway commission. pre-
disposed 20 Mr. Dodge's views, espe
cially II they have the backing o
Ted" Hinchman and Prof. Cooley
He is all the more likely 10 fall undo
the spell because be admits his iznor
ance of d. U. r. politics and infiu
ences. II In difficult for anyone wh'
lhas not aoen the inside u. u r. work