The Detroit times., 1915-10-18
FOrmer Executive
Hints It's Over on
Shelby-st.
WRITES ANOTHER
LETTER TO NEWS
Says Paper Now Pro-
fesses Confidence
in ID. u. X.

Former Mayor William 3. Thomp-
son has addressed a third letter to
the Detroit News in which he
makes further attack on the street
railway purchase scheme and the
action of the News in espousing it,
The letter follows:
Editor of the Detroit News:
Tell me please amidst your raw
ings on the blank check, pig-in-a-
poke, now you see IL and now you
don't street railway deal you are
trying 10 put over, the answers to
these simple questions
Where is the mayors Office now?
You used 10 fear that it wasn't in
the city hall and insinuated il was
at No. IL Woodward-ave. Where is
It now? Wouldn't the letter car
rier deliver a letter addressed to
the mayor to No. 60 Sholby-st. to-
day?
Tell me. too that IL your trio Of
street railway commissioners who
are going to run the street railways
when they have power. are such
fine business men, why they don't
enforce the building CT the Grand
Belt from It's present terminus at
Warren.avc. and Thirty-frst-st. TO
its required terminus at Mt. Elliott
and Harperaves.?
There is an ordinance requiring
that extension on a day-to-day occu-
pancv basis. If Messrs Dodge.
Couzens and Wilkie are going to
| do so much when they get more
power, why not give specimen Of
their abilities with the undoubted
power they have now?
Tell me. too. and tell the electors
through me, how much OF the peo-
| pies money is TO be paid Messrs.
LuCking and Lawson to get the peo-
pie to insure the continuance of the
payment OF the y. U. r. bondhold-
crs' interest according 10 the terms
/ vi TIE i'lFNf4il lhOt tedStC.
Tell me, too, why. If you are so
anxious about extension, you and
your bold heroes OF the burned
Belle Isle bridge don't get them on
tho day-to day basis? | got extern
sions. now in operation and running,
on Hamilton-ave., Chene.st., and
! Grandy-aye. to the Lozier plant.
Why can't You and your pure and
without drugs or poison street rail
way board show at least as much
for the $l50,000 they have spent so
! far?
Tell me, too, and tell me quickly
who is going to get the so per cent
| difference between the present price
of 20 and the par value Of the Sli,-
| $4,000 worth OF existing ID. L. r,
bonds that are going 10 be paid OF
in full according TO the terms Of
the mortgage?"
This Is matter of 81 500,
and surely the Detroit News never
saw n profit rs big as that lying
around without exposing il or show
ing who was going to get il
Incidentally. let me tell you that
when asked in my last letter who
was going To get the brokerage on
this deal that wasn't referring TO
or insulting either Mr. Dodge, Mr..
Couzens, Mr.. Wilkie. Mr. Lawson or
Mr.. Lucking, hadn't suspected
that they were after anything. My
suspicion was directed elsewhere.
Tell me. too, and tell the electors.
who Is going 90 profit by the adj
vance OF the -. ". r. stock. now
selling AT SOS n share, to $3.50 n
share where II IS bound to 20 II the
ID. II. II. gets its debts all paid off ?
This amounts 10 s1O,S75. 900 profit
on the stock alone. As n belongs
to different set Of people, is or
isn't II fair TO assume that there
Is different deal with them-plain.
ly. are there two rake-offs?
Tell me how YOU have got 90
much confidence in the n. u. r.
You used 10 say don't trust the
n. L. r." Now you take their earn
ings on faith, their property values
on faith. and want the people t.
take the r. II r.. yourselves and
your embarrassing decker on faith
too. Why the complete change In
attitude? Why has some one gone
mo farther than the first noor?"
WILLIAM II. THOMPSON.