Michigan historical collections . t the AnnArbor high school and University of Michigan, graduating from the latter in-stitution in 1882. His time was occupied during vacation in his fathers printingoffice, at the case and in the press room., getting familiar with the mechanicalpart of the business, and on graduation he assumed the editorship of the AnnArbor Courier. When R. A. Beal died in 1883, he took up the work and carried on book pub-lishing in connection with the newspaper for twenty years, when he sold Beal has been active in promoting the interests of Ann Arbor, has been amemb
Michigan historical collections . t the AnnArbor high school and University of Michigan, graduating from the latter in-stitution in 1882. His time was occupied during vacation in his fathers printingoffice, at the case and in the press room., getting familiar with the mechanicalpart of the business, and on graduation he assumed the editorship of the AnnArbor Courier. When R. A. Beal died in 1883, he took up the work and carried on book pub-lishing in connection with the newspaper for twenty years, when he sold Beal has been active in promoting the interests of Ann Arbor, has been amember of the Ann Arbor school board for twenty years, and was president ofthe Michigan Press Association in 1893. Apart from his busy life he has takentime to travel extensively through Europe, including Russia, and about theCaribbean Sea. He is married and has two children, a boy and a girl. He is amember of various Masonic orders and a director of several boards. Mr. Beal isalso a member of the Board of Historians of this BEGINNINGS OF INTERURBANS. 261 of those towns interested after a lot of urging, and what seemed bigstories of the traffic to be developed. For instance, he claimed thatfive hundred people a day would want to ride between the towns. Afterwe had ascertained that the Michigan Central was only carrying fortypeople a day between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti it seemed he had us telegraph to the eight or ten interurban roads then inoperation in the United States to verify his rosy dream. To our sur-prise we learned they were building up large communication betweentowns which were near each other when they could offer frequentservice and low fares. To our further surprise we afterwards foundthe promoters estimate was below the number that was daily carried,for over six hundred a day availed themselves of the convenience notlong after the road was in operation, instead of the forty who tookthe IMichigan Central. This was mainly because the service wa
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