People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-04-08

9N'N W '"O hOllBdse, eau lTutn-
FULLY inform these same gentlemen that
there has never been d mortgage on any
property that have ever owned. What
my private affairs or business has to do
with Strengthening the street, | do not
know, but have made these statements
simply to satisfy these gentlemen's minds.
One of the excuses which it seems TO
please A. Branaman TO offer for not seeing
the reason of opening the street straight.
was that there was nothing but "hoyels"
on the west side of the street. Admitting
that the houses are small, is that any rea-
son why A Branaman and all of the others
on the west side of the street, north of
llth street, should have large dooryards at
the clty's xpense-taking from the street
and adding TO their dooryards some six or
seven feet! What right has the city to
! allow chosen few to occupy the street
as private lawns: Is it justice to narrow
up street this way! Even though it
pleases Mr.. Branaman to call our houses
novels it is with due res peCt to him and
his dooryard that | respond to his re-
marks.
Though we do live in novels, when We
want a large dooryard we will buy it and
not crawl out into the street to advance
,he value of the novels" On the fore.
noon that We saw Mr.. Cleveland and
Waite, Mr.. Cleveland said they would
come ont and take look at the street.
which they did on the afternoon of the
same day. Mr.. Cleveland said to Mr.. VII.
cox, Epson and that If we would estab
llsh our corners, they would put the grader
to work on the street and straighten it up.
Although having all of the original pins on
our blocks, east side of the street, EXCEPT
one corner, we went to see 0rville Smith.
deputy surveyor, under Simmons, the
county surveyor, and wanted Mr.. Smith
to come over and survey and establish the
legal corners on the east side Of the street,
also to stick some pins in the center of
the street. In about ten Gays after re-
peated visits to him about the surveying.
he came over to survey and establish the
corners. He started from the north and
J from points in the previous survey which
had caused this "jog" 10 be put in the
street. After having left one of the pins
set for good and was just rsady to move
his instrument, Mr.. Huntsman, one of the
gentlemen who CARR the chain for Mr..
Smith, looked through the compass and
said to Mr.. smith, that pin is not straight
with this compass" Mr.. Smith looked
through the compass and had the pin moved
to the west on the east side of the street
about three or four inches, thus coming
that much nearer the old original pins on
the east side of the street. The original
pins are OF no consequence, so says Mr..
Smith, although they are of his surveying.
de has at different times admitted
Mr.. Hiram Austin's and his son, George
Austln's, corner pins as being legal; and
In the recent survey, missed these old pins
on the east side of the street, George Aus
tins coming several feet now from the
old pins. The blocks, east and west.
measure Just 300 feet from pin to pin.
while the late survey changes all the
streets, throwing them further east. be-
tween four and five feet In claiming M
the hill east of Blaine street, he made no
allowance for the elevation, which, &C
cording to Mr.. Smiths own statement
would be four feet to the hundred feet
While Messrs. H. Austin, Botkin, Hunts.
man and others we're standing on the
street near George tustin's corner on the
north, had spade in my hand, digging
and limiting for the original pin on
Georges corner, G. Gambrill and a lady
seated in a buggy, drove up to where w
all were. Mr.. Gambrill gave big coarst
laugh as he drove up. "Ha! ha! Mr..
Smith, how did you come out this timer
Smith replied, "oh, all right" Then
Gambrill said, Smith, guess I'll have to
give you $50 this time" (a!luding to tn,
survey SAY Smith, will you take it?
Now if the original pins will not stand
how is it that those people living on the
west side of the street can come out into
the street and hold their pins on a privat,
survey?
Until the fourth ward school house anC
those four buildings on the block north OF
the school house were built, the iron pin,
on the west side of the street measured
just sixty feet from the iron pins on tn,
east side. Since those buildings hav
gone up, none of the original pins on the
west side of the street can be found
Why is thisi Since the motion passed thu
council to have the street Strengthened
more pins have disappeared from thu
original cornera.
Mr.. Branaman's plea for wanting the
street to remain as it is now is that it in
lures his property SO much to straighteu
the street How can this be unless hi
grounds are a part of the street? Does
not wide straight street add to the valu,
OF all the property situated thereon,
Why does not the street and alley commit
: tee 60 to work to straighten this street a
, was agreed upon at frst, if we would es
tablish our corners.
Now we have the original corners ant
we have the pins which Mr.. Smith set il
this last survey aud We are just as anxious
to have the street Strengthened as we wer
in the beginning. Has anyone on tn
east side offered any objection! No, bu
the street cannot be Strengthened by cut
ting in on the east side of it, for it puts
, bigger Jog" in it than is in it now.
have not been in Wellington to make i
my home, except for six weeks, in owe
three years until last July. There ha
been no one to defend my property dur
ing my absence. Why did not the stree
and alley committee cut in and take tn
+; four and one-hslf feet of ground, whict
according to Mr. Smiths late survey. be
longs to the street If it rightfully be
, longs to the street, there is not ole livini
on the east side of North Olive street. VIII
would not cheerfully move back out O
the street, providing we get our fu
amount of ground. which the city say
= that every man shall have.