The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-17
FIX UP FIFTH STREET.
Main ThOrOughfare of Visitors
to the City
In a Disgraceful Condition
Ought to Be Mended
Before $4,000 Fall Festival Visitors
on the Santa Fe Have to
Pass Over It.

The city council held a brief session
last night. Mayor Fellows, who is also
president of the committee of Fifteen
was impatient to get away. The mem
bers of the committee were waiting to
ride over to the fair grounds to inspect
the fourth Fall Festival float.
The principal purpose of the meeting
was to pass the bulky sidewalk assess
Inent ordinance. The document in
cludes a list of all the property in the
city before which new walks are to be
built this season. The forTnality of in
Producing the ordinance and moving a
suspension of the rules to allow its
pasSag e at once was gone through with
and then the ordinance was read and
passed.
prison was not awarded. as the only
two bids received were above the esti-
mate of the city engineer.
The estimate of the engineer was ST.
075. The bids were as follows:
o. Swanson, 81, z21. 10.
II. K. WinanS, 81, 1872. A.
The city clerk was instructed to re-
advertise for bids for the work.
Councilman Stephenson made the
first move toward having East Fifth
street repaired. When the tracks OF
the old street railway We're taken up
someone secured an injunction and the
company consequently left the space
occupied by the tracks unpaved from
Monroe street to Adams.
whether something could not be done
at once to repair the street.
City Attorney Bird says that there
was an injunction that prevented any
work being done, and he did not know
whether it had been dissolved or not.
The council instructed Mr.. Bird to
look up the matter and make formal
report, so that the council could act in
<elligantly in having the street re-
paired.
The city council evidently has no
hope of a compromise with the water
company. By a unanimous vote City
Attorney Bird was instructed to go to
New York and Chicago to take testi-
mony for use in the quo warranto pro-
ceedings which are now pending in the
supreme court.
J. b. Billiard, president of the board
of police commissioners, appeared be-
fore the council and asked that Mrs,
Herman, who is serving a term in the
city jail for liquor selling, be released
in accordance with the recommended
ton of the board of police commission
ers. The council voted to release Mrs.
Herman, which called forth the follow
ing observation from City Attorney
Bird:
Il wish the council would instruct me
net to prosecute this woman again.
This is the fourth time she has been
arrested on this charge within a year.
President Billiard said that Mrs. Her
mans family promised that she would
not again sell liquor
If Mrs. Herman follows the usual Gus
tom she will reopen her place at once.
She seems to be afflicted with the same
mania as Pen Jordan.
By a resolution introduced by Coun-
Gilman ROundtree the street commas
Sioner was instructed to remove the
pile of old ties of the East Side Circle
railway from Hancock street to the city
limits.
A. B. Burnett was given the contra ct
for painting the roof of the city cleo
trio light plant and keeping it in repair
for three years. The price for the work
agreed upon is $2S