The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-07

Engineers department. .......... $500
Police department $780,. ,S44. SO
Fire department .---.....--. 1896 A
saty oil1eeTs ,, s sse- a 70
Library fund, salary f. Wilder
as president. 1889
The remainder of the money was al
lowed in small amounts for labor of
various kinds and supplies.
PAVING PETITIONS.
Petitions for paving nineteen blocks
of street were received last night and
referred to the streets and walks com
mittee. 1T is specified that all are to
be of vftrified brick
The most important paving petition
was to pave Eighth avenue from
Topeka avenue to Lincoln street,
the governors mansion pave
ment. F'orty-nine petitions ask that
wide. The executive council of the state
recommended this. and in a communi-
cation to the council said that the state
of Kansas would through the next leg
islature pay the states snare OF the
cost of the paving
The following Is the location of the
other blocks of paving.
Euclid avenue to Twentieth on kan
sas avenue. 40 feet wide.
Second to Sixth on Western avenue,
80 feet.
Eleventh to Twelfth on Quincy. IS
twelfth to Fifteenth on Quincy. IS
Several petitions for paving alleys
and for sidewalks were also received
MORE RETRENCHMENT
Councilman Weber. chairman of the
streets and walks committee, introduced
the following resolution which is in line
with the policy of retrenchment to be
adopted by the present administrations
Resolved That the city engineer ne
instructed.in making his estimates here
after to SO make that that they shall
cover the cost of grading the parks
along the streets to be improved, and
also to leave off all unnecessary street
intersections in paving estimates"
The streets and walks committee re-
considered one of the petitions sent back
for revision, and decided to pave the in
tersection at Second and Madison Ed
ward Halves appeared before the council
and explained the unsatisfactory and
unsanitary conditions under which they
labored in that vicinity when it raine9
and showed what an improvement could
be brought about by the paving of the
intersection in question The intersec-
ton was ordered paved.
MINOR BUSINESS.
The Merchants National bank pre-
sented a bond for $50, 600 for the approval
of the council The Merchants National
has been designated as the city deposi-
tory
The request of J. 3. johnson. who is
broken down in health, to sell a book on
prison life in the city of Topeka for ten
days without license. was granted.
The Continental Creamery company
asked that an ordinance be passed auth
orizing them to put trucks from the rail-
road cars to their warehouse on Polk
street A sidewalk is between the Rock
Island switch and the warehouse at this
point but the petition recites that 1t IS
not much used and that the company
win endeavor not to obstruct the walk
unnecessarily.
The report of the license collector was
called for but was not forthcoming.
The residents in the neighborhood of
Second and Fillmore complained to the
council that the electric light at that
corner was not good and refused to
burn part of the time The superinten l.
ent of the electric light plant was pres
ent and said that If complaint was made
to his department the matter could be
remedied without delay.
A meeting Of the streets and walks
committee has been called for ? o'clock
next Saturday