The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-04
PUT ON THE BRAKE
Council Takes Steps to Stop In
judieiOus Paving.
Resolution That No More Peti-
tiOns Shall Be Considered.
CONTRACTS AWARDED.
Prices Lower Than Ever Before
in the City.
Nineteen Blocks Average Only
About $1.I3 Per So. Yd.

! 1t was bargain day for pavementS at
the council meeting last night. All rec
ords for cheap pavements in the city of
| Topeka We're smashed out of recogni-
ton
! Nineteen blocks of brick pavement
We're let at the rate of $1.121k, $1.13 and
$1.14 per square yard. In the past the
average price has been SIPS and s1.3O
| per square yard. And the specifications
call for better pavement this year than
| ever has been required before, with d
! 5-year maintenance bond thrown in.
The grading of the 10 blocks was let
/ at 2Os4 cents per cubic yard. The low
est price last year was about % cents.
Fort Scott curbing was knocked off at
| A cents, a cent lower than ever before.
! Iron crossing plates slumped to $780,
| instead of being held at $3.50 as in the
past.
| 1t is claimed that competition between
brick manufacturers is mainly respon-
sible for the great drop in the price OF
pavement. Shawnee county bricx is
not likely to be exclusively used next
summer. Millions of bricks have been
made by the Lawrence brick plant, and
II is claimed that they will be thrown
! upon the Topeka market for what they
will bring, as Lawrence is unable 10
consume the supply. Realizing the kind
of competition which threatened them,
the Shawnee county brick manufacture
ers did some SlaShing in preparation for
the attack. It is not yet known just
how much of the brick pavement will
be laid with Lawrence or other out of
town brick.
Wall & Hanley and John Ritchie Sc
cured all the paving contracts, and J.
H. Maxwell landed the whole 19 blocks
of grading. The competition was hot.
The following bidders were represented:
John Ritchie, M. w. Gilmore, Capital
Iron works, c. B. Ramsey, Wall & Han
ley, Van Vechten & Co. Winans and
Morse. John H. Maxwell, o. H. Sander
son, James Ramsey and William Brad
bury.
bids of the successful contractors:
Grading, all to ]. H. Maxwell. 203z
cents.
Rolling, all to VIM Bradbury, cents.
Fort Scott curbing, G. B. Ramsey, A
Iron curbing, Capital Iron works. So
cents.
Paving, Quincy street and Fourth
street, Wall & HanleX, 1215 cents
Paving, Clay and Fifteenth streets,
John Ritchie, $1.14
Paving Tenth avenue, John Ritchie.
$1.13.
Iron crossing plates. NJ w. Gilmore,
$5.4O.
Catch basins. Clay and Fifteenth, Jas
Ramsey, SIS; Fourth, Tenth and Quincy
streets, $14.
Sewer pipe, Tenth, James Ramsey, SO
cents.
Sewer pipe. Clay and Fifteenth, Wall
Sewer pipe, Fourth, Wall & HanIey, 81
cents
The relaying of a, small amount of old
sidewalk; old pavement and old curhing.
will be let at the city engineers esti-
mates to the successful contractors.
THE SEWER CONTRACT
The contract for building the sewer
in sewer district No 20 was let to Wall
& Hanley, which firm submitted the
lowest bid by over $500 of any other of
the bidders. The bids We're submitted
in detailed statement. not as lump
sum.
The other bidders We're Chas. B. Ram
sey, Carlson and Gustafson, Winans and
Morse, Van Vechten & Co.
BONDS SOLD WELL.
There were three bids for the $65 900
worth of Improvement bonds to be is
sued to pay for the 10 blocks of paving
for which contracts were let last night.
The bids were as follows:
Splitter & Co, Toledo, Ohio, 1917, ac-
crued interest, and $40 added.
H F. Brock, 101.
State Savings Bank, Topeka, 102 ac-
crued interest and $12 added.
The bid of the State Savings bank
was accepted. This bank has been the
ment bonds for the past two years
VINEWOOD RAILWAY ORDI-
NANCES.
A long communica ton from the Vine
wood Park Railway company, accom-
panied by two proposed ordinances was
received and referred to the judiciary
committee.
In the communication the company
stated that its proposition has no con-
nection whatever with the proposed
Kansas City-Topeka electric line. The
company also files a letter stating that
a contract has been entered into for the
complete equipment of the VinewooG
Park railway an electric line.
One of the proposed ordinances pro-
vides that the company shall be au-
thorized to lay tracks. single or double.
in the following streets:
From Ninth and Quincy, north or
Quincy to Eighth, west on EIGHTH to
Kansas avenue, south on Kansas ave-
nue. to Ninth, east on Ninth to Madison,
south Madison to Twelfth, east on
Twelfth to the railway tracks, and
thence east to the city limits.
The other proposed ordinance author
ICES the company to build an iron via
duct across the Santa Fe and Missouri
Pacific tracks at Twelfth street, instead
of at Ninth street, as was provided in
the old ordinance. The viaduct must be
approved by the Santa F'e and Missouri
of Topeka. The franchises asked for
are for twenty years duration.
APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE.
The appropriation ordinance for Feb.
ruary bills was as follows:
General revenue fund ..............$ 2 $50. .56
Police department fund ..........-. $50 Sc |
General Improvement fund .--..... 3,245.39 !
Fire department fInd .-..--.. 2-314-02 4
Central park and condemnation. 2.319.5 50
Sidewalk fund Observation-Disclosures. 5025
Library fund ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2.117.64
s14.sss.2 p
OF this sum $1O,l0Ss comes out of the |
general revenue and general improvement |
The following are the current receipts |
for the month:
149 cy,t SS