The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-05
Legal Charge For Night Will
Be rs Cents.
The Day Fare to Continue
at so Cents.
CITY BONDS ARE SOLD.
Topeka State Savings Bank Gets
$4,000 Worth.
Ordinance For More Pay City
Physician Defeated.

Topeka's new hack rate ordinance
was. passed by the city council last
night without opposition, and VIII pc
come law as soon as published IN the
official city paper. TopekanS viii 90
we'll to familiarize themselves with the
following schedule of rates which the
ordinance provides:
Between the hours of o'clock a. m.
and O'Clock a. m. of the next day, 5o
cents for each passenger.
Between the hours OF / O'Clock a. M
and o'clock a. M, 70 cents Tor eacn
passenger, except that when three or
more passengers are carried on one trip,
the total fare shall not exceed $3.50.
Children under 6 years of age, when
accompanied by guardian, free; hand
baggage, free; trunks and parcels other
than hand baggage, % cents for each
piece.
The hour rate schedule is as fol-
lows:
Between the hours a. m. and 10 p.
m, $1.50 for the first hour. 81 for each
additional hour.
Between the hours of 10 o'clock p. m.
and o'clock a. m. of the next day,
So for the first hour and 81 for each adj
ditfOnal hour.
The ordinance is so worded, however,
that II a hackman wants to make
private dicker with passengers on hour
rates, he is allowed to do SO, provided
he does not exceed the stipulated fee
The ordinance provides punishment
driver refuses to carry passengers when
the passenger offers the legal fee, but
1t leaves Mr.. Hackdriver a loop-hole of
escape. The hackdriver may claim that
he has another engagement, if he wants
to shirk a disagreeable trip. When this
point was mentioned to City Attorney
Spencer, who drew the ordinance, he
said:
THE only way for passengers to pro-
tect themselves is to get into the car
riage, and then give his instructions to
the driver. If the driver allows the pas
senger to get into his hack, it would
establish cOnc1usively enough that he
had no prior engagement"
The new ordinance is of especial adj
vantage to the Suburbanite. It provides
what is called a flat rate" for all
points within the city limits. The dri-
Yer gets just as much for taking pas
senger from the depot to downtown
hotel as he would get to take a pas
senger from a depot to Washburn COL
1ege or Potwin. This is SATISFACTORY to
the hack drivers, however, because they
calculate that they can make up on the
short hauls what they lose on the long
haulS.
BANK BUYS BONDS.
Another big purchase of Topeka i'm
provement bonds was made last night
by the State Savings bank of this city
The entire issue of bonds offered ag-
gregating $4,000 was purchased by this
firm over three competitors, at prem
1uIn OF $l,z5O, together with accrued in
terest to September 15 and an agree
ment to transmit free of charge to the
New York fiscal agency all the monies
for the payment of interest and redemp-
ton of the bonds.
1t was this last item which won the
prize for the State Savings bank. In
the course of the ten years life of the
bonds, the cost of transmitting the
money to New York amounts to quite
a large sum, estimated at about $780,
All of the bonds are made payable at
the New York fiscal agency of To-
peka.
Aside from this concession the State
Savings bank of Topeka was slightly
below in its bid the bid of the State
Savings bank of Toledo. o. The Ohio
bank offered SIS more in premiums than
did the local concern.
The State Savings bank has purchas-
ed all of the bonds for internal i'm
provements-that is pavements and
sewers-which Topeka has issued this
year The bonds bear per cent inter-
est, and are redeemed one-tenth each
year. They are considered gilt edged,
as they are not only backed by the
credit of the city, but also constitute a
Hen on the property which is assessed
Tor their payment. They are thus dou-
bly, protected.
The bonds were sold in two lots, one
of $4,000 and one of $4,000.
ON the lot of 100000 of internal i'm
provement bonds the bids were as fol-
lows:
State Savings bank Of Topeka: $917