The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-08
TAKE 1T ALL.
City Council May Give Vinewood
Road Paving Brick.
Such q Measure to Come Before
Council Tonight.
MEETS OPPOSITION.
People on Paved Streets Don't
Want the Road.
Protests VIII BE Heard at Meet
ing Tonight.

ing Tonight.
An attempt will be made by some OF
the members of the city council at the
meeting this evening to inject new
section into the proposed Vinewood PARK
railway franchise giving to the company
the right to use brick and other Davins
material which it takes up from the
streets to reoave its tracks.
The adoption of such a provision
means the free gift by the city to the
company OF about $4,000 worth of brick
and other paving material. The city
attorney has ruled that the material be-
longs to the city. and that the company
has no claim on it whatever.
At the meeting of the streets and
walks committee, Councilmen Wolf and
Nichols favored such a provision in the
ordinance. but as the other two mem
bers of the committee present. opposed
1T the question was left over for tiIs
council as a whole to act upon.
# the council grants the .yinewooe
company the right to construct its rail-
way ever the streets which it has named
In its proposed franchise and if the
company actually does the work. ii VIII
cut through thirteen blocks of existins
DITCH pavement Il Will remove SlIlp
of brick eight feet wide and from 450
to $50 feet long in each block, exclusive
of intersections. The amount of brick
which would be removed from intersec-
tons is about $50 square yards The
total value Of the brick is Is follows
Two blocks on Seventh at s310.....S go
Three blocks on Polk at $500. ....-.. LOO
Two blocks on Van Buren, at $500. 500
One block on West Sixth at $40. 80
Two blocks on Buchanan at $780,. 500
Three blocks on Percy at S310... $50
intersections, $50 SO. yards, at 81. 45g
Sand, estimated value .............. 500
Total value of material ........ $3.50
OF the aggregate amount of paving
material which the Vinewood company
tears up, the scheme is to give the COM
pany whatever 1t needs. The company
will select all of the best brick and use
all of the sand, and it is a liberal esti-
mate to say that the value of the bro
ken and worthless brick which the city
would be allowed to haul away is ST.,
500. The VinewOOd company would get
the rest. $4,000 worth of good paving
material which il would have to pay for
If the city claimed what rightfully be-
longs to x.
HORNE'S APPLICATION REFUSED.
week ago. the proprietor of Horne's
planning mill asked the city council for
permission to use the brick which the
VineWood company had taken from its
track in front or his mill otl7Van5 Buren,
street, to pave his parking. This request
was referred to the streets and walks
committee with power to act The COM
mittee refused to grant the request.
Had the committee GRANTED this re-
quest it would have formed a precedent
which could not have been overlooked.
and the city would have been obliged to
give away all the brick that was asked
for.
MORE PROTESTS COMING IN.
There is very determined effort be-
ing made by the people living on the
paved streets where the Vinewood COM
pany wants to run its tracks to keep the
railway of.
Polk street will be represented by A
number OF its residents at the council
meeting this evening who object to hav-
ing the Douthitt tract line run south on
InaI street from Seventh The Polk
street pavement is 40 feet wide and the
people living there object very seriously
to having it torn uD by another street
railway. They will try to !nGuce the
council to compel the VinewOOd line to
take some other route. The committee
which has had the franchise under con
stderation decided to recommend Polk
street as the route instead of Tyler, be
cause the people on Tyler objected 1t
strong objections.
There is also a protest against allowing
the company right of way on Percy and
Walnut streets for three blocks, and on
& Dennis addition.
J. G. Holland and Charles NJ. Sheldon
are residents on Percy street. which is
only 80 feet wide. and which is on the
Washburn college line of pavement. a
favorite drive of Topeka people All of
the people on that street are fighting hard
against the car line there and this morn
ing Manager Kelley and Superintendent
Ward Of the Ninewood company were I'D
In the city engineers office trying to pick
out another route. They are anxious to
get as close to WaShburn college as possi-
BILE, and will find it difficult to get a line
which does not cut in on the paved
streets somewhere
Frank Snyder former street commits
sioner, is leading the opposition to the
plan which the Ninewood people have of
tearing up two blocks of the new pave
ment on Buchanan between Euclid ave
nue. and Nineteenth. This pavement was
laid only last fall and is 80 feet wide
The council has made it precedent 10
allow no paving petitions which asked for
pavement less than 40 feet wide where
there is a car track Tt seems that this
rule should work both ways and that nc
tracks should be allowed where the pave
ment is less than 40 feet wide ONLY q
few days ago, the plan to pave Yves,
Fourth street 30 feet wide was rejected
because it was stated by members of the
council that nothing less than 40 foot
pavement would do where there is "a,
track. The Fourth street people at once
commenced work on a petition for 4,
foot pavement
The Vinewood line is not getting rnuct
encouragement from the pe0nie of TopsSs
TO Duhd It's proposed city railway system
Potwin residents made such determine.
opposition that they slcceeded in havin,
the Nlnewood tracts kent out OF tina
part OF town entirely The peOnle livin.
on Vest Sixth avenue. between Horne an,
West. have not vet announced their infen
tons. but it is likely that there is no in
tentlon OF allowing the Vinewcad line t,
get into that 80 foot navement without
struggle The committee recommended IN,
Horne street route in order to keep tn
line out of Potwin-