The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-03
WHO HAS RIGHT
TO USE SEWERS
People in First District Want
to Know.
CITY DADS CAN'T TELL
Henry Schweiter Gives Very
Emphatic Opinion,

Some of the people in sewer district
No. 1 one making a big kick about other
sewer districts being connected with Their
sewer. They are threatening to go INTO
the courts or do something terrible-they
cannot yet tell exactly what it may be.
You may quote ne as saying that
xhis connecting of the other sewer mains
with ours is an outrage" said Henry
scbweiter. yesterday. The people IN
sewer district No. l built their own sewer
and then built south of the district t.
connect with ne big river. The other
districts take possession of it without
ever paying cent If there is anythias
fair about that l fail TO see where Il
comes lit.
Some Of the other residents in the south
part of the city say that when they want
TO urn the storm water into the sewers
the city authorities tell them that they
cannot do it, because the sewer is alreadY
overloaded. They say they have to fur
nish the sewerage for the other ols-
tricts and the packing houses, which are
NOT in the city, and cannot turn their own
storm water into it.
A reporter for the Eagle asked Mayor
Mclean yesterday what could be done
about the complaint of the people in the
south part Of the city, and whether they
had any real grounds for complaint The
mayor scratched his head and said he did
not know. and referred the reporter TO
Earl Blake.
city engineer and the deputy in that
office said they usec to have map of
the sewer districts, but that somebody
had carried it off. The reporter went
up into the city clerks office and there
found Councilman Burton, Of the Sixth
ward He said he could tell about the
location of sewer districts, and he got the
ordinance book and read:
Sewer district No. l shall be bounded
as follows: Beginning at the intersection
Of Harry street and Wichita street; north
on Wichita to Douglas; west on Douglas
to Waco; on Waco to Seventeenth street,
east on Seventeenth to Main; north on
Main to Twenty-first street; east on
Twenty-first to Topeka avenue; south On
Topeka to Seventeenth; east on Seven
teenth 10 Washington avenue; south Oh
Washington to Douglas avenue; east on
Douglas to Ida avenue; south on Ida 10
Harry street, and west on Harry %
Wichita, the place of beginning.
Nov" said Mr.. Burton, Il have given
you the boundaries of district No. l.
The people in that district paid for their
sewers. Then we built big brick sewar
from the corner of Main and Harry
streets east on Harry to Hydraulic ave
me and south on Hydraulic to the Bis
river and district No. ! paid for that l.
does look like the people in district No.
! ought to have the use of the sewer
they we're compelled to pay for. 5nd
that other districts ought not to connect
with it and overload it, but / do not
know what the law would be on that and
haven't found anybody else that
knows"
The boundaries of sewer district No. 9
are as follows: Beginning at the intec
section of Douglas and Washington; north
on Washington to Central avenue; ca st
on Central to Wabash south on Waba sin
to Third street; east on Third to Math-
ewson; south on Mathewson to Douglas,
and west on Douglas to the point of be-
ginning. Now. all this territory is
drained in the sewers of district No /.
District No. consists of four blocks in
a square. bounded on the east by Waco
and on the south by Tenth street, and
this district is using the sewers of dis
trict No l.
Have the people in district No. ] the ex-
elusive right to their sewers and the
brick main they built south of their
district TO the Big river. and can they
take any action to make the other sewer
districts disconnect with their system. is
what the people in the south part of the
city are trying TO find out.
When' the sewers were built they wore
considered large enough, and nobody
seems TO have thought of them ever being
too small. But Wichita is growing. ami
the sewers are being extended until he
cry is already raised that they are not
large enough 1t nas been suggested -
some of the dissatisfied ones in district
No. l that they might construct a few
storm sewers. but they ask if they VIII
be compelled to build storm sewers in or
der that other sections of the city may
use the sewers that they already have
Some Of the city officials Claim that The
packing houses turn clear water into the
sewers and that except in a very rainy
season this water is help to the sewers
and saves the city pumping it,