The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-26
NORTH TOPEKA.

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c. Helm of Silver Lake was in town
today
G. w. Brockerman made a business
trip to Kansas City today.
Mr.. Short is very i'll with kidney trou-
BILE at his home on the Rochester road.
Miss Eva Steward is the guest for
few days of Mrs. w. r. Zimmerman of
S28 Harrison street.
Mrs. d. Doyle of 1872 Harrison street
went to Kansas City today to visit Mrs
r. Z. Atwood for week.
Mrs w. w. Johnson has moved from
Polk and Morse streets to the corner Of
Saywen and Quincy streets.
Charles Haynes, who has been i'll for
some time with malarial fever, was re
ported yesterday to be improving.
Mr. Mcleod and mother have moved
here from Horton and have gone to
housekeeping al 140S Logan street.
A. E. Myers and family will move to
Topeka the first of next week and oc-
cupy the M. M. Hale home at 422 Park
street.
Mrs. Charles Steinberger has returned
to her home in Wa-Keeney after short
visit to Mrs. c. D. Myers and other
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Allen left today for
Pueblo, Col, where for the next two
weeks they viii be the guests of their
daughter, Mrs. Robert Smith.
Mr.. Buell., state grain inspector has
rented the w. w. Crittenden house at
HOY Monroe street and will move his
family here from st. Marys the first of
the week.
The following has been1 handed in for
this column: Query? If the Santa Fe
railway bridge or that of the Rock Is
land road had been washed out by
the flood would either one of these COM
NAMES W. 70 in
other? Or one year or even six
months? Why should it take longer to
put in a bridge for the street railway?
The early visitor to North Topeka say
any one arriving at the south end of the
bridge soon after Z o'clock will be sur
prised at the number of teams and We
hicles that actually block the south APP
proach. Many of these are city teams
destined for work in cleaning up North
Topeka. 1t really looks every morning
as if they might be able to grade d
whole town in one day. There are
scores of them and while they fill the
entire length of the bridge so that it is
next to impossible for d solitary team 10
pass going south yet they are COM
pletely lost when they separate and get
to work on the streets OF North Topeka
so that during the day one gets to meet
or see not more than two or three at a
time. This may give one some idea of
the work necessary to repair the dam
nearly three months this same work has
been going on, this same congestion at
the bridge night and morning, and the
same will continue for months to come.
And with all that has been done there
are plenty of grumblers to complain
that the city is doing nothing.
Considerable feeling has been aroused
since Monday nights meeting against
the use of the bridge by the City rail-
way. 1t is claimed that this meeting
Tod
the scheme while the great majority
are unalterably opposed to it, 1t was
rumored this morning that a petition
to the council has been prepared
against any concession of the kind and
there is talk of calling an opposition
mass meeting. There appears to be
universal indignation that no provision
is made for the transfer of passengers
car service on this side is simply
fort for the bobtailed car on this side
to make connections with the cars run
ming to the south end of the bridge and
it is safe to say that probably not half
the transfer checks given for service
on this side are ever used. Passengers
after paying the usual fare as far as
Garfield park are not only permitted to
walk over the dust hidden bridge, but
all the rest of the way as well. 1t is
claimed that this evil ought to be rem
edied before further favors are asked,
and there are some who wish to know
what right the people have, if any, IN
der the city railway charter.