The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-15
Plan TO Build One in Fifth Ward
Revived.
Include Orchard Place, Walnut
Grove and West Side.
EXPECTS NO TROUBLE.
People Are Tired of Having
Water in Cellars.
The Cost Would Probably Be
About $4,000.

Before Samuel T. Howe left for Col
orado, he entered into an agreement
with j. e. Sinner, his associate council
man from the Fifth ward. to start
campaign as soon as possible for the
creating of a sewer district to include
Walnut Grove, Orchard Place, and Mar
tin & Dennis addition.
1t is a revival of an old project, but
1t has started now with almost assured
success. The probability is that the
necessary preliminaries will be disposed
of in time for actual work to begin
early in the spring.
City Engineer McCabe has been -noti-
fed of the desires of Councilman Howe
and Sinner. and is now at work pre-
pairing some preliminary plans and es-
Inmates for the work. which will be
ready to present to the people in the
proposed district within few weeks.
When the sewer project was being
doomed by the Orchard Place promo
ters some time ago, Mr.. McCabe did
some figuring and made some maps, and
these will be revised and improved upon
for the present undertaking. When the
Orchard Place sewer boom was on. it
was regarded with disapproval by many,
and did not meet with enough encour-
agement to warrant its adoption. 1t is
claimed that now there has been a
change, and that there will be very lit
tie opposition to a sewer to include
Walnut Grove. Martin & Dennis, and
Orchard Place. 1t will. if carried out
as now proposed, be one of the largest
sewer districts ever created in Topeka.
Councilman Sinner said today: Mr..
Howe and l expect to take this matter
up as soon as Mr.. Howe returns. We
believe that the people will welcome the
chance to get sewer in this part OF
towns Usually Walnut Grove has been
opposed to the plan on account of the
expense, but people are getting tired Of
having water in their cellars all the time.
sewer is needed here more than 1t is
anywhere else in town, perhaps
Councilman Howe said before he left
for Colorado: There will not be very
number of people interested in this sew
er project to make it go. There has been
a rapid change in sentiment regarding
a sewer since people have experienced
a wet season. and have had to pay out
their money to pump out cellars when
they might almost pay their share of
sewer tax for the same expense, and
have no more trouble with wet cellars.
We need a sewer, and L think that it
won't take long to get one when we get
to work on the proposition.
City Engineer McCabe will give no
estimate on the cost of the sewer. The
college cost about $4,000 and the one for
Walnut Grove. Martin & Dennis and
Orchard Place would probably cost
about twice as much.
It is proposed to have the sewer
empty into the 60inch brick sewer
main at Fourteenth and jefferson
streets. The new main will probably
be 45 inches in diameter through Wal
nut Grove tCs Topeka avenue where it
will divide into two 3e-inch mains, one
I extending northwest to Orchard Place,
and one due west through the fair
grounds into the heart of Martin &
Dennis addition. Everything south of
the Washburn college sewer will be
drained into the Martin & Dennis
branch, while the Orchard Place
branch will take in all that rapidly de-
veloping tract east of Buchanan street
and south of the old sewer district No
Is, which folms the outlet for the
Washbura sewer.
The 45-inch main through Walnut
Grove will have to be made of brick.
While the 3s-inch mains will probably
he more economically constructed, from
vitrified pipe, which is now made in .36-
inch sizes.