The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-06-10
AN AUTO Line.
One May Be Established in
North Topeka.
Farmers Having Trouble to
Market Berries.

IF we do not have a street car line, =
said North Topeka man yesterday.
we are going TO establish an automO-
bile line from the north end of Kansas
avenue to the south end of the Kansas
avenue bridge. 1 believe that a COM
pang viii be formed to buy two large
passenger automobiles and operate
them on q regular schedule. The ma
chimes would pay for themselves within
a few weeks"
The question of transportation il
North Topeka is going to be quite a
serious enc. and even now people are
beginning to elamor for street repairs
so that they can travel about the town
with wagons Even if the automobile
line which has been suggested fails to
materialize it is certain that someone
viii establish a regular bus survice
reaching out in various directions to
haul people to the south end of the
Melan bridge
There Is a great demand now by the
farmers living north Of town that the
Nahsas avenue bridge across Soldier
creek De Immediately repaired, and 1t
seems mat this IS one of the first things
the county commissioners should attend
To- Ine bridge can be fixed with very
lttle work, and almost no expense. and
IT would open up way for farmers
70 come right to the end of the Melan
bridge with their products.
The only trouble with the Kansas
avenue bridge over Soldier creek is
that the south approach, made of heavy
flooring. is washed off. It is lying lust
east of the bridge, among the trees, and
could be pulled back into place with a
team of horses.
Farmers living north of town have Of
fered their services free to repair the
bridge, provided the county commission
ers VIII set them to work. 1t only needs
for some one to take charge of the work
and set a day for the farmers to come
to the bridge. and the whole job of re-
placing the approach and making what
ever dirt fill is required could be finish
ed in ten hours. The bridge itself Is
still standing firmly on its piers.
STRAW BERRIES FOR MARK EFT
Tuesday afternoon, a reporter for the
State Journal visited the bridge, and
found about 20 farmer wagons tied to
the fences along the road across the
creek The owners of the wagons had
crossed the creek bridge by means of
little footbridge which has been thrown
across the washed out approach
The great bushes of these farmers now
Is to GET their Strawberries on the market
were being carried across the bridge by
hand and stacked up ON this side to await
the arrival Of wagons from town to bring
them to the Melan bridge
commission firm had representatives. at
the bridge buying everything that came IN
sight and sending 1t to town in one
horse wagon which made regular trips to
town.
Kansas avenue is badly washed ont in
some places. AT Holman street and Kan
sas avenue just at the entrance of Gar
field park. there is a hole a hundred feet
in diameter and probably ten feet deep
The street car tracks span il like a tres
tie or suspension bridge and the only way
to get past the hole is to climb up on the
embanknent at the side Of tho road This
hole would have to be filed in or a road
made through one side of Garfield park
to afford wagons means of getting to
town.