The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-03
City Council Acts on the Paving
Question.
Cuts Out Proposed improvement
Next to Governors Mansion.
GARBAGE CONTRACT.
Topeka Waste and Utilization
Co. Gets 30 Year Right.
Washburn Sewer Contractors
Get Their Money.

By tremendous efforts the council last
night managed to reduce the amount of
paving for next summer from 30 to 26
blocks. BY an error they came near to
reducing it to SO blocks, but the mistake
was discovered and quickly rectified.
The paving which was allowed last
night, in addition to the ten blocks
allowed some months ago, was as fol-
lowss
Eleventh street. Quincy to Van Buren,.
Huntoon street. jackson to Van Buren,.
Fourth street, Topeka avenue to West
ern avenue.
Kansas avenue, Thirteenth to Euclid
Madison street, Second to Third.
Jackson street. Tenth to sHuntoon.
Western avenue, Huntoon to Douthitt.
Jefferson street. Eighth to Tenth.
Taylor street. Fourth to Sixth.
Fillmore street, Thirteenth to Douthitt.
Van Buren, street, Thirteenth to Hunt
ington.
The petitions which were rejected were
for Tyler Second to Third; Eighth
street, Buchanan to LincOln; and To-
peka avenue from the north line OF the
Douthitt tract to Huntington avenue.
1t was also decided by resolution that
the city viii pay the third, or $780, of the
total cost Of matchmaking West Sixth
avenue 20 feet wide from Morris avenue
to the city limits. This strip of mac
adam will form a connecting link with
the brick kilns and Cages park. The
two-thirds which the city does not pay
VIII be paid equally by the county and
by the people who live on the street
1t was unfortunate that among tha
few blocks of pavement to be run over
by the bandwagon was the block on
West Eighth between Buchanan and
Lincoln This block is the one north OF
the governors mansion and the plan
was to make a divided pavement there,
with a park running the length of the
block IN the middle of the street.
The petition which came near being
defeated through a misunderstanding
was the one for pavement on Van Buren,
/ between Thirteenth and Huntington It
was reported unfavorably by the COM
mlttee- Somebody moved that the re-
port be adopted. When it came TO voting
several OF the cOuncilmen who favored
the paving voted yes thinking that they
We're voting in favor of the paving. when
as matter of fact they were voting to
adopt the committees report rejecting
It, Some time after the vote had been
taken, a reconsideration was moved. and
to
Eleven councilmen We're present last
night Councilman Howe was absent at
lendlng the meeting Of the Hughes
Bergundthal conference committee
GRANTED A 20-YEAR CONTRACT.
me new garbage company, of which
lne official name is the Topeka Waste
Juhzation company, managed to get its
20-year contract last night out il did
not get it in the unlimited shane il
wanted 1t. 1t had a provision in the
contract giving it the exclusive right in
handle the garbage business for the
next 20 years. The city attorney stated
that the exclusive" feature Of the con-
tract was of no legal force, as the CITY
council has no authority to enter into
such contract. The company wanted
the word left in very badly. however, as
they claimed it would assist in financing
the enterprise
The note to strike out the word -ex-
elusive" from the contract was the only
change made by the council This
change was made only after long de-
bate The vote stood against 5. on the
contract as amended. the vote was 9 to
in favor Of adoption.
WASHBURN SEWER PAID FOR.
The council paid the seventh and final
estimate on the Washburn college sewer
last night. The contractors filed their
$1,000 bond to maintain the sewer for
one year.
The, final estimate was s4,21s1a This
added to the other six estimates which
have been paid from time to time dur
ing the progress of the work makes the
total cast of the sewer S21, 1859 So
The work on the sewer is nearly COM
pleted, though there is considerable fin
lsh1ng to be done, and a great deal OF
ming where the ground has sunk. The
sz,OOO bond which the contractors Wall
& Hanley have filed is to protect the
city against loss on this part of the
work The contractors will have to keen
filling in the bitches until they cease
70 settle; wan < Hanley claim that oyv-
ing 10 the large amount of rock which
they encountered in their digging thew
tract.
The appropriation ordinance earned
Sl .6376O for current expenses. which
IS lower than usual. The total aDpro-
priations We're as follows:
General revenue fund .........s ss79 az
General improvement fund 2SO6 50
Police department fund -... . 2e9 7c
General Improvement fund 2SSS X
Library fund .......... 255 *
sewer Iund -..-.-............. 4213 IL
Street opening fund.......... 1859 "A
s19.1s4 %
Some Of the teamsters and transfer
men filed 2 protest against the new
license ordinance. They want $40
license imposed on all two-horse trans
fer wagons and q IS license on one
horse wagons The communication
was signed by c. D. Skinner as chair
man. and F. p. Bacon as secretary Of
the meeting.
An ordinance was introduced and
passed under suspension of rules pro-
viding for the annexation to the city
of half block of territory in Roots
addition. This is in the east part of
town and is surrounded by the citv
It is taken into the city so that side
walks may be built through it The
land annexed comprises all that mart
of Roots addition lying north of the
center line OF Sixth avenue. The land
is vacant, and therefore the population
of the city is not materially increased
The receipts reported by city on
Gals are as follows;
Food inspector .s212 40
( License collector ..-s.4-..-....... 591 90
Police judge NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. SOS 90
+ Welgnmaster .--.-.... --..-.-.... rs 80
The city treasurer's report showed a
balance in the city treasury of S175.-
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