The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-05
WANTS TO KNOW.
Mayor Bergundthal Writes a
Letter to Mr.. Myers.
inquiries About RumOrs of
North Topeka Lines.
WILL THEY BE USED.
Talk of Abandoning Them I'm
til Spring.
WILL THEY BE USED.
Mr.. Griley Also Is BrOOding
Over Untitled Promises.

Mayor Bergundthal has written let
ter to l. E. Myers. vice president and
manager of the city railway, inquiring
as to the truth of the report which
had come to his ears that the city rail-
way does not propose to rebuild its line
to Garfield park from Gordon street in
North Topeka until next spring.
1t is also reported that the railway
company will discontinue running its
one car between Gordon street and the
river. At the present time this one car
is made to answer the needs of the
whole of North Topeka. Passengers
are carried to the river. from which
point they walk across the bridge and
take another car at the foot of Kansas
avenue. There seems to be no contin-
uity in this service as cars on this side
do not wait for passengers transferred
from North Topeka.
This report is causing indignation in
North Topeka, and if it proves TO be
true will iniure the friendly relations
with the people of the city which the
railway company has been assiduously
cuitivatinS
All the rails between Gordon street
ana the park have been taken up by
the city railway, and the stub line"
between the river and Gordon street
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OF Gordon now until the new track is
iald- The North Topeka people have
taken 1t as matter of course that
they would have their line in operation
before the beginning of winter
mayor Bergundthal says the promise
| was made to him by Mr.. Myers when
the plans for the reconstruction were
under discussion that the North Topeka
lines would be the first in the city to be
rebuilt. Mayor Bergundthal wants to
ind out whether Mr.. Myers meant what
he said.
Councilman S. r. Kutz, of the First
ward was asked today whether or not
ne had heard the rumor. He said:
1 do not know of any such report ]
suppose the railroad company thinks
that it will not need it's park line be-
cause the car bridge will not be ready
Ior use until spring. Mr. Myers prom
| lsed that the North Topeka lines should
| be the first to be rebuilt but that was
before the flood. He may have changed
his plan since then"
! COUNCILMAN GRILEY KICKS.
Another man who is preparing to
make some trouble for the new railway
company is Councilman Griley who has
Deen one of the staunch friends of the
company.
Griley wants East Fifth street fixed
up, and he has a good ground for COM
plant. The street is in exactly the con-
dltion it was left more than six months
ago when the city railway and the Vine
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session of the street. There is pile of
dirt about six feet high, all the way
from Jefferson street to the Santa Fre
depot. The piles of paving stones, old
ties, rusty rails and miscellaneous deb
ris serve to battress the dirt and make
the street almost impossible. The dirt
has been there so long that corn has
grown up on the embankment taSSled
out, and bids fair to make a good crop.
It's a shame for the street to be in
this condition, and i am going to try
TO get some relief for those people. l
do not believe the city railway has the
right to blockade the street in this way.
man who runs restaurant down
there told me that when team is hitch
ed in front of his place, it fills up his
side of the street clear to the dirt en-
bankment There is no place left for
people to pass through. 1 know that the
company says it is going to fix the
street soon, but there is no reason why
it should leave that great pile of dirt
in the, way. The dirt will have to be
taken out sooner or later, and my idea
is that the company should take it
now. 1t makes a disgraceful thing for
people on the Santa Fe trains to have
to see when they come in to town."
There is a city ordinance which pre-
vents any one excavating or piling ma
terial in the streets without erecting
necessary barricades to keep people
from being hurt There is also an or
dinance requiring that danger lanterns
be kept on such obstacles at night. 1t
is also provided by law that only for
certain number of days can any one
utilize the street as a place for storing
building material. All of these or
dinances have been violated, it is
claimed by the railway company on
East Fifth street.
Mr.. Myers is out of the city so an ex-
preston from him could not be secured.
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