The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-16
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Third Ordinance Is Ready.


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Third Ordinance Is Ready
One of the city officials stated today
that in his opinion Councilman
SWendson's Sixth ward sewer scheme
would be knocked higher than
kite
"Since the State Journal came out
with that article about the sewer. "
said the official, people have been
coming in here with protests and re-
monstrances, to get information
about this or that, and I know of
three men, whose names are Warren,
Bishop and T3olinger, who are now
circulating remonstrances. There is
a big opposition to the sewer, as the
city council will find out before long. ;"
If the people in the Lowman Hill
district defeat the plan for building a
sewer there, it will carry with it the
proposition to build an outlet to the
old POtWin sewer The plan was to
tax both POtwin and Lowman Hill to
pay for the outlet, on the theory that
LOwman Hill would be connected with
the Potwin sewer and get the benefit
of the outlet If the LOWmaH Hill
sewer is not built, of course LOwman
Hill people can not be taxed to pay
for the Potwin sewer outlet Both of
the proposed sewer ordinances will
therefore go down in defeat.
City Attorney Spencer has prepared
third ordinance which would prob
ably be used in such an emergency
It provides for the construction of
the sewer outlet, but puts the cost
wholly on Potwin.
Councilman Hughes of the Sixth
ward is taking only passive interest
in the sewer proposition. He says he
thinks that a sewer is all right for
that part of LoWman Hill which has
water, and he has no objection to its
construction. Neither does he object
I to connecting the proposed new sewer
to the old POtwin main. He SAYS the
ordnance does not tread on Potwin' s
toes IN any way and therefore he is
| wiling it should go through.
SwendsOn Has ssFYopped."
The sewer question was an issue in
the recent Republican primaries in the
sixth ward. Mr.. SWendSon brought
out W. a. Myers as candidate
against Col. Hughes. Mr.. Myers was
supposed to represent the Lowman Hill
people who wanted a sewer built and
one of the interesting features of the
campaign was a Sewer Primer issued
by Mr.. Swendson.
1t shows that at that time Mr..
Swendson did not consider the old Pot
win sewer main of sufficient size to
handle the sewage from the Lowman
ttlll-IenneSseetOWn district. He want
ed q new sewer throughout. Now ne
mas come before the council with a
plan to do just that very thing he op-
posed. Here are a few extracts from
the Swendson Primer"
has the Sixth ward a sewer? No.
CYes, Potwin has a toy, a miniature or
something.)
rs it adequate? It is not, and besides
/ being expensive to the city, it is Off
cially condemned, with an official rec
ommendatiOn that it be rebuilt or re-
placed in the near future.
| How is the Sixth ward located with
reference to sewer construction? A
valley runs through it, throughout the
length Of the ward, and through which
this main sewer must be built to the
river.
rs there any other feasible plan for
! the location and construction of such
sewer? There is not
rs any other location suggested
Mr.. J. B. Larimer suggests that it be
built through the Keith tract
as this feasible? It is not, for the
reason that it would require an ex-
cessively deep excavation and useless
expense.
rs there any difference of opinion as
to the adequacy of the present sewer
main? Yes. Mr.. J. 3. Larimer states
that the present 15-inch main is ade-
quate for the sewer district proposed
chanan street and north of Huntoon
street in the city of Topeka
WHAT'S the opinion of the city engi-
neer2 The preliminary plans of the
city engineer show that there will be
required at least a 36 inch MAN.
| Mr. Swendson now takes the position
that the primary election decided that
was adequate to the needs of the Low
man Hill district, and that he is simply
following out the opinion of the people
by advocating the connection of the
Lowman Hill sewer to the old Potwir
main.