The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-07
M. STALLS PLAN.
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buildings in Kansas city, St. Joseph.
Argentine, and other places where the
latrine system is in use.
Mandamus Street Car Company.
BY order of the council, the city at
torney will bring mandamus suit
against the street railway company to
compel the company to lay the strip
of pavement on West Fourth street
where the city railway abandoned its
right of way after the contract for the
pavement had been let. but before the
pavement had been laid.
This pavement was contracted for
in 1903 and would have been laid then
had not the flood interfered- At that
time, the railway had a track on Fourth
between Polk and Western avenue.
Provision was therefore made for leav-
ing the city railway a strip in the mid
die of the street for it's track. This
spring the railway decided to abandon
its right of way on the block in queS-
ton. and refused to pay for the pave
ment on its abandoned right of way.
This left the street with an unpaved
strip through the middle.
The matter was brought to the atten-
ton of the council by City Engineer
McCabe, and the judiciary committee
recommended that the city commence
mandamus suit to compel the company
to pave its right Of way. The council
approved the committees report. The
following is the letter sent by the city
engineer to the city council:
Ramsey & Ramsey, paving contrac-
tors, inform me that the Topeka Rail
dOned right of way on Fourth street
between Polk street and Western ave
nue. unless ordered to do so by the
court.
AS the paving contractors are ready
to begin work on this street at once
some action should be taken by the
council compelling the railway com
pany to pave this eight foot strip as
required by their franchise.
Want Permanent Bridge.
| Councilman Ryder introduced a reso-
luton, which was passed, asking the
city railway to put in its permanent
steel bridge, instead of trying to repair
the damaged pile bridge. The resolu-
ton also condemned the city railway
! for dumping stone into the channel Of
! the river to keep its piles from wash
| ing out at the base. The resolution
carries no weight beyond its moral eff
| feet on the company. 1t is as follows:
! Resolved, We, the city council of the
city of Topeka, hereby request the To-
! peka City Railway company to immed-
/ lately construct a permanent steel and
| iron bridge over the Kansas river on
Kansas avenue, to take the place or
the present insecure and unsafe pile
| bridge We recognize with regret the
| trouble and expense that has occurred
in the construction and partial destruc-
! ton of the present bridge. We regard
the present bridge as a. menace to pub
1 lie safety and immediate steps should
be taken for the protection of the pub
1 lie by the erection of permanent and
| substantial bridge.
! Be it further resolved, We condemn
| in the strongest possible terms the
dumping of carloads of rock and stone
into the river channel by the Topeka
| City railway, and we demand that this
company desist in the future from
dumping anything into the river bed
that has the slightest possible tendency
to obstruct the natural flow OF the
Kansas river.
x n. G. May Camp Here.
S. H Kelsey, adjutant general of the
Kansas National Guard, requested the
lcounciI to take some action relative to
the annual encampment of the Kansas
National Guard, to be held in August
The K N. G. will not be held on the
military reservation this year, and sew
eraI towns are bidding for the event
The encampment will continue for ten
days.
nittee composed of Mayor Bergundtnal
and Councilmen Green, Hughes and
City Going in Debt.
The city clerks report for the first
two months of the fiscal year was as
follows: e
General Revenue Fund esqs *
From taxes e7a9 70 70
General Improvement Fund
From miscellaneous ....-........-- 1s4-Oo
Total receipts Observation-Disclosures ST 'sOs %
DISBURSEMENTS.
General Revenue Fund -
To police department -.....-..-.-.-$ 4-b39. =
To fire department .-.-----..--.--- o,Ozl-21
To city officers observation-disclosures. z'59- IL
To sanitary officers .-......-.----- l,643-9 w
To miscellaneous -; .''.'''- l'el9-'-
| General Improvement funo- 90 20
To street department -.--. ..--.- y o. - y
To city engineering department 8lg ~
To electric light department.... 2,5l6.1
To miscellaneous .--..-.....-.-..-- 54-S1
Total disbursements ..-.......-. SIS, 4O4- "a
| Excess of disbursements over re- 80. -,
Wall Gets Contract.
The contract for building retain
ing wall for the Eighth avenue bridge
and for building culverts over Biddle
| creek was let to M. F. Wall, who bid
| s482 on the first job and $7S7.50 on
| the second with a rebate of IS a cord
| for all stone which the city has on the
! ground
Bids Are Wanted.
There was only one other bidder,
/ Geo. H. Griggs, former street commits
sioner under the Parker admlnlstra-
ton. whose bid on the job was some
/ what above the city engineers esti-
mate, and was therefore not seriously
! considered.
The city clerk was instructed to ad-
vertise for bids on $4,000 worth of
city Improvement bonds, to pay for
/ this years pavement The bids will
be opened on the evening of July 2.
Bids will also be asked for on the
/ construction of pavement in the alley
in North Topeka, and on the con-
strlrction of a retaining wall for tn =
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