The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-18

sort of supervision of all ''pay shows"
given at the Auditorium for private
gain, for the purpose of diverting all
profits of such shows. so far as pos
sible, to the pipe organ fund. The as
ISOLATION is given the preference on all
its applications for use of the building.
The contract provides that when the
organ is paid for it shall become the
property of the city, but meantime the
city shall assume no financial respon-
sibility for it. After the expiration OF
the fve-year term the association 1S
given the control of the organ for
fifteen years more. the purpose being
to protect the instrument from indiS-
criminate use and possible injury All
net profits from the use of the organ,
after it is paid for, revert to the city
There was a hard fight made on
these last provisions. The four MEM
bers of the council who voted against
the contract did SO because they be-
lieved that the city council should have
absolute control of the organ after 1t
had been paid for by the association.
They objected to that provision of the
contract which gave the organ asso-
citation the right to retain enough of
the profits of the organ to pay for
operation and maintenance.
TROUBLE AHEAD.
| People in the Fourth ward who
thought that. all the difficulties in the
way of opening Third street so that
the city railway can build its line out
/ there haQ been removed may De
doomed to disappointment.
| C. P. Bolmar appeared before the
council last night. and announced that
| there was a mistake in the city charts;
| that while the city maps show that
| west of Fillmore Third street is 80 feet
wide. the facts are that for the dis
/ lance of half block the north half
of Third. street is owned by Emily ].
| Meade, the wife of J. M. Meade. as
/ sistant engineer of the eastern grand
/ IF Ero Lot ol7lU
that. but Mrs. Meade claims to own
the west half of Fillmore for couple
of hundred feet north of Third street.
Mrs Meade has a good title to this
land, and just because she has not had
it fenced, the city assumed that she did
not own it. She does own it, and has
| been paying taxes on it for 10 years.
The result is that when the city railway
gets out to Fillmore street on Third, it
viii only have a 40-foot street to go
through, unless some arrangement is
made with Mrs. Meade. Mrs. Meade is
willing to confer with the city in regard
to the matter at any time"
City Attorney Spencer said: II sup
pose there may be a good many people
set up claims TO parts of streets in that
locality It does not affect in the least
the proceedings which have already
been taken. If Mrs. Meade has a claim
that is something to be investigated in
the future
The matter came up in the special
! f4c6llHSs nSlQ pf1OF the reg uldT meet
ing, at which the long report of the ap-
praisers for the Fourth ward benefit dis
trict was read. It took nearly an hou.
to read the report, after which Mr.. Boil
mar made his objection. When the city
attorney made his statement the coun
| ell went ahead and approved the ap
, praisers report, as there were no othe
objections. The ordinance creating thi
benefit district will now have to b.
drawn, and then published in the cit.
paper. It will probably cost about $50
: to publish the ordinance. This the cit,
at large has to pay for.
, FIRE ENGINE QUESTION.
Mayor BergundthaI asked the eoun
ell to decide whether or not it wantei
7 to borrow the No. fire steamer whiel
the American Fire Extinguisher com
I pany has offered to loan the city 70
, three months, pending the constructin
l of the engines purchased by the city
The engine weighs 5000 pounds, and
will cost about S160 in freight to get
out here. There is considerable objec
ton to the plan, because many thin
] that the present water service is AIDE