The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-19

term Of nve years. The street engineer
is required to notify the tenants lessees
or owners of the property fronting
along the street about to be paved that
All plumbing connections must be made
| before the pavement is laid. The
i same rule applies 10 alleys. The only
leaks.
Councilman Simmer, who has the
| reputation of keeping the street com
missioner busy most of the time down
in his end of the Fifth ward and who
probably gets more out of the council
in the way of fixing up the streets and
| walks for his constituents was given
| a little rough handling by his brother
| cOunciimen last night
Mr. Sinner wanted some sidewalks
raised, one on Eighteenth and Harrison
| streets and the other on Eighteenth
| street from Kansas avenue to Van
Buren,. he council refused to listen to
/ him. If you commence there you might
as well raise sidewalks all over town.
| There are some that need raising all
/ over the city," said Councilman Nfpps.
Sinner was trying to hunt for his rab-
| bits foot 1t didn't do any good. The
council refused to raise the sidewalks.
/ Then they went one step further. They
decided TO withhold $3.50 on the payment
VI TIE cIldHSS OF Cndnnei OF the ShunEd-
nunga between Van Buren, and Kansas
avenue until a dam is built shutting off
/ the old channel from the new. Sinner
| claimed that the dam wasn't necessary
James McCabe, city engineer, took issue
with him and filed a written protest
4 leaving out the dam. The council back
| ed McCabe up and ordered the money
withheld until the work would be done
satisfactory to the city engineer.
Children under sixteen years of age
are to be barred from running automo-
biles in the city of Topeka if Council
man Hughes ordinance to this effect
passes. Hughes does not believe in the
/ Osler theory. The council treated it as
a joke and had it referred to the health
and sanitation committee.
An amendment to the depository or
I dinance making it possible If a city de-
pository SO desires to file with the city
| $4,000 Of city bonds in lieu of a surety
bond of $4,000 to cover city moneys on
deposit was passed
An ordinance fixing the west curb line
! of the pavement on Western avenue
! from the south curb line of Twelfth
street to the north curb line of Huntoon
street twenty-five feet east of east line
of sidewalk along the west side of said
avenue, was adopted.
An ordinance establishing the width
of the permanent roadway Of Arch
street from Tenth avenue to King street,
was passed.
The city attorney was instructed to
prepare a frecracker ordinance. The or
/ dinance is to be introduced at the next
council meeting and will take effect fol-
lowing the next Fourth of July It will
4 bar ali cannon frecrackers and dyna-
mite caps from use on the public streets
and walks.
A resolution to recurb Kansas avenue
from Eighth street to Ninth street was
passed.
A resolution instructing the street
commissioner to raise the sidewalk on
East Eighth avenue between Chandler
and Branner streets went to the streets
and walks committee.
The Wolff Packing company was
granted permission to erect a board
fence at the foot of Monroe street.
Fire Marshal Wilmarth requests the
council to purchase 1900 feet of 21z inch
21s inch hose and of the above 900 feet
can not stand high pressure because it has
had from nine to ten years service. The
request has been turned over to the fire
department committee
The ordinance providing for a change
in the line of the pavement abutting on
Holiday park on Western avenue be-
tween Huntoon and Twelfth streets was
placed on file upon the recommendation
of the streets and walks committee.
The request of Crawford and Kane that
the license on the Airdome theater be re-
mitted on account of the fact that a IL
cense is paid for both the Crawford and
Grand theaters, was referred to the COM
mittee on license
A resolution calling for the refusal to
issue any more excavation permits until
1 present excavations are properly filed.
/ was filed on the basis that this is already
/ covered by city ordinances.
The request for water trough at
Fourth and Taylor streets has been placed
on file
petition for a beneht district for
widening the alley. at the south end OF
/ Lincoln street and between Byron and
Euclid avenues was granted and the city
eengineer is instructed to prepare plats-
A petition to place the alley bounded by
Fifth avenue, Fillmore, Eleventh ana Clay
streets, on grade, was placed on file.
City Attorney Dreaming advised the
4 council that it has no right to appropri-
1 ate $3.50 to pay out the benefit district
created for the opening of Morse street
between Kansas avenue and Central ave-
the city attorney.
A resolution instructing the city engi-
neer and street commissioner to reduce
to grade went to the streets and walks
committee.
A request for the location of catch
! faa Gil at no hrypg nj e