The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-12
MEANS A FIGHT.
Anti Hitching Ordinance Will
Have Hard Time.
Councilman Green Says That
We're Too Small.
LOOKS LIKE BUSINESS.
Street Filled With Vehicles
Helps Looks Of City.
Trouble Over Paving Questions
Not Yet Adjusted.

With few changes the streets and
walks committee recommended the
passage OF the anti-hltching ordinance
for Kansas avenue The hitching posts
are not to come up and the time allow
ed to remain in one place fer teams
aRd vehicles was heightened from Is
minutes to 30 minutes.
The hauling of night soil. garbage,
or dead animals is also prohibited on
Kansas avenue from Crane street 10
Tenth avenue and wagons with this
kind of load can only haul on Kansas
avenue at street intersections in cross
ing from one side of the city to the
other.
The ordinance. however. viii not be
adopted in the council without a hard
fight Councilman William Green is
strongly opposed to its passage. 1T
will make Kansas avenue look like
boulevard. [ am against it. want TO
see vehicles on Kansas avenue, 1t looks
then as if it were q business street. We
are not Chicago nor are we a large city
where it is imperative to keep them off
from keeping the streets from getting
eongested.
The mayor after a conference with F.
G. Dreaming, city attorney, has instruct
ed him to write to Detroit to Mr.. Proc
| tor, the paving expert, who drew up
the paving specifications as to the rela-
tive values of oak headers and sand
stone. The final decision which Will 90
in is being withheld now under an
agreement with the property owners
|
from Proctor. The question of paving
a portion of the intersections of Second
and Kansas avenue and Fifth and Kan
sas avenue where cobble stone paving
now exists viii be deferred also. The
same treatment was accorded to the
resolution introduced by Councilman
! Hughes calling up the Street Railway
company to repave with asphalt be-
| fewen its tracks on Kansas avenue
| from Crane street to Tenth.
Though the action of the streets and
| walks committee in favor of Strengthening
/ the Western avenue pavement and taking
| out the disputed curve will relieve the
/ city from the injunction which is pending
! another will be precipitated r. L. Sare
! who has held out for the curve in the
| pavement in order to save trees in his
| parking, threatens Injunction proceedings
! If the pavement is changed from the way
| 1t IS now laid.
As a matter of fact the council can
4 place the pavement any place it wants to,
/ and no restraining order could be made
| permanent binding the council. The coun-
ell IS vested with practically supreme au-
/ thorfty as to the placing or location OF
! the pavement The people can dictate
what the material of the paving should
consist of. but that is as far as their
a second request was made by the Par
1 ker-W ashington Paving company for an
| extension in the time limit but the re-
/ quest was held.1up until final settle-
mept is made with the company.
The ordinance providing that all oil and
gasoline wagons should be equipped with
| drip pans in order that drippfngs may not
! get on the asphalt paYements and tend to
rot them, was recommend for passage
age.
Councilman Jordan is fighting his bat
ties all over again and has again won
| his first engagement. For two months
| Jordan has been trying to get the side
1 walk in front of the RolHn Nichols prop
! erty in North Topeka lowered. The streets
and walks committee recommended the
! lowering OF the sidewalk after a fight
! against it on the part OF Nichols. It
came UP in the city council. but failed
| to carry. and finally was recommitted to
i. the streets and walks committee, which
! last night, for the second time, recon-
mended that it be lowered.