The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-26
deal is CLOSED.
Santa Fe Buys the Webb Prop
erty at Last.
No Part of Money Subscribed to
Be Used.
is SENDING 1T BACK.
Checks Are Nailed to the Donors
Today.
Mr.. Storey Expresses His Graft
tude to Citizens.

Any doubt, which may have existed in
the minds of a few, about the erection
in this city of the new car repair shops
which have been planned by the Atehi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe system because
there with a hitch in the deal between
the company and ". ". Webb over the
purchase price of nine acres of land
needed for these shops. and which re-
suited in the Commercial club getting
busy and raising by subscription among
the business men of the city of S2,250,
the difference between Mr.. Webb and
the Santa F'e, has been dissipated.
w. B. Storey. Jr.. chief engineer of
the Santa Fe, who has charge of the
purchase Of the lands needed for the
shops, and Mr. Webb have come to an
agreement over the purchase of the nee
essary property without any outside as
sistance, and it is probable that work
on the new shops, which will mean
much to Topeka because of the several
hundred additional workmen who will
be employed in them, will begin as soon
as the contracts are awarded for the
plans for these shops have already been
drawn and approved by the executives
of the road.
That the deal for this land had
been concluded was made known gen
orally today when 1dr. Holiday, presi-
dent of the Commercial club received
the following letter from Mr- Storey:
July 25, 1906.
c. K. Holiday. President Commercial
Club.
Dear Sir:-This will acknowledge re
ceipt of your letter of the 23d inst, and
I take pleasure in saying that Mr..
Webb and I have effected trade in
regard to this land. This trade has been
made with the understanding that no
part of the money which was subscrib-
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the purchase of this land, should be
used to that end.
I wish. however. to express extreme
gratitude to you and through you, to
the Commercial club, for your efforts in
this direction. With k1ndest regards, I
remain your very respectfully,
w. B. STOREY, JR.
on the receipt of this letter steps We're
at once taken by the officers of the
/ Commercial club to return the money
which the business men of the city sub
scribed to the fund which was to make
up the difference in price between the
Santa Fe and Mr.. Webb over the pur-
chase of this property, when there was
a sort of a standStill in the deal and
when the idea became prevalent that if
this deal was not closed these new car
repair shops would be located at some
other point on the Santa F'e system
All of the money, which was so
promptly and generously subscribed,
had been paid in to the Commercial club
and Major Anderson, its secretary, made
out checks today to the subscribers. re-
turning the amount of their subscrip-
tions to them With the checks were
mailed slips reading as follows:
Topeka, July 26, 1906
Dear Sir: Enclosed please find check
for the amount of your subscription to
the fund to retain the Santa Fe repair
shops in Topeka.
We thank you for your promptness in
responding TO the emergency call and
congratulate you that the use of the
fund is not necessary to secure the new
repair shops for Topeka.
c. K HOLIDAY, President
T. ]. ANDERSON. Secretary.