The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-19
LEAGUE TO PAY IT.
City FOrester's Salary Will Be
Provided For.
Municipality Need Not Assume
the Burden.
NO TEN CENT GAS NOW.
Councilman Holiday Begs Coun-
Gil to Wait.
His Advice Is Accordingly Ac-
no TEN CENT GAS NOW.
His Advice Is Accordingly Ac-
cepted BY Fellow Members.

The Civic Improvement league will
provide for the salary of city forester
and stand responsible for the expense
incurred in the creation of the Office.
The city finances are at too low an ebb
I to assume the burden of paying the
4 salary necessary to procure q good
man.
Realizing the difficulty confronting the
council, Dean Kaye announced to the
I members of the council last night that
the Civic Improvement society would
stand responsible for paying the salary
of a city forester; that no expense
would be incumbent upon the city. The
ordinance creating the Office is now in
the hands Of the ways and means com
mittee.
I can assure you that the ordinance
/ Will be acted on faVOrably upon the
conditions which you mention. You
/ can rest assured OF that said Mayor
/ Davis to Dean Kaye
The duties of a city forester Will be to
! supervise the planting of trees in the
parks and parkings of the city not I'M
/ der the control of the board of park
commissioners. To remove cottonwood
trees shedding cotton, to remove all
trees not properly planted. To con-
duct the spraying of shade trees in the
city when spraying is necessary and to
generally supervise all improvements in
parking grounds
It seems that the promoters of side
/ walk petitions have not received enough
of a setback IN their attempts to foist
sidewalks on unwilling property own
ers- A remonstrance was filed last
night against petition for a sidewalk
/ on the south side of Douthitt avenue,
! between Topeka avenue and Western
avenue by property owners along that
/ street. The petition has been pre-
4 scented to you without consulting the
/ property owners of that street. says
/ TEST against the said sidewalk at this
time as there are only three residences
on either side of said street between To-
/ pka avenue and Western avenue and
less than that from Kansas avenue to
/ Topeka avenue. = The renonstrance is
i signed by NJ. NJ. Blinn and three other
property owners. The communication
was turned over. to the streets and
walks committee before whom the petit
ton in question is pending.
+ The petition for sidewalk on the
j east side of Buchanan street from
Fourteenth to Fifteenth streets. was
i The following sidewalk petitions were
Il referred to the streets and walks COM
i mittee: sW
4 East side Of 4.aRss street from Tenth
4 street to King street.
4 East side of Lane street from King
+ street to HuntoOn street
Morse street to Grand street along
east side of Topeka avenue.
Both sides of Pine street from Tenth
and Eleventh streets.
Both sides of Grand avenue from
i Tenth to Eleventh streets.
The ten cen gas ordinance was noS
brought up last night. Eugene Hagan,
representing those who are asking for
/ the reduction, and Councilman c. K.
Holiday of the gas company both join
ed in a petition to the council asking
1 for a further delay in taking up the
/ passage of the ordinance. The petition
| was drawn up based on the hopes of
! reaching compromise Mr. Holiday
4 has set the wires to working with the
4 expectation that he will be able to an
4 nounce the ten cent rate. Should his
i attempts prove unavailing the ordi-
j nance will be introduced at the next
/ council meeting.
The little little town of Ottawa, one
fifth the size Of Topeka, has a better
4 rate than Topeka. The city clerk of
Ottawa returned a letter to the coun-
| ell last evening which states that the
maximum rates per 1000 cubic feet is
rs cents. Then in addition there is a
sliding schedule as follows. based on
monthly consumption: 100,OOO-150-
600, 20 cents; 150,000-200,00O, IS
cents; 200. 000-500, 900, 10 cents; over
500, 900. II cents. Efforts are being
made to secure even further conces-
sions. Topeka stands alone as a high
rate town. In connection with this II
might be well to remember the prom
Use made by Mr.. Holiday to the coun-
ell at the time the Consumers Ordi-
nance was pending that Topeka would
be the favored child and that it would
enjoy rates lower than that Of any
other town IN this district.
Under an emergency rule the coun-
Gil passed an ordinance amending the
present excavation ordinance=provid-
Ing that brick pavement can not be dis
| turbed by excavations for new plumb
ing for a period of one year following
the laying of a pavement and in the
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