The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-31
PAVE The OTHERS
The Side Streets Are Being
Neglected.
No Provision Yet Made for Paw.
ing Them.
LOOK THEM OVER NOW
Council Should Decide What Is
Needed.
Circus Wagons Damage the
Streets as Usual.
LOOK THEM OVER NOW

Now that the property owners and
city council have the repaving of Kan
sas avenue in fair way to be realized,
the asphalt pavements in other por-
tons of the city should be given the
same care and attention.
Quincy street, Eighth avenue, both
west and east. Tenth avenue. East Sec
ond street between Kansas avenue and
Quincy. West Tenth, East Ninth, Jack
son, North Jackson and North Quincy
streets are badly in need of repair.
The paving question is by no means
settled with the repaving of Kansas
avenue. The city council cannot afford
to sit idly by and await for the senti-
ment to gather with the property own
ers. The council should make an ex-
animation of the asphalt pavements of
the city, mark those which need re-
paving entirely and set aside the others
where repair work is sufficient. With
this examination made and reported
on, the same work of agitation which
originated with the city council and
which finally won its way into the
hearts of the property owners should
be started.
The council has big handicap
overcome. The misunderstanding
which existed between the property
owners and the city council over the
The property owners have discovered
that the repaving must be paid by
them just the same as an original
pavement They have gone into the
matter from a legal standpoint and
they have fully satisfied themselves
that the cost of repaving cannot be
charged to the city at large.
The council starts out with this re-
lation with the property owners estab-
lished. The mayor should offer the
endorsement and cooperation of the
municipal government to the property
owners for the repaving of the streets
mentioned.
A petition for the repaving of West
Tenth from Jackson to Harrison
street has already been signed. It has
been held up pending some action
from the state in the hopes that the
state Will make an appropriation which
will cover its share of the expense OF
repaying. The appropriation viii
come up at the next term of the legisla-
ture. next winter A similar petition
should be signed for the repaving of
West Eighth between Jackson and
Harrison streets so that 1t may come
up at the same time that the appro-
priation for the West Tenth avenue
pavement is considered.
The repaving and repairs on the 9TH
err streets mentioned however need not
to be held up as in the above instances
The abutting property is all private
property and it simply awaits the cir,
culatiOn of a petition and its presenta~
ton to the council properly signed.
The time to secure Jackson street
repaved with asphalt, East Second
street repaved. is right now. It is prob
able that the contract for repavine
with asphalt can be let this summer
at a lower figure than can be dupI-
Gated for several years to come The
care which is being exercised by the
city in getting only the best grades
of asphalt for Kansas avenue and the
best kind of results in the laying of
the pavement can be extended
TO the repairing of these other
streets. With the plant and ma
terials here the company which Sc