The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-03


them with means of escape from the
roof and the freezing cold. Their
coats, containing letters proving their
Identity, were taken to the police sta
ton among the gambling parapher-
MALTA and the next day three shame
faced men called at the station and Sc
cured them and paid their fines for
being found in though their names
never appeared the daily papers.
Restaurant Men Complain.
However. it is not the past of these
places for most OF them are yet Jolilts'
but the present which is causing the
outburst of righteous indignation on
the part of the owners of eating places
1 c. J.. Scott, who has owned and man
aged the Cremerie restaurant on the
/ east side of Kansas avenue between
/ Seventh street and Eighth avnue said
Il have been in my present business
1 in the city of Topeka for many
! years and have paid my regular occu-
patton tax as well as other taxes to the
1 city and have tried to conduct res
taurant which would be not only a
| credit to- myself but to the city as We'll.
! I do not permit a drop of liquor of any
kind to be sold or drank in the res
taurant and time after time l have
refused to rent the basement under
the building which I occupy. Tor
joint. though have ebeen oHefeo a.
high as 1925 per month for IT., and i
stands empty today as il has ever since
[ have been in the building.
s'I do not think that it is right that
these places should be permitted 70
serve lunches as they are doing and
take away trade which belongs to the
: legitimate cafes and lunch rooms
about the city. Every man VINO eats
a meal in one of these places ana LneIe
are four or five of tn EN- between Fifth
street and Seventh street on the easl
side of Kansas avenue. to say nothing
of dozens of others scattered over the
city. spends just that much money II
a joint. that should go to some leglu'
mate restaurant or hotel.
Il haxe always been claSSed among
the liberals in the city. but these mef
who own and operate joints do moi
seem satisfied to conduct their unlaW-
full callings, but want to rob us OF the
trade which should come to US.
y r Eells who conducts res
taurant and hotel at 526 and 52S Kan
sas avenue, is another who IS protest,
ing loud and long about the loss q
patronage for the reason that th'
Joints in his section of the city are IN
stalling lunch facilities.
2 He said: L do not know how many
2 Joints there are in this immediate viciE
I itv where lunches are being served bl
S 1nere are plenty of them and they arr
= cutting into my trade. They pay NJ
g license to the city either for conducting
The Joint or the lunch room though
am compelled to pay an extra tax 10
: | the privilege of CONDUCTING Iunci
: | room and hotel
{ | nothing else are fitted out with a fev
: pieces of furniture and facilities 70
serving lunch and claim that they ar
o compelled tc do it to hold their trad
p from going to some other place wi1er
T thew can get something to drink Wit
= their meals.
4 Beer and whisky have been sol
Y openly and above board on all sides Q
n me and I have considered that 1t J
= none of my business but when they az
3 the lunch feature to their joints thin
r that it is time that something is don
about the matter and that at once
e The complaints made by Mr. Scott an
e Mr.. EeIIs are the same that are hear
it from nearly every restaurant and lune
n counter man in the city and It can nc
W be denied that they are just.