The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-20
FOUR MILES MORE
Dry Districts Being Rapidly
Eliminated by City.
Municipal Ownership Already
AccOmplisles Wonders.
RECORDFOR NEW MAINS
More Put Down Than for
Twelve Years.
Effort to Keep Pace With City's
Growth.
NEW MAINS

Growth. ,
Municipal management of the water
works has resulted in more extensive |
extension of the mains over the city in |
one year than was accomplished under |
private ownership for a period Of II
years. The records in the office Of the |
waterworks department demonstrate |
this fact and Superintendent Jesse
Shaw of the department is authority |
for the further statement that the i'm
provements in main extensions in the |
whole II years previous amounted to
but $3,5 500, which was expended in ex- |
tending mains to Washburn college
Thtrty-five blocks of mains are al
ready down and six blocks more haze
been favorably recommended by the
I board of waterworks trustees. Sixteen |
4 thousand feet of mains are laid and o.
$50 Of additional feet will be put down |
before the winter season comes on. rms
will represent four miles and Will cover
almost completely the southwest por-
4 ton of the town that until the first OF
the year was without any fre protee- /
ton except such as could be furnished
| by chemical engines of the fire depart
ment.
How much longer the southwest por--
/ ton of the town would have remained
without main extensions under the old
management would be hard to conJec-
ture.
The further important work of con-
structing a 12-inch main from sixth
/ avenue to Seventh street on West street
and from West street on Seventh to
Western avenue, for the purpose OF re
lieving a choke that existed near Fifth
and West streets. has been accomplish
ed at cost of about $500.
All of this important rami1catlon OF
the city's water system has taken place
/ in the past nine months. Not so bao
for municipal ownership.
The crying need has always been an
| extension of the mains in the districts
which now have these betterments- the
east side is now the only portlon OF
the city which is badly In need OF main
extensions. Especially the portion Of
| Parkdale east Of the Santa Fe SHOPS
With this service provided for the city
will have all the extensions demanded
and necessary. The funds of the de-
partment can then be directed to bet
| terments at the pumping station and to
/ a reduction in the rates.
! At the present TO improvements are
necessary at the pumping station, the
/ trustees have built an extension to the
plant and provided for new boilers
The following is in detail the extern
sions Of the water mains made up TO
date by the department since 1t passed
| to the control Of the city. II inch mann
on west street 9r0m Sixth avenue to
Seventh street; II inch main IN Seventh
! street from West street to Western ave-
nue. where 1t connects with the IA inch
main; inch line on Clay street from
! Second street to Fourth street; inch
/ line on Lane street from Seventh street
/ to Tenth avenue; inch main on Lane
street from Thirteenth to Fourteenth
streets: 6 inch main on Lincoln street
! from Thirteenth to Fifteenth streets. |
/ inch main on Fifteenth street from Lin
coin to Buchanan streets. inch line on
/ Buchanan street from Fifteenth to Six |
| teeuth street; inch main on Sixteenth !
! street east to Central Park avenue; 6 |
inch main on Central Park avenue from /
| Sixteenth to Seventeenth streets; inch |
line on Tyler street from First to Second |
streets: s inch line on Second street |
from Topeka avenue to Polk street; /
inch main on Taylor street from Second /
to Fifth streets; 4 inch main on Jeffer-
son street from Ninth to Eleventh |
streets: inch main on Lincoln street |
from Eighth to Tenth avenues; 4 inch /
main on Fifteenth street from Lincoln /
TO Lane streets; u inch main on West
ern avenue from Eleventh to Twelfth /
streets; Garfield street from Sixth to |
Eighth avenues.
Petitions for the following extensions |
have been favorably acted upon and |
construction is now under way: Jack |
son street from Thirteenth to Fifteenth |
street 4 inch main; Tyler street Thir- |
tenth to Fourteenth streets, 4 inch /
main: Lincoln street from Seventeenth |
/ to Twentieth streets, s inch main; JEFF |
1 ferson street between Seventh street |
j
/ Fourteen fire .hytirants have or will be
placed in the areas now covered with !
new extensions of mains.
/ Pending petitions for extensions, which |
1 viii be recommended provided they !
show the proper number Of prospective |
/ customers on the petitions, are: Tenth |
avenue from Lane to Morris avenue; |
Mulvane street from Fifteenth to Hun |
toon streets; Lane street from Seven
teenth to Twentieth streets; Tyler street |
from Fourteenth to Seventeenth streets: |
Polk street from Fourteenth to Seven !
tenth streets: Lane street between |
Tenth avenue and Eleventh street, West |
street from Seventeenth to Twentieth I
/ streets.
These Improvements. speaking of the |
extensions and laying Of mains only |
amount close to $22. 900. All of this in
/ debtedness has been met as soon as II |
was obligated. In addition the ten |
steamer MIGRANTS on Kansas avenue
are costing the city about $1,000 and a
steamer nydrsnt at Linden and The |
Drive which will be nut in soon Will |
cost an addition $3.50 For new steamer !
/ hydrants and mains the department will