The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-10

one placed on meter basis for aprin1z-
ing nled q petition signed by p tax
payers. c. e. F'oote presented the Pc
ton and spoke for the petitioners. Coun-
Gilman SWendson, chairman Of the wa
terworks committee announced q meet
ing of the committee for Friday even
ing and invited everyone interested 10
be present.
we will try to make a recommends
ton which wiz adjust something that is
wrong said Swendson.
Foote addressed the council: Some
thing We have got to have and that IS
water I want to say to you in all sin
cerity that you can't beautify Topeka
with the present rate of water to water
users. Upon the present system of me-
ter rates you have made it prohibittve
Tor sprinkling. I don't know that meter
rates for house use is any higher than
it was before. Put everybody on the
meter or else put everybody on the nat
rate
The petition follows:
Gentlemen: Whereas. There IS at
the present time a discrimination and
manifest unfairnesS in the water ser
vice in this city for the reason that
some citizens and taxpayers are COM
PEELED to pay for the water used ac-
cording to meter system measure
meut, while others are taxed for their
CONSUMPTION of water upon what is
known as the fiat rate system; and
Whereas, This discrimination and
| inequality among taxpayers, who should
enjoy equal rights without any espec-
] ial privileges, forms a just basis for
complaint and grievance on the part
Of those who are compelled to pay for
all the water they use; and
Whereas, We, the undersigned, be-
heve in a square deal and in the meas
ure of justice in our public, as well as
private affairs, we would therefore,
most respectfully petition your honor
able body to take such legal steps as
are necessary at once to place each and
every patron Of the public WaterWorlxS,
now owned and operated by this city,
upon the same basis and system of ser
vice; and believing that a meter SER
vice is the only just and equitable way
Of operating the plant, we would most
respectfully ask that each and every
citizen, desiring to use the water fur
nished and provided by the waterworks
of this city, be compelled to place a
meter upon this premises and made
subject to the same regulation and
charges as are those of US who have
already been forced to adopt this sys-
tem.'
The tangle up of dates between the
MldWinter exposition and the Kansas
Day club, which has been hanging in
the air without a settlement, had a
tryout last evening. The Kansas Day
club banquet comes on January 30
while the exposition dates ran from
January p to February ?, inclusive.
Both through a mistake were given
the use of the Auditorium. The pub
lie buildings committee granted the
building first to the Midwinter, and
then the council took a hand without
notifying the public buildings commit
tee and gave the Auditorium to- the
Kansas Day club. The latter won't
give the date up, and the Midwinter
people say that the dates they ask
for are the only ones which they can
use; no exposition If they don't get
1<r1f
council returned the matter back to
the interested committee.
The following sidewalk petitions
were granted last night. These will
be the last petitions to. be considered
for next year:
East side Of West street, Eleventh
street to King street.
Huntington street, Kansas avenue
70 western avenue.
West side Of Chandler street. Tenth
to Eleventh street
East side of Clay street, Williams
street to Thirteenth street
East side of Lincoln street. Twen-
tieth street to the Shunganunga
East side of Lincoln street, Tenth
street to King street.
North side of Seward avenue, Elm
street to the city limits
South side of Hampton street, Clay
street TO Lincoln street.
East side of West street, Thirteenth
street to Fifteenth street
North side of Thirteenth street,
Washington street to Chandler street
East side of Sixth avenue. Leland
street to walk now down
South side of Thirteenth street To-
peka avenue to Fillmore street.
To make it possible to have free
open air band concerts by the Mar
+ shall band a delegation from the Com
mercial club headed by L. NJ. Penwell
asked the council to grant some finan-
1 eial aid to the band; some of the
money to be expended towards a fund
for the erection of a band stand. The
council has the right under the city
charter act to extend aid and levy
/ tax for the benefit of Marshall's band.
/ The matter was referred to the WAYS
and means committee.
Repair work on the Sixth avenue
| viaduct will commence at once. In
i the meantime the street commissioner
/ has been authorized to close the via
1 duct to street car traffic and all other
heavy traffic. Pedestrians may still
cross. The estimated cost of the re-
pairs is about $4,000. Most of this ex-
pense will come in the repair of the
iron work, which has disintegrated.
Property owners ask the council to
reconsider its action on the limit of
paving and permit the alley bounded
/ by Topeka avenue, Tyler, Eighth ave-
nue. and Ninth street to come in this
| years paving. The paving was al
lowed in the first instance and then
! rejected when all the pavement petit
tfOns we're thrown out on account of
irregularities in the specification for
/ curbing- The petitioners failed to file
their petition early enough and the
limit had been placed before they got
it in.
The council has been asked to pass
an ordinance prohibiting one person or
/ corporation from maintaining more
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