The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-09
KICKED IT OVER.
Council Wants More Sidewalks
Than Ordered.
Accordingly Committee Has to
Make Supplemental Report.
WILL CUT THE WEEDS
City Prisoners Ordered to Weld
the Scythe.
Last Chapter in Smith Street
Opening Is Written.
WILL CUT THE WEEDS

The council kicked over the bars
which the streets and walks committee
/ mad carefully erected to keep out GER
| tain sidewalk petitions and forced the
| committee to have another session in
the midst of the evenings meeting and
PASS favoraoly upon petitions which had
previously rejected.
It was rubbing salt into the wounds.
councilman E. Montgomery. who is
chairman of the ways and means COM
mlttee, protested loudly and long
| against allowing an increase in the
numD Der OF petitions but he was count
| ed out too.
Montgomery claimed that the city's
| finances did not permit it to indulge in
| so much sidewalk construction.
As the grading is done by the street
commissioner and this cost is borne by
the city at large, with about rs blocks
of sidewalk already recommended there
was some point to Mr.. Montgomery s
remarks.
walk on Tyler street, between Fifteenth
and Sixteenth streets where there was
one house in the entire block, though
the promise was held out that others
would be erected.
This petition was turned down origi-
nally by the streets and walks commit
tee but was finally granted last even
Ing along with two other petitions
ence and which called for sidewalks on
the north side of Euclid avenue from
{ Topeka to Kansas avenues and on the
west side of Liberty street between
Sixth and Eighth avenues.
Other petitions faVorably considered
We're:
West side of College: avenue, Fiji
teenth street to Sixteenth street.
North side of Euclid avenue, College
avenue to Boswell avenue.
South side of Eleventh street, Wash
; burn avenue to Woodward avenue.
East side of Tyler street, Sixteenth
street to Seventeenth street.
West side of Liberty street from
Fourth to Fifth street.
North side of Fifth street, Liberty to
Lafayette street.
Crossings on the north side of Fifth
street at intersections of Liberty, Lee
land and Lafayette streets.
Both sides of Grafton street, Seward
avenue to Division street.
East side of Larch street, Seward av-
enue to Gordons addition.
South side of Seward avenue, Bran
ner street to city limits.
East side of German avenue, Seward
avenue to Crane street.
West side of Mulvane street, Fiji
teenth street to Sixteenth street. r
South side of Douthitt avenue, Kan
sas avenue to Western avenue
East side of Quincy street, Seven
teenth street to the present walk be-
tween Fifteenth and Seventeenth
street.
East side of Kansas avenue. Twenty
third street to city limits.
South side of West Fifth street, Clay
to Buchanan street, also from Lincoln
to Lane street
North side of West Fifth street. Lane
street east to alley, and south side of
West Fifth street from Fillmore street
to east line of alley between Fillmore
and Clay streets.
South side of Fifth street, Lane street
to West street
West side of Liberty street, Sixth to
Eighth street.
The report of the appraisers for the
opening of Smith street between Sew
enth and Eighth streets was approved
last evening. This is the last of a It'll
cation which has extended over period
of two years on the widening of a street
for an additional 80 feet. Two different
reports of appraisers have been submit
ted and court proceedings held to set
aside the first appraisement- The total
cost now to the property owners will be
1921 SIS while the original appraisement
was 1895. A special session of the coun-
Gil will be held next Monday at 7:30 to
listen to remonstrances to the report ap-
proved last evening.
The prisoners at the city Jail instead
of employing all of their time breaking
rock will be taken out by the sanitary
policemen and set to work over the city
cutting weeds. A resolution covering
this was introduced last evening and
adopted The new method will make it
somewhat simpler for Pie" Jordan to
escape
The city clerk was instructed to adj
vertise for bids for the construction of
quarters for the swaterworks department
to cost on the engineers estimate
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