The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-04
THEY'LL SEE ABOUT 1T.
Profiles for Fourth Ward Sewer VIII
Be Inspected.

The city council does not want to run
up against the boat load of trouble which
Fifth ward sewer in the contract for the
extension of the Fourth ward sewer and
TINS evening will make an examination of
the profiles and specifications prior to
signing the contract with NJ. w. Gilmore.
excned Inc extensi9n Is on is a small contract-not
added to the present sewer in the fourth
precinct of the Fourth ward. running
north of Fourth street to First street and
draining the portion of the city from
Fillmore street to Taylor.
The award of the contract was made to
NJ W. Gilmore previous to the investiga-
ton which was precipitated in connec-
The contract papers have never been
signed up because the mayor did not want
to sign the papers until the money was
ready to be set aside for this purpose in
the city treasury.
Tho money is now available and the
contract is ready to be signed this even
ing. However. Gilmore has stated that
the specifications provide that the sewer
should be deeper than the conditions call
for actually-anad names specifically that
the outlet of the sewer extension is below
the level of the sewer into which it is to
run
The mayor stated this morning that the
council would have to examine the pro-
tions before he would sign the contract
Weather conditions are such that the
for some little time anyway, and the ex-
ANIMATION had better be of the careful
kind and not cursory Better to examine
now than to go ahead hastily and AFTER
wards be forced to back uD
The special committee of the council
which was appointed to investigate the
charges of graft and extortion in the Of
flee of the city engineer will hold a meet
ing either Wednesday or Thursday of
this week. F. f. Nipps of the committee
has the correspondence which has been
carried on with a number of civil engi-
neers, one of whom will be engaged to
inspect the Fifth ward sewer and report
as to the charges of misconstruction. This
correspondence will be turned over to the
committee and the appointment made
upon conference.
Replies from ten civil engineers have
been received. most of them from the CEN
trail portion of the west.
The committee has been a work for
about week in communication with civil
engineers and it has taken some time to
get replies from every one addressed.
No report will be made to the council
this evening unless some members of the
council should call for same.
Aside from this the most imoortant
piece of business to come before the coun-
ell this evening will be the East Sixth
viaduct matter. Since the contract was
altered from the original as presented to
the council by the Missouri Pacific, Santa
Fe and street railway companies by the
council the three companies have indi-
Gated that they will withdraw their sup
port unless the city agrees to maintain
the viaduct perpetually.
The council is divided on this PROPOSE
tering the contract ordinance back to its
original form, while others think that the
city can not afford to agree to perpetual
maintenance, and that the city better go
ahead and build the viaduct entirely at
its own expense