The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-04

council before but when they heard OF
the expense of such a pet article and
the apparent uselessness of it they
baked. However, Chief Eaton has been
making a speciality of the scorchers of
the city lately and the council has re-
allied the necessity of good chaser.
Mayor Green and Councilman Howard
have been strongly in favor of the mat
ter ever since it was brought before
the council and their influence prevail
ed. The motor patrol wagon has been
snatched from the very teeth of the
police force but they are to have the
next best-a pepper auto chaser.
The ways and means committee COM
posed of G. W. Horn. ]. w. F. Hughes,
c. H. KutZ, H. B. Howard, H. P. Miller
and w. NJ. Van Ness met last night in
the committee room in the city hall
cleaning up their calendar which Will be
presented at the council meeting Mon
day night. The committee had a lot OF
business to report and they worked I'M
til late hour. The ways and means
committee is the most important COM
mittee in the city council and their
business is in some ways, miniature
council meeting.
A representative from a chicago
advertising firm has been copying the
birth reports at the health depart
ment in the city hall and Will cause
an avalanche of advertising matter 10
settle upon the city in a few weeks.
These Chicago firms get out baby
books" which are supposed. to be of
interest to the owners of such beings.
The city has been enjoying an ex-
tremely healthy condition of affairs
the last three days. Not a new case
of contagious disease has been re
ported to the sanitary sergeant. On
the other hand there has been moth
ing doing in births.
Another pavement petition has been
ffr~r
sentation at the council meeting Mon
day night. Whether the promoters
are superstitious or not. the petition
contained % signatures. The pro-
posed pavement will be along Polk
street from Fourteenth street. south
side, to Huntington avenue, north
side. 1t is to be of brick and 80 feet
wide with a sand foundation. If the
petition passes through all of the red
tape committees on the city council
and lands at last the work will COM
mence in the spring
office of City Clerk Burge this morn
ing and said that he could live for ten
years in Chicago for the same price
that he lived in Topeka for one year.
No COW tax in the Windy City and he
could get the best meal in the city for
Is cents. He threatened to take his
COW and move right back to the city
from whence he came and contrary to
thought the plan a good one.
Two houses were fumigated for
smallpox and two for tuberculosis to-
The homes of Mrs. William ShepIer,
1903 Polk street, and E. Atchison, BIT
East Seventeenth street were
fumigated for tuberculosis and the
homes of ]. z. Irwin, 707 Jefferson
street and NJ. Moore, 700 East Seventh
street for smallpox.
A petition was sent to the council
today from R. H. Harris, 90 East
Eighth street for permission to drain
his cellar in the Eighth street drain.
Such momentous question will re-
ceive the due consideration at the
meeting Monday night.
At the meeting of the w. and M.
committee last night it was recon-
mended to the council that bonds be
light plant for the city of Topeka. in
case the bonds would bear interest at
a rate not exceeding 4 " per cent
This is y per cent lower than
other bonds receiving "fotation" and
1t was through the efforts of Mayor
Green that the bankers of the city
granted this extra half per cent to the
city If the bonds can be carried at
the next council meeting it will mean
one more step toward the electric
light proposition which was such a
disturber a long, long time ago. Mean
while the city is burning electricity
and paying for it-just like they have
always done.
The ways and means committee
took one favorable step toward the
building of a new fire station east of
the Santa Fe shops last night when
they killed the ordinance revision pro-
position and decided that the neces-
sary $1,5O0 for that purpose should be
laid aside in favor of q new fire sta
ton This new station will be a real
lty before the summer months arrive
1t is needed badly in this district It
Will accommodate one chemical en-
CINE, one team and three firemen.
The remaining of streets in the CITY
caused another f1utter in city affairs
last night when the Councilman STAN
ley map matter was laid under the
table until the street question had been
settled. Mr.. Stanley has suggested a
new city map, which is needed badly.
Probably the most important matter
to be brought up before the council
ors Monday night will be the Roose-
welt street opening which has been be-
fore the city for a considerable length
of time. The report of the appraisers
OF the district will be made and it will
undoubtedly attract a number of resi-
dents from the section in question
Roosevelt street will be in Auburn
dale constituting a direct connection
from Duane street to Sixth avenue.