The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-16
FOR The new PARK
3leins Tract IN East Side Offered
City $1,000 IN Acre.
Total Amount Asked Ii Forty
-..-.-..T Two Thousand.
FOR A BALL GROUND.
An Open Field for Athletics Ia
Included.
Santa Fe Refuses to Sell Land
Near Depot.
FOR A BALL GROUND.

TWenty-eight acres at $4,000. or
*1,eoo an acre. IL the price set today
BY representatives OF ---s. SCHUYLER
Nichols of the Klein tract which the
CITY b contemplating as purchase for
q park on the East side. Nine acres
has been the extent mentioned pre-
wousiy but this morning the streets
and walks committee of the council. ON
Trip OF inspection over the city,
found that the entire tract contained
approximately 20 acres, and the offer
OF the entire acreage was made to the
city by a representative of the owner
who accompanied the committee.
me tract consists Of about equal
iand. It joins on the south to the
santa Fe right Of way, and lies direct,
~ south OF the new shops and extends
70 the south as far as Fourth street.
me boundary On the west is Locust
and on the east Division street. It is
the old Scheutzen park. famous in To-
peka before prohibition days. asa beer
garden The old Klein homestead. a
log cabin, still stands though, rapidly
falling into decay. -
A petition is on file with the CITY
council requesting that a benefit dis
trtct be created in the Second ward
for the purchase Of the Klein tract.
and Chris Roof, who 10 an active menu
OOA "a tA0 I41Sl E91u0. Improvement as
ISOLATION. urged the members of the
streets and walks committee to ac-
cept the offer for the Klein land. The
open field would be a splendid place
for athletics. baseball field. and those
things and the young men Of the East
side are earnestly in favor of having
the city make a benefit district to buy
this land" said Roof.
The Santa Fe railroad refuses to sell
to the city the fourteen acres bounded
tDxvT Nnrk l. ~
nue.. Santa Fe depot tracks ana Chan
der street. J. e. Hurley, general
manager Of the Santa Te, has informed
Councilman c. c.. Blakeiy that the
railroad would not entertain an offer
for the purchasa OF the land as a
public park site. -
The petition for benefit district in
the Second ward included this : IA
acres but this will have to be elimina-
ted. The land was once condemned
domination proceedings could not be
instituted by the city In order to ac-
require possession.
The purchase Of the Klein tract and
triangular piece Of land on East
Eighth avenue between Lawrence and
Chandler streets is now under consid-
eratfon bxethe council and will come
up Monday evening. A number OF the
councilmen seemed to think that the
burden Of the special taxation Nigh,
prove too heavy for the Second ward
people.
Two hundred and .thirty-fve acres
approximately, will be taken into the
city II the recommendation to be made
by the streets and walks committee
Of the council this evening will be act
ed on favorably by the council.
The tracts are some Of them unplat-
ted, and others still have just beer
plated. They include: The Jones tract
which Is east Of Elliott Place addi-
ton and running from the Santa Fe
| tracks on the south to Seward avenue
| to the north: the Dudley tract which
| lies between East Tenth avenue and
| Euclid avenue and directly north o.
the baseball park, the baseball parl
will be left out Of the city. a tract
| lying between West Tenth and Yves,
| Sixth avenues and between Washburr
| avenue and Melrose addition and ex-
| tending north to Evans street, Nets.
ker tract, and land belonging to Wash
| burn college which extends from Hun
| toon street to Euclid avenue and from
| College avenue to Washburn avenue
| A petition to take in land lying be
| tween Kansas avenue and Topeka ave
| nue. and from Twenty-f1rst to Twenty
| fourth street will probably be acted OF
unfavorab1v