The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-15

admitted that the city lawmakers can
rival the wittiest of the wits when it
comes to a real showdown. For in
stance. General Hughes arose just after
the gas resolution had been passed and
in a cool businesslike voice offered a
resolution that the clock just behind
the mayors desk be presented 20 the
state historical society and a new one
be installed. The old clock sat up
against the wall the whole evening
without ticking a tick. The motion by
| the general was laughed off and lost.
The city clerk. c. B. Burge. desired a
| two weeks vacation and with many
thanks for it Gin advance) he sent in
| his petition. The council granted it
without a struggle.
The fire marshal asked the council
| if he could buy new horse for station
No. 2. The council thought it over a
minute and gave him the right.
A petition with 80 signers was pre-
scented to the council, asking that fire
alarm box be placed at the Horn plan
ing mill on Van Buren, street. 1t was
pointed out that a Waterman is always
at this point and the key could be left
with him and a the mill in the daytime.
The ways and means committee will
| consider the petition.
Mayor Green asked the council what
they thought about having c. B. Ham
| ilton as the new inspector of weights
and measures, which is a newly created
office. The council thought the mayor
was very wise in making the appoint
ment, and Mr.. Hamilton was given the
office.
Councilman BlakeIy announced that
there would be a meeting of the sewer
committee on Thursday evening in or
der to talk over the changes in the
sewer in the Martin & Dennis addition.
A resolution was produced by Coun-
Gilman Stanley in reference to a culvert
at the intersection of Pine and West
Tenth streets. The resolution was to
call upon the city engineer to make
plans and specifications. The matter
was referred to the street and walks
committee.
Councilman Howard lighted Council
man Hughes pipe again when he offer
ed a resolution calling upon the city
engineer to make plans and specifica-
tiOnS for remodeling the womens ward
in the city Jail so that Mrs. Thorpe
might have room to stay at the city
Jail. nights. General Hughes took this
signal, rose in his chair and with fierce
gestures made a brilliant speech con-
corning the erection of a new city Jail.
He said the jail was in the worse posi-
BILE condition and the city should have
new structure at once. He would
have gone on and suggested the plans
from the cellar to the topmoSt single
but the council decided that a new Jail
was not needed until tomorrow, any
way. Towards resolution carried.
Councilman Howard also introduced
an ordinance to regulate the hawking
and barking on the streets. Council
man Hughes wanted to know if this re-
ferred to dogs. Mr.. Howard said that
it was to suppress the megaphone bark
ing business INDUCED in so frequently
on the streets of Topeka. This sugges-
ton was confused with another ordin-
ance, however, and was laid aside.
The street railway represented by F.
G. Kelley sent in letter to the coun-
Gil stating that the delay in repairing
the paving along its tracks on East
Fifth street was caused by it's paving
force being busily engaged elsewhere
and that the matter would be attended
to as soon as the force could move to
this vicinity.
An ordinance was passed appropriate
ing $1,69069 out of the paving fund to
pay paving bonds and interest coupons
due October l.
Councilman Hughes offered a resolu-
ton to prohibit the dumping of refuse
out near the Sixth ward in the Ken
wood addition. He said that the stuff
was burning Ito beat the band" and
the stencil was about to drive out the
residents from this vicinity. Several
other councilmen expressed their pleas
ure in the fact that the dumping was
transferred to the Sixth ward they
had been enduring it for number of
years. However. the matter was re-
ferred to the committee on health and
sanitation.
An ordinance was passed vacating
the alley running north and south
through the middle of the block bound
ed by Morris and Garfield avenues and
Sixth and Seventh streets. The new
st. Francis hospital will occupy this
place.
Councilman Kutz offered a resolution
to require the street commissioner to
lay a sidewalk the west side of
Kansas avenue from Twentieth street
to the bridge across the Shunganunga.
The streets and walks committee was
given the matter.
The food inspector turned over $51.95
which represented the work he has
done collecting from the inspection of
weights and measures for the first half
of the month of September.
A strip of land for the extension IF
Underwood avenue and Park avenue
in Auburndale was dedicated to the
city by Walter I. and May NJ. Bates.
The council accepted the ground with
thanks and decided that it should be
free from ncumbrances.
The property owners have agreed to
macadamize the five blocks on North
Jackson street if the city will do the
same to the street intersections. This
would connect the pavement on Jack
son street and make a long stretch of
pavement to the Rochester cemetery.
The city decided to do its part.
Corn Committee at Hutchinson.
Prof. Ten Eyck. the superintendent
for the Kansas corn exhibit at the
Omaha corn exhibition next December
10 to 49,. has called a meeting of the