The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-29
NO SNAKES FOR HIM.
Janitor of City Building Won't Stand
for Proposed Exhibition.

| 49,
| me- said VIII Core, negro janitor at
the auditorium, to members of the
council committee on public buildings
| at session of the committee this noon
The committee was considering the
application Of an alleged snake show
| for the use of the auditorium.
At give you all faih wahning that I
| won't have nothin to do with thai
there said Core. Now snakes and
I have never been friends. No sun,
I'll tuhn ovah the keys first. Nobody
can put in snakes in that engine room
with me. That's all there is about it.
No sub, I wouldn't do it even if my
wife asked me to and I suttinly am
mighty fond of her.
/ "WelI I don't know why the janitor
should buck on this proposition" said
| Councilman Tandy THE government
hires men for s14 to SIS month to
be shot down. I don't see any reas-
on why Core here should not be will
ing to do little service for the city"
| Now, gentlemen said Core, get
ting up from his chair and gesturing.
| There is nothin' in the history of the
whole world what says the govern
ment can compel a man to go into
wah unless when he Is drafted"
well, we might offer ten dollars
a day to Core while the show is on
| said Councilman Jordan.
'Mr. Jordan" said Core, II sutten-
~ feel kind to you. But undeh no
circumstances would I take up with
| it. There is not enough money in the
| world. I wouldn't accept that for
| nobody. No sub, Carnegie and Rock
efeller will neveh live long enough to
have enough money to pay me. no
sub. Now, I tell you I have been try
| in to do right here, but If anythin'
like that comes up along heah, ev-
erything has got to go by the boahd. -
We'll, I am for you Core" said
Jordan.
And I am fob you, Mr.. Jordan"
replied Core.
ST am goin' to take my vacation Of
ten days right now said Core. st
| need a rest and soon as I come back
I am a goin' over there in the First
and help Mr.. Jordan all I can in his
| wahd to be elected"
The streets and walks committee OF
! the council passed up to the council
the petition for the paving of East
Sixth avenue, from Locust to Division
streets, a distance OF four and one
half blocks. There is some opposi-
ton to the paving because of the un-
which has been placed will have to be
dug up and in addition to this a drain
will have to be built to take care of
the excess surface water. Because
there no sewer catch basins cannot
be constructed to carry off the water.
The cost Of the drain will have to be
borne by the city at large. The city
engineer stated that sewer ought to be
constructed before the paving goes in.
A resolution to pave Lincoln street
from Ninth to Tenth avenues was
laid over until next year. The COM
mittee felt favorably disposed to 1t
but did not care to encounter a law
suit which would result II the resolu-
ton went through. Some of the
abutting property owners want the
paving and others oppose it.
A resolution for the paving of Har-
rison street from the south line OF
Huntington avenue to the north line
Of Euclid avenue was recommended
for passage. The application Of a.
Kansas avenue business firm to con-
struct their show windows SO that
they would project one foot beyond
the property line was voted down.
The committee was advised that they
had no legal right to grant the appli-
cation.
John Rogers. city engineer. stated
that he thought that the bids for the
new paving for 1908 could be let by
the first meeting in April. On Tues
day the time is up for those who have
circumstances to file against 1908
paving. After that they lose their
rights.