The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-07
CITY HALL NEWS.
Street Naming Committee
Stands by Its Guns.
Refuses to Consider Sentiment
in the Changes.
AN EMPORIA STREET.
VIII Take Place OF Proposed
Burlingame Avenue.
Action Will Be Ratified at Coun.
Gil Meeting Tonight.

| Disregarding all ancient memories
and sentiments, the special council COM
/ mittee on street naming met Saturday
| night and made it plain to the citizens
| of Topeka that they have ideas of Their
| own and intend to carry them out. The
! long hard fought street name tangle
was settled forever as far as the special
committee is concerned and it will I'M
! doubtedly be accepted by the "city
dads" tonight when they meet in most
solemn session.
Petitions were turned down in cold
blood Saturday night and especially the
petition signed by a hundred or more OF
| the old timers of the city who had join
ed with the daughter of the late Judge
w. P. Douthitt in requesting that the
''Douthitt and Huntington avenues re-
main unchanged" The special commit
tee decided that the regular sensible
numerical system should be continued
without the least deviation. The pres
ident arrangement was also substituted
for the names of BolleS, West and sew
eral other streets.
The Burlingame street proposition
was also settled once and for all. This
has been fought over more than any
of the remaining streets and the special
committee hit the whole thing in the
head by recommending changing the
names of Buchanan street between
Sixteenth street, of Central Park ave-
nue. and of Lincoln street between Sew
enteenth street and the south city linn
its to the one lone name" Emporia."
No one has thought of this name and
realizing that every other name on
earth had been proposed and fought the
special committee decided that they
would spring a new one. A number of
petitioning citizens were on hand to
uphold their pleas but they were I'M
needed by the desperate committee.
The following changes We're recon-
mended by the special committee and
Will undoubtedly be accepted at the
meeting of the city council this even
ing:
That Bolles and West streets be
changed to Hayes street.
That West street, in Martin & Den
mis- addition, be changed to Lane street.
That Lane street, in Martin & Den
mis- addition, be changed to Lincoln
street.
That Buchanan street from Thir-
teenth street to Sixteenth street, Cen
trail Park avenue, and Lincoln street,
south Of Seventeenth street, be changed
to EmDoria avenue
That Clay street, from Thirteenth
street to Sixteenth street, be changed
That Union avenue from Seventeenth
street to the city limits be changed to
Western avenue.
That Seventeenth street, Keith's adj
dition, be changed to Eighteenth
street.
That Twenty-second street, South
Park addition, and Straight street, in
Knox's addition, be changed to Otta-
wa street.
That West Locust street be changed
to Lime street.
street be changed to Reno avenue.
That Division street, north and
south, be changed to California ave
That Fensky street be changed to
First avenue.
That Williams street. except be-
tween Buchanan and Clay streets, be
to Thirteenth street
That Douthitt avenue and Kellam
street. Piercy and Walnut streets, eX-
cept Doughitt avenue between West |
ern avenue and Central Park, be
to Fifteenth street.
That Huntington avenue and Fiji |
teenth street south of Central Park |
and between Byron and Piercy streets, |
and Chestnut street be changed to Six |
teenth street.
That Euclid avenue be changed to |
seventeenth street.
That Ella street be changed to |
avenue.
That Park street be changed to |
That Morse street be changed to
<iStler street.
That Kious street be changed to
Grant street.
That st. John street be changed to
saywell street.
That Garfield street, west of Kan
las avenue, be changed to Paramore.
That Garfield street, east of Kansas
venue, be changed to Evelyn street.
That Parkdale street be changed to
lawrence street.
The claims and accounts committee
If the city council, which is composed
# ]. J. Lannan, ]. w. F. Hughes and
= w. Horn, met at the committee
ooked over some of the water plant
,ills which had not been sent in to the
irst meeting. All were satisfactory
nd the committee went home happy.
In to this afternoon only $2,S0S.10i
las been turned into the city treasury
" the city money makers. Police
Judge s. S. Urmy deposited the
mount of $1.047.25 as token of good
viu from the money making police
The plumber department
,indIy turned over $142.50. The Ii
ense collector took first prize with a
gift of $1,092.25 and the
contributed his mite of ,
,26 TO- This is all the money the
reasurer has in sight this afternoon
tut before the glorious council meets
n silent session tonight the safe will
well with funds-also bills
one fire today This down at the
asst end of the Union Pacific yards
where an empty box car stood en-
AS this morning during the biting
orth wind and the firemen took their
rst touch of winter fire fighting. They
aved half of the car above the trucks.
t was supposed to have been caused
v a lonely bum who was toasting his
6rn h. I'D hIIi1 In r,