The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-19


streets and the committee. did not
know what to do about it. AS a re-
suit the matter was deferred and will
probably be cast out at the end of the
year. It looks as though the south
west people will have to display COM
mon sense in naming their streets or
else sacrificing their pavement. 1t is
one or the other.
The petitions approved and granted
last night:
Kansas avenue from Euclid to
Twenty-thfrd
West Tenth from end of pavement
to Ella street.
Polk street from Fourteenth to
Huntington avenue.
Morris avenue from Sixth to Tenth.
Lincoln street from Ninth to Tenth.
Alley between Tyler Polk, Seventh
and Eighth.
This makes a total of ISL blocks
or 80 u during the petition year of
1908 or the construction year of 1909.
The best part of this five miles of new
pavement is that there are but seven
intersections for the city to pave.
The street force is completing the last
street work before the beginning of hard
weather. Street Commissioner Frank
Snyder is finishing up the work by MAX
city. Besides the so miles Of pavement
many miles of alleys in the city which
constantly under the care of the street
And the alleys this year are in the
worst shape in the history of the city.
The street commissioner has noticed this
especially since the piping of gas into the
city Before gas was in use the people
would burn up all of their old boxes, pa
pers, rags and other surplus material. At
the present time they have no place to
dispose of this kind of trash and as re
suit it all goes out into the alley. Mr..
Snyder said this morning that a person
could hardly get rid of a wood box or
kindling wood was in great demand The
street force hauls three times as much
the '.burnabie' material was put into
practical use.
The contractors laying the pavement on
Locust street and along the spillway are
having more hard luck. Not long ago an
overflow of the Biddle creek bed cleaned
out some of the pavement and delayed
work to a considerable extent. Since the
freeze not long ago the contractor has
found 1t necessary to take up almost 100
it aside as worthless material. 1t had
been frozen during the setting and the
life of the curbing was killed. This curb
ing is of the latest type, being a combi-
three feet wide and having a face of ff-
teen inches. It is the largest in the city
waterway. The pavement is being laid at
the risk of the contractor and the freeze
did not affect the city.
Oakland has a chance to get good fire
protection if she is willing to contribute
half of the maintenance of the fire station.
The city has been planning on a fire sta
ton in the Santa Fe shop district for
some time but not until last night did the
Oakland proposition seem advisable. Jo-
seph Doran and a man living in Hamil
ton, Ohio, is plating a number of lots in
and he informed Mayor Green last even
ing that he would gladly donate the
necessary lots If the station would be
built in this section. He is building a
number of houses here and wishes ample
fire protection The lots he offered to the |
city are at the corner of Chester and
Pennsylvania avenues near the city limits
of Oakland.
Mayor Green said last night that the
lots would probably be accepted if Oak
land would agree to pay half the cost of |
The lots are too far away |
from Topeka for suitable fire protection
to the city and they would be of the most |
present time Oakland is without a good |
fire protection and the proposed station |
would giye them l., necessary improXea
matter Monday. night and if Oakland |
wishes to reap the benefits in sight a good |
sized delegation together with a larger |
have an effect upon the council.
The city council has always shown a |
to please If the people so de- |
sire.
The dispute over the macadam lately !
dumped on st. John street in North To-
walks committee again last night and |
Mayor Green was there to act for the city |
the city engineer and street commissioner |
have found the macadam to be sparsely |
spread over the street and does not come |
up to the contract agreed upon by the |
authorities visited this district In order to |
investigate the complete depth of the !
Rochester gravel has not been used very !
freely and they raised an objection. the |
total cost of the macadam was over $500 !