The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27
Remarkably Low Prices Are
Made by Bidders.
THE CLUB PROTESTS.
Dog Men Ask Council for Refund
on Auditorium Rent.
Burke g. Durbin Will Complete
Fifth Ward Sewer.

ing ever held DIV the city council, MedS
adjourned last evening to meet again
on next Tuesday night for the purpose
of awarding the contracts for 70 blocks
of paving, curbing and guttering. The
bids for the contracts were opened last
night and the committee adjourned to
look them over but they reported PACK
to the council an unsatisfactory eno-
ing and in order to check up the estl-
mates another meeting of the commit
tee will be held during the week and a
council meeting Tuesday night.
The bids last night almost told the
story. a...,..o
S1.ss; W. W. Gilmore. S1.25; Haskins &
Ramsey. $1.65- a.
second grade paving-Ritchie, $124;
Gilmore, S1.25; Haskins & Ramsey
Curbing and guttering-Six and nine
inch: Ritchie. 44-47c; Gilmore. 4I-5ic;
Folk & Luttejohn. 44-5Oc; Mclaughlin
The Kansas Paving company made
the only bid on the asphaltic paving;
asking $1-S9, rolling 1c, grading 5oc' ana
curbing a7c- ci1-
For the KenwOod sewer. w w; NIll- L1-
more made a biu of 66c for lnch, &c
for 10 inch. 76c for II inch. - -,
THESE figures are very satisfactory 10
sbe council and several of them express
ed their entire satisfaction last hIsnt
,~itv E-nrineer Rogers said that this was
.retting the paving very cheap anu ne
could not see in some places
very fat velvet could De hidC +,,o
In the plans and estimates pe1ore @ lllS
l,sdse were opened the city ensineSl
11ade the following figures, WhIcn;
when compared with the apoEe pluo VIZ
show the fairness of the bidders, o,o.s
T-irst-cIass paving. S1-4O; Second-clasS'
si aO and third-class. $1.25. On the as
malt rnacadam he made an estimate oL
81 50. The curbing and gutterIIS " 90. -
per lineal foot ana roIAns "'
Gnotber gratifying revelation is the
fact that every bidder is a Topeka man, n
-Tbfs means that Topeka brick VIII pc
used also Topeka labor ano me n'0ii9S
viii be used for local interests
There was one thing that gave little
spice to the meeting last hisht SiIu 9.,,Iii III
vas a short call down given Couhcl-
man Howard by Mayor Green; II se3,I seSin9
that Howard's committee, the PoIoe
committee, had gone over an oIuIAoIiCS 9
the afternoon before and had apploNeu
dinance concerned the regu19Ltton II,t Il, -, U1
fines and was very important 6ul 49, 49,
Howard arose after the clerk had @ rSdu
it TO the council and recomnenueu nc tIa.
II be passed Mayor Green looked at tne
councilman a minute ana theh Saiu
tartly: - 4,,;- oo,,,-
rnittee held its meeting was never n
formed of the matter and heard noth-
ing of It until this time. The duty OF
the chairman Of a committee IS TO IN
form the mayor of the meetings OF the
committee and he is supposed 10 pe
there. 1 do not like this way OF snip
ming in committee meetings. refer TINS
whole matter directly back to the Or
Igiual cc.nmittee''-and the mayor
pounded his gavel on his throne. rms
rebuke had its effect and Councilman
Howard sat in his chair speeches. Inc
committee will confer with the mayor
after this.
IT. TrIh a broken
into the council chamber again For
the last few weeks this club has had
some sort of a grievance or other with
the city council and it was rather ex-
pected that something would happen
last night.
This time the Kennel club asks the
city council to refund $40 excess in
rent paid for the Auditorium during
their dog show not long ago. 1t seems
that in years previous the club has
paid only $50 for the use of the Audi
torium four nights. This year the
prise was raised to 500 by the city.
This price is the same to everyone but
the dog club insists that it was
through an error in the Office of the
city treasurer and a mixup of dates
together with bunch of bad weather
that caused the misfortune of the show
they came out $75 behind their
pOcketbook.
The matter was referred to the pub
lie building committee, composed of w.
G. Tandy, c. E. Jordan and c. w
Horn. These men have been answer
ing trouble calls for the last few
months and it is supposed that they
will be perfectly capable of answering
this one.
a resolution was introduced in the
council by Alderman Stanley asking
that the fine for riding a bicycle
through the state house grounds be
reduced from SO to 81. 1t was refer
red to the police committee. 1t is un-
derstood through the police force and
through the police judge. S. S. Urmy,
that this fine of So is excessive in
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