The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-19

Topeka, with natural gas. through
saIo mans and pipes, said the Excel
H itela' Cohe q Gas company of Topeka,
| It's successors or assigns shall irnme-
oiately resume supplying of ARTIFICIAL
OF manufactured gas to consumers
within said city in accordance with
i ll opllgations now existing in that be-
half, so long as such failure of the
supply of natural gas shall continue.
and, w.
" hereas. on Sunday, January II.
1 asoS' from 10 a. m to p. m. there
for the consumers. and
.,e. w nereas, there was neither any ar
tlIiclaI gas to supply said shortage as
PROVIDED Tor in this same paragraph.
therefore be it resolved. bV the
mayor and council of the civ IF To-
peka, tnat the city attorney be and is
nerepy instructed to draw an ordin-
allce pursuant to paragraph 687,
known as paragraph II of ordinance
chise to the Continental Oil & Gas
company and repeal said ordinance,
ana report same at the next regular
meeting OF the city council
The general manager of the Santa
re- ). Il: Hurley, sent a communication
70 the city council together with a few
pounas OF papers and blue prints ask
ing mat an ordinance be drawn up eff
Iectlng the closing and discontinuance
OF number of streets adjoining the
SHOPS SHOPS OF til the Santa Fe. in the bot
street, from State street to Seward ave
nue.; Elm street, from State street to
seward avenue; Seward avenue west
OF Branner street; alley in block be-
tween Elm, State, Ash and Seward;
alley between Linn. State. Linn and
seward The general manager sent a
blank ordinance to the council limiting
that q few signatures would be the
only trouble necessary for the con-
V6n1onCe q
munlcat1on, blue prints, blank ordi-
nance and all were ordered to the
streets and walks committee by the
honorable mayor and council Mr..
Hurley stated in his letter that he in
tended to use the closed street for
trackage and terminal improvements.
The shops would also be extended out
to this territory. This is another move
toward the big Improvement rumor
that issued from the Santa Fe offices
about five years ago. Great things
move slowly.
max of the evening-the gas question |
the city council voted to allow the |
as published in the State Jour |
nal to be considered official and then |
proceeded with business. No time was
lost. Small things move tasty.
The last dying echoes of the paving
for the coming year were listened to |
by the aldermen last night when two |
property owners, R. F. Wilcox and NJ. |
H Stricken, withdrew their names |
from the protest to the West Tenth |
avenue paving.sA Their withdrawal |
from the enemy to their colleagues |
was accepted by the council and al |
lowed to remain as an everlasting |
apology for a wrong doing unintended. |
some of the representative men of the |
city made their application for bids in /
the new 1909 paving contracts last |
evening. The new company will be |
known as the Kansas Paving company /
and they will manufacture asphalt and |
asphaltic concrete street paving at a |
much smaller cost than has ever been |
dreamed of by the most ambitious
city engineer and the most economical |
city council The new company ex-
planned their plot to the city engineer
the other day and according 10 their
scheme and their illustrations taken
fortune for the city as well as them
selves. They make all of their own
and thesmaterial costs them
very little. The whole secret is a lit
tie brain power mixed with the water
and cement which in the end will
make the paving of the city an ever
lasting beauty and a joy forever. The
Kansas Paving company promises to
revo1utionize the cost of paving in the
modern cities of today. The city law
makers referredJsthe application for
attention to the overworked and I'M
1erfed street and walks committee.
The city clerk read a long, pathetic
letter to the council last night from
man living on Garfield street who
had eight or ten kicks coming on the
lead and dying street naming PROPOSE
ion. He told a sympathetic tale of
low the mouths of the coming younger
generations would be poisoned by the
mention of certain presidents who had
INV I70x oft nf
Topeka give streets as namesakes.
After about a half hour of reading
hree of the aldermen were asleep, two
IF them had left the room, one was
est were watching the smoke rings pro-
1uced by the clever and entertaining
general from the Sixth ward. On
he third stretch of half hours the
before he could figure it out the coun-
'ilman who happened to be awake sug-
gested that it be skipped. few skips
md jumps settled the letter and with
hat labor loving streets and walks
No tears were shed.
There are others who are having
heir hands full attending to the many
Kicks and cares of the municipal
governed pee-pul. Even the farmers
ire trying to pull the wool over the
Eyes of the unsuspecting city officials.
me inspector OIL W0lSnIS ana meas I
Tres, G. B. Hamilton, said in a
to the council that he
could not keep tab on all the hay :
'acks that pass through the gates of
he city and he asked that an ordi-
lance be drawn up to lessen his trials
md troubles. Either this or a few
amendments to the old ordinance. Mr.. !
hamilton seems to think that it is i'm :
possible to check up the hay racks as
hey come into the city. His COM
was referred to the
proper committee and meanwhile the
Inspector of weights and measures