The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-07

uring on the amount Of money avail
| aple- Cnlef Wilmarth stated in the
estinate that 1t was very hard to
make any permanent statements be-
! cause the department was liable to be
| at big expense at almost any time.
Accidents to fire horses and apparatus
cannot be prognosticated. However the
nre marshal has it figured. that To-
peka will have to donate almost $50 900
next year for the maintenance OF her
fire department.
The long looked for scrap between
Councilman Fink from the First ward
ana street Commissioner Snyder came
10 a mead last night and the council
men chuckIed with glee as the two men
Iought 1t out in public. It seems that
Mr. Fink, being a new man in the
council, was not on to the ropes of the
street department politics and the first
tnlng ne did was to ask that a num-
per OF men be placed on the street
torce. This is very natural for coun-
Gilman and man who has just COM
pleted a campaign, to do. But the
street commissioner became indignant
at such request because it is the
custom in Topeka for the men on the
street force to be picked on their
merits regardless of the fact of their
religion, their creed and their politics.
strengthening his all powerful city
machine" by choosing men from
among the ranks who would spend
thelr time boosting their '-boss." AS
a second chapter to the municipal con-
nections of the two men Mr.. Fink has
been trying to have Kansas avenue
swept Saturday night in order that the
street might be clean Sunday morning
Inc resolution was sent to the council
at their last meeting and killed by the
streets and walks committee. This
death was registered last night and Mr..
RINK explained his side of the matter.
he SAID that the work of the street
Iorce IN cleaning Kansas avenue on
saturdays was a complete failure and
he cast a side glance at the street COM
missioner when he said it. Mr. Snyder
Jumped TO his feet at this slap and said
That Kansas avenue in North Topeka
was never swept on Saturday after
noon-the street force was never given
such orders. Then he explained how
II would be direct violation of the
Sunday blue laws to clean the streets
after working hours-which would
mean Sunday morning. The report of
the committee in killing the resolution
was adopted and the tussle ended.
The streets and walks committee
must be smoking street commissioner
cigars They not only relieved the
street commissioner of sweeping Kan |
Sas avenue Saturday night but thew
killed resolution by Councilman |
Miller which provided for the clean |
ing OF the Shunganunga. Mr. Miller |
was still happy however and in his |
final speech to the council on the
proposition he thanked God that the
laws or the council gave him a chance |
to bring the matter up again
The firm behind the waste paper
proposition IN the city received the |
final blow from the council last night |
when the Stanley resolution to take
their franchise away was passed It |
seems that some one has been negli-
gent.
By an unanimous vote of the city
council last night the State Journal |
was made the official city paper for |
Mayor William Green was given au-
thority to enter into a contract with |
the State Journal and close up the |
deal under the same prices and the
have prevailed the last few years. The
State Journal iS--as it has been for
number of years-the official paper
of the state of Kansas and the city of
Topeka.
A communication from Chief Will
marth, presid ent of the F'iremen's Re
lief Association, informed the council |
that $3.50 had been spent during the |
last month. The bills were approved |
and sent on their way to the city
treasurer.
CHAIRMAN Drew OF the public i'm |
provements committee reported that !
his committee had approved the re-
turns Of the assessors on the Euclid |
Park Benefic District and the chair
mans report was approved in turn by |
the council. This Euclid Park propo-
sition has been dangling before the
city council ever since early last fall
when it was first proposed to make
the park a public place and resort.
It was originally planned to have the
park in running order this summer but
the massive wheels of the council re-
voIved slowly and it is now in readi-
ness for the winter months.
Quincy street, once the pride of the
city with her blocks Of asphalt will
open her eyes once more and look the
world square in the face. A petition
was sent to the council last night
asking the street commissioner to re-
pair the hundreds of holes now form
ing lakes and volcanoes in the mid
die of the street. Mr.. Snyder has been
planning on this work and will COM
mence at once. Quincy street was
among the original plans to repair all
the pavement in the city.