The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-23


able TO overlook, Intentionally, any of
the work on the new pavements. An
inspector will watch the laying of ev
cry brick and every mixture so that
the original specifications drawn up
by the city engineer will be carried
out to the dot. There is no fear of
the paving this year.
The Kansas Paving company. the
Topeka firm organized a few months
ago for the purpose of laying asphalt
tic paving made a bid on street paving
at a Kansas town the other day and
it. was over SIS, 900 lower than any 9TH
er bid in the lot. But the city officials
believed in home industry and gave
the contract to a local firm. The Kan
Sas Paving company realizes there is
something stronger than financial in
ducement.
In the long procession of city Of
ficiaIS who are making their names
famous with inventions, reforms and
politics there is a new "star" appear
ing which will soon Join the "milky
way" and shine as no other light has
shined DIR. D. NJ. Campbell, the city
milk inspector, since his administra-
ton in the capacity of a city. Official
of Topeka has taken leading part in
the milk reform in the state and at
every convention and conclave held
in the last few years since the milk
laws have become so stringent ne mas
been the leading speaker and the
Kansas representative. The last issue
of ''The Milk Man paper concern
ing milk interests published in Kan
sas City with wide circulation all
over the country, contained big ar
ticle written by DR.. Campbell, deScr1b-
ing the milk situation in Kansas at
the present time. There were num-
ber of special contributions by prom
inent milk specialists but on the title
page and in the magazine DIR. Camp
bells article headed them ALL 1t is a
long, we'll written and interesting ar
ticle In part DR.. Campbell says:
Some dairy men have objected
-strenuously to milk inspection ordin-
ances in the cities, and their objec-
tions have prevented, for the time be-
ing, the adoption of such an ordinance
in a few cities. But obstructionists
cannot long thwart the desire of the
cities in a matter so popular as the
pure food reform. The main objection
of the dairymen was to the tuberculin
test requirement and already the state
legislature composed more largely of
farmers than any previous legislature
in the state, has taken sides with the
cities and enacted a law under which
all dairy cattle in the state, not only
those supplying milk to the cities, but
those providing cream for the cream
cries and country butter for the mer-
chant, must now be subjected to the
tuberculin test as0fast as the state live
stock secretary can administer it.
Superintendent Shaw of the city
waterworks. in a. position that re-
quires patience good nature and for
bearance- of the highest type. There
never was meter that ran right and
water, being a necessity and natural
ly such q plentiful element, customers
hate the day when they have to pay
good money for cheap water-but
pure water. Above the desk of the
superintendent hangs this little in
scription:
THE criticism of waterworks super
intendents and others connected with
this branch of public service is prob
ably more virulent than that suffered
by the officials of any other public
utility"
The city engineer has finished the
plans and specifications together with
the estimates for the remaining 25
blocks of paving to be presented be-
fore the city council Thursday night.
This includes, the remainder of the
brick paving, the asphalt and the
asphaltic Ombination to be tried on
College avenue and Mulvane streets.
This bunch of plans together with the
sewer estimates and paving tests has
kept the force at work day and night.
There has been considerable
grumbling and complaint because the
contractor who obtained the paving
contracts, G. K. Gilfillan, turned in to
for sample purposes. This has been
explained-the brick was not the type.
for use. The contractor has submitted
another batch of blocks which are
now on exhibition at the city hall and
City Engineer. Rogers says they are of
excellent quality. This will settle mat.
terS.
The city plumbing inspector reports
SO excavatio made in the pavement
n iG h nd o4r-I,k
days. This is a big record for this
time of the year and it means hard
work on the part of the city patchers.
There are Is plumbing firms holding
city permits to make excavations in
the paving over the city and they keep
the plumbing inspector travelling from
one end of the city to the other from
eight in the morning until six at night.
Some of the plumbers are careless in
their work and in one case in an alley
behind Kansas avenue the firm has
been ordered to repair their damage
FIVE times-each- time their work
proves worthless. This is the kind of
labor that the plumbing inspector
deals with 1t is bad enough for the
pavement to make excavations and
then patch them-but to fail on the
patching ruins the streets and alleys:
Several firms have been threatened
with their permits and the threats will
be carried out unless better methods
are used.
81 want to pay my dog tax says a
eaf1ine-foving miss as she trips into
the Office of the city treasurer, NJ. NJ.
Hale. a-1 @'qcsa
1.-The name, please asks the busy
man 9gs0sS o.
Rover, S sometimes and again
tSheps . informs the girl.
This is the answer given nine times
out of ten when a dog tax is paid at
the city hall. Mr.. Hale said this
morning that invariably, when he asks
for the name of the owner the person