The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-22

The city committee governing the
use of the auditorium. w. G.. Tandy,
G. E. Jordan and G. w. Horn, is mix
ed up in one continual round of trou-
BILE and time. Although the audi
torium has been an important factor
in the city for number of years the
people of the city are still uninform-
ed and unwise as to it's use.
Today a committee from the east
side representing the East Side I'm
provement association is waiting up
OH the above mentioned auditorium
committee and they are having the
usual mix up which always occurs
when one party of men think one way
and another think the other-with a
bunch of money between. But it is
not the fault of the East side people
that they are not informed as to the
use and misuse of the auditorium be-
were in the hands of men who cared
not for the rusty clad ordinance a
good argument accompanied with a
little "con'' talk would land the big
hall free of charge any time-and a
good many landed.
There is an ordinance this year that
is lived up to with fervor by the COM
mittee in charge. 1t provides for the
rental of the auditorium at all times
except when there is state conven-.
ton bringing over 500 people from
out of the city. Then the hall is do
mated. But in spite of the fact that
the East side park affair is a public
benefit and a good to the city it does
not remove the cover of the law. The
rental on the auditorium is placed at
all times on all parties. 1t is to pay
for the heat, the light and the main
tenance. Then it is to protect small
meetings from intruding upon general
public meetings which are really i'm
portant to the city at large. This $25
a night rent is for protection only and
it must be paid. 1t will be we'll for
the public to bear this in mind be-
cause every day the auditorium COM
mittee is besieged with requests for
free use of the building. This can
not be done.
Spring weather has brought On such
a deluge of autos that City Clerk
Burge has found 1t impossible to fur
nish the applicants with the necessary
licenses accompanied by the numbers
Five of them have come in in the last
three days. The city clerk managed
the task by giving Chief Eaton the
name of the owner and the name and
description of the car. This VIII sur
flee until a new set of numbers are
wagon habit which is the natural
course after five miles of new paving is !
contracted for in one season.
CAPTAIN Charles H. Titus, election
has arranged for his
precincts in the city where branch |
books have been stationed for the ac-
of the women. This new
system was installed for the special
benefit of the women who did not care |
to come clear down town to the office |
of the election commissioner But this
Captain Titus is rather dis
couraged over the outlook. In some OF
the precincts not a person had been
registered and in others only a few
took enough time to give their names. |
Captain Titus said that he realized this |
was a busy day for the average woman
but he thought that they would re-
spond better than they have. The wo-
men of Topeka should remember that |
this great expense to the city is for the
sake of womankind-let there be |
This programme will
only last four days and busy" should |
be the word. Look at the legal columns
of the State Journal for further infor-
nation.
The stereotyped sentence-''Nothing
doing today-which has been adopted |
by Assistant Fire Marshal E. E. Bah
cock and used all winter has been
dropped and smile accompanied with
a dive of the hand for the top drawer