The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-04
City Engineer Has Established
Grade for Five Streets.
ALL LOTS TERRACED
Elmhurst Attracting Attention
in Many States.
New Addition Will Be Ready for
Residents April Is, 1910.

Inc 81 dQliiS VI Lie SlICClS LILO
west twenty acres of Elmhurst has
begun in earnest. Fifteen hundred
cubic yards of dirt has been moved
rom Boswell street and deposited On
The lots. The grading of Jewell street,
Woodward, Grand and Washburn ave-
nues will follow in quick succession
Every foot of earth removed from the
streets will be placed on the lots
Every lot in the west twenty acres of
!, Elmhurst will be terraced. This grad
| ing is part of the preparatory work
which will be done by the Elmhurst
Syndicate on this plot of ground before
putting the lots on the market
During the time this grading and
leveling process is going on, not a lot
will be solo, said N. B. Burge 1--WE
terrace the lots. smooth down the
terrace the lots, smoothe down the
trading and have everything leveled
UP when the lots are placed ON SALE
!. Twenty thousand cubic yards of dirt
must be moved before the grade estab-
nshed by the city engineer has been
reached. Mr.. Burge figures it will
require four months to do this work
lay the cement sidewalk along tha
south side of the tract and erect the
Eimhurst monuments. Huntoon street
VIII pc graded west from Boswell to
Wasnburn avenue. P. B. Alexander
streets In this portion of Elmhurst and
as already gouged a long trough
through on Boswell street.
The Elmhurst syndicate has decided
10 work in unison with the residents of
.owman Hill to petition the city coun-
| l il for the passage of a sewer ordi-
ance authorizing the construction of
sewer system for both districts.
Inc same building restrictions which
nave been agreed upon by all pur-
ShaSerS OF ElmhurSt property will be
applicab BILE to the twenty acres lust he
ing opened up for grading. The gas
| main has been extended all along the
! rorth side of this tract and on Bos-
Wen street between the east and west
tracts of Elmhurst. The main on Ros-
well street extends the service to the
| western portion of the east Elmhurst
and the eastern portion of the west
| twenty acres.
| AS the grading is completed in the
| vest tract the gas company will lay
lateral lines down Jewell street. Wood
ward, Grand and Washburn avenues.
making connection with the main on
| Twelfth street.
everything possible to bring the west
twenty acres of Elmhurst up to the
! came standard or even better than
that portion now being sold.
| No resident locating in the western
portion of Elmhurst will be more than
| two blocks from the street car line,
while many lots will be less than half
block away. This plot of Elmhurst
as some of the most beautiful build
| ,ng sites in the resident districts of
| Topeka. Already the officers of the
syndicate are receiving numerous in
quiries about the new addition and the
| : disability Of being left out in the cold
with a handful of bank notes but no
lots.
Topeka investors need not worry
| about the sale of any of the lots in this
addition" explained Mr.. Burge, mot
grading and leveling has been done
We will have the property ready for
| the investors April Is and not before
Capitalists from other states have
Keen attracted to Elmhurst and Topeka
| and one from Los Angeles. Cal, has
some of his ready money in Elmhurst
! lots and promises to show the people
| of Topeka and the state something
startling in the way of bungalow con-
| s-ruction.''
All this tends to demonstrate the in
! tereSt that is taken in Topeka, Elm
hurst and their possibilities. AS q
| man observed yesterday. 1.-The alacrity
hown by investors in buying ElmhursI
lots, is remarkable" The reason for II
IS. the restrictions placed on construc-
ton and arrangement of residences
end the exclusiveness of the people
who will make Elmhurst their home
i have been carefully observed.
! Within a year the ground where
/ he engineer and the contractor are
figuring and squirting east and wes1
and north and south will be bristlins
| with beautiful bungalows and roomy
| residences.