The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-17

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finished there will be over 60 miles
of paving in the city.
The walls of the auditorium will be
washed and vanished and the out
side woodwork will be repainted.
Furthermore it will be done at once.
Mayor Green has called a special
meeting of the city council tomorrow
night at which time this proposition
will be brought up before the body
and it will be recommended that the
work be done. The present condition
of the auditorium is a disgrace to the
city and leaves bad impression upon
the minds of visiting delegates who
use the hall as their meeting place.
For the next month there is not
date taken out with the auditorium
commission for the use of the build
ing. This is the only time that the
city will have a chance to make the
repairs and the improvements and it
was thought best to take action on
it Immediately. In calcimining the
walls of the building the city will use
some dark tint and thus do away with
the continual dirty appearance of a
white wall.
Then there is another regulation
which will be enforced as soon as the
Improvements are completed. Here
lO1OTe tnOSS uSlIlS TIE nan nave U0on
free in their use of nails and tacks.
The walls are punctured and the
woodwork is perforated with nail and
tack holes. Every organization of
any kind using the auditorium covers
up the dirty walls and woodwork with
bunting and decorations. This has
gone SO far that without the use of
varnish, putty and paint the wood
work would be ruined.
The whole building will be placed
iy7 fnr f6n two
conventions and gatherings. The roof
will be fixed, the outside will be
painted and the inside will make the
building look far better than all the
bunting and decorations in the city
have ever been able to do.
At the request of the state
authorities the mayor and city clerk
will sign over the contract of the
alley between the Memorial building
site and the Santa Fe Office building
when the special meeting of the coun-
ell tomorrow night gives the officials
the proper authority. This neutral
contract has been signed by the state
and must be signed by the city before
the work on the building will be COM
menced.
The city has always done all in its
power to rush the work on this
Memorial building. The press over
the state has taken a number of digs
a great thing for Topeka to have the
Memorial building here and they
claimed that the city real estate men
were raising the prices of the lots. the
city was boosting it's own stock-in
other words they placed Topeka in a
ridiculous light concerning this new
state structure.
Mayor Green has figured it out in
dollars and cents-just what Topeka
has done for the state in the con-
struction of this Memorial building.
He has it down in black and white
that Topeka has given the state
$4,000. In the first place the school
board lost $1,000 in their sale Of the
ment of the city came to their rescue
and promised them $4,000 worth of
water to help make up the deficit
This left the school board $1,000 in
the hole. The Commercial club sub
scribed $500 in cash. The city
donated the alley thus turning over
50, 900 in cash. The people in this
block also turned over $4,000 and the
city at large $4,000 for the alley
Taken all in all the actual value
turned over to the state amounts to an
even $4,000.
This should be a plain answer to
those chronics who claim that Topeka
is getting something for nothing and
does not appreciate it. However,
Topeka does not consider the $4,000
a large sum for such a good cause.
All of this money was given cheerfully