The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-22
NORTH SIDE NEWS
Melan Bridge Extension Plans
Nearing Completion.
May BE Submitted at Next
Council Meeting.
SOME ENCHANTING.
strip Through City Park to BS
Removed.
Also From Street COMMISSION
er's Headquarters.
SOME ENCHANTING.


J. ]. King has received postai
photo of his brother, Jack King,
formerly Y. NJ. C. A. physical oltectoi
in Topeka, and also on the ponce iolce
here. now a captain of ponce on inc
exposition grounds at Seattle WaSn
The picture shows Jack KING al Inc
entrance of the exposition grounds' tile
territory which he takes care Oh win
thirty-seven men under him In tne
same photo is w. B. Jones' a proles-
sional walker, who walked from a ~ -
las, Texas, to Nome, AIdsha' eAAN
in 400 days. ,,ol,o
Jack" King served on the Topekaf
police force about two ana d nav
years He is six feet ana one NJ
as a wrestler and boxer he Went +. 70
Seattle in 1901. A recent Se1 49,
naper received by ]. j. King tens nov
his brother is arranging gyiillAal! 81
in the police department. OF w how
The same paper also describes n4m
Mr.. King saved his life by his ath i'5to
proWess when thugs attacked HILL
The Clipping in part follows;
ssT-1vice since l have been on the
SEATTLE no1ice force" said King, 81 be-
1ieve nv athletic training has saved
M, life once 1 had a hand to mana
struggle with negro VINO eul L II-as
siashes into my clothing before Mas
able to beat him into o,s s4o tbsn
"Another time a thug struck al me
With an iron bolt wrapped In mana
kerchief. He void nave MI me ~. ~,
the head had I not thrown up MY o a. ID
so that the handkerchief WoulIu
around me 1 believe it was my eN se
nerience that enabled me to guard on
the blow at the time MOST poliGe III
are big and strong, but they neeu u"idt f
4oI- 70 STIFFNESS
their muscles and harden them PhyS-
icaI training for policemen Is worth
WHILE
The ground and location plans for tHe
new spans which will be added to the
south end of Melan bridge to allow SUI
ficient waterway to prevent hooolnS III
time of high water have been Nearly
completed at the city engineer o1Ilcei
They will be submitted to the council
for approval at the next council meet
ing. They show the position and 10
cation Of the proposed spans with rela-
ton to the present bridge and adJacenl
ground and also the clearing of the
channel which will be necess1tated oy
the flood protection measures
According to these plans. triangular
strip of land will be excavated extend
ing from the main sewer west OF TIE
bridge. through the city park to Kan
sas avenue, with the apex OF the
triangle at the sewer and the base line
at Kansas avenue, extending fifty feet
south from the bridge as at present.
East of the bridge practically all OF
the ground now occupied by the street
commissioner headquarters will de
removed. the excavations reaching to
the concrete wall along the river bank
north Of the Wolff packing plant. This
plant will be untouched, as the excaN a.
ton will be made east of the bridge in
a reversed curve. which will clear the
Wolff buildings by fifty feet at the
nearest point.
The profile and elevation plans FOR
the work are also being prepared. They
show that the new approach to Melan
bridge which will be necessitated by
the proposed additional spans, will be-
gin at Crane street. The grade will be
two and one-half per cent, or a rise OF
two and one-half feet to the hundred
usually steep grade. 1t will bring the
highest point of the approach about a
foot above the high water mark of the
1903 flood
The street car bridge will have to be
heightened at the south end by $50 feet.
ard will probably be Joined to the main
line by a reversed curve, similar to the
present one.
Notes and Personals.
Mrs, E. R. Crouch of 1910 Monroe
street has returned from a visit with
relatives in St. Joseph Mo.
H. n. Gilman, captain at fire station
No, 1. is taking his annual vacation.
j. T. Titus. formerly assistant en-
gineer for the North side drainage
board, has gone to Arkansas City,
where he will be employed as city en-
glneer and have charge of work on
pavement and sewers which is being
done there this year.
Mr. and Mrs Frank B. Simms will
leave the first of next week for a visit
In Denver and other places in Cot,-
Mrs. Nettte Shore of 1905 Quincy
street has returned from a visit in
Parsons and Mound City
Charles Dunnaway of Argentine IS
mere on business. He has rented the
w I. Purdum property in Shorey and
expects to move there in the near
future
FOUGHT sells the best lumber wagons
In the city, the Beggs.
Howard Hanna of 1880 Van Buren,
street is letter carrier on route No. IL
from Station A, is laying off TODAY on
account of illness. Clarence Kfstler is
taking his place.
Bert Nathanson is in Silver Lake
today on business.
A party was given for Mr. and Mrs
r. G. Newell of near Elmont Saturday
by his relatives in honor of Mr. New
ellis seventy-eigh birthday. Mr..
Newell came here from Illinois thirty
nve years ago. His daughters, who