The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-11
SETTLE TONIGHT.
Street Railway and Clay Street
People Get Together.
Railway Will Consent to Pay for
Widening the Street.
OF EARNINGS.
City Will Ask Company for Ten
Per Cent of Net, Annually.
A Universal Transfer System
Will Also Be Asked for.

% A universal transfer system
over the city.
CD A certain per cent of the net
earnings to be turned into the city
treasury.
CD To pay for the widening and
paving of Clay street from Tenth to
Third.
These are the three propositions that
the city council will put up to the To-
peka Railway company when they
come and ask for certain rights over
certain streets in the city tonight An
adjourned committee as whole meet
| ing will be held tonight and the fight
| over street car rights will be con-
tinued
Today the people along Clay street
between Tenth and Third street are
comforting in an attempt to come to
terms with the Topeka Railway COM
pany. From the sentiment expressed
among the petitioners at 3 o'clock this
afternoon, it will be possible for the
contesting parties to gather together
under a flag of truce and discuss the
matter in cool and businesSlike man.
ner tonight
1t is thought that the scheme will
be this: If the Topeka railway will
widen Clay street and pay for the ex-
allow the street railway to go along
their boulevard. Provided. Of course,
that the street is widened in such a
manner that it will be fifteen feet on
pavement will be laid in a good uni
form shape, and the parkings and
curbings are not destroyed
In roundup with Councilman How
ard last night Vice President and Cen
eral Manager Myers. of the Topeka
Railway company, struck a live wire.
Mr.. Howard mentioned something about
the widening (the first that had been
81 ~ nd r-f.-4
president jumped to his feet and yell
ed:
Look here, Mr.. Howard, I'll consider
that l tell you what I'll do-you see
that we get our line through that street
and will see that it is widened. Now
il You want to make a trade, here is
your chance!"
Mr.. Howard couldn't speak for the
people and the city council at that time
but he remembered this proposition
so did the rest of the council and the
people. Today it has become the main
question and if the people and the
street railway get together on 1T to-
right the fight will be ended and To-
peka will have $150oG0 worth of new
trackage down within the next two
years.
With the settlement of the Clay street
proposition it is thought that every
thing will move along smoothly. Mr..
Myers and the officials of the Topeka
Railway company have practically sub
mItted to the rest or the propositions
that the proposed Fifteenth street line
be changed to Seventeenth, that the
line through the Douthitt tract be
changed around the park and that the
Buchanan recommendation remain un-
changed.
There is another matter that the city
council will bring up tonight that will
receive the hearty support of the peo-
pie if it carries. 1t is planned to ask
the street railway for two things-Q) a
universal transfer system and (2) a
certain per cent of the net earnings for
the city treasury.
With the proposed cross-town line
it will make it a hard matter to OBJ
tain proper routes for one fare. 1t will
be necessary for the company to issue