The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-25

GODDARD LETTER READ
Suggests Future Improvements
Be More Permanent.

John Richie, the paving contractor,
now has no excuse for not pushing the
work necessary to fulfill his contract,
say the city commissioners. The city
commissioners have been annoyed on
account of the sluggish manner in
which the contractor has been pro-
crossing with the paving, and a letter
read at the meeting this morning from
| the Fort Scott Brick Company shows
that his excuse for not being able to
procure brick does not hold good.
1--WE recently have furnished Gilfil-
| Ian 6. Son a few cars of brick to enable
him to finish his contract in your
CITY," reads the communication: AS
our plant is turning out more than a
million brick a month, we are in nice
shape to take care of large orders"
Richie still has two and three-quar-
ter blocks of pavement on West Tenth
avenue to grade and pave; paving to
sixteenth and Seventeenth STREETS, and
two alleys on the West side.
1t was reported that Gilfillan & Son
will complete their contract this week.
A letter from A. A. Goddard was
read before the commissioners and was
placed on file. 1t was in the nature of
| suggestion in respect to future paw
| ing. 1t is as follows:
II have recently ridden in autos over
| the paved streets in Lawrence, Kan,
and in Kansas City and st. Joseph,
| Mo-, and naturally I have compared
| regret to say that Topeka makes a
very undesirable showing in COMPARE
| son with these cities.
| 1--WE have always Dragged about the
| amount of paving done in Topeka but
| the fact Is we are diSgraced by the
| kind of pavement we have in the city,
| The pavement when properly LAID
| should remain for many years, but oul
| pavements are nearly all. except tht
very new ones, rapidly going to the
bad.
THE money of the taxpayers ha:
been wasted and large amount Of the
work will have to be done over in tht
near future.
1.-The purpose of this letter is not tS
complain of the situation but to sug
gest to you the necessity of seeing thai
| all future work Of this character is done
| in such a manner that 1T will bt
permanent to the streets improved, 6
| pleasure to our Inhabitants and a last
| ing credit to the oft1c1als responsible
| therefor"
| The offer of A. ]. Kelly to donate E
strip of land 505x50 feet. stretching
/ from Grove avenue to Laurel stree
| east Of the new bridge on Grove ave
| nue. for street purposes, was accepted
According to a resolution which wa.
/ adopted the street railway company viii
| be notified to discontinue the use o.
| the alley behind Hale Ritchie's proper
ty. 1118 Madison street, for the storag
| of empty freight cars. The alley which
is a public thoroughfare, has beer
blocked by the cars.
Mccartney e. Daily were awarded
| the contract for the extension of sewer
No. 80 on Seventeenth and Mulvan'
| streets. The bid was $649.
| Upon the adjournment of the com
rnissioners the question of the cit!
| water supply was discussed informally
with the result that Commissioner H
P. Miller is requesting the. people O.
Topeka to refrain from sprinkling theil
| lawns except between the hours of
o'clock and 9 o'clock at night and dis
continue the use OF water as far al
| possible while a fire is in progress
Commissioner Miller explained that il
| the evening is the logical time for wa
| tering the lawns, as a majority of thu
big consumers of water, including thu
manufacturing firms, have shut dow
| nv that time.