The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-24
NORTH SIDE NEWS.
Talking Taylor Tract as Good
Investment.
May Buy 1t Although No Avia-
tiOn Meet There.
IN SOME FUTURE TIME
Think Land May Be Used For
Airship Tests.
Hylt Buys COyill Tract at $500
an Acre.

Although the aviation meet this year
will be held on the state fair grounds
instead of on the TAYLOR tract of $50
| acres, north of Garfield park, as orig
| inally planned, there IS some talk of
| going ahead and buying the Taylor
place as an investment and with the
possibility that when secured the fu-
ture auto and airship tests may be
| held there.
| E. E. Olinger secretary of the Civic
club, one of the three who solicited
funds for the purchase of the land, is
/ in favor of this movement. Fred
Voiland, his co-worker. is out of the
city today. Fred Morns the other of
| the solicitors, appears to put up the
proposition to Olinger. The latter says
| that $4,000 in subscriptions have
| been raised. and feels that the re-
mainder of the $4,000 could be secured
| in reasonable time. He thinks that
| the owners of the ground would con-
| slider the proposition.
The option on the land expires June
s. If before that time $4,000 could
be raised. the owners had expressed
Willingness to wait any reasonable
time for the balance. This agreement
was made while the aviation meet was
scheduled for that location.
They had also said that if the en-
tire S35, 900 was raised before then,
they would accept 40 cents on the dol
lar per subscription. but if not the
SIS, 900 must be paid in full How
ever, many subscribed under the i'm
preston that only 40 per cent of their
subscription cash would be required
any way. and were unable to meet
their obligations in full. This cut the
$4,000 which was reported to have
been raised down to about $4,000.
However, since then. according to Mr..
| Olinger. nearly $4,000 has been sub
scribed
The future of the deal will be de-
termined later. probably at the next
meeting of the Civic club.
Whatever IS done about the propo-
sition, the sentiment on the North side
couraged because the aviation meet
was not secured for the Taylor tract
A spirit of optimism prevails. The
business men and others realize that
they have made a good showing in Sc
curing the amount they cid, and know
that their efforts brought their section
of Topeka into notice AS nothing else
would have done. And they have
learned what can be accomplished
through combined persistent effort.
The matter has done much to elm
mate the "Kaw line" and it is not i'm
largely represented IN attendance at
the aviation meet, although held
across the river.
Alfred Hylt, who has been living on
the Hedderman farm. north of To-
peka, has bought the 15-acre Nelson
Covill farm four miles west of To-
peka. The consideration was $4,000,
or $500 an acre. The place contains
an orchard and is well improved. The
house has been made as near modern
as is possible for a farm residence to
be. It was built by MIR. Mccormick,
one of the original owners of the place.
1t then fell into the hands of one of
the Paynes, who sold it to r. J. Jud-
kins about ten years ago. Mr.. judi
kins lived there about two years and
sold it to Mr.. Covill. The former is
now on q farm at Corcoran. Cal.
R. R. Rodgers, a farmer living two
miles north of Kiro, reports that he
field after the heavy rain Friday night.
The water came from Soldier creek.
The Santa Monica. Cal, papers tell
how Earl Gilman, former North side
boy. son of the late Phil Gilman who
ahead of the city fathers. He had
bought a strip of ocean beach and
thereon had erected a casino. He in
tended to erect smaller stands on the
ground when the city council one Sat
urday night introduced an ordinance
that no building costing $50 or over
could be erected on the land as a meas
ure to prevent costly fires.
However, between Saturday night
and Sunday morning carpenters secret
" constructed many ornamental stands
for the boy. and by Sunday morning
they were in place on the beach. Each
had cost only $49.S8
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