The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-26
NORTH SIDE NEWS
Install New Lights on Melan
Bridge.
When Great White Way Is
Finished. Miller.
SIMMS PROTESTING
Girls Afraid to Cross Bridge
After Dark.
Too Small Lamps Now Used
Claims Simms.

New lights will be installed on
Melan bridge as soon as the Great
White Way is finished, according to
Pete Miller, superintendent of electric
lights 1t is probable that the lights
viii be of more candlepower and give
more satisfaction than those now in
use. At present, according to F. B.
Simms, county commissioner and a
prominent North side man. who has
been asking Miller for the change, only
about 40 candlepower lights are being
used. The current is not turned on
until 1880 o'clock in the evening Now,
the thirty-year franchise which was
q anted the Edison Electric company
reads that the company agrees to fur
nish current for ten 2, 600 candlepOWer
lights in all that period. The city fur
nishes the lamps.
Mr. Simms says that when the small
er lights were put on soon after the
city government changed from coun-
ell to commission form, he made much
protest. but without effect. He claims
also to have made strenuous protests
about the current not being turned on
until after dark
This is said to work a hardship.
Many North side girls are employed
on the South side. They are afraid
to walk over the MeIan bridge in the
dark and therefore many pay cents
IOT street car rare every evening just
to avoid going home in the dark. Sc
riously; both girls and men, since the
darkness is beginning to come early
thees days, are a little afraid to cross
the bridge on account of the danger
OF being held up in the dark.
The complaint of this has been
heard quite frequently since the days
began to grow shorter
This is a simple ANIMAL of the Rus
slams.
Andreas Suppes of SCI Sardou ave-
nue. has kept his money in his house
as all good Russians do. Like Tom
McNeal said about himself in his talk
at the recent bankers banquet. Suppe
does not understand the intricacies of
modern banking-as no good Russian
does.
Tuesday he attended a wedding,
where his heart waXed merry and joy
was unconfined. He left his house
where he had left 1925 in chest.
Now Russians are not Americanized
enough to be suspicious of their friends
and neighbors. They. are more accus-
toned to help one another in paying
passage here from the old country and
help pay wedding and funeral ex-
penses. So. although it is likely that
he had told his friends and neighbors
how his savings were growing, he had
no thought that the Green Eyed Mons
ter of Jealousy or the Octopus of Az
arice was reaching out after the coin.
But such was the case
When Suppes returned home from
the wedding he found that as a thief
in the night some one had picked the
lock of the front door and had taken
all his money
But Suppes did not waste time in
amentation. He simply began to save
again and meanwhile is hunting for
the robber.
This is another ANIMAL of the Rus
slams. It is a story of thrift, thriving
and luck Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Heb of
Little Russia will leave Friday for
Saratow, Russias where they will farm
45 acres of land left Mr.. Heb by his |
father. Incidentally, they have bought |
a home here and saved about 5000 to |
pay passage since they came here five
years ago.