The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-04
New Dwellings Are Springing
Up With Rapidity.
Building Permits This Week
Near $4,000 Mark.
WILL "SEE Topeka FIRST"
Two Hundred Topeka Women
VIII Enjoy Excursion.
AID Club and Realty Association
Will Elect Officers.

Building activity is on the increase.
In the past week permits have been
issued for the erection of II new
dwellings at cost of $4,000 .Archi-
tects are working on plans for several
more pretentious residences than
those for which the permits called,
and scores of Topekans are planning
to erect dwellings of one kind or an
other. The aggregate in permits this
week was nearly $4,000.
Two hundred housewives of the city
will "See Topeka First next Thurs
day. Tuesday noon the Ad club will
elect officers and make future plans.
Wednesday noon the annual meeting
of the Topeka Real Estate Dealers as
ISOLATION will be held. These are
among the "doings" of the coming
week.
Many new families are moving to
Topeka. People are moving here
every day." said a leading transfer
man.
Work on Stack Begun.
Excavation is in progress for the
new $50 foot reinforced concrete
stack which will be erected by the
General Concrete Construction Co. of
Chicago for the Topeka Edison.
By May the Chicago skilled work.
men are expected to be on the ground
to commence actual construction
work This is something entirely new
in Topeka and the people will watch
with interest the CROWN SkyWarQ OF
the huge stack.
The stack will extend below the
ground IL feet. The excavation is
now being made Immediately east of
the present stack. The stack will be
reinforced with vertical rods and wire
mesh. 1t is what is known as a grav-
ity stack-that is its weight will hold
it down, and no wind can blow it
down.
The diameter at the base will be "a
inside diQn1QtnT %. q f6at-While
1t will gradually taper until at the
top the diameter will be but 1915 feet
-15 feet inside diameter.
Scaffolding will he built inside the
stack as the structure develops sky
ward. Outside adjustable forms will
be used into which the concrete will
be poured. These forms will be raised
by pulleys.
The weight of the foundation will
be 900 tons; of the shaft, 1900.
Twenty tons of reinforcing material
will be used; also 1880 barrels of ce
ment and 500 yards of stone, aside
from many wagon loads of sand.
The stack will be equipped with
lightning rod protective system made
especially for chimneys of this charac-
ter. A copper cable will run to the
top rim of the stack. Projecting four
feet above the tower will be six points
designed to catch the lightning bolts.
Old Stack Worn Out.
THE old stack is practically worn
out" said A. H. Purdy, manager of
the Edison company. TT would come
down anyway if we did not take it
down. Oil is burned at the present
time by the Edison company, but the |
stack is being made large enough to |
admit of coal burning.
THE construction work will be in
progress four months. At the end of
that time a wrecking crew will come
here to take down the old stack. |
There are experts that do nothing else |
but wreck old stacks. If there were |
no adjacent buildings the stack would !
probably be pulled down, but as it is |
the steel tower must be handled with |
care"
The Ladies' Are Interested.
Thursday morning at o'clock 200 |
housewives, including some of To-
peka's society ladies, will meet at the |
Commercial club in anticipation of |
cursion which has been arranged by |
the Commercial club.
At noon a Topeka made" compli- |
mentary lunch will be served the ex- |
cUrsionists. Impromptu talks will be |
made by the women present on To-
peka'S industries. While the menu cards |
will be attractive in appearance, they |
Will also serve useful purpose. On the |
reverse side will be printed a list of |
household goods and the names of the |
Topeka firms from which they can be |
hung in a conspicuous place in the |
kitchens for future reference.
At 1880 o'clock the cavalcade of so |
automobile will again start out from |
the Commerce building, and numerous |
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