The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-12
BE NO EXTENSION
Commission Votes A to /
Against Patten Offer.
VIII Attack the $4,000 For
fixture Bond Instead.
WANTS ALL 3 EXTENSIONS
The City Commission Does, or
None at All.
Porter Stood Alone for the
Gage Park Line.
WANTS ALL 3 EXTENSIONS

No street car extensions in Topeka
this year.
The board of city commissioners by
a vote of to / refused to accept the
compromise proposition submitted by
the Topeka Railway company for a
line to Gage park. Instead, the city
decided to bring suit against the street
car company for the forfeiture of a
$4,000 bond placed three years ago
as a security against the construction
of several short extensions over the
city.
In other words, here is the way the
situation stands:
No line to Gage park.
No extension out West Eighth,
West Tenth, South Topeka or Clay
street.
No assurance of the $4,000 for
fixture until after suit.
The Topeka Railway company prom
Used three years ago to extend three
car lines. They placed a $4,000 good
will bond in the hands of the city. The
extensions were to have been complet-
ed by April, 1913. The extensions
were not made but the railway COM
pany agreed to build line to Gage
park if the city would not attack the
bond.
Now the entire squabble has been
set aside for the courts-and Tope-
kans still will walk to Gage park or
allow that 100000 municipal invest
ment to lie in loneliness west of the
city.
Albert NJ. Patten. Kansas manager
of the Mckinley lines, stated at his
office today that the company had
done all in its power to bring about
compromise. This having failed, all
negotiations were dropped.
The opinion prevails among the four
commissioners who voted against the
compromise that the city has no right
to take away from the residents of the
proposed 1910 extension districts the
lines that were promised them in lieu
of the $4,000 bond. The four commits
sioners voting for this action are Mayor
Cofran, F. M. Newland, W. G. Tandy
and Roy L. Bone. w. J. Porter stood
alone III declaring that the city should
accept the street railway proposition
and take the line to Gage park.
The resolution which the commits
sionerS promise will be approved Friday
reads:
Whereas, On April 20, 1910. the To-
peka Railway company as principal,
and the Title Guaranty and Surety
company of Scranton, Pa, as surety,
under and by virtue of the provisions
of ordinance No. 1850 of the city of To-
peka, executed and delivered to said
city, a certain bond in the sum of
10000 conditioned that said railway
company would construct and complete
extensions of its lines or railway upon
certain streets specified in said ordf-
nance by March "a, 1913: and
Whereas, Said the Topeka Railway
company failed, refused and neglected
to construct and complete the extern
sions of it's lines of railway on same,
on Eighth street from Clay to Sum-
NIT street; on Clay from Tenth to Third
street; on Kansas avenue from Eight
zenith to Twenty-first street, as pro-
vided for and specified in said ordi-
nance by said date, March "a, 1915;
and
Whereas, By reason of the forego-
ing, the said, the Topeka Railway COM
pany and the Title and Guaranty and
Surety company are in default of said
bond; row, therefore, be 1t
Resolved, by the board of commits
sioners of the city of Topeka, that
the said bond be and the same is here
by declared to be forfeited. and that
the city attorney be, and he is hereby
to bring suit in the proper
court against the Topeka Railway COM
pany aud the Title Guaranty and Sure
ty company for the purpose of recovery
on said bond