The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-19
GOES OUT EIGHTH
Controversy Over Gage Park
Line Is Settled.
Street Railway Co. and the City
Get Together.

An agreement whereby the Topeka
Railway company promises to build
line of railroad from Topeka to Gage
park on West Eighth street to be COM
pIeted by June 1, 1914, has been en-
tered into by the railway company and
the city commissioners. and amend
ments to the ordinance pending Will
be made next Monday morning to con-
form to the agreement. and the or
dinance will be finally passed
The final agreement, whereby practt-
caIly every person who has taken any
hand in the fight for a Gage park line
will be well pleased, was reached after
the county commissioners refused to
tie I'D the West Tenth street roaG
until the last of 1916, as was proposed
by the ordinance, and after petitions
demanding an initiation OF an ordi-
nance providing for the Gage park ex-
tension first had been prepared and
were ready for circulation. The final
solution is regarded as the happiest
that could have been found, and is not
expected to arouse the slightest opPo-
sition on the part of anyb body.
The extension proposed will take care
of the MeIrose addition, where a line
inside the city to the limits at Eighth
and Summit avenue has been promised
for wears. as well as give the entire
city route to Gage park winch mas
been fought for bitterly by number
of persons The extension to South
Topeka from Eighteenth to Twenty
first streets is to be completed not Ia
ter than July I, 1915, the overhead work
TO be finished by December ii, 1914.
The necessity for building a neaVy
bridge across the Shuusanunga on
Kansas avenue will delay the extension
and occasioned a request for more
time
The final solution grew out OF a ten
tative agreement reached several DAYS
ago, but not made public until II
could be confirmed by General Mana
ger H. c. Chubbuck, of the Illinois
Traction company 1t was accepted by
both sides of the controversy as a com
promise that would give general salts
faction
To Start at West Street
The new Gage park line will be built
from the corner Of Sixth ana west
streets. where the Melrose addition line
was proposed to be started, and Will
continue. west from Summit avenue to
Gage park on Eighth street There IS
little doubt that the county commits
sioners will grant the necessary auth
ority to the company to use .Elsnth
street for their rails west Of the city
TO the park The line will go south
from Sixth and West streets to Eighth
street. and thence directly west to Gage
park.
whether OF not the line will enter the
mark. and the company De gwen per
mission to build loop inside the park,
and a station there. has not been de-
terrnined Members OF the city COM
mission believe that the park will not
be seriously damaged by the roads be-
ing built into it, and il will take pas
sengers nearer the center of the park
If the line is built inside it will fol-
low the old grade, and may end near
the drives in the center of the park,
where there is an excellent location for
4 station
II permission to enter the park is
denied, however, necessary loops and
storage tracks will be constructed out
side the park. and the cars will be
turned there
Members of the city commission ex-
press themselves as well pleased with
the solution to the problem that tthey
admit has been worrying them for
some time Those who have been fight
ing for a line to Gage park, whether
on West Eighth or on any street, are
well pleased with the outcome There
never was any sentiment for a line on
any special street except West Eighth.
but a strong contingent urged a line 70
the park, wherever il could be secured
The solution meets the approval of all
concerned