The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-09
STILL IN The AIR
Commissioners and Patten
Talking 1t Over.
No Agreement Yet on Gage
Park Extension.

The city commission met in execu.
tive session this afternoon, but at "a;
the Cages proposition was still up in
the air. Will there be line to Cages
Will it 60 out Tenth street? VIII il
go out Eighth? Will there be South
Topeka extension? There have beer
so many guesses concerning the prob
able outcome of the locked meeting
that there is little left to surmise. II
the entire board were as expeditions
as w. G. Tandy the matter would have
been settled at 2:20, five minutes af-
ter the meeting was called.
Il can say my say in two minutes, "
the street commissioner curtly declar-
ed.
Just what did Mr.. Tandy say? 1t was
stated pretty automatically, but not
authoritatively that the lineup this
morning was as follows: For Cages
Park and south side extension, r. l.
Cofran, ma yor; w. G. Tandy, commits
sioner of streets and public improve
ments. For Cages Park without south
side extension, W. L. Porter, commits
sioner of parks and public property:
Frank NJ. Newland, commissioner of
water and electric lights. Against the
Cages extension because it does not
comply wit hthe terms of the fran
ehise. Roy L. Bone, commissioner of
Finance.
The meeting was composed of the
t1nayor, the four members of the COM
Emission and w. c. Ralston, city attor-
sney. Albert Patten, general superin-
ktendent of the Topeka Street Railway
kcompany, who expected to be present,
Ehad not arrived at a quarter of 8.
The question of the forfeiture of the
kraiIway company's 900 bond and
kfhe probable extensions is agitating
Fthe public at present Interested spec
EfatorS trai1ed about the halls in the
kcity building awaiting the outcome of
Ethe meeting. Numerous Topekans who
kexpected the question to come up at
hthis mornings meeting skirted the
49, z<~4T 11aar h0w Of al VI.
scounty commissioners this morning
suppressed a grave doubt that the West
sextension would ever be built.
Albert Patten declined to grant an
INTERVIEW. THE commissioners and
myself decided to say nothing about
the matter" he declared, until it is
definitely settled
w. L. Porter, who at one time stood
alone in his demand for the Cages
extension at the expense of the South
Topeka line, has been under fire from
all sides. His neighbors on West Eighth
street have been insisting that he use
his influence in securing the extension
on that thoroughfare instead of on
West Tenth avenue.
Il want the line to Cages either on
Eighth or Tenth-just we get it,
reiterated Mr.. Porter, the city has
100000 sunk in that park. 1 want it
connected with town by rail anyway
i can possibly get it,
w. J. Rickenbacher was gossiping
about the city building this morning
concerning an interurban line from
Coffeyville to Topeka. He asked the
mayor if it would be possible to get a
franchise for such a line and the may
or said it would. The tracks would
enter Topeka on South Kansas avenue,
go east to Quincy on Eighteenth, north
to Second street west to Jackson, and
cross a specially constructed bridge
into North Topeka.
Sounds like an interesting project"
Mr.. Newland remarked to Mr. Ricken-
bacher.
THE city would be willing to do al
most anything to get an interurban
line" Commissioner Tandy observed