The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-14
Work on East Side Sewer to
Start August 1.
Over 90 Miles of Drainage Duets
to Go In.
WILL REACH ABOUT 1000 LOTS
Accommodate Approximately
That Number of People.
1t Will Require q Year to Com
plete the Work.

w. H. WATSON, city commissioner of
of finance. irked his fellow members
of the board of city commissioners,
and incidentally came near causing a
clause in the abstract of city bonds,
amounting to approximately 100000,
to read in a way which might have
impaired their market value. The
final result was that action on the
resolution and final passage of the
ordinance providing for the construc-
ton of a sewer for the east part of the
city was postponed to an adjourned
session of the commission being held
this afternoon.
WATSON raised a question over the
fixing of boundaries for the sewer dis
trict He had no fault to find with
the boundaries as described in the
resolution and ordinance, but explain
ed that he merely wished to be GER
tain that no mistake was being made
and that he thought it would be we'll
for the members of the city commits
| sion to take a trip over the territory
before voting. Mr.. WATSON and the
other members of the city commission
had already approved the boundaries
as described, by voting in the affirma
tive at a meeting of the commission
last Thursday. The other members of
the city commission, thought WATSON
somewhat belated in raising an OBJ
lection today and thereby causing d
delay in the necessary legal publica-
| ton notices. They wish to have the
| benefit of as much summer weather
as possible for construction work and
! also to be able to have the first assess
ment certified on the next tax roll to
| the county clerk. To do the latter the
| city will have a race with time even
with all unnecessary delays eliminated.
/ Il have been over that district many
| times and know 1t thoroughly" re-
| piled Tandy.
Il know it like a book said Frank
Newland, city commissioner of water
| and lighting.
mo use for me to go over it again.
| volunteered w. L. Porter, city COM
missioner of parks. Il have been
| there a plenty"
'-And it's no use for me to go, for
I would know no more about it after
1 had been over the district than 1 do
now, said Mayor House, with a glance
in the direction of WATSON which
would have been grounds for WATSON
! to have pleaded self defense in shoot
ing. had it happened in Dodge City
forty years ago.
Roll Call Is Ordered.
The mayor ordered the roll called.
Newland Tandy and Porter voted in
the affirmative. When Wasson's
name was colled and WATSON did not
vote, Mayor House discovered he was
in a parliamentary tangle, and ex-
planned that he had not understood
that WATSON desired to delay the TAX
ing of vote. WATSON replied that
the ordinance had already received a
| majority vote without his.
Miss Eta Covell. city clerk, then
spoke up.
Pardon me, Mr.. WATSON, for sug-
costing it, but you know that in a way
as commissioner of finance the re-
sponsibility rests with you to market
the bonds. Do you wish it to appear
in the abstract of the bonds, which
you will have to sell, that you voted
against their issuance"
Il think it should go in the records
that Mr.. WATSON voted either yes or
no. spoke up Porter.
By mutual consent the motion to
give final passage to the ordina nee
was Withdrawn and the session adj
journed until o'clock this afternoon
to give WATSON time to catch up with
the other commissioners in their
knowledge of the East side sewer
proposition. Mr.. Wasson was taken
city engineer. The other commits
sioners declined to accompany Was
son on the grounds that they already
had all the information needed.
In proceeding 20 the construction OF
the east side sewer, the city commits
sion is not acting on it's own volition.
but on an order issued by the state
board of health, December IS. 1914
The commissioners have planned to
let the contract August 1.
The territory will be the largest
ever included in one district in the
city. Were the sewer stretched out
in one line it would be more than
twenty miles long. 1t will cover the
eastern side of the city from Wash
ington street eastward between the
Kansas river on the north and the
city limits on the east and south.
There are 1000 city lots in the district
and approximately the same number
of persons. A year will be required
to complete the work.