The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-13
Reports of 200 Cities of United
States Made by q. s.
Water Supply of Kansas Capt.
tai Given Out in Full.
Per CAPITA USE, SO GALLONS
Report Nearly IS Miles of Wa
ter Mains in This City.
Old John BarleycOrn Received
Many Hard Knocks in Year.

In a book just issued by the United
States government, dealing with vari-
GUS municipal questions. and covering
reports from some 200 cities, Topeka
ranks 13Oth in the list. The statistics
show that from 1905 to 1915 old Jonn
Barleycorn received many a haro
knock in various places in the United
States. Reports from 54 cities show
that 1854 saloons were abolished dur
ing this period.
Mobile. Ala, heads the list in high
est percentage of the number abolish
ed with TIA per cent to its credit,
Dubuque, Ia, next with 64.2 per cent;
Davenport, Ia, third with 62.1 per
cent; Montgomery, Ala. 61.4 per cent;
Cleveland and Dayton, Ohio, both with
s0.4 per cent, and Saginaw, Mich,
with 56.1 per cent. This percentage
is based on the number of saloons
actually discontinued during this
period as compared with those in
operation at the beginning of 1905.
Cleveland. in 1905, had 3,177 saloons
doing business but the report for 1915
shows only 1,258 saloons in operation
Dealing with the number OF saloons
as related to population, Wisconsin
heads the list with one saloon to each
$50 inhabitants in the state. other
states show one saloon to each 500
License of $4,000.
AS to annual license for saloons
Birmingham. Ala, tops the list with
a $4,000 license for each of its So sa-
looms, Cedar Rapids, Ia, with its 33
saloons receives $4,000 from each;
Joplin, Mo-, with so saloons taxes each
$4,000, while Wisconsin shows three
cities with city license of 5000 for each
saloon per year. This is the lowest
license recorded in the report of all
cities.
The report groups the 200 cities in
five different groups. Cities with
population of over 100000 coming in
the first group, while cities with from
500 to 500 thousand are in the sec
ond, from 100 to 800 thousand under
the third, from so to 100 thousand
under the fourth group and those with
ing under the fifth group.
Topeka is given a population of At
thousand and is treated under group
five.
Population Figures.
The report shows that there are
eight states in the Union without a
city having a population of 10000 or
over. They are Nevada, Arizona, New
Mexico, North and South Dakota,
Wyoming. Mississippi and Vermont,
while oregon, Idaho, Montana, Arkan-
sas. North Carolina, West Virginia,
Maine and New Hampshire can boast
of only one each.
Treating the subject of water sup
ply for the various cities the report
shows that Topeka has 72.4 miles of
water mains and 632 fire hydrants
There are, according to the report
7,477 water meters in Topeka and 100
per cent of the water used is metered,
a fact of which only a few of all of
the cities mentioned can boast. There
were 1,02S million gallons of water
I1G in
and 81 per cent of the total population
was served, or 31.55s people in the
city and 200 outside of the city limits.
The daily per capita consumption of
water during the past year in Topeka
is given at SO gallons.
The report further deals with police
and municipal affairs and is highly
interesting from various standpoints.