The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-19
City Takes Measures to Put Ii
Out of Business.
New Ordinance Fixes a Tax
That Is PrOhibitive.
LITTLE OLD FORD HIT HARD
Must Pay sa5 a Month in Order
to Run.
Is Barred From All Profitable
Streets at That.

Streets at That.
The opening gun in the jitney fight
was fired by the city commissioners
when a motion was made that the cry
attorney be instructed to draw an or
dinance combining the jitney trafflc to
certain streets in Topeka The ordi-
nance was in readiness and was pre-
scented after the motion was carried
for first reading, and, 1t is stated.
Monday will see the new ordinance .
law All that is now needed is an
other reading and publication OF
the ordinance to make it effective
The new ordinance makes it an ex-
pensiye proposition to operate 1lt-
ney on the streets which they Will be
allowed to run on Provision is made
that they will not be allowed to col
lect fares along street where the
street cars now operate
The tax when the new law becomes
| effective, will be or hve-passenger We
hicles, $500; fr pm five to eight-pas-
senger vehicles, $3.50; for eight or
Imore passenger vehicles, $500, and no
license will be issued for less than one
year, bu-, City Attorney Hayden an
nounces, those who now are operat-
| ing jitneys and desire to discontinue
| will be allowed a pro rata rebate for
the amount they have paid in as a
| license tax
will not those who have taken out
a license under the old law be al
lowed to operate their cars until the
time expires, under the old tax sys-
tenn" he was asked.
Most assuredly not All those who
desire to operate jitney from the
time the ordinance becomes effective
must pay the additional license tax as
prescribed by law he said.
No Way of Escape.
Another thing that the jitney men
should knew and that is that the law
we now are passing has been passed
on by the state supreme court and
we have made an exact copy of it. SO
there will be no use for them to talk
of going to law to stop US, for we have
been careful on this score"
Not a dissenting vote was recorded
against the new ordinance by the city
| commissioners.
The new ordinance reads in part;
Provided that no person, firm or
corporation, operating such vehicles
for the carriage of persons for hire,
shall solicit or receive passengers on
or along the following named streets,
in the city of Topeka, far as the
same may be paved, tO-wft:
Kansas avenue, Holman street to
iTwenty-first street; Fourth street.
jackson street to Polk street, Polk
street to Third street, Third street,
Polk street to Clay street.
Fifth street, Kansas avenue to Hol-
liday street, Holiday street, Fifth
street to Fourth avenue, Fourth ave-
nue., Holiday street to Kansas avenue.
| Sixth avenue, Division street to
West street, West street, Sixth avenue
to Willow avenue, Willow avenue,
West street to Elmwood avenue, Elm
wood avenue, Willow avenue to Laurel
avenue, Laurel avenue, Elmwood ave
nue. to Roosevelt street, Wagner street,
to city limits.
West street, Sixth avenue to Eighth
avenue, Eight avenue, West street to
Summit street.
Seventh street. Kansas avenue to
Madison street. Madison street, Sew
enth street to Twelfth street.
Quincy street, Sixth avenue to Sew
enth street.
Eighth avenue, Madison street to
Clay street.
Lake street, Sixth avenue to Santa
Fe right of way. Branner street via
duct, Branner street, Second street to
Seward avenue, Seward avenue, Bran
ner street to Norton street, Norton
street. Seward avenue to Division
street, Division street, Norton street to
Green street, Green street, Division
street to Sardou avenue.
Tenth avenue, Kansas avenue to
Morris avenue, Morris avenue, Tenth
avenue to Eleventh street, Eleventh
| street, Morris avenue to Brooks ave-
| nue., Eleventh street to Munson ave-
| nue., Munson avenue, Brooks street to
Wayne avenue, Clay street, Tenth
street to Sixteenth street, Buchanan
| street. Sixteenth street to Twenty
| seventh street.
| HuTtoon street, Jackson street to
Harrison street, Twelfth street, Har-
rison street to Clay street.
| Huntoon street, Clay street to COL
1ege avenue, College avenue, Huntoon
| street to Euclid avenue, Euclid ave-
| nue., Buchanan street to Boswell ave-
nue..
| Douthitt avenue, Kansas avenue to
Western avenue, Western avenue.
Douthitt avenue to Sixteenth street, Six
teenth street, Western avenue to Blu
| chanan street.
Euclid avenue. Kansas avenue to
cid avenue to Eighteenth street.
Eighteenth street, Topeka avenue to
Kansas avenue.
Unless the owner or driver of such
vehicle shall pay an additional license
fee to the city license collector of the
city of topeka, payable semi-annual-
ly as follows: For each vehicle with
seating capacity of not exceeding
five GOD passengers. three hundred
dollars (se00.0O) per annum. for
each vehicle with a seating capacity
of more than five (5) passengers and
less than eight go, three hundred and
nifty dollars l$350.G0) per annuin: for
eacn yehlcle with seating capa city of
eight CD or more passengers. four
hundred dollars (S400.0O) per annur,.
provided that no license be issued for
PERIOD less than one year, except that
licenses issued hereunder shall expire
on SeDtQr7bPr