Polk Topeka, Kansas, city directory, 1902, Part 8

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Fire Bell Signals.


Fire alarms are sounded upou the tower bell at Fire Department headquarters by striking the number of the signal station nearest to the fire, in the following manner : If for box 4, four distiuct strokes, and repeated ; if for No. 13, one stroke, a short pause, then three strokes, and repeated, thus : I-III, I-III, etc .; aud if for 22, II-II, II-II, etc .; 22 is souuded for all fires within the district bounded by Fourth, Ninth, Harrison aud Monroe streets. Ten strokes, and repeated, followed by the number of the signal station nearest to the fire, is the second alarm, for a serious fire. Three strokes, followed by twelve, and repeated, thus : 3-12, 3-12, etc., is the general alarm for a very threatening and dangerous fire. This calls the entire fire department and a large detail from the police department. Two strokes, slowly, iudicates "fire out."


Gymnasiums.


Gymnasium of Young Women's Christian Association. No. 621 Jackson street. Miss'Alice Leggett, physical director.


Topeka Athletic Association Gymnasium. 623 Jackson street. J. W. Thurston, president.


Turn Verein Gymnasium. First avenue, near Harrison street. Opeu to members only.


Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium. 113 and 115 East Eighth avenue. Open daily. Mr. Chas. Caswell, director ; J. A. Augustus, assistant director.


Washburn College Gymnasium. In Science hall, Washburu college, aud is in charge of the faculty.


Washburn College Athletic Association. Play-grounds on northwest corner of college campus.


Hospitals.


Christ's Hospital. Grounds extend from Eighth to Tenth avenue, and from West to Vail street, . covering fourteen acres. The Kyle Memorial Building, containing twenty-two rooms, recently erected, supplies a much-needed addition to the hospital. Charity patients admitted. Ward patients cared for on reasonable terms. Dr. J. E. Minney, chief of staff ; Dr. J. C. Mcclintock ; Mrs. F. G. Mckibben, matrou in charge. Can accommodate about one hundred patients.


Private Insane Asylum. On Sixth avenue, one mile east of city limits. Stephen Bed well, pro- prietor.


Santa Fe Hospital. Located on southwest corner of Sixth avenue and Jefferson street. This is a handsome six-story building, containing all modern improvements, and was built from the A. T. & S. F. R. R. hospital fund. It is for the use of Santa Fe railroad employés. Accommodations for one hundred patients. Dr. Casper in charge.


Stormont Hospital. 332 Greenwood avenue. Jonathan Thomas, president; Dr. Hogeboom, sur- geon in charge.


Topeka Mineral Wells. 316 Harrison street. John Haggart, proprietor.


Riverside Hospital. Located on West Railroad street, in North Topeka. Dr. C. Hammond and Dr. A. G. Mitchell, physicians.


Detention Hospital. Operated in connection with city prisou. Was donated to the city by Rev. Charles M. Sheldon, in 1901.


Labor Organizations.


Cigarmakers' Union, No. 36. Meets first Friday evening of each month, at Trades Council hall, 420 Kansas avenue. Geo. Feiger, president; D. A. Creamer, secretary ; Joseph Artzer, treasurer. Kansas State Society of Labor. Convention held on the first Monday in February of each year, at State Capitol building. W. L. A. Johnson, of Topeka, secretary.


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Painters' and Paperhangers' Union, No. 1. Meets every Tuesday evening, at Trades Council hall, 420 Kansas avenue. Wm. O'Brian, president; Frank Woodruff, secretary.


Topeka Journeymen Barbers' Union, No. 25. Meets second and fourth Monday evening of each mouth, at 420 Kansas avenue. M. Langhart, president ; Roy Hammon, secretary.


Topeka Printing Pressmen's Union, No. 49. Meets first Mouday evening of each month, at Topeka Daily Capital office. A. M. Officer, secretary.


Topeka Retail Clerks' Protective Association. Meets every Wednesday evening, at 420 Kan- sas avenue. Frank Barker, president; C. C. Coulson, financial secretary ; George Buchanan, treasurer.


Topeka Trades and Labor Council. Meets second and fourth Friday evenings of each month, at its hall, 420 Kansas avenue. J. P. Johnson, president; R. I. Palmer, secretary and treasurer.


Topeka Typographical Union, No. 121. Meets on the first Sunday afternoon of each month, at 420 Kansas avenue. A. S. Huling, president; R. I. Palmer, secretary.


Brotherhood of Railroad Conductors. Meets on the first Monday in each month, at 122 East Sixth avenue. Charles Horn, financier.


Brotherhood of Engineers, De Soto Division, No. 234. Meets on second and fourth Sunday afternoons of each month, at 122 East Sixth avenue. A. Beeler, chief ; J. G. McNeill, secretary and treasurer.


Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Flower of West Lodge, No. 205. E. H. Powell, master ; E. E. Smith, secretary. Meets on first and third Sunday afternoons, at 122 East Sixth avenue.


Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Golden Belt Lodge, No. 48. Meets on second and fourth Sunday afternoons, at 122 East Sixth avenue. Chas. Reese, master; F. J. Withrow, secretary and treasurer.


Switchmen's Union of North America, Topeka Lodge, No. 12. Meets on first and third Saturday afternoons of each month, at 2:30 o'clock, at 122 East Sixth avenue. Ed. McFadden, master ; J. E. Larkins, secretary and treasurer.


Topeka Musicians' Union, No. 36. Meets first Sunday afternoon in each month, at hall on cor- ner of Third aud Kansas avenue. Fred Nelson, president; S. S. Snyder, secretary.


Mechanics' Union. Meets on first and third Wednesday evenings of each inonth, at 222 Kansas avenue. M. A. Nelson, president.


Building Laborers' International Protective Union, No. 2. Meets every Wednesday evening at 'Trades Council hall, 420 Kansas avenue. E. S. Rausom, secretary.


Libraries.


Bethany College Library. Connected with the College of the Sisters of Bethany. At Ninth and Polk streets. Contains about 5,500 volumes.


Library of the Kansas Academy of Science. Located in the west wing of the State Capitol. It contaius 12,000 volumes of scientific and classical literature. B. B. Smyth, librarian. -


Public Library. Located on Capitol grounds, West Eighth avenue. Occupies a magnificent build- ing, costing over $40,000, which was erected especially for its use, and has over 25,000 books on its shelves. Open dally from 10 A. M. to 9 P. M., except on Sunday, when the reading-room only is open from 2 to 6 P. M.


State Historical Society Library. Located In the south wing, fourth floor, of the State Capitol. Contains 103,000 books aud documents. In charge of secretary of the Society.


State Library. Located in north wing, second floor, of the State Capitol. It is one of the largest and most valuable libraries in the West, containing 60,000 volumes. Annie L. Diggs, State librarian. James L. King, superintendent circulating libraries.


Swedish Library. 313 Kansas avenue. Contains several hundred volumes of Swedish literature. Tobias Johnson, librarian.


Washburn College Library. Occupies a handsome structure, erected for its use, west of the main college building. Contains from 9,000 to 10,000 volumes. Miss Lucy T. Dougherty, librarian.


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Museums.


G. A. R. Museum. East wing, first floor, of State Capitol. In the apartments of department commander, Open to visitors.


Goss Ornithological Room. South wing, ground floor, of the State Capitol; open daily. Free to visitors. B. B. Smyth, curator.


State Board of Agriculture Museum. West wing of the Capitol, ground floor; open daily. Free to visitors.


State Historical Society Museum. South wing, fourth floor, of State Capitol; open daily. Free to visitors. Geo. W. Martin, secretary.


State Horticultural Society. North wing of ground floor in State Capitol building. Fred Well- house, president; Wm. H. Barnes, secretary.


Military Organizations.


Battery B, First Light Artillery. Meets every Monday evening, at armory, 401 Kansas avenue. W. A. Pattison, captain ; F. W. Dodds, first lieutenant ; B. W. Long, second lieutenant; A. M. Sherer, quartermaster.


Company A, First Regiment Infantry, K. N. G. Meets at armory, 401 Kansas avenue, every Tuesday night. Captain, Wm. S. Eberle ; first lieutenant, C. E. Sharon ; second lieutenant, Geo. E. Helwig; quartermaster, Ed. Hayes.


Topeka City Troop, Cavalry. Captain, D. O. Crane ; lieutenant, H. A. Utterman.


Newspapers and Publications.


Ark Light, The. Fraternal. Monthly. 523 Kansas avenue. J. B. Amos and E. S. Binning, editors. K. P. A. Publishing Co., publishers.


Baptist Visitor, The. Monthly. Religious. Sarah Knapp and Ethel Pankey, editors; James B. Brinsmaid, business manager. First Baptist Church, Topeka, publishers.


Climate and Crop Service of the Weather Bureau. Weather forecasts. Monthly. Under direction of Weather Bureau. T. B. Jennings, editor.


Fulcrum, The. Prohibition. Weekly. 116 East Fifth street. F. M. Steves & Son, publishers.


Farmers' Advocate, The. Populist. Weekly. 627 Quincy street. Annie L. Diggs, editor; Grant Gaines, assistant editor ; H. N. Gaines, business manager. Advocate Publishing Co., publishers. Gleanings, The. Quarterly. Religious. Edited and published by the Young Women's Christian Association of Kansas.


Glad Tidings. Swedish. Religious. Monthly. 400 Taylor street. Rev. Gustaf Nyquist, editor and publisher.


High School World, The. Educational. Semi-monthly. Topeka High School students, editors and publishers.


Helping Hand. Fraternal. Monthly. L. K. Lewis and S. D. Cooley, editors. National Ald Association, publishers.


Journal of the Kansas Medical Society. Medical. Monthly. 122 East Fifth street. W. E. Mc Vey. editor and publisher.


Kansas Home-Finder. Charity. Monthly. 621 Kansas avenue. Rev. O. S. Morrow, editor and manager.


Kansas Farmer. Agricultural. Weekly. 116 West Sixth avenue. E. B. Cowgill, president and manager; J. B. McAfee, vice-president; D. C. Nellis, secretary and treasurer. Kansas Farmer Company, publishers.


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Kimball Family News, The. Genealogical. Monthly. 912 North Kansas avenue. G. F. Kimball, editor and publisher.


Kansas Weekly Telegraph. German Democratic. 402 Quincy street. II. Von Langen & Son, editors and publishers.


Kansas Issue, The. Monthly. Religious. Kansas State Temperance Union, editors and pub- lishers. · Kansas Home Missionary, The. Religious. Quarterly. 701 Jackson street. L. P. Broad, editor. Kansas Missionary Society, publishers.


Kansas Baptist Review. Religious. Monthly. Kansas Baptist Review Co., editors and pub- lishers.


Memorial Chimes. Religious. Monthly. H. A. Ott, editor and publisher.


Merchants' Journal, The. Trade. Monthly. 711 Kansas avenue. . Chas. P. Adams, editor and manager. The Merchants' Journal Co., publishers.


North Topeka News. Republican. Weekly. 912 North Kansas avenue. G. F. Kimball, editor and publisher.


Poultry Gazette, The. Monthly. 603 Kausas avenue. George H. Gillies, editor and publisher.


Santa Fe, The. Religions. Monthly. T. E. Prout, editor ; Richard Wilsou, business manager. Railroad Y. M. C. A., of Topeka, publishers.


State Ledger. Afro-American. Populist. Weekly. 522 Kausas avenue. F. L. Jeltz, editor and publisher.


Spirit of Kansas. Independent. Weekly. 912 North Kansas avenue. G. F. Kimball & Co.,


publishers.


Topeka State Journal, The. Independent Republican. Daily aud weekly. 800 Kansas avenue. Frank P. MacLennan, editor and proprietor.


Topeka Capital, The. Republican. Daily and semi-weekly. Harold T. Chase, editor ; Arthur Capper, president and general manager. 109 East Eighth avenue. The Capital Publishing Co., publishers.


Topeka Plaindealer, The. Afro-Americau. Weekly. 114 East Seventh street. J. Hume Chil- ders, editor ; N. Chiles, proprietor and publisher.


Twentieth Century Classics. Educational. Monthly. 810-812 East Eighth avenue. Crane & Co., publishers.


Topeka Daily Herald, The. Republican. 816 Kansas avenue. J. K. Hudson, editor ; Dell Keizer, general manager. The Herald Publishing Co., publishers.


Topeka Mail and Breeze, The. Republican. Weekly. 501 Jackson street. T. A. McNeal, editor; Geo. M. Crawford, business manager.


Topeka Daily Legal News, The. 111-113 West Sixth avenue. Naunon L. Herron, editor and publisher.


Topeka High School World. Educational. Semi-monthly. 122 East Fifth street. Ray Carle, editor-in-chief; students of school, assistant editors. Topeka High School, publishers.


Western School Journal. Educational. Monthly. 735 Kansas avenue. John MacDonald, editor and proprietor.


Weekly Crop Bulletins. Climate and crop service of Weather Bureau. T. B. Jennings, editor. U. S. Department of Agriculture, publishers, Columbian building.


Washburn College Bulletins. Quarterly. Literary. Frederick W. Ellis, editor. Washburn College, publishers. Washburn Review Literary. Monthly. Robert Dougherty, editor-in-chief; students of Wash- burn college, editors and publishers.


Western Odd Fellow, The. Fraternal. Semi-monthly. 122 East Sixth avenue. A. C. Stevens, editor; F. S. Stevens, publisher.


Western Poultry Breeder, The. Monthly. Thomas Owen, editor ; Owen & Co., publishers.


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Postoffice. Federal Custom House Building, northeast corner Kansas avenue and Fifth street,


JOHN GUTHRIE, Postmaster. A. K. RODGERS, Assistant Postmaster.


Station A ( North Topeka ), A. E. Robiuson, clerk iu charge.


Station B ( College Hill), F. P. Baker, clerk in charge.


Station C ( Potwin ), A. Bunker, clerk in charge. Sub-Station No. 1, A. M. Newland, clerk in charge.


Sub-Station No. 2, ( Crosby Bros.), E. H. Crosby, clerk iu charge.


H. L. Foster, bookkeeper.


Edith L. Metcalf, Supt. money order divisiou.


W. A. Tinker, Asst. Supt. money order division. Maud Earnest, Supt. register division. Josephine Herren, Supt. stamp division.


Judith Hagan, general delivery clerk.


A. J. Kellamı, Supt. mailing division. T. A. Wilkie, mailing clerk. R. G. Moody, night mailing clerk.


H. R. Blanchard, distributor.


J. W. Nash, mailing clerk. D. L. Carson, mailing clerk.


LeRoy Powell, Supt. of city delivery.


A. J. Ashpole, night distributing clerk.


A. A. Shoaf, lock distributor.


H. F. White, box clerk.


W. J. Stovall, clerk Station A.


G. W. McClelland, mailing clerk.


H. E. Winans, clerk.


Carriers.


C. H. Conron. O. R. Molz.


J. J. Curry.


M. T. Lacey.


Geo. Dagg. C. S. Matthews.


John Ryan.


J. W. Tobias.


F. C. Farusworth.


J. H. Murphy.


L. F. Seiler.


T. A. Widener.


S. J. Hodgins.


E. P. Pollard.


Substitute Carriers.


Howard Hannah. J. F. Going. J. W. Swickard.


C. E. Porter, special delivery messenger. J. O. Layton, special delivery messenger.


A. Kuykendall, laborer.


Rates of Postage.


Domestic.


All mailable matter for transmission by the United States mails within the United States is divided into four classes, under the following regulations :


First-Class Matter. Letters; samples with prices noted thereon in writing; matter wholly or partly in writing ; inclosed matter, two cents per ounce or fraction thereof ; postal cards having anything attached or any writing or printing on the face other than the address; drop letters. at non-letter-carrier offices, one cent per ounce or fraction thereof.


Second-Class. Newspapers and periodicals to regular subscribers, one cent per pound ; transient : newspapers, one cent for each four ounces or fraction thereof.


Third-Class. Printed matter in unsealed wrappers, corrected proof-sheets, and manuscript copy accompanying same, business and visiting cards, address tags and labels, printed maps, plans and charts, paper valentines, blue-prints, photographs, engravings, hellotypes, hektograph prints, lithographs, and similar articles of print, one cent for every two ounces or fraction thereof. Seed, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions and plants arc now sent at this rate, but subject to fourth-class regulation.


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Fourth-Class. Envelopes, blank bills, letter heads, blank and playing cards, paper sacks, wrapping paper with or without printing, and blanks of any kind, merchandise, samples, drawings, and other matter not included in the first, second or third classes, one cent per ounce or fraction thereof.


Letters and packages may be registered for a fee of eight cents each in addition to postage.


Re-forwarding. Letters may be re-forwarded without payment of additional postage, but second, third, and fourth-class matter cannot be forwarded unless the necessary postage be paid.


Unmailable. Matter injurious to the mails, explosives, poisons, or exhaling bad odor, or liable to decomposition, ardent, malt, vinous, spirituous or inflammable liquids.


All matter is limited to four pounds, except single books and first and second-class matter, which may weigh more.


Whenever any packet of matter other than first-class offered for mailing to any address within the United States is sealed or otherwise closed against inspection, or bears writing not permissible by law, it is subject to postage at letter or first-class rates, treated as a letter.


Registered Matter. First, third and fourth-class matter may be registered at an expense of eight : cents on each package, in addition to the proper postage.


Charges for Domestic Money Orders.


Not exceeding $2.50.


3 cts.


. Over $30.00 not exceeding $40.00. . 15 cts.


Over $2.50 not exceeding $5.00. 5 cts.


40.00 “


50.00.


18 cts.


5.00


10.00.


8 cts.


50.00 €


60.00. .20 cts.


10.00 “ 66


20.00.


10 cts.


60.00 “


75.00. .25 cts.


20.00


30.00.


12 cts.


75.00 "


100.00 30 cts.


A single money order may include any amount from one cent to one hundred dollars, inclusive, but must not contain a fractional part of a cent.


General Information.


The postoffice is open for the reception of mail from 5 o'clock A. M. to 11 o'clock P. M., and for gen- eral business from 6 A. M. to 7 P. M., except Sundays. For the transaction of registry business, from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M., and for money-order business from 8 A. M. to 5 P. M., except Sundays.


On Sundays and holidays the office is open for general business one hour, from 12 o'clock noon to 1 o'clock P. M., during which hour the carriers are in waiting to pass out any mail called for by their patrons.


Collections of mail from street boxes are made from one to six times daily, according to schedule attached to the respective boxes.


Out-going mails close one-half hour before departure of trains from the station.


Inquiries respecting the arrival and departure of mail should be made at the office of the superin- tendent of mails.


Immediate delivery of mail matter by a special messenger may be secured by affixing a special delivery stamp, in addition to the regular postage, at any hour between 7 A. M. and 11 P. M.


Inquiries respecting the delivery of mail should be made at the office of the superintendent of delivery.


The stations register letters and issue and pay money orders, and sell postage stamps and stamped envelopes and wrappers.


Application for missing letters, papers and packages, mailed at Topeka for other postoffices, for mail matter that is held for postage, or is for any other reason unmailable, should be made at the office of the superintendent of mails.


The entry of second-class matter, or for information concerning the same, for letters which the senders desire to recall by telegraph before delivery is made to addressee, should be made at the assistant postmaster's room.


For stamped envelopes, postal cards, etc., in quantities of 500 or over, and for the rent of lock boxes or drawers, should be made to the bookkeeper.


For redemption of stamped envelopes, which have been spoiled in directing or printing, apply to the retail stamp window.


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For employment as clerk or carrier, or information concerning the same, application should be made to the secretary of the local board of examiners for the Civil Service Commission, who is the super- intendent of the city delivery.


All transient residents receiving or expecting to receive mail at the general delivery should instruct their correspondents to add to the address of same, "General Delivery," which will save from 12 to 24 hours in delivery.


Rates of postage to Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii, Philippine Islands, Guam (or Ladrones), the same classification of mails and the same rates of postage as in the United States.


Mails by parcels post are regulated by treaty between the United States and those several foreign countries to which this service is extended. Parcels post service does not exist in the United States, as domestic mails.


The greatest weight of any one package by parcels post, is eleven pounds, and the postage by parcels post is twelve cents per pound or fraction of a pound.


Secret and Benevolent Societies. Masonic.


The Masonic halls are on the fourth and fifth floors of the Masonic block, 619, 621 and 623 Jackson street. All Masonic bodies, except Golden Rule Lodge, No. 90, meet in Masonic hall. Golden Rule Lodge, No. 90, meets on the third floor, at 900 North Kansas avenue, North Topeka. During the months of January, February, March, October, November, and December, all stated meet- ings are at 7: 30 P. M. During the months of April, May, June, July, August, and September, all stated meetings are at 8 P. M. The total membership of the four lodges on December 31, 1900, was 1,021.


Topeka Lodge, No. 17. Chartered October 18, 1859. P. A. Howe, master ; Carl W. Nellis, sec- retary. Stated communications held the first and third Wednesday evenings of each month. Membership, 306.


Orient Lodge, No. 51. Chartered October 15, 1867. Chas. A. Gardiner, master ; Evan Davis, secretary. Stated communications held the first and third Friday evenings of each month. Mem- bership, 279.


Golden Rule Lodge, No. 90. Chartered October 30, 1870. Wm. M. Clime, master; D. C. Hewitt, secretary. State communications held the second and fourth Thursdays of each month. Membership, 174.


Siloam Lodge, No. 225. Chartered February 20, 1884. Francis D. Barker, master; Jos. E. Dubreuil, secretary. Stated communications held on the first and third Thursdays of each month. Membership, 262.


Topeka Chapter, No. 5. Chartered October 16, 1866. Walter E. Fagan, high priest; Harry F. White, secretary. Stated communications held on the first and third Mondays of each month. Membership, 305.


Zabud Council, No. 4. Chartered October 15, 1873. Wm. M. Shaver, Th. Ill. master; L. M. Nellis, recorder. Stated assemblies held on the fourth Tuesday of each month. Membership, 356.


Topeka Commandery, No. 5, Knights Templar. Chartered October 18, 1869. Augustus O. Wellman, commander ; Luther M. Nellis, recorder. Stated conclave held on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Membership, 259.


Beatae Crucis Conclave, No. 7, Knights of the Red Cross of Constantine. Chartered June 6, 1900. Thorp B. Jennings, sovereign; Wm. M. Shaver, recorder. Conclaves subject to call. Membership, 28.


Oriental Lodge of Perfection, No. 3, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Chartered February 1, 1879. Alfred A. Rodgers 32º, K. C. C. H., venerable master; W. C. F. Reichenbach 32º, secretary. Stated meetings held on the second Friday of each month. Membership, 351.


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Unity Chapter Rose Croix, No. 1, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Chartered Febru- ary 17, 1881. John W. Neale 32º, wise master; W. C. F. Reichenbach 32º, secretary. Stated meetings held on the second Friday of each month. Membership, 315.


Godfrey de St. Omar Council Knights Kadosh, No. 2, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Chartered February 15, 1884. William H. Wilson 33º, commander ; W. C. F. Reichen- bach 32º, recorder. Stated meetings held on the second Friday of each month. Membership, 302.


Topeka Consistory, No. 1, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Chartered April 28, 1892. Homer C. Bowman 33º, master; W. C. F. Reichenbach 32º, registrar. Stated meetings held on the second Friday in each month. Membership, 329.




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