The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-11-08
ELECTRIFY IT!
Startling Suggestion For the
Fall Festival
By a Topeka Man Who Has a
Happy Thought.
ELECTRICAL FLOATS
Built For the Proposed Night
Pageant,
Brilliantly Lit Up With Yari-
Colored Lights.
ARE THEY POSSIBLE?
Trolleys Would Have to Be
Mounted on Standards.
Would Advertise Topeka to the
THEY POSSIBLE?
Trolleys Would Have to Be
Mounted on Standards.
Would Advertise Topeka to the
Confines of the United States.

The STATE JOURNAL has received the
following communication which makes
q suggestion so entirely original and
novel and perhaps practicable, that we
print it below with the hope that the
promoters of the Fall Festival will see
their way clear to following it's sugges-
tion in its main details
To the Editor of the State Journal.
1t seems that every body is satisfied
that Topeka should have week of good
attractions next fall
believe it is now time to gather ideas
and designs as to how it could be made
the most novel and up-to-date carnival
that has ever been invented
In the first place we have a double
car track from one end of Kansas avenue
TO the other.
Now by building the floats on cars de-
signed for them and to have them pass
up and down the street each evening,
would be a grand sight.
There could be some wonderful elec-
trio displays produced.
The floats, to have a good effect, need
not be built SO high. The outside plat
form could come within few inches of
the ground and figure just high enough
to come under the wires.
By using a smooth track the floats
would move along without noise and rat
tie that you always hear if they are
drawn over rough and stony streets.
The persons will net appear ike sail
ors clinging for their lives to ship
wrecked vessel
Each display could be made much
more delicate and everything more eff
fective
We know this would cost lots of mon
ey; also that when we excel in this day
and age, it will be necessary for every
one interested to stir themselves into ac-
tion.
There is no limit to our possibility,
should Topeka decide to have an Elec-
trio carnival.
One or more search lights located on
the dome of the state house could play
on the different floats in such way tha
the effect would be wonderful.
Should the JOURNAL consider this idea
of carnival practical, l will design d
float on this principle and will submit to
them inspection and comment.
Respectfully.
WM. z. HUNTER.
Mr.. Hunter is a member of the firm
VIM F. Hunter, Bros. & Co., manufac-
turers of garden cultIvatOr and seed
drill His suggestion is one, which, if
carried out, would attract the attention
of the entire United States.
A trolley Car pageant would be a nov
city never before attempted anywhere.
OF course the street car company would
have to be paid and paid well to permit
the display. The cars to the number
of sixteen or twenty would have to be
constructed especially for the occasion
but aside from the motors, wheels aud
trolleys they could be of very cheap ma
terials AS they would be hidden by decor
ations. The troT1eys Would have to be
mounted on standards, but these stand
ards would be concealed by the materials
on the float
An electrical manufacturing company
might be induced to make the cars at 1
large discount for the sake of the ad9er.
tisement After they were once made
they could be used every year at the car
nivAl.
The illumination of these cars coulC
be made something magnificent by means
of colored globes, and the sight would bt
superior to anything seen in St. Louis
Kansas City or New Orleans
1t would advertise Topeka beyond the
dreams of the widest real estate agent