The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-29
At APPLEWORTH.
The Carnival at Our Up River
Neighbor
Was a Stem Winder; Apple
Stem -Winder.
HAD GLORIOUS TIME.
An Apple Caused Adams Fall,
But Not Leavenworth'S.
She Made a Day of 1t Buried in
Apples.
SOMETHING NOT NICE.
Our Car in the Million Club
Train a DiScredit,
Was a Sight to Make Topeka
Blush.
Hereafter, Let's Do Things Right
or Not at All.
She Made a Day of 1t Buried i'll
Apples.
SOMETHING NOT NICE
Our Car in the Million Club
Train a Discredit,
Was a Sight to Make Topeka
Blush.
Hereafter, Let's Do Things Right
or Not at All.

If somebody had squeezed Leaven-
worth at most anytime yesterday he
would have been able to dilute the mud
in the Missouri river with the result.
Long before Sunday the town was full
of fine large juicy apples, and long be-
fore Monday night it was also full of
fine large juicy crowd that was having a
fine large juicy time.
It was distinctively Leavenworth's
day. Leavenworth was entertaining and
she was doing it in a truly Leavenworth
way, 1t was her apple carnival, and
there were rumorS on the
street, and they were not lost,
that the police had been locked
up. The lid had been taken off the town
aud thrown away. There were no marks
of haste on the days good time though
there should have been for the apple
carnival was a hastily sprung idea and
hastily carried out
The town was full and the narrow
streets seemed narrower than ever, and
they grew narrower still as the day pro-
gressed and the fun grew thicker. The
lin horn irres ponsible was there and rea
son was left out of the question. The
noise was terrific as it has been in Tope-
ka many time.
When it comes to decoration Leaven-
worth is clearly giant. There were
apples everywhere, The buildings were
in the windows and on the
walls in the most bewildering
profusion of designs. There were harps
of apples, flags of apples, arches of ap-
piles, ladders, stars, crescents, bridges,
railroads, engines, wagons, cigars, dia-
monds, drapings, notices. pyramids, and
almost every design, it seemed, that
human ingenuity could devise and human
hands could construct. Riders had their
horses brides covered with apples. men
and women wore apples on their hats
and clothes. There were watch chains of
apples and wagons that looked like NOV
ing masses of apples. The sun arose.
and his first beams fell on an apple. He
set, and sat on one.
Leavenworth had started out to 'do
he'self proud sab. an she done it."
1t was eleven o'clock before the train
got in bringing with it the cars that went
east today as the "MillioL" advertising
train to bring people to Kansas. If the
cars don't break down before tn ey get to
Chicago it will be wonder. The fruit
vegetable and grain displays they con
tanned were very fine, but the cars Sc
lected to take them were "a dis
grace to any road or township,
and the Topeka and Shawnee county
car YVES the most disgracefu.
It was the remains of what might once
have been fairly good freight car but
so much paint had been knocked off it
during its 1913 years of service that it was
no longer d thing of beauty. About half
of 1t as covered with most sorrowfui
attempt at decoration with yellow corn
stalks. Part of the car was not covered
with anything, and the dull red was most
uncompromisingly ugly. The Arkansas
valley car was the best looking The dec
orations on it were we'll done.
The cars should either have been
painted for the occasion or decorated in
a way to cover up their hideousness. 4
great many people went to see the train
and every body laughed when they saw
the Shawnee county car. A Topeka
man who should be voted bonds for do
ing it stood by the car for awhile with
great drops of sweat on his brow and
told many people that the car was from
Wichita
The train was in charge of Mayor
Hook and Z. Jamison, of Leavenworth,
and left that place this morning. 1t
stopped in Kansas City today.
On Wednesday, October 80, it will show
in Marceline, Mo: on Thursday, October
81, at Bncklin. Mo-; on Friday, Novem-
Der ], at La Plata Mo; on saturday,
November 3 at Fort Madison, Ia; on
NJ Monday, November 4 at Stronghurst,
Ill; on Tuesday, November ), at Gales
burg, ILL.,; on Wednesday. November g.
at Princeton, Ill; on Thursday, Novem-
ber Z, at Chillcothe, ILL.,; on Friday,
November s. at Toluca, Ill.,: on Saturday,
November 8. at Streator. Ill; on Tuesday,
November 70, at LockDort, ILL.,; on
Wednesday, November 13, at Lamont,
ILL.,, aud will arrive in Chicago Thursday
November IA, and spend the remainder
of tho week there.
1t was on this train that the mayor
and city council of Topeka arrived, and
they proceeded about with that vivac-
ity and charming abandon fo- which the
Topeka mayor aud city council are so
we'll known. They went to the National
hotel of course, and then they went down
10 see Senator Baker in bis law office.
The senator was glad to sac the Topeka
people aud shook hands with all of
them. Apple King Wellhouse was the
spokesman, and caromed on Senator