The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-14
LIKE THE WORLDS FAIR
We're the Enormous Crowds ia
Topeka Festival Week,
Says Ed HOch, and We Must Do
It Again.
Enthusiastic Praises of Topeka's Fall
Festival by Many More Editors.


The editors Of Kansas still continue
60 pour their praises on Topeka and
prove to US that we must repeat the
FAN Festival every year The follow
dng are some of the comments.
Topeka covered herself with glory,
last week. The Fail Festivities attract
ed an immense crowd of people, most
of whom put in the whole week there,
and every one of whom we think viii
vote aye on the proposition announced
IN the opening sentence OF this article
We have heard but one expression of
sentiment, and that is q. sentiment of
enthusiastic praise. The old soldiers
were royalty treated MaIiOn'S militia
company are loud in their praise of the
treatment they received The process
SlOns and the various displays were
magnificent The crowd reminded US
of the Worlds fair, in magnitude And
we were proud not only OF the size but
also of the character OF the crowd We
didn't see a single drunken man in the
vast throng- lit was a well dressed,
well fed, well behaved multitude In
short. it was a Kansas crowd We hope
Topeka viii repeat this entertainment
every year. People must have some
place to go, and it is vastly better for
them to get together and enjoy them
selves in q city of their own state, spend
their money themselves, and cultivaLe
state pride, than to patrOnize outside
clueS and sQuander their money away
from home Hurrah for Topeka and
her Fail Festivities Marion Record
The Topeka old soldiers Reunion and
Fan Festival last week. was the big
gest thing on ice" ever Witnessed in the
state Of Kansas. The veterans enjoyed
themselves TO the fullest extent, in re-
hearsin5 times agone, and fighting over
the bloody conflicts through which they
had passed But one thing alone serv-
ed to mar the full measure of praise
due the managers Of the Reunion, and
that was uncaIIed for and wholly
out Of keeping with the occasion. To-
peka hitherto has enjoyed an unenvia-
bic reDtadon for her disposition to
Ireeze OUT everything coming her
way and bowling loudly for more. But
having seen the folly of her ways. she
concluded to redeem herself on the Oc-
casiOn of the Reunion. and the Sentinel
gives it out cold that she succeeded be
yond the most sanguine hopes of her
visitors, that she succeeded TO q T. If
any tnlug was leEE unoOne which could
IN the least contribute TO the pleasure
interest and comfort of her visitors it
was the fault Of visitors alone for their
wants had only to be made known
when some one was Immediately at
hand to supply all delinQuencies. Bully
Tor Topeka! Bully Tor the Committee
Of Fifteen! Bully for the energy, skin.
taste and enterprise of TOpeka's fair
women, whose treless work for months
past cOntri buted in making the flower
parade a thing Of beauty and a joy for
ever May we OF the Sentinel live to be
with you in '97--Garden City Sentinel
During the past week Topel1a has
had on her Festival clothes. 1t was a
grand sight. Ten thousand times ten
viii number the vast concOurse- If peo-
pie who gathered 70 witness the grand
est spectacular treat seen since the
days when the beauties of fairy land
were open to human gaze. 1t was once
said that all roads led to Rome. but for
some time we have been constrained to
believe that all roads led to Topeka
and that all the world was coming to
see its gorgeous display.
Iopeka's first Festival was a grand
success Each succeeding parade was
the best and amidst the bewildering
array of beauty, from the labor pa
Tade'' on Monday to the''regulars sham
battle and the departure of Don Quix-
Dte and his dragon on Saturday none
could truthfuIy claim to be better than
another-all We're observation-disclosures
City Citizen
The Reunion and FaI Festivities at
Topeka last week knocked the stuffin
out Of the carnival at Kansas City this
week as far as Valley Falls was con
cerned About 40 people went on the
excursion train Tuesday morning to
Ehe Priests Of Pallas parade, and
Wednesday and Thursday the crowd
was very slim The people evidently
did not feel like kavorting kOmicaIv
they had kavorted the week before
Valley Falls New Era
Now that the Reunion and Carnival
are over at Topeka, a few reflections
very naturally come to the surface
There is no doubt that Topeka covered
herself with glory. so far as the mardi-
gras part of the entertainment is con
Cerned, thanks to the labor and me-
chanical ingenuity OF her working peo-
PIE. The floral display. through the
nice taste and deft fingers of the ladies'
was a thing of beauty and q joy for
ever. The city was made gay with
bunting, and the streets We're always
Interesting and lively with the vast
Hhrong who came from all parts of the
state The presence Of the three branch
es Of the military service from Leaven-
worth and Fort Riley, within easy
reach Of the city afforded an oppor-
Nunlty for great many Of the rising
generation 20 see the soldier in camp
az drill and the evoluttons of the field
Their presence was marked by great
regard for the wishes of the pOpulace
and by the best of department through
out the Week--Otta.Wa Journal
Apple Carnival at Leavenworth.
The great annual Apple Carnival at
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