The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-03-20
LET us BUILD
AN AUDITORIUM
In Topeka to Hold Five ThOus-
and People.
Conventions All Leaving This
City in the Cold
Because We Have Not Sufficient
Accommodations
FOR LARGE MEETINGS.
Let Topeka Rally as in the Good
Old Days,
As One Man, and Put Up At
Once
Let Topeka Rally as in the Good
Old Days,
As One Man, and Put Up At
Once
THE MIGHTIEST HALL
In Kansas, of Substantial Ma
terial and Handsome.
Come to the Front, Men and
Citizens.

The conventions this year are going
TO Wichita. Abilene, Leavenworth and
Hutchinson, instead of Topeka-Kansas
City. (Kan.) Gazette.
There, men and brethren, in a nut
shell, is text for the people of Topeka
to ponder over.
The civic pride, the patriotism of To-
peka must be stirred.
The sentiment in favor of big con-
vention bali, which has been agitated
from time to time in the last few years
must become active.
Topeka needs a convention hall that
will hold not less than 5000 people.
This is a necessity to US, or we shall
lose the prestige we have always held
as the convention city of Kansas
Topeka is the logical place for state
meetings. 1t is easy of access from
every part of the state; it is the capital
of the state in which every citizen has a
personal pride and it has ample facilities
TO afford comfort to as many people as
can gather in its limits.
The city has just seen two large state
conventions taken away from Topeka,
principally for the reason that there is
no hall here in which the delegates and
visitors can gather comfortably, and the
people of Topeka may as we'll prepare
themselves to see the rest of the con-
ventions held in the smaller towns unless
they will come forward and do something
toward securing commodious conven-
ton hall which will be a credit to the
city and to the state.
This is a matter which requires i'm
mediate action. The place ana date of
the state conventions of the three politi-
cal parties will soon be fixed Will they
tiX on Topeka?
III
hold of this matter. Not merely the
merchants, but particularly those who
own real estate here. The man who
heads the subscription with good sum
will be hailed as a public bsnsfactor and
there are great many people in Topeka
with sufficient public spirit to make large
contributions if they felt the necessity.
Toy eka people are generous but they do
not all appreciate what are the real
needs of the city. When they do find
that Topeka must have 4 convention hall
they will rise up and build it. Now is
the time.
The hotel facilities of Topeka are the
best in the state. The talk made by the
papers of the smaller places that people
they come to Topeka is foolish.
There is probably not city in the United
States with the hotel facilities of Topeka |
where the rates are as low as they are in |
Topeka. There " as never a convention
or gathering of any kind held in Topeka |
when hotel rates were raised. A person |
can get accommodation In Topeka for 81 |
g day that will cost 81 in other of the |
larger towns of Kansas.
The truth of the matter is that the |
people who are fighting Topeka can |
make q good argument on the fact that |
there is 40 comnodious hall here and on |
nothing else There is absolutely no |
lection should be removed with the least
possible delay.
It is not merely our present needs that |
should be kept in view, but our future |
needs.
Competent business men say that a |
hall of sufficient sizs can be N ade to paw /
good returns on the investment. The
presence in Topeka of substantial hall
with a capacity of 5000 would insure US
scores of national conventions of trades
and commercial organizations, of which
there are now thousands. Meetings |
and conclaves of secret societies, of
charitable and religious organizations,
would all come here if conveuiences for
them are provided.
All these would be worth at least
81, 900 apiece year to each of the hotels
here and hundreds of dollars to everv
and not only that it would
bring thousands of people to Topeka
from all over the United States: ali the
citizen OF Topeka could
wish is = constant stream of visitors to
town to whom he could point out the |
beauties and advantages of Topeka:
many would he sure to invest in proper
ty or make their homes here.
No one who visits Topeka that is not
sharmed with the city; i@ broad avenues,
trees, handsome buildings,
lplendid schools, refined society, and the
almost total absence of serious crime or
criminals.
A big convention hall will bring us
more visitors than any other agency.
We must have it
We know that Topska's-Oid time push
md energy is not dead.
Who will be the frst to start the ball
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