The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-22
GOING TO LOOK SUPERB
All the Business Houses to BE
Magnificently
Adorned I'm Floral or Other Or
nate Designs.
a Few of the Business Houses Make
Known Part of Their Plans for
Festival Week.

There is hardly a business house on
Kansas avenue no matter how large or
how small that will not be decorated in
honor of the Festival and Reunion
Hundreds of designers are at work
and they will be busy until early Mon
day morning. Visitors in Topeka will
behold a bewiIdering array of beauty
as they pass up Kansas avenue. It
would be impossible to tell all that will
be done and besides the merchants
themselves are not anxious that their
intentions should be made public in
detail They want to surprise every
body.
The whole force in the clothing store
of d J. GreenWaId has been working
hard on flowers for several weeks and
the front of the store will be embOWer-
ed with them. There are roses, snow
balls and other well known flowers in
abundance and they will be arranged
in the best possible manner.
The store of the w. A L. Thompson
Hardware company will be decorated
with bunting but the designs have not
yet been agreed upon.
W. G. Cheffee will use the red, white
and blue crimped paper extensively in
decorating his store. Besides this he
will have three arc lights, red, white
and blue.
NJ. F. Rigby will put few interior
decorations but the front of store will
be decorated with green.
to out do all former efforts at decOra-
ton. There will be bunting, flags, cleo
trio lights and Chinese lanterns. There
will be electric lights over all the win
dows.
Warren NJ. Crosby will make no spec
ial decorations but both the interior
and front of his store will be covered
with bunting.
Electricians are already working in
the windows of S. Barnum & Co. Hun
dreds of incandescent lights are being
put in and there are some special de-
signs to be put up which will not be
Wiggin, Harding &Co. will use roses
and evergreens in designs appropriate
to the occasion.
The Levi Millinery company has been
working hard to have 5000 roses ready
to decorate their place of business. They
will probably not have that many but
there will be enough to make the front
a bower of flowers.
d. A. Clements will use red, white
and blue crimped paper and many extra
electric lights.
The Palace Clothing company will
have a fine electrical display, the de-
tails of which are kept a close secret.
The Golden Eagle Clothing company
has a gardener engaged who intends to
make the front of the store as pretty
as possible with both natural and ar
tificial flowers and evergreen.
Mrs. A. Demuth, Mrs. A. Tubbs and
Miss Blanch Wilson have charge of the
decorations of the Topeka Cash Dry
Goods company and they have beauti-
full designs ready to be put in each
window. Flowers will be largely used
in the decorations.
Otto Langhanke has charge of the
decorations of Crosby Bros. and he will
put in me entire week in making the
interior and exterior decorations. The
front of the store will be decorated with
evergreens, flags and bunting.
The AIills-Adams company will decor
ate with evergreens and red, white and
blue but the designs have not yet been
completed.
There are hundreds of others who
will decorate. Thousands of dollars are
being spent in identifying the business
houses along Kansas avenue by Tope-
ka's enterprising business men and it
is money well spent.