The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-28
DENVER'S FESTIVAL.
What the Capital of Colorado is
Doing,
For Terrestrial of Mountain and
Plain This Year.
Pointers for Our own People and
News That Will Interest the So
600 People of Topeka Who
VIII Take Part in Our
Festival.

Denver is moving rapidly in the work
for the FESTIVAL Of Mountain and
Plain" next fall The following appears
in the Denver Republican:
Judging from recommendations Of
committee on plans, having in charge
the preparations for the approaching
Mountain and Plain festival. as well as
from some of the designs for floats now
on exhibition at the offices of Director
General Speer. the celebration this year
viii far eclipse in every respect the
pageant of last fall. Every feature win
be greatly improved upon and many
new ones added. But in order to know
exactly how far the initial effort can be
surpassed, it viii be necessary to as
certain at the earliest possible moment
the prObab bic amount OF the suDScIlp-
lions to be relied upon for this purpose
Therefore. the soliciting committee
who begin their labOrS this morning. de
sire to impress upon all the absolute
necessity of q prompt as well as lib
eral response to their appeal for sub
sCriptiOns
The Republican says editorially:
GOOD progress has been made i'm pre-
pairing Tor the festival of Mountain and
Plain to he given i'm this city next fall.
The success which attended the festival
last autumn has encouraged the gentle
men having the matter in charge this
year to prepare for a celebration on
much grander and more Deautltul
scale
"The plan of the parade has not yet
been determined upon, for IT Will de-
pend somewhat upon the amount OF
money that Will be available But 1t IS
expected that there viii be little diff
Guilty in securing liberal subscriptions,
so that the festival may be in all re-
spects creditable to Denver and pleas
Ing to visitors who may come to the
city at that time Denver ought to do
something Tor the entertainment of its
many friends in the mountain and plain
cities surrounding this place and we
have not the least doubt that it viii do
so i'm an admirable way
THE committee appointed TO solicit
subscriptions for the festival fund will
begin its work today. Business and pro-
fessiOnal mon viii be called upon with
the request that they subscribe liberal
sums. remembering the benefit that the
festival Of last autumn was to Denver
in many ways. There should be no hest
tation about subscribing Business is
ditiOn to make more liberal subscrip-
tions than they did a year ago.
1T should be remembered that this
festival is an advertisement of not Den
Yer alone, but OF the state at large as
well. One object is to present q picture
of COlOradO's various resources in min
eral, agricultural and other wealth and
these resources are So varied that it
viii not be difficult TO make a showing
better than that of any other state in
the union. There has been a great de-
veIOpment of COlOrado's gold resources
in the last few years and it is going
steadily and rapidly forward An Op-
Dlrtuu1ty viii be given to show this TO
be a fact in the parade which will be
one of the principal features of the fes-
tival occasion. Thus the state at large
is interested. and it is hoped that in ev-
cry county an effort viii be made to
resources for which each county may
be distinguished