The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-07
THE SANTA Re PAGEAN T.
Its Line of March Has Been
Mapped Out
And 1t Will Pass Over Four
Miles of Streets,
Thus Enabling 100000 People to See
it Without observation-disclosures
Festival News.

The monster Santa Fe celebration pa
rade, to take place in this city on Wed
nesday of Festival week, is commencing
to assume tangible proportions. At the
special meeting of the executive COM
mittee last night Mr.. c. w. Kouns, the
Santa F'e member of the Committee of
Fifteen. was elected chief marshal of
Santa Fe day, and committee ap-
pointed to confer with him in arrang-
ing the line of march of the big parade
and the programme OF the exercises OF
the day.
c. F. CaVert of the general offices, Mr-
A. NJ. Baird of the shops, Mr.. William
Hamilton of the engineers and Mr. j.
H Griffith of the conductors. In con-
ference with Mr.. c. w. kouns and Mr..
c. c. Henshaw, secretary pro tenn, the
line of march and programme will be
arranged at meeting tonight and re-
port submitted at the regular meeting
of the executive committee tomorrow
| night.
| Mr. Kouns was present at the meeting
| last night and he submitted to the con-
| sideration of the committee line of
march for the parade which he had
| mapped out. In this the parade was
not scheduled to pass along Jackson
street TO the west of the Santa Fe gen
eral Office building, and this was sug
gested as advisable for the reason that
many of the families of the general
office employees can be accommodated
at the windows of the building and on
| the. elevated strip of yard fronting on
Jackson street. With change by
which this can be accomplished the
line of march as suggested by Mr..
Kouns will probably be adopted at the
subcommittee meeting tonight. 1t is
follows:
Formation of parade on Quincy street,
and reviewing stand al the east en-
trance of Capitol square at Ninth and
on Quincy street to First street, west on
First street to Kansas avenue, south on
Kansas avenue to Ninth street, west on
Ninth street to jackson street, north on
Jackson street to Eighth street, west on
Eighth street to Harrison street, south
on Harrison street to Ninth street,
peka avenue, south Topeka ave-
nue. to the fair grounds. lit may be as
well to call attention to the fact that
First street is occupied by railroad
tracks. Second street is the first paved
street.
The exercises in the afternoon, which
will consist of addresses by President E.
p. Ripley, George r. Peck, Colonel c.
K. Holiday, w. B. Strong and others,
will be held at the fair grounds COM
mencing at o'clock. In the evening
by the Committee of Fifteen as a spe-
cial entertainment in honor Of the Santa
Fe visitors
In reference to the souvenir badges, it
was decided by the executive committee
last night that the badges should be
sold to all parties desiring them outside
| was brought up by Mr.. c. c. Henshaw,
the secretary pro tenn, who said:
| Il want the matter of selling the SOU
| venir badges to outside parties decided
I tonight. The Palace Clothing COM
| pany has offered to place the badges on
| a handsome design for sale in their win
quests from outside parties for the
badges. Are the badges to be sold to
people outside of the employees
| Mr.. Kouns-AS L understand it, the
/ badges are for sale to all who have
| the money to buy them. We want
| everybody to wear them. L also suS-
gest that souvenir badges be sent with
| the compliments of the committee to
| the different newspapers along the line.
| This suggestion was afterward put
in the form of motion, which carried
| unanimously.
Mr.. Henshaw-The question of the
number of badges to be ordered by this
| committee is one which think should
| receive consideration. One thousand
badges have already been received and
| disposed of in this city, and a second
thousand is now on the way. This
| second thousand is already taken by
orders, all in this city. Samples have
| been sent out on the road, and orders
will probably be in in few days.
Mr.. Kouns-If the second thousand
is already taken, think the secretary
| will be safe in ordering another thous-
| and. I think this matter can be satis-
| factorily taken care of by the secre-
/ tary promptly ordering badges as soon
as the supplies are exhausted from time
| to time.
1t was the opinion of the committee
that from 10000 to Is, 900 badges would
/ be needed to supply the demand. White
/ head HOag & Co, the firm which is
| manufacturing the badges, is able to
| prepare the badges on a short notice,
| and in this way there will be no trouble
| in supplying the demand.
/ Mr.. c. r. Cavert-AS chairman of the
| entertainment committee, wish to re-
| port that we have secured Hamilton
| hall as the Santa Fe headquarters from
| Tuesday afternoon up to Friday even
| ing. 1t was the best location to be Sc
cured, and in the event of bad wea ther,
| which, of course. we are not going to
| have. the addresses of the officials can
| be made there.
Mr. Alex Laird-We want an attract
| i've sign on the outside of the build
| ing to advise the people that it is the
| Santa Fe headquarters.
| Mr.. W. E. CARRIE will see that such
| a sign, one that people can't get by
without seeing, is prepared at the
| shops
| The last business done by the commit
| tee last night was the election of Mr.. J.
F. Mitchell as treasurer Adjournment
i was then taken until tomorrow night.
KANSAS AND THE FESTIVAL