The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-20
ALL KANSAS COME
TOpeka's Second Annual Re-
ceptiOn to Kansas
To Be Made Grand BrOtherly
Meeting
OF All Of Her Citizens From
East to West.
HOW TO SECURE THEM
Special Efforts Must Be Made
by Topeka
To Bring the People of Kansas
Here
Through Their Societies and
Organizations.
SPECIAL R. R. RATES
Can Be Made For Parties Much
More Reasonably.
Ask All the Fraternal Societies
SPECIAL r.. r. RATES
Can Be Made For Parties Much
More Reasonably.
Ask All the Fraternal Societies
to Come.

Topeka has just four months to get
ready for her annual grand reception to
the people of Kansas known as the Fall
Festival
Last year we had $4,000 people here.
This year we expect 1900 to 100000. To-
peka is in better shape to entertain visit
ors than she was last fall Times are
better. business is better. there is a lit
lie more money in circulation and the
subscriptions of our citizens to the Fan
Festival fund are larger than they were
last year.
The success of the Fall Festival as ev-
erybody knows, lies in getting our neigh
bors and friends from all over Kansas
to come to our entertainment. 1t matters
not how gorgeous the displays. how much
labor is spent on the affair. how much
money is raised. if the people do not
come.
Therefore. first and foremost. we must
see to it that the people of Kansas are
induced to visit Topeka during the Fail
Festival. WE MUST HAVE THE PEO-
PIE! How are we to get them? This is
the problem to which the Committee of
Fifteen and all other public spirited citi-
zens must bend their energies. All plans
to this end should be given every encour>
beseeched to think of schemes which will
bring the visitors here. Every sugges-
tion of this kind should be given encour>
agement and should be weighed and con-
sidered
There will be a large attendance as a
matter of course, of people who will be
attracted by the ordinary advertising
and especially of those who came last
year and Will come again. expecting
greater enjoyment. but in order to aug
ment this attendance efforts should be put
forth in special lines to insure the attend
ance to be beyond all doubt.
Several plans have been suggested. One
is to celebrate the anniversary of the
Santa Fe railroad. This ought to bring
10000 Santa Fe people to town. While
the Rock Island might feel touch of
jealousy at this celebration. there is no
reason why it should. for it will have the
opportunity of hauling thousands of the
visitors here. and the Rock Islands
chance to celebrate will be coming along
one of these days. too.
one of the best suggestions for getting
a crowd here is that of inviting every
secret society in the state to hold a grand
5oluhcation here. The Knights of Pythias,
the Ancient Order of United Workmen.
The Odd Fellows. the Masons the KNIGHTS
and Ladies of Security. the Order of the
Pyramids, the Modern Woodmen. and an
tho fraternal orders should be invited
and they should come. For as this is a
grand reunion of the people of Kansas.
where they are to manifest their broth
erly feeling for each other, what could be
more fitting than that all the brother
hoods should meet at one time and let
the public judge by their relative strength
of the immense power they exert toward
knitting mankind together for benevolent
and charitable purposes.
great day should be devoted to the
benevolent societies in which they should
parade with floats and banners and in
their splendid robes of office. The effect
on those who do not now belong to these
societies would be tremendous. and would
be such convincing argument of the
power of these great organizations that
thousands of new recruits would be add
ed to them.
The local lodges should at once take
up this matter and work up the plan of
invitation in such manner that the
other lodges in the state would accent
The mayor and council will make a
special provision for such a Fraternal
Festival and the Committee of Fifteen
Will provide funds for it.
These are one or two of the plans sug~
gested for making this reunion of the
PEOPLE of Kansas more successful and
more comprehensive than the last one
The invitations should not. be limited to
the secret societies alone. but extended to
all societies and organizations. What
Kansas needs is a grand love feast of all
its people We ought to get together at
least once year in friendly communica-
ton; talk. walk and jollify as one family,
rub off the corners and extend the hand
of fellowship to every human being who
makes Kansas his home. It is the Sun
flower states great gathering together
from the Colorado border to the Mis-
souri, river and from Oklahoma to the
Nebraska line All Kansans who are
away should come home again if only for
a few days Kansans should renew their
fealty to the golden sunfiower. and gath.
ored in the capital of the greatest state