The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-30

| If they can haul SO.0 900 here this year.
| they ought to be willing to put the rate
| at a cent a mile. The Journal does not
| think it good policy to make a fight on
! the soldiers reunion at LeaVenWOrth. h.
The time to make that fight was at
Chanute. AntagOniSm and bitterness
is likely to be stirred up among the G..
A. r. which might be lasting. This
does not mean, by any means that To-
peka does not invite the old soldiers
! to her Fall Festival. She wants them,
and will see that they are looked after
as well or better than last year.
What is more Topeka wants all the
militia to come, too
Topeka will give her Fall Festival
just as she intends to give it every
year regardless of the reunion, which Of
course. we Will always take whenever
we can get it. With proper work and
advertising Topeka viii have 100, 900
visitors without the soldiers reunion;
besides it will leave us several thousand
dollars more to spend for other fea-
lures.
Last year the Committee of Fifteen
spent 81 500 for music 5000 for the fire
men, $500 for the dragon. $3.50 for the
flower parade, $3.50 for fireworks and
the balance of the $4,000 went for the
expenses Of keeping. up headquarters,
providing facilities for public comfort
and the rent of tents and making the
old soldiers and militia comfortable
The order will be reversed this year.
The Committee of Fifteen will have
more money to spend for special fea-
lures.
One Of the members of the Committee
of Fifteen said to Journal reporter:
We expended over Sc, 900 to entertain
the old soldiers last year and we must
devise plans to spend the money this
year in some other direction. That is
something with which our committee
will have to grapple. We have already
secured the state fremens' meeting and
there is no reason why We cannot Sc
cure other state organizations that can
be induced to meet in Topeka during
the Fail Festival. Last year the state
Bankers association met here and there
is no reason why others will not come
if they are invited in time.
We might invite the secret societies
to turn out and at least some of them
might hold state meetings here. We
must get the people here somehow and
then give them the biggest entertain
nent they have ever had
The finance committee of the Commit
tee of Fifteen has done no active work
for two weeks, but Chairman Green
valid told a Journal reporter last even
ing that the work will be resumed in a
few days and then there will be no rest
until the labOrs of the committee are
ended.
Treasurer GreenwaId now has So, 200
in sight OF that amount $1,440 re
mains from the fund last year The
subscription books show that 81 go has
been subscribed this spring and the
Committee has been out but three or
four times.
The Committee of Fifteen has author
lied the expenditure of 81, 500 for floats
and $125 for posters. There will be $500
set apart for the f1remen but that makes
up the entire expenditures provided for
up to date. The methods of employing
music have not yet been agreed upon
Some members of the committee are in
favor of hiring several bands to be on
duty during the week while others
think that the contest feature of last
year should be repeated. The commit
tee will probably be more liberal with
the women's flower committee this year
but the amount of appropriat tiOn has not
yet been discussed. Some money Will
be spent for fireworks, probably more
fund will be expended in startling fea-
lures that will be decided upon by the
Committee of Fifteen later.
The people of Topeka are watching
the Committee of Fifteen anxiously and
that organization will not disappoint
anyone The Fall Festival of 1897 will
live in history.