The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-01
100000 PEOPLE.
That's the Probable Attend
ance at the Fall Festival
Beginning September 27th of
the Year 1897.
Grander and Finer Than the
First Festival.
1T is CERTAIN TO BE.
But Every Citizen of Topeka
Must Bestir Himself
To Make it SO-NO Tagging or
Whining.
MEET THE COMMITTEE
Who Give Their Time to SOlici-
ting the Fund
With a Cheerful Smile and a
Cheerful Handful of Cash.

| Chairman Greenwald of the Fall Festi-
! val finance committee at his store last
| evening. He had just returned from the
first trip made by the committee in quest
of funds and he was not in a happy frame
of mind.
People seem to think said he, that
they are helping us by contributing to
the Fall Festival. They do not appreciate
the fact that we working for nothing
and that we neglected our business to go
out and solicit funds.
The Fall Festival is surely a public
affair, but if we were working in our own
interests people could not be more care
less about how they treat us We stop
ped at several places today and the pro-
Prtetors would not talk to US. They said
US to call again. Time is money to most
of the committee and we are giving our
time to the cause of Topeka without ex-
pecting single cent in return
It is true that few people in Topeka
Committee of Fifteen is compelled to face.
Without a realization of that fact the
not be appreciated. If the members
OF the Committee of Fifteen were
fare of the city they might become
discouraged But they expect to encoun-
prised if they did not ind them.
The committee really did very well for
week to make the people understand what
IS coming, but the people of Topeka when
of the needs will rally to the Support Of
the Committee of Fifteen and wEl help
to make the Fall Festival this year the
grandest thing ever seen in the west.
The subscriptions taken by the finance
committee yesterday afternoon are as
follows
Topeka City raiIway....- $500
E1In avenue Holel-.-- .....-.--....... so
st. Nicholas Hotel. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 25
Total. .................-.. .$875
The committee win NOT do any work to-
day on account of merchants being busy
hair lie Ir1A
allowed to flag and the committee viii be
out early next week to reach the $4,000
The first thing that every citizen of To-
peka should bear in mind is that they will
year~one for the Fan FESTIVAL and the the
other for the auditorium. The money for
the auditorium is not to be raised by SUBJ
entertainments, by a musical festival
pie generally in small amounts, as they
would spend it for theaters, cigars or
The FAN Festival fund, however. will
be raised by subscription. Last year aft
er me FesLlyaI ended, many business men
ana men OF property We're so impressed
with the success and value to the city
of the Festival that they said they would
doubIe their subscription this year. They
should summon their energies and arouse
subscriptions.
The number of people who will come to
the Festival this year is very likely to be
twice what it was last year. Every vis-
1tor who went away from Topeka car
''-Q the Ilu1nSS OF the glory OF the EeS-
,lval with him and told all his neighbors.
This year he is coming back and Will
bring his neiShbOrs with him.
The Journal would not be surprised a
bit If 100000 people came to Topeka to at
tend the Festival this fall. and YOU know
The Journal is pretty good at guessing on
figures of this kind.
The railroads actually hauled 40 900
people to Topeka last fan. They win
haul nearer 5.O00 this fall with good
weather. The Rock Island and Santa Fe
railroads in view of the fact that Topeka
gets up this enormous Festival and puts
thousands of dollars into their treasl1ries
to the Festival fund and if they are
properly approached about it, we believe
they Will do it.
There is no question that the Festival
greatly benefited Topeka 1t turned the
eyes Of all Kansas on their capital citv
many years and thousands who had
never been here at all, came rejoicing and
went away rejoicing in still greater
measure. Scores of them came back
here to live, and if we keep these festi-
valS up 1t viii be the means of materially
ing several hundred thousand dollars into
the city annually.
One of the chief values of the Fall Fes-
uval. however, is that it gets 1.5O0. 600
people-the population of KanSas-accus-
toned to looking Topeka as a friendly
metropolis. one that gives a great big
party to all Kansas once a year and paws
all her social debts.
Raise the $1,000 and it will be repaid
tenfold.
There are many grand projects on foot
Tor the Fall Festival which The Journal
fall-maEk that