The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-25
EVERYBODY
Is COMING.
To the Topeka Fall Festival
of 1897.
Santa Fe Flooded With Letters
About 1t.
WHAT ARE WE DOING
To Entertain the 100000 Kan
sas People Expected
Are Some of Our People Sour
and Sulking!
REFUSING TO HELP
They Ought to Be Ashamed Of
Themselves.
Our Visitors DON'T Care About
Our Quarrels.
They Are Coming Expecting to
Be Entertained.
EVERY TOPEKA MAN
Ought to Shrink From the
Responsibility
EVERY TOPEKA Man
Ought to Shrink From the
Responsibility
Of Gripping the Festival and
Angering Our Visitors.

'If you don't think the people are
coming to TOpeka's Fall Festival, just
look at the pile ofJetters there
Those letters are all from people
over the state. who want to come to To-
peka's Festival They contain inquir-
les about the programme and whether
We are going 70 grant a special rate.
About half of the letters are from
Kansas editors. They want to know all
about the Festival. I guess I will have
10 turn the correspondence over to you
newspaper men, or the Committee of
Fifteen, to answer them.
That isn't all, either. Every time I
go on the road I meet dozens of people
who ask me about the Festival They
all seem to want to come to Topeka.
All the agents of the road keep writing
about the Festival They say they have
inquiries about it. tell you it looks as
If everybody in the state would be at
the FESTIVAL this year. If all the people
who are talking about it come, last
years crowd won't be in it.
Let them 90 on with the Festival
the crowd will be here. Gen. Passenger
Agent w. J. Black, of the Santa Fe
One hundred thousand people are
coming to Topeka to attend the FAN
Festival and here We are fussing and
fuming among ourselves instead of get
ting ready to receive them
Topeka people who are putting OBJ
stecles in the way of the Fall Festival
ought to be ashamed of themselves
Shall it be said of Topeka that the peo-
pie of the state came to visit her and
suitable preparations were not made to
entertain them? Last years great Fes-
tival proved that Topeka is the most
munihcent entertainer in the state if
not in the whole country The reputa-
tion for hospitality which we ACQUIRED
last year is liable to be marred bv some
of our citizens who are now su1line
without any good cause. Our visitors
when they come will neither know nor
care for the cause of their i'll treatment.
IL they receive any. They are not in
terested in our local fights And if To-
peka does not do her duty by them they
will go away and Topeka will never
near the last of it. It is in the power of
those who are hanging back to blast
Iopeka in such a manner that She will
not recover from it for a dozen years.
Is there any man or set of men baro
who want to bear the responsibi1it11 f,.
such action? We should hone nor Tho,
VIII he sure to be singled out and re-
Hhembered. Every man in Topeka who
thfoWs his influence against the Dronos
ed entertainment of the people of kan
sas VIII be pointed out by his follow
citizens as: There is one of the r,ar,
VINO killed the Fail Festival" VIZ
wants to enjoy a reputation like tba+9
ME some Of the people of ToDelra
are a few others who have clIt +1,',i,.-
tWO- WhIle the Journal does nor tbi1i-
II Iishl 10 urge those to give more who
u- Hot financially able to do so the
5-LG.9aL LG9aL OF Two or three large financial
ms sGtuuons to make their sIlbscrirtiO17e
- laISe as last year has had an ev
IremeIy bad effect on the otbar III
scflpefS. The influential mOneve5 NO., |
ought 10 keep UP 10 the standard 60
laPlshed last year at least. ana not
sink below it. anu NOT
The FAN Festival took To,a1-, -.
OF the list of dead. sleepy towns o-oS
put it among the active erfa,-,l7.5s~.i- -
ones Considering the present indrs
ulal ana nnancial condition of tba
country, Topeka is doing better. in -
ancial, industrial and building r9a++a,.e 80
than any town of its size in the v-ag+
The bright hopes and prospects of tbie
Year are in a great measure due to the
new life and vigOr infused into To
peka by the Fall Festival We fear
IeW people in this town rate its effect
TOO low. An assemblage like that held
at Topeka last fall brings so MANY
thousand people here that would never
have come at all without the induce
ments offered that hundreds of them
afterwards decide to make it their
home. One of the great factors that
makes cities like Chicago, New York
Kansas City, Denver and MINNEAPOLIS
grow SO rapidly is that there is aIyvavs
something going on there to attract
thousands of visitors. Advertising a
city pays, just like advertising a bust
ness, and the advertisement given To-
peka by the Fail Festival is worth at
least S250,00 year to the town
Now. are we going to throw avav
$3.50, 900 worth of advertising?
There may be some things about To-
peka that some of the people in To-
peka may not like. but as long as they