The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-13
THE AUDITORIUM.
Real Work on the Project to
Begin Tomorrow.
Commercial Club Will Discuss
Stock Company Plan,
ALSO THEGREAT FAIR.
A Sub Organization May Con-
duct the Auditorium Work.
Citizens Should Give Their
Hearty Support to Workers.

The real work of the auditorium pro-
Ject will be commenced tomorrow even
ing when the Commercial club will
adopt plans for carrying on the work.
c. S. Elliott and c. P. Adams, will
formally present the stock company
idea and will also suggest the organi-
zation of an auditorium association
to have charge of the details.
D. ]. GreenwaId's fair idea will be
elaborated before the club and if the
Commercial club decides to take hold of
the matter committee will be appoint
ed to work up the scheme. If an audi
forum committee is formed by dele
gates from various organizations the
1a!r VIII be turned over to the new COM
mittee.
The plan for raising the money for
the auditorium before suggested by Mr..
Adams is the formation OF a stock COM
pany which will have charge of the
auditorium for one or two years.
STOCK is to be sold at $40 per share
and that would require a sale of but
1900 shares to raise the necessary
amount. The money would be raised
on the assumption that it would be paid
back from the earnings from the build
ing during the time the board of dir
ectorS were in charge.
President W. H. Davis of the Com
mercial club is very much in favor of
reporter: Il believe that the CONNER
ctal club would take hold of the project
on a basis of that kind. I believe that
the club would take tWO-thirds of the
stock itself and that would leave but
400 shares to be sold outside"
Mr.. Greenwald as yet, has done moth
ing more toward pushing the plan to
have a big fair in which the clubs will
participate. He thinks that the for.ma-
ton OF an organization of delegates
from the various clubs to be known as
an auditorium assOcia ton should
have charge of all the entertainments
plans he
tfon Of such an association will be direct
iy in line with the ideas of Mr. Green
wald and he thinks that the new organ
fzation will take up the fair plan
The people are looking to the Com
mercial club to take hold of the audi
torium and push the project to com
pletIon. If the club decides that it is
better to make new organization in
which the club will be represented by
some of it's wide awake members and
other organizations in the city will also
have representation, there will be no
doubt of the success of the plans If
the club should decide to take hold
of the matter itself it would be directly
in line with it's purposes and the peo-
pie would feel that the city has an or
ganizatiOn to which they can give their
support in helping Topeka and to al
ways labor for it's interests.
H. w. Neiswanger is still talking
about building a combination audito-
rum and basement for rental purposes
He appeared before the directors of the
Topeka Athletic club last night and
asked that the association pledge itself
to use the basement of an auditorium
at a stipulated price. The club has
not acted upon the proposition.
Mr.. NeisWanger works upon the as
sumption that the plan of L. NJ. Craw-
ford to defeat the proposition to use the
coal hole fund will be successful but
no one is paying any attention to the
opposition. The people of Topeka
have decided to have an auditorium
and they will have one in spite of Mr.
Crawford or anyone else.
Mr.. Neiswanger's plan is to build the
auditorium at the corner Of Seventh
and Jackson streets and to sell enough
bonds to erect the building. He fig
ureS that a building such as he pro-
poses can be erected for S25, 900.
The members of the Commercial club
do not treat the opposition to the au-
ditoriUm with the same seriousness as
Mr.. NeisWanger.
The whole movement for the audito-
rum is essentially a public one, and the
auditorium will be built III the city
park unless a suitable site is secured
nearer to the center of the city