The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-08
STIRS YOUNG BLOOD.
No Enthusiasm Like That at
the Carnival Meeting
Held by the KarniEal Knights
Last Night.
Marshall's Band Plays q Hot Time
and Thousands Sing It = Sale
of Buttons Large

street DeloW there was a mass or peO-
pie last evening the like of which is
seldom seen in Topeka. Totally up
roarious but not in the least rowdy the
crowd enjoyed the entertainment of the
karnival knights thoroughly. The
warm evening and warmer hall put up
the temperature to great height and
the evenings entertainment was most
appropriate to the KarnivaI knights
song, "A Hot Time in the Old Town.
Marshalfs band occupied a position
the front. Charles K. Holiday, the
King of the Karnival Knights" ar
rayed in a cutaway suit of black and
wearing a broad smile, sat at the
the east side and to the rear of the
stage the speakers and prominent Kar-
nivaI knights had seats. Two-thirds
of those present had removed their
coats.
At the right of the stage a facsimile
of the KarnivaI button four feet in di-
ameter stood.Th crowd was expectant
and everything seemed ready. Chair
man Holiday arose and tapped for or
der.
MarshalTs band played s'There'u Be
a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"
and a large crowd cheered. The Modocs
sang the Hot Time song and the
band and entire audience Joined in the
chorus; Such chorus has never been
heard in Topeka before. People in the
western part of the city heard it.
Charlie Holiday said: we are
Sdln0IGu mere OIASnl 10 DOOD1 our Car
nival and to sell our Karnival BUTTON
Mr.. Holiday said the mark of civiliza-
tion is the button.
A. w Dana addressed the chairman
as Most High Muckymuck" He said:
Some have said that the button had
not the picture of a Topeka young lady
upon it. Will bet all 1 am worth that
it is Topeka young lady. (Voice from
the crowd: How much?). Well, don't
put it too high, but that is the pretti-
est and sweetest young lady in Tope-
ka." Continuing Mr.. Dana said THE
karniva1 merrymakers will have a
roaring good time but no rowdyism. If
this occurs the offenders will be loaded
into the hOOdlum wagon and hauled
down to Henry Steele's place.
With fiowery introduction by Chair
man Holiday Joseph G.. Waters was
called forward. With a flourish of his
arms and a voice which seemed to have
behind it a pressure of 100 pounds, Capt
Waters said: My friend Dana is like
a Hindoo idol; he is ugly, but he's
poetry which Governor Lewelling wrote
before he broke his sausage machine
1 will read it to you:
The man who wants no truck with us to-
And Will not buy the stuff we have for
He is the rooster. if we judge him right,
whose lone suspender sports shingle
Our big wide streets will flow with tur-
And gasoline submerge our crowded
While Overmyer is here to touch the mine
With one of his inf1ammatory talks.
The buttons fine: its picture is a girl
Who absolutely lives within this place
Come purchase one and give the thing
And help us humans of human race.
Old timers, scoffers. dudes and wicked
You'll see the red hot. moulten fires at
play
You'Il never see a sight like this again
Until your sentence on the judgment
The sky will be one bright vermilion SPOT
The rockets rise and all their sticks win
But hotter STILL in fact, quite hottentot
VIII be the scissor tail cIawhammer
ball.
The man who cares SO little for his town
And will not help-there comes a time
When he shall in the Yukon river dro,,,,,
Or tumble off the frigid Chilkoot pass.
vociferOuS applause
In the absence of Gov Leedy. Ed
ward G Little was called upon for a
speech What he said the crowd liked
much with the exception that three
times he referred to little old Topeka
But, oh how different in the morn
ing, after the Carnival will be his ref
erence to it. 1t will be somebody else
who will feel little and old then
Abilene will be here for the Festival
with her 10000 inhabitants to help lit
tie old Topeka will have the dogs of
Egypt here if they can be obtained 7
think that button of yours is a hand
some thing. Cooking DOWN. That head
is the prettiest one that ever adorned
this virgin bosom of mine. cloud laugh
ter and long continued cheers) L can
thank you for the people of the state
for the big time you will show them"
(ApplauSe)
Harry Stafford walked to the front of
the stage amid generous applause. He
said:
THE. committee asked me to speak.
and 1 asked them what L should talk
about. They said, about a minute
and 1 then asked them what should
speak about, and they said nothing
So concluded they wished me to talk
about the chairman. Naughter.) At
the Ralston Health club picnic at Gar
field park, DR.. H. w. Roby is to read a
paper on whether water is healthful or
not. On Carnival night you should be
very careful. Don't do anything rash
If the doctor should decide that it is
all right, don't use it unless 1t is ap-
proved and tested by Frank Foster and
the Committee of Seventeen. On Car
nival night there will be brilliant lights,
beautiful women and sparkling-hy
drant water"
County Attorney A P Jetmore ad-
dressed the knights as follows:
I suppose we all are to be as ridic-
ulous as possible that night and to have
fine time 1 will promise this much.
The county attorney won't be seen
Carnival night,so that complaints won't
be filed with him. I understand that
the Committee of Seventeen will be in
Potwin that night If that is true, we'll
have hot time in the old town that
night
Tom McNeal made one of the best
speeches of the evening. He said in
part;
1.-The first Carnival ever held was
when the ark landed on Mount Ararat
and Noah went outside and sang: "A
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
On Carnival night there will be all sorts
of beautiful things. There will be a
curtain drawn across Kansas avenue at
Ninth street to shut off the moonlight.