The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-10-04
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What the Kansas People Say About
the Fan Festival


Topeka will lie in bed late tomorrow
morning and take bromide as it's first
dose on coming down stairs.-Abilene Re-
Hector, October l.
-Four Miles Longr' is the headline of
an exchange. Time was that this could
have referred in Kansas only to an ALI
ance parade. In this instance it referred
to the Santa Fe parade at the Topeka
Fall Festival, in which we'll paid and con-
tented laboring men bore the most con-
spicuous part.-Emporia Republican.
The special train got in from Topeka
this morning little after o'clock with
d tired lot of passengers, but all enthusi-
astic over the grand parade and the
splendid showing made by this division.
All declared that the floats from Chanute
exceled anything and everything from
other division points. The Chanute floats
were all Fight.-Chanute Tribune.
The Topeka Fall Festival has reached
that point where the complaint is a
scarcity of adjectives to describe it. The
flower parade yesterday was a thing of
beauty, hundreds of carriages, decorated
ponies and bicycles passing in line. 1t
was considered by many who had seen
both as surprising the famous flower car
nival at Colorado STANDARDIZATION
Globe.
Gerald volk was in the city few hours
this morning from Topeka, where he is
enjoying the carnival with the Press club.
He is decorated all over with buttons and
badges, and is eloquent in portraying the
hospitality and welcome afforded TO menu
bers OF the Kansas press. Even street
car passes are issued and not a cent for
anything is allowed to be spent while in
the city.-Wichita Star.
Each member of the Ottawa fire de-
partment was presented by the associa-
ton with fine badge a the Topeka tour
nament. On it were the words ''Wel-
come to the Second Annual Fall Festival
at Topeka, Kan, Sept. 9th to Oct. End,
1897" with a picture of a fireman rescu-
ing a baby from a fire. The badges
are very neat and are much priced by
the boys.-Ottawa Herald.
Topeka spent $1,000 on the militia en-
campment this year, but will not do it
again. The men were very disorderly
during Festival week, and their officers
had no control of them. During Carni-
val night it was ordered that the men re-
main in their camps, but they paid no
attention to the command and did as they
pleased. The militia will soon go to
pieces if this sort of thing is allowed
Atchison Globe.
The flower parade at Topeka yesterday
was one of the grandest sights of the Fall
Festival 1t rivaled the famous flower
parade of Los Angeles and put in the
shade the beautiful parade of last year.
Kansas City Will have to greatly improve
upon her parade of last year if she de-
sires to equal the magnificent display
There We're miles of buggies. horses and
bicycles and floats all decorated with
flowers. The town itself seemed to be
one immense flower garden. The Topeka
Fail Festival bids well to be the grand
estsuccess of the year.-Newton Repub-
nean.
Everybody in Ottawa felt we'll assured
when our band of gallant fire ladies in
their natty uniforms. marched away for
the froIic at Topeka that they would de-
serve the first and best prizes all around,
and every body felt pretty we'll satisfied.
too, that they would win one or more of
them. The result vindicated the prophetic
hope; our boys are back proudly bearing
the first grand prize as the best appear
ing department at the great assemblage,
and there We're p contesting departments
from the crack corners of the state. In
line of march. in superiority of drill in
department both in rank and on the
grounds and streets during their stay the
Ottawa boys outclassed all competitors.
They have returned satisfied with the eX-
tent of the show. The chief of the To-
peka fire department extended to them
every courtesy and the fairest of favors
throughout their stay.-Ottawa Republ-
can.
A representative of the Evening KAN
san and Master Mechanic J. E. Gavitt
stood on the ragged edge of a water bar
rel at the corner of Sixth and Kansas
avenues for two hours yesterday and
watched one of the gTandest sights of
their lives. On either side of them surged
a mass of people that appeared to end in
neither direction. The windows of the
buildings up and down the street were
crowded with expectant lockers. The
wealth of brilliant, fantastic and often
expensive decoration added beauty to the
scene 1t was Santa Fe day of Carni-
val week at Topeka. and by far the big
gest day of the week. 1t was a magnif-
cent demonstration of the development of
a cattle trail into one of the largest rail-
way systems in the world within the
space of twenty-five years-an achieve
ment without a parallel in the history OF
civilized NATURALIZATION Kansan.