The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
MRS. R0BlNSON'S NAME
Heads List of Lady Subscribers
to the Fund
For the Floral Fiesta of Fall
Festival Week.
A Well Attended Meeting Held by
the Ladies Yesterday, 20 Being
Present - Committee to Be
Greatly Enlarged

The arrangement of the floral feature
of the FAN Festival has been COM
menced i'm earnest.
A meeting of the ladies interested in
the flower parade was held in the rooms
of the Topeka Commercial club yester-
day afternoon and a material portion
of the work mapped out. Another
meeting Will be held at the same place
tomorrow afternoon at O'Clock, at
which "a large number of ladies are
expected to be present and at this
meeting the details of the work VIII De
taken up.
Twenty ladies responded to the call
for the initial meeting at the CONNER
cial club rooms yesterday afternoon
While the meeting was IN a sense
preliminary affair and no formal e8-
pr-ssions were made by any of the
ladies. yet individually all were enthuS-
iastic over the prospect of making the
floral parade this year a greater sue
cess than the parade of last year.
Mrs G. ). Sutton opened the meeting
with a brief speech in which she eX-
planned the plans for the parade this
year as far as decided on, and made
number of suggestions IN reference TO
the work of arrangement She said:
The object of the meeting this after
noon is to start the work of arranging
the floral parade next fall, Which 1t IS
hoped Will result in making the parade
this year even a greater success than
the parade OF last year. While L think
all were we'll pleased with the first
floral parade. yet this year it is hoped
to give the people of Topeka and of
Kansas generally something much
more beautiful.
The idea this year is to have a fes-
tival queen who will take part and be
at the head of everything during the
week Mayor Fellows turning over to
her the keys of the city on the first day
of the Festival week. The queen will
no fer q faf a
ladies in costume, and she and her
court will appear in all of the parades
and reviews, as we'll as at all evening
entertainments. In the paradeS the
queen and her court will occupy hand
somely decorated carriages except in
the Illuminated parade, when the royal
party will appear on float
ION Flower day, which we hope to
make the greatest day of the week, the
floral queen, child of or years,
with ten or twelve little tots as flower
girls. will ride on beautifully con-
Structed float in the parade. On ar
rival at the throne of the queen, Wher-
ever it may be decided to erect it, pos
sibly in Capitol square, the flower queen
viii be crowned by the festival queen.
ON the evening of that day the
floral ball Will be held, which will be
opened by a minuet in costume by the
court ladies and their gentlemen at
PENDANTS.
IN order to carry out the plans of
the floral parade, we of course must
have decorations. How many ladies are
willing to give time to making flowers,
or. if that is impossible, how many are
willing to pay for having the work
done at the rate of so cents a day?
know of several young ladies VINO DO
beautiful flower work who are VIKING
to work all summer for so cents per
day. Those who are unable to give
their time can assist as much by pay
ing for having the work done"
When Mrs. Sutton concluded two pa
present, one for the signatures of those
who would devote a portion of their
time each week to making flowers, and
the other for the SignC lures of those
who were unable to give their personal
attention but were willing to pay for
having work done. The majority of the
ladies signed the former paper, but
when the latter paper was returned to
Mrs. Sutton it showed the following
subscriptions:
Mrs. A. A Robinson. IS. 90
Mrs. B. T. Lewis Observation-Disclosures. ?. so
Mrs H. L Robinson. ...--.-...-... 200
Dr. Eva Harding. Observation-Disclosures. 500
Mrs. L. S. WOolverton.-. ..--.---..-. 200
Mrs. sutton then proposed to appoint
of the ladies present as soliciting com
mittee TO solicit either work in making
flowers or subscriptions for having the
work done from house to house through
out the city. This proposal met with
general favor, and at the meeting
Thursday afternoon the committee will
be enlarged. In the meantime the city
majority of the people in Topeka will
have an opportunity to do something
towards making the Floral parade a
success. 1t is proposed to make the So
nciting committee large and the dis
tricts small so that the entire city may
be thoroughly covered.
It was the general opinion of the la
dies present yesterday afternoon that
there should be a headquarters for the
Floral parade work near the business
portion of the city, and Mrs Sutton will
endeavor to secure a suitable room for
this purpose before the meeting tonor-
row afternoon. At the head0uart ers
Will be kept the supplies for decorations
and here ladies may carry on the work
of making flowers if they do not care to
do the work at home. The young ladies
who will be employed making flowers
during the summer will remain at the
headquarters, and the room will be
open TO the ladies OF Topeka every day
until the Festival week.
large attendance of ladies who re
Interested in the floral feature Of the
r an FESTIVAL is earnestly hoped for at
the Commercial club rooms tomorrow
afternoon.
Those who became members of the
committee yesterday afternoon were