The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-16
1T is WORTH 1T.
Tomorrow Give Freely to the
Fall Festival Committee.
Fully $4,000 People Are Com
ing to the Show.
And Every Citizen Should Sub
scribe to the Fund.
CITY CENSUS GREW
Nearly 1000 Last Year After
a StandStill.
Will Grow Two or Three ThOus-
and This Year.
TO BRING PEOPLEHERE
For Amusement, Induces Them
to Locate Here.
Visitors Sure to Spend Hun
dreds of Thousands, Besides
Not a Topeka Man Should Re-
fuse to Contribute.

Ihe number of people who will attend
the Topeka Fall Festival is estimated
at from $4,000 to $1,000. There will be
one-third more people here than ever
assembled in Topeka before
There will be fully 5000 Santa Fe en-
ployes from outside Topeka
There will be anywhere from 25 to
40 brass bands, as many of the Santa
F'e delegates to Topeka will bring their
own bands.
The entire national guard will be
here and all the troops from FIT. Riley,
numbering altogether nearly 1000 arm
ed men.
Practically the entire western half
of the state where they have raised the
big wheat crop, will be in Topeka The
vast aSsemblage will probably spend
$500. 900 to S50O.000 in the city
Every person in Topeka will profit by
their presence here, aside from the
pleasure to be gotten out of the weeks
jollification.
Since last years Festival ]. 900 peop1e
nave been added to Topeka's popuIa-
for five years.
This years Fall Festival may add
two or three thousand more; it pays to
bring the people here and entertain
them. They get a liking for the city
and desire to make their homes here.
Everyone ought to help in the building
up of the city
People of Topeka will be given a
last opportunity to subscribe to the Fall
Festival fund tomorrow. The amount
is still $4,000 short of that secured last
year. and that sum, at least, must be
secured tomorrow.
The Committee will meet at the
council chamber at o'clock tomorrow
morning. Every member is expected
to report for duty. The names of sub
scribers have been carefully copied in
small books to be used for reference.
There are some business men who re-
fused to give at first who will be ready
given an opportunity. The committee
will be divided into delegations of two
may be possible that the work will not
be completed tomorrow, and in that
event another day will be taken.
1t is rather surprising that anyone
should be found in Topeka who would
refuse to help out the Fall Festival in
the face of the success of last years
venture. A prominent business man
says that the celebration last year did
Topeka more than $780, 600 worth of
permanent good and other prominent
citizens aScribe the revival in business
directly to the Festival.
The citizens of Topeka contributed
but $4,000 to the entertainment last
year. The investment was surely one
of the best ever made by the people.
This year the expenditure will be
more than doubled and the Committee
of Fifteen does not expect the increas-
ed expenditure to come directly out of
the pockets of the people. The sub
scription list should, however, be at
least S2,UUO more Inan last year when
the people know that the event is not
an experiment in any sense.
Topeka cannot afford to have any
part in the Fall Festival a failure. The
people Of Kansas will be here in a body
and they must not be disappointed.
The man who sits back and hopes to
profit by the contributions of others of
profit by the contributions of others
is not fit to live in Topeka-he
should move to some fossilized town
where moss grows in the streets as we'll
haa nf will
take an effort on the part of everyone
in Topeka to secure the desired end
There must be no Shirking now.
The Committee of Fifteen is compass
ed of public spirited men who are de-
voting almost their whole time to the
welfare of the city. There is not a sin
gle member of the Committee who ex-
poets any personal gain from the Fall
Festival. They are satisfied if Topeka
is benefited. Still there are a few peo-
pie in Topeka who seem to take the
visits of the Committee as personal
affront-these people are few, it is true,
but they are here.
The citizens should make the round
of the Committee tomorrow one of tri-
umph. There should be no diSappoint-
ments. Some members of the Commit
tee have been rather fearful that the
expense of the Festivities will be great
er than the income, and this is a good
time for the people of Topeka to dem
onstrate that they are behind the Com
rnittee and do not propose to see the
splendor of the Fall Festival dimmed
by a lack of funds.
The books of the treasurer now show
81, coo in subscriptions, and the people
at large must contribute more literally
Every dollar helps and the Committee
will refuse no subscription, however
small.
The expenses of the Fall Festival as
sociation have been increased several
thousand dollars by the contract for
state encampment of the Kansas Ma
tional Guard but the guard will in
sure 20. 900 more people and the price to
be paid will not be too hight is a
feature well worth coming to Topeka
to see and an ordinary Kansas town
would consider the state encampment
alone sufficient to furnish entertain
ment for a week.
Everything indicates the presence of
at least IS, 900 visitors in Topeka dur
ing Festival week and they must be en-