The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-15
A s'Feature" and a Booth for
Sale of Articles.
Band Concerts and Fireworks to
Draw Crowds Daily.
MUSIC AND TABLEAUX
Attendance During the Week
Should Reach 10000.
Fair Would Raise $4,000 and
Might Raise $4,000 More.

A fair as a means of raising money to
build the auditorium as suggested by
Mr.. D. J. Greenwald seems a feasible
plan to accomplish that end-perhaps
the most feasible. The amount to be
raised is $40, 900.
In view of the fact that our citizens
will be asked to also raise a large
sum for the Fall Festival, the audito-
rum fund would be much more easily
obtained through an entertainment of
this kind, by which the amount could
be evenly distributed among the people,
each contributing from so cents to So.
according to the amount he cared to
spend at the fair
Mr.. Greenwald's suggestion has IN
dergone considerable elaboration in the
last AS hours, and perhaps he would
scarcely recognize it with all the
amendments and 'addenda''~ proposed
The original idea of Mr.. GreenwaId
was that every club of whatever char
acter in the city should take part in
the fair. This would include the Ath-
letic club, the Modocs, the Elks, the
Topeka club, the Commercial club, Sat
urday Night club, the ladies' reading
and study clubs, the society clubs the
Arions, Turner's and the limits might
be extended to include the secret So
cieties which, have many club features.
As no building could possibly accom-
modate the exhibitions and booths and
the crowds which would undoubtedly
attend, the only Suita bic, place would
be Garfield park and the proper time
for the fair should be early in June,
when nature is at her best in Garfield
park. The idea of the fair and exhi-
bitiOn is that each club organization
shall have large booth or tent in which
exhibitions shall be given in the after
moons and evenings, and where arti-
cles shall be sold for the auditorium
fund. The exhibitions might be must
cal or tableauX. To each of these
small admission would be charged.
This might be made as close an iIni-
tation of the Midway PlaiSance at the
Worlds fair as possible. One club could
reproduce the Chinese theater. another
the Javanese village, another the Beau
ty Show, another the Ferris wheel Zen
smalD, etc, and a great many travelling
exhibitors who follow the circuSes and
county fairs might be sold privileges.
which would add much to the fund All
the money raised should be put into the
auditorium fund, over and above ex-
penses, and everybody should enter in
to the affair in a generous spirit and
contribute as much as he can, free, in
order to tighten the expenses. The fair
should start out with the fixed deter
minatiOn to raise $40 600, and if $4,000
We're raised we could put a tower on the
auditorium and perhaps veneer its outer
walls with pressed brick, which would
make it much han0Somer and more
substantial looking. very small ad-
mission fee should be charged at the
gate, say 10 cents, for the object is to
get as large a number of people inside
the park as possible. The attendance
at a fair of this kind ought to reach at
least 80 900 or 40, 000 A rivalry be-
tween the clubs should be encouraged.
and the which raised the most
money should be given a handsome and
valuable trophy of some kind. a sill
yer cup of ornate design, or a flag.
The clubs could federate by each Sc
lecting delegate; these delegates in
turn could select an executive commit
tee to conduct the fair.
Besides the varied programmes given
! by each club in continuous perform
ance' there should be a different gen
eral programme each evening. a pa
rade of all the attractions" each even
| ing entirely around the park ana a
| band concert should be part OF each
| evenings doings. Two evenings IN the
week fireworks might be given
The Journal believes that q fair OF
| this kind properly conducted ana with
propitious weather would not only rals@
| $40, 600. but it might astonisn It's project
| ors as other things in Topeka have
| done and raise twice as much In that
| case we could build an auditorium that
| a city of 200, coo people would be proud
| of.
| The Journals columns are open 10 all
| s,1orerestiOns and plans in this matter,
and everybody with an idea is urged to
| write rs at once and it viii be submit
| ted to the public. When Topeka people
| get their heads together they always
| Iyin Next fall will see the finest au-
| ditorium in the west standing ID City
! park