The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-16
ON WITH WORK.
A Great Auditorium Meeting
to Be Called
At Hamilton Hall to Boom To-
peka's Great Building.
SPLENDID STRUCTURE
To Hold 5000 People, and the
Finest West of st. Louis
To Be Built and 35, 200 People
to Build 1t.

The auditorium association will soon
have a meeting tc devise plans for dis
posing of the Auditorium buttons"
which will each represent an interest
in the proposed building.
1t was at first proposed to start out
and sell them without any preliminary
announcement but a new and better
plan has been suggested and that is to
have big meeting at Hamilton hall or
some other place and sell the hrSt IU0
buttons at auction or to receive sealed
bids for the first 100 and have a time
for opening them. No. should sell FOR
at least 500. It will be a great honor
to wear the first button issued
NJ. D. Henderson, who is member
of the special committee to look after
this part of the work has been racking
his brain for two days to find the best
means for dispOsing of the first install
ment Of buttons and he has about come
to the conclusion that one of the above
plans must be adopted.
The association ordered 5000 buttons
and they propose to sell all of them
After the first 100 are disposed of the
uniform price of 81 will be charged
and everyone who does business in To-
peka no matter whether he lives mere
or not Will be expected to wear a but
ton.
tons were sold and it would be too bad
to admit that $4,000 worth cannot be
sold in Topeka. All that will be re-
quired will be some active work. The
members of the association are men
who can work when the question of the
public welfare of the city is involved
and the people should help them to dis
pose of every button from NO. l. to
mo. 5000
The solicitation of subscriptions has
not yet been actively commenced on the
south side-s- There is about $4,000
more to be raised and if $4,000 is Sc
cured by the sale of buttons II is prob
able that the balance of the amount
necessary might be raised by the Mid
summer Fair at Garfield park. But
when the subscriptions from the south
side of the river are all made it will be
found that there will not be much left
to be raised by any other means
The Improvement of the City park
and the eradication of the row of low
brick buildings north OF the Rock Island
depot is only question of time. Many
of these buildings are owned by eastern
parties who took them on mortgages
and they are ready to dispose of them.
When the time comes for the improve
ment of this part of the city these pls-
ces viii be sold and twO-stOry brick
business houses will be erected in their
place. The wholesale and commission
houses are gradually moving toward
the river and the time is not far off when
every building north of the Rock Island
tracks viii be occupied by a wholesale
or commission house. One of the larg-
est wholesale establishments in Kansas
is already in this location and the only
thing needed is to get the property out
of the hands of the eastern owners and
start a building boom. The commission
business has more than Quadrupled in
the last five years and it will grow to
enormous proportions. The following
persons own property on the east side
of Kansas avenue, north of the Rock
Island tracks:
The Merrimac River Savings bank,
five lots.
The Montpelier Savings bank two
lots.
The Island savings bank two lots.
The National Life Insurance cOmpa-
ny, two lots.
J. Thomas, trustee for eastern own
ers, two lots.
Receivers Of the Investment Trust
company, one lot.
V Perry, two lots
John r. MUlvane, two lots.
John J. Dyal, one lot
J. S. Collins, one lot.
George NJ. Noble, one lot.
j s. Branner. two lots.
Reeder & Campdoras, three lots.
Oscar BischOff. two lots
Geo. P. Bates, one lot
George E. Brown, one lot.
Central National bank, one lot.
Alice P. Bishee, one lot
B. F. Easter, one lot.
Some Of the Topeka people named in