The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-31
IT is MOVING.
The Auditorium Now on the
Way to Building.
Advertisements For Bids For
Its Construction
ARE TO BE PUBLISHED
At Once and the City Council
Will Amend
The Ordinance So as to Hasten
the Work.
Now $4,000 Promised and
More is Coming.
ARE TO BE PUBLISHED

The executive committee of the To
peka Al ftorium association will on
next Monday night ask the city coun-
ell to advertise for bids for the audi
forum building This was decided at
the meeting of the auditorium associa-
ton last night.
The committee will also ask the coun-
ell to accept the pledges made in sub
ScriptiOnS as cash in hand, and further
more to transfer the coal hole money
from the general fund to the auditor
ium fund. The ordinance relative to
the auditorium provides that the $4,000
coal hole fund is to be transferred to
the special fund only after $12,500 has
been raised by subscription and depOS-
tied in cash in the city banks To wait
until after the collection of the sub
scriptons would mean a considerable
delay, and to prevent this the council
will be asked to take the pledges as
cash.
Up to the present time $12, 552 so, in
Guiding the conditional pledges, or $12,-
303 exclusive of the latter, has been
raised in subscriptions and otherwise,
and the association members expect to
raise several thousand dollars more
within the next few weeks. Two sub
scriptiOns of $50 each, one from c. o.
Knowles and one from the Edison Elec-
trio Illuminating company were handed
in at the association meeting last night
The grand total, exclusive of the sub
scriptiOns conditional on an uptown site
which will be soon at the disposal of
the auditorium association is $22, 303, di-
vided as follows:
Subscriptions ............ $40, TIA
Buttons ........ .............. 629
Food Show fund .. 900
Coal hole fund OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 10000
The conditional subscriptions amount
to $249.50 and swell the total to $22,-
$3.50.
The association is anxious to have all
details relating to the auditorium set
tied at the next meeting of the council
because three of the present members
retire in two weeks, and new men take
their places. Another reason is the fact
that the II months specified in the ordi-
nance providing for the transfer of the
coal hole money to the auditorium fund
has expired.
The Topeka auditorium affairs as
stunned the most business like aspect
that they have ever worn since the
building was first proposed when Mr..
Edward Wilder, at the meeting last
night, moved that the executive COM
nittee take steps to secure bids for the
erection of the building. He said:
L move that the executive committee
confer with the city council at the next
meeting and endeaVOr to secure the
taking of bids for the auditorium build
ing as soon as possible
Mr.. Wilder-h1y object in making this
motion was to get the matter in the
hands of the executive committee so
that the necessary steps for the adver-
tisement for bids could be taken.
Mr.. Nettles-If we have to wait until
this money is collected, it will mean a
delay of at least so days.
Mr.. Wider think the council will
be willing to modify the ordinance so
as to accept these pledges as cash and
order bids to be advertised for. There
should also be an ordinance passed be-
fore the present council changes, trans
fering the coal hole money from the
general fund to the auditorium fund
Mr.. w. c. Stephenson-The present
council has two meetings yet, one next
Monday night and one a week from
Monday. The executive committee of
the association should meet with the
council next Monday night.
Mr.. Wilder-I move the executive
committee meet with the council next
Monday night and take steps for secur-
ing the transfer of the coal hole money
and the advertisement for bids.
This motion carried. The executive
committee is composed of A1essrs. An
dersOn, Green, Wilder, Kuehne, Adams
Brigham and Henderson,
The attention of the association was
called to the matter of seating by Sec
rotary Nettles. He said:
This question of seating is one feel
bound to bring up. Our plans can't be
approved until this seat question is set
tied, and I think the plans should be
approved before the personnel of the
city council changes. The present coun-
ell has informally agreed to approve
the plans and if it is done before there
is a change we will be sure of no trou-
bic.
''All we have to do now is to introduce
a supplement stating that the building
shall be seated with such a style of
chair
Catalogues of chairs and settees were
examined by the members, and it was
decided that a cut of a certain folding
chair should be attached to the sup
plement with the notation that the
auditorium shall be seated with chairs
substantially the same style as the
attached
ing committees, and it was suggested
that in working over territory two or
more of the committees combine and
try allied forces in the efforts to secure
subscriptions. A motion by Mr.. War
ner was adopted, providing that each
member of the association be furnished
ten subscription slips with the under
standing that they be returned at the
out for some amount. About this mo-
ton Mr.. Warner said:
In presenting this motion, 1 do it
with the idea that every man in the as
ISOLATION has at least ten friends whom
he has not yet called on, and who
would be willing to subscribe some
thing"
An effort viii be made to further the
sale of auditorium buttons by getting
the younger people of the city inter
ested in the competition for the prizes
offered for the largest number of but
tons sold by a, boy or girl.
The following letter from George NJ.
Seward, formerly of Topeka, but now of
Chicago, was read:
Chas. 5. Elliott, Treasurer Auditorium
Association, Topeka.
Dear Sir:-I send you herewith my
check for IS which you will please ac-
cept for the association. I have read
with interest in the Topeka papers the
progress that is being made toward
raising funds for the auditorium and, as
a former Topekan, 1 wish to contribute
my mite toward so worthy a purpose.
Yours very truly,
GEO. NJ. SEWARD.