The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-17
EIGHT MONTHS
viii Suffice to Build Topeka's
Auditorium.
Initial Meeting Called For
Wednesday Afternoon.
ALL OTHER PROJECTS
Must Now Take a Back Seat
For This One.
Every Citizen Ready to Work
For the Great Building.

In less than eight months Topeka
will have a commodious and attractive
auditorium. This is an assured fact.
The association which has been dorm
ant since ceasing operations in order
to give the Fall Festival full headway
has awakened and is ready for active
work
Vice President Davis today announc-
ed that on Wednesday afternoon at 3
o'clock there will be a meeting of the
association at the Commercial club
rooms.
There is much before this meeting
The first thing to be done will be to re-
organize. Major T. J. Anderson who
was elected president, resigned several
months ago, but his resignation has not
been accepted and he has consented to
withdraw>it. This will give the associ-
alton board of officers composed of
Major Anderson, president; w. H.
Davis, vice president; c. H. Nettels,
secretary and Edward Wilder, treasur-
er.
Edward Wilder has beer out of town
for some time and that fact served to
delay the organization but he has re-
turned and is now ready to lend his in
f1uence to the work.
The building of a S25. 900 auditorium
in Topeka is not such a serious matter
as some people believe. The majority
of the people have found out that the
auditorium must be built to enable the
city to retain its place as the conven-
tion city of Kansas. There is already
provided as a starter for the fund, $10,-
O0O of the coal hole money. That means
that the people of Topeka need raise
but 000 and it would be a, slander to
say that that sum cannot be raised.
Topeka publicly and privately spent
$50 600 on the Fall Festival. She will
easily raise half as much for an audi
torium.
The thing that the association will
first determine after reorganization is
how the money is to be raised. D. J.
Greenwald and others have suggested
a monster fair and the idea is practi-
cal. Edward Wilder has a plan for
selling coupon stock, the coupons to
represent admissions to a series OF en-
tertainments to be given in the audi
tOrium. R. S. Brigham, Vice President
Davis and others suggest the sale of
buttons, q plan which has been sue
cessfully carried out in Kansas City.
All of these plans may be adopted
and probably will be because one will
not interfere with another. They will
all contribute to the success of the en-
terprise and the burdens will be more
equally distributed by that means. All
that is needed is action. The lead must
be made and the association is com
posed of men who can do that and who
will do all that is expected of them.
Vice President Davis said today:
1--WE have already waited too long
There is nothing that is so generally
talked about as the auditorium, and
unless [ am much mistaken, the people
are ready to take hold of the project at
once. The auditorium is to be built,
and the sooner we take hold of it, the
better. Last year we were handicapped
by the Fall Festival, which engrossed
all the attention, and made a heavy
drain on the business men.
I am of the opinion that this is
something that should be supported by
property owners as we'll as business
men. for it will surely enhance the val
ia Of U in iG no
reason why such men as GuilfOrd Dud-
ley. G. G. Gage, JOab Mulvane, Colonel
c. K. Holiday and other large property
holders should not come forward and
help this thing along. In fact, I am
satisfied that they will do SO. They
only need to be asked. There is no rea-
son why the whole burden should fall
upon the men in mercantile lines, for
the property owners will surely get as
much benefit from the auditorium as
any other class.
las far as I am concerned have no
doubt of the success of the project, and
that it will be built soon. The fact that
Major Anderson rendered his resigna-
tiOn to the board of directors and that
it was not acted upon, is responsible for
this delay No one knew whose duty it
was to call the first meeting. It seems
to be the opinion OF Mr.. Wilder and Mr.
Nettels, that I should call the meeting,
and I therefore do so.''
Mr. Nettels, who represents the city
council in the association, is ready to
begin work. He has been waiting. like
Mr.. Davis. He says that he is confident
that the auditorium will be built at
once.
high time that something be done, and
he will be ready to take hold when the
association reOrganizes this week.
Let every member of the Auditorium
association be present at the CONNER
cial club rooms on Wednesday after
noon at 3 o'clock