The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-28
A Change in the Auditorium
Board of Directors
Is Declared by Major Anderson
to Be Necessary.
MEN WHO WILL WORK.
Not Half of the Membership At
tended Last Meeting.
Something Decisive Must BE
Done Before Long.

There has got to be a change made
in the board of directors of this Topeka
Auditorium association" said Major T.
J. Anderson today. When a meeting
is thoroughly advertised and less than
half the members take enough interest
to attend, there is something wrong.
We want workers on that board and I
am in favor of having a reorganization
The work can't be done by four or five
men. 1t is wrong to expect it of them"
This is the sentiment of others who
are on the board of directors and have
had the bulk of the work to do.
The following is the membership of
the board of directors of the Topeka
Auditorium association:
Edward Wilder, E. H. Crosby, Will
liam Green, J. s. Warner, W. c. Ste
phenson c. H. NetteIs. W. H. Davis. T
J. Anderson, Otto Kuehne, J. W. Thurs
ton, s. T. Howe, r. s. Brigham, Chas.
p Adams, NJ. c. Holman, NJ. D. Hen
derson F. NJ Newland, Thos- Page, A.
X Rodgers, A NJ. Baird, H. W. Neis-
wagner, A A. GODDARD, F. o. Popenoe
Chas. WOIff, c. S. Sutton. D. J. Green
valid.
At the meeting of the board of direct
ors of the Auditorium association held
last Wednesday evening there were but
ten of the twenty-five members present
There were other citizens present who
were willing to attend the meeting and
heIp boom the auditorium. The fol-
lowing members were present Wednes-
day evening: E. H. Crosby. ]. S. War
ner. W. H. Davis, T. J. Anderson. Otto
kuehne, r. S. Brigham, Chas P Ad-
ans, NJ. c. Holman. NJ. D. Henderson
and D. J. Greenwald. The meeting had
been thoroughly advertised in the pa
pers, and T. J. Anderson sent to each
member of the board of directors a let
ter announcing the meeting.
rms Is the reason that Major T. J.
Anderson says there should be a reor-
ganization of the board of directors
and men put in who will work for the
auditorium and not simply have their
names on the membership list The
present time shows but little active
work being done for the auditorium
fund with the exception of the untir-
ing work being done by a few energetic
members If the entire board of direc-
tors could be made up of such men as
e H. Crosby, T. J. Anderson. Otto
kuehne. r s. Brigham. NJ D. Hender-
son, J. S. Warner and d. J. GreenwaId
the fund would rapidly swell until the
amount would be raised. This is a. time
when action is required
The talk of reducing the size of the
auditorium in order to decrease the cost
is entirely out of the question and il
would be opposed by three-fourths of
the citizens. The money can be raised
if a united effort is made. If the board
OF directors isn't working unitedly then
there should be reorganization Surely
no member of the board who has been
derelict in his duty in the matter wants
to obstruct the movement by his mac
ton
Another meeting of the association
viii be held in the near future when
decided steps will be taken.
The people will be asked to make I'D
tne amount which yet lies unspoken
1t is a question of an auditorium or no
auditorium. That is certain. It then
behoOves the board of directors as a
whole and individually to do some gil
SantIc and earnest rustHng.