The Topeka state journal., 1898-10-20
Which 1t Believes VIII Bring
10000 People.
StOckmen and Agricultural In
terests of the State
TO BE REPRESENTED
In a Novel and Effective Manner
at the Festival.
Really a State Fair on Wheels,
Made Picturesque.

While those interested in the success
of Topeka's Fall Festivals are applying
their minds to thinking up" something
new for next year, the State Journal
begs leave to make a suggestion which
may have merit. Suppose that the Fall
Festival of 1899 be made a glorihcation,
so to speak, of the material interests of
Kansas. Our chief resources are live
stock and agriculture. Let all the cat
tlemen of Kansas be invited to a grand
jubilee at Topeka. Every big stock farm
and cattle ranch in Kansas should be
represented here by its owner as well
as his cowboys and hired hands. There
ought to be from 10000 to 10000 cattle
men here during Festival week and
they ought to be given the jolliest time
they ever saw, not even excepting some
of the jolly times they have when they
visit the Kansas City and st. Louis
festivities. We want these cattlemen to
come with their horses and the cow
punchers with their bronchos and give
us an equestrian parade the like Of
which was never seen before in Kansas
or the world. There is no reason why
there should not be 5000 men on horse
back, in picturesque ranch costumes
with innumerable banners and half
dozen bands alos on horseback. Kansas
one of the greatest cattle states in the
Union, is fully capable of getting up
such show as this. The Splend1d STOCK
farms of Kansas, of which there are
hundreds, should each be represented
by their finest animals which should
appear in one section of the procession
led by uniformed grOOmS and garlandeo
with flowers and ribbons, with oranges
on their horns and other fancy geW-
gaws to make them look gay Each
stock farms S exhibit can be designated
by silken banner, no large cheap ana
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Premiums should be offered by Iopeka
for the best exhibits.
In addition to this, a free exhibition
should be given at the fair grounds OF
the operation of a Kansas ranch. The
roping of cattle, branding, dlpplLtS'
rough riding, etc, can be made an an
teresting spectacle. - =.
The presence of so many cattlemen IN
Topeka would be pretty certain TO
bring a great number of manufacturers
of wIndmills, watertanlxs, and other ap-
paratus used on stock farms. These
people could erect their exhibits in the
9sstreet fair being charged small Zee
for the privilege which would help pay
the expense of the festivities
The celebration need not be confined
to cattlemen, horse breeders, as Wel as
swine and sheep men could very Wen
be included in the general invitation,
but of necessity the mann part OF tle
demonstration would be by the cattle
men.
The second section of this proposed
Festival
ture, should be given separate day.
A novel plan would be to have each
county represented by a char1ot or taD-
leau car, not piled up with a miscellane-
Gus assortment of pumpkins and beets,
but constructed in a really picturesque
style with half a dozen or more of the
most beautiful girls in the county ap-
prOpriately clad, representing symbol
ical figures. This would give each
county an opportunity to exercise its in
genuity and some of the tableaux would
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finest agricultural products from each
county could be arranged on these
floats, adorned with flowers and suit
able decorations in manner that
ever seen in the west After the pa
rade, these floats could be taken to
section of the proposed street fair
and made a part of the show during the
rest of the week.
In order to secure good work in each
county on this feature, the agricultural
and horticultural societies in each eoun-
ty should be appealed TO to look after
the matter. This would be likely to
insure the attendance of the members
of those societies and bring a very large
attendance to the Festival.
These two features as briefly out
lined above the State Journal conf
IDENTIFY believes, if carried out will bring
from $4,000 to 10000 people to Topeka
next year and will also give the Fall
Festival an originality that none Of the
other festivals in the United States can
equal
These innovations do not necessarily
do away with the old time firemen's
tournament or the flower parade. The
carnival of course, is looked on as a per-
manent feature Of the Festival.
The new ideas suggested above can
be elaborated to an unlimited extent,
and they naturally will be when ta-
ken up by the people who will partici-
pate in the festivities.
The Journal wishes to hear opinions
on this matter and will publish them.
GEN. BROOKE IN PALACE.