The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-23
TOPEKA'S PRIDE.
The Commercial Club Gives Its
Annual Banquet
At Motel ThrOOp Last Night
With Marked Success.
NOTABLE GATHERING.
Every Business and Profession
Was Represented.
Many Good Words Spoken For
the Capital City.
NOTABLE GATHERING.

For the second time in its history the
Topeka Commercial club banqueted at
the Throop hotel last night.
1t was the occasion of one of the
most representative gatherings in To-
peka's history. Men of every pro-
fession and business employment iden-
titled with the best interests of the
city were in attendance. There were
men who helped to make Topeka's past
and are helping to make Topeka's pres
ent, and young men whose efforts will
be interviewer with Topeka's future.
For an hour prior to the opening of
the banquet members of the club and
invited guests chatted together in the
parIors of the hotel while Steinberg' s
orchestra furnished a concert pro-
gramme. The orchestra preceded the
banQueters to the dining room, and as
they filed in to take their places at
the tables it was to the strains of
Sousa's inspiring march, 1.-THE Stars
and Stripes Forever
The strains of the march were an in
PRODUCTION to the decorations. The
stars and stripes were there, and no
matter which way banQueters looked
they beheld them. On the four walls
of the dining hall were draped immense
American flags, and no other colors
were visible in the room. The effect
was at once patriotic and beautiful
At either side of the hall covers for
set at intervals nodded above the white
linen in the breezes from electric fans,
and bowls of sweet smelling flowers
scented the air. Palms We're also used
in banking the windows and arranged
in profusion on the serving table in the
center of the room.
The banquet was served in six courses
and the menu was as follows:
COnSOmme Macedonia,
Olives, Iced Cucumbers,
Sweetbread Croquettes.
Fresh Mushrooms,
Fried Soft Shell Crabs,
Frog Saddles-sauce .Tartare,
French Peas,
Fried Spring Chicken, supreme,
New Dreamed Potatoes,
Tomato Mayonnaise,
AM Fancy Charlotte Russo.
Red Raspberries, Assorted Cake,
Neapolitan Ice Cream,
Fruit, Coffee, Cigars.
As cigars were lighted and chairs push
ed back from the tables, Mr.. r; S. Brig
ham, vice president of the club, raped
for. attention. He spoke briefly of the
and its achievements as business organ
ization, and in concluding intr9d t1t MI
Mr.. Dana responded to the Introduction
war and it's effect on business interests
and drew out enthusiasm by patriotic ex-
preSSiOnS. Then. changing his theme. he
said that while he had not been notified
that he was to act as POSTMASTER in time
to prepare a suitable speech, all the other
speakers had received such notice weeks
before and had speeches prepared, any
statements they might make to the con-
trary Notwithstanding. He then intro
duced Mr.. T. f. Doran to respond to the
toast 1.-The Metropolis of Kansas.
Mr.. Doran opened his response by stat
ing that the honorable postmaster re-
minded him of a farmer who was think
ing of buying a clock. In reciting the good
qualities the merchant told the farmer
that the clock would run eight days with
out winding. Gee whiz,- is that SOP said
the countryman. I wonder how long the
internal thing. would run if it was wound
If the remarks of the POSTMASTER We're
extemporaneous, said Mr.. Doran, Il am
thankful for my sake and for the sake of
those present that he wasn't wound"
Mr.. Doran's sally at the expense of Mr..
Dana was greeted with hearty laughter
as was also a sally from Governor Leedy
at the expense of Mr.. DOran later in the
evening. Mr.. Doran. in his response, had
considerable to say about the enforcement
of law, and Governor Leedy referred to it
it by saying:
1.-The gentleman who just preceded me
Doran) believes in the enforcement of the
law. I wonder at this, because l I'M
derstand he is the attorney of insur-
ance company, and it was my impress
sion that insurance attorneys in Kansas
lately were opposed to the enforcement of
the law
The banquet lasted into the hours of the