The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-06
TO CALL A MEETING.
Members of the Auditorium As
ISOLATION to Assemble
And Take Up the Work Next
Week.
Maj. Tom Anderson VIII Probably
Call the Meeting Members of
the Association Enthusiastic.

A meeting of the Topeka Auditorium
association will be called next week and
active work toward securing the build
ing again taken up.
This was decided among a number of
the prominent members of the associa-
ton today, and the meeting will be
called by either Major T. J. Anderson
Mr.. W. H. Davis
Major Anderson was elected presi-
dent of the association, but rendered
his resignation last fall. This, howev-
er. was never accepted, and a number
of the members think that it is his
place to issue the official call.
Mr.. Davis is vice president, and in
the event that Major Anderson holds
that he has severed his connection
with the organization in an official ca
pacity, the call will be issued by Mr.
Davis.
The meeting of the association would
probably have been held this week had
it not been for the absence of Mr.. Ed
ward Wilder, one of the most energetic
workers, in the east. Mr.. Wilder will
return Saturday or Sunday, and there
will then be nothing in the way of hold
ing the meeting next week.
Mr.. c. H. Nettels is secretary of the
association, and it was chartered under
the laws of the state on April q of last
year.
The membership of the organization
includes the following well known men
of this city:
Mr.. Edward Wilder, Mr.. E. H. Cros-
by, Mr. c. S. Sutton, Mr.. VIM. Green,
Mr.. ]. S. Warner, Mr.. w. G. Stephen
son, Mr.. g: H Nettels, Mr.. w: H. Dav-
is, Mr.. T. J. Anderson, Mr. Otto
Kuehne, Mr.. J. W. Thurston, Mr.. Sam
uel T. Howe, Mr. r. S. Brigham, Mr..
Charles P. Adams, Mr. NJ. c. Holman,
land. Mr.. Thomas Page. Mr.. A. K.
Rodgers, Mr.. A. NJ. Baird, Mr.. H. w.
Neiswanger, Mr.. A. A. GODDARD, Mr.. f.
0. PopenOe, Mr.. Charles Wolff.
The association held number of
meetings after its organization last
April, but during the summer, on ac
count of the attention that several of
the members had to devote to the Fall
Festival and because of the general in
terest in the Festival, and that alone,
the Auditorium agitation was dropped.
Before that time, however, the assOcia-
ton had secured plans for a suitable
building and discussed schemes for
raising the money necessary for its
construction
Now the matter is to be taken up
anew and pushed until Topeka has Sc
cured an auditorium worthy of city
of its size and Importance. The mem
bers of the association are confident
that the end of the present year Will
see such a building in this city.
Among the schemes advanced for
raising the required capital, the pOpu-
lar subscription plan, and plan of sell
ing shares OF STOCK with coupons IOr
entertainments to be given in the new
building attached, seem to be the most
popular among the members of the as
sociatiOn. The former plan has been
carried out in Kansas City and other
eastern cities successfully, and the lat
ter is. considered to be well worthy of
trial.
Since the National Creamery and
Buttermakers' convention was secured
for this city, many who had given the
matter but little thought before that
time. have come to realize the extreme
necessity of an auditorium in Topeka
There is probably not a business man
in Topeka who is not in favor of such
a. building in this city, and the time is
ripe for an energetic move in this di-
rectiOn.
The present year must not go out
without seeing an auditorium erected
in Topeka.