The Topeka state journal., 1899-09-27
Members of Twentieth Kansas
Committee DO Not Appear.
Only Topeka Men Attend the
Meeting.
ADJOURNMENT TAKEN
Will Be Given Another Chance
to Be Present.
Local Committee Would Await
Their Pleasure.

Governor Stanley Monday, sent out
call for a meeting of the executive COM
mittee named by the general committee
to take charge of the details of thereeep-
tion for the Twentieth Kansas. The
hour fixed for the meeting was 10
o'clock this morning but not single
member of the committee from out Of
the city was present.
Governor Stanley and Gen. J. K. Hud-
son, chairman of the executive commit
tee were the only members of that COM
mittee present.
The committee designated by the To-
peka Commercial club was present but
this committee did not feel like taking
the initiative in work designed for the
executive committee and an adjourn
ment was taken subject to the call of
the governor. If the members of the
executive committee arrive today the
governor will call the meeting for to-
night or tomorrow.
There were present at the meeting
this morning: p. 1. Bonebrake, E H.
Crosby, Adjutant General Fox, NJ. G.
Holman, D. J. Greenwald, T. J. Ander-
son, F. p. MacLennan, w. H. Davis, J.
D. Norton and J. A. Troutman-
Arthur Capper, w. A. Seller and L.
L. Kiene were appointed by this meet
ing as a press committee to prepare
headquarters and to furnish the Kan
SaS papers WITH information COuCeII-
ing the reception. The most important
work of all to which this committee was
assigned is the entertainment of the
editors and newspaper men upon their
arrival in Topeka.
Gen. J. X Hudson, chairman of the
executive committee, read to the COM
mittee this morning a proposition he
has received from l. Q. OSteyee and L.
G. Wilson of Springfield, Ill, to feed the
soldiers on the train during the trip
from San Francisco. These men fed
the Pennsylvania troops and there were
no stops for meals. These men furnish
an express car in which their cooking
is done and the food is distributed to
the men in the train.
The Pennsylvanians paid $50 per
dav Der man and secured an average
hotel meal The first offer for the Kan
sans is $1.25 per day with similar meals.
In the communication read by Gen.
Hudson the promoters of this plan call
ed attention to the fact that the sold
iers did not seem to care much for
meats and hot meals but constantly
demanded a. cold lunch. Particularly
did they call for pie says the letter
The proposition now submitted is
that the men be charged 81 per day and
that the meals be composed of pie first.
coffee, eggs, oysters, ham, cheese, pick
les, etc, with a cigar after each meal,
and no limit to the amount which the
men are permitted to eat.
Osteyee and Wilson offer to feed the
soldiers and wait for the legislature to
pay the bill.
THAT proposition appeals to me- said
Governor Stanley.
but" said P. L Bonebroke, Fred
Harvey has the contracts for feeding
people along the Santa F'e and we
might get into trouble if we made this
new arrangement.
Il suggest this matter be deferred
until the executive committee meets,
said Gen. Hudson. This action was then
The men who offer to feed the sold
iers call the attention of the committee
to the fact that no dining room in the
Santa Fe system will accommodate 800
or 400 men and state that second and
third tables will be necessary to feed
the men and that those who come in
this list will get little to eat. Besides"
urges Osteyee and Wilson, 'other ar
rangements than feeding the men on
the train viii cause long delays and af-
ford some OF them the opportunity to
get out and leave the train. The men
will be mustered out before coming to
Kansas. If they are fed on the train
and the trip homeward is made as soon
as possible you will have more of them
at the reception than you will have if
you give them an opportunity to get on
and off the train at WILL
The adjutant general was instructed
by the governor to communicate with
the chief of ordnance and the secretary
of war to ascertain if the Kansans can
be permitted to bring their guns horne
for use in the parade. The governor
will be responsible for the arms. II a
permit for this can not be secured the
governor will become responsible for
the return of guns for the boys which if
possible, will be procured from the ar
senal at Rock Island, Ill.
The troops which have already ar
rived home in other states have been
permitted to retain their arms until af-
ter the demonstration at home, the gov
ernor of the state becoming responsible
for the safe return of the arms to the
government arsenal.
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