The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-17
is OUT
It Il Bigger and Better Than
Ever.

Ever.
The Topeka City Directory, larger
and better than ever" is out. It con-
tains $40 pages, and 1882 names in the
alphabetization. It is illustrated with
more half tone cuts than any issue
| heretofore has been. The present state
officers, judges OF the supreme court,
and other public men come first. The
compilation of the churches. clubs. so
c~ieties. secret societies, streets and city
and county statistics follow.
A new departure is the department
devoted to a summary of the territorial
period of the history of Kansas, includ-
OF the state from the time Andrew
Reeder, the first territorial governor
look his oath of office in 1854 until the
present time.
On one page of the directory, Mr..
RadgeS makes a strong argument to
prove that our population is in excess
of 100000 He says.
The number of names contained in
the ~alphabetization is 1892 OF this
number, 8 per cent is deducted for the
names of corporations, firms, and other
paragraphs not referring to individuals.
which leaves 6 ,425. These figures rep
resent the population over Is years of
age, except married women who are
not engaged in mercantile or profess
sional pursuits; these are estimated at
81 per cent (Which is the lowest on rec
ord)@8, 240-making q total Of "a, 1885,.
This gives what is known as the adult
population.
To this is added the of1cial enroll
ment for the public schools. 1850. and
for children under school age, approx
mated at one-third the number of the
former, $780,; a total of LIE, 400 under Is
years of age. and a grand total popula-
ton of 0,165.
Another system for approximating
h population of a city is to multiply
the number of actual names in the di-
rectory by two and one-half, and by
three in older communities. There being
1926 names enumerated, it would show
he population to be 41,06S at the min
imum rate.
William Elsey Connelley wrote a brief
history of the city of Topeka, beginning
with it's birth in 1864, and dealing with
its growth, struggles and triumphs,
that follows the publishers preface to
the directory.
In mentioning Topeka, MI. Radges
says:
IF all that has peer proposed for it's
improvement shall be carried out; If
parks shall be beautified; if streets and
venue shall be paved; if fine resi-
dences shall be builded; if the capitol
shall be completed before the merciless
hand of time has laid it in unrecogniz-
able ruins: and if Ceres-most benef-
perishable bronze-shal1 by some gem
Grafton yet nborn be raised to her
throne upon the grand dome that over
looks all the wide valley where, within
1AC @AAAO IL LIZA 2SAk O0LS tAS 49,
dian and the buffalo roamed, and where,
before Kansas had a name. the Spaniard
marched from the sea and marked the
miles with deeds of cruelty and shame |
then Will we not have lived and loved
n labored in vain for her progress
and success. The Topeka of the present
is largely VIA the progressive pioneers
of fifty years ago made her. The To-
peka of the future will be wholly what
you shall will her to be, and the
strength of man and the influence of
woman must go hand in hand to per-
feet. intellectually and morally, the city
that is our home and our children's
home; the one spot on earth where CEN
tiers our love, our hopes. our faith and
our pride.
The mex ten years will make or mar
her fame and standing; will put her at
the head or in the rear of the procession
of western towns. Rivals will press
hard and envy will detract, but 1 be-
that the people, the guardians of
her prosperity, her reputation and her
honor, will stand together, and she will
be victorious and without a peer when
the cycle we have just entered shall be