The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-28
Wichita Tries to Discredit To-
peka Enterprises.
Effort to Show Windy City is in
Same Glass.
ABOUT SANTA FE SHOPS
Topeka Would Make Good Show
ing Without Them.
Figures From the Official Rec.
0rds Prove All.

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The Wichita Eagle is trying to prove
that Wichita is in the same class with
Topeka as a manufacturing city. A
story in the Sunday Eagle starts out
with the scare head Exposes the Brag
of Topeka"
Secretary NJ w. Bevy of the Wichita
Commercial club quotes from the Mail
and Breeze of Topeka the figures given
out by the government statistician-
gathered at the census of 1900 for the
After rehashing the three year old
figures the secretary of the Wichita
Commercial club says:
'Topeka's industries lack diversified
ton, and are mostly small and inSignih-
cant. with one exception, and that one
exception practically makes up the
towns whole total, over which it is
Dragging. I refer to the Santa F'e shops.
That eSta ablishment is the basis for To-
peka's boast, and that alone. If To-
peka will subtract from it's total of es-
Establishments, the Santa Fe shops, and
subtract from it's total employees, the
number employed in the Santa Fe shops,
and then subtract from it's total wages
the wages paid in the Santa Fe shops.
1T will be so ashamed of the result that
it will never talk manufacturing again.
Now" continued Mr.. Levy, should
the fires go out in the Santa Fe shops
Topeka's pay roll would decrease ST.
BAL ,215, leaving balance of $269,506, dis
tributed among 92S men, and Wichita
among 1,5O5 wage earnerS."
From a table of statistics compiled
from the records in the office of State
Secretary of Agriculture F. D. Coburn
the following facts and figures are Sc
cured for the year ending March l, 1902:
No INFO erns Tooeaa sSa wichisa il,
Total Total Nsxss Ns smRlSSYed pRsS sssa s4sss sss
VaPa.ai Vafue RAW maseria used er
Value of products, in
Guiding all jobbing and o
Average wages per cap
ita per year Sic 4S'
| The above schedule of figures is COM
piled from the sworn statements OF the
assessors in each of the places referred
| to and are up-tO-date. 1t will be noted
/ that Topeka leads Wichita by practi-
! caily four times as many employees in
manufactures; four times as much
| wages paid each year; four times the
amount of capital invested and four
times the amount of manufactured
| products.
| 1.-The claim of Mr.. Levy" said Major
Anderson yesterday of the Topeka Com
| mercial club, that the Santa Fe shops
! constituted the principal industry of the
city and without which the manufactur-
! ing industries would be nothing. is
! sheer nonsense. Mr.. Levy attempts to
! Santa Fe shops there are only 928 en-
| ployes in manufactures in Topeka. He
| is either mistaken or is trying to mis-
! represent Topeka maliciously. There are
! 5,517 employees in factories in Topeka of
| which only 1,790 are employed in the
manufacturing department of the Santa
| Fe shops. No other Santa Fe employees
are counted; none of the trainmen, en-
| ginemen, ,switchmen, general Office clerks.
| of which there are 610 persons drawing
| annually S511 689 36 nearly n11cH
as the entire amount paid to the en-
ployes of the entire list Of Wichita
manufactures; nor the employees of
what are known as the Sixth street
Santa Fe repair shops.
| 'The 1.790 Santa F'e shop employees
receive $1,035,5 $40, of the two million
eight hundred thousand dollars distrib-
uted annually in Topeka, and the re-
| than three times all that Wichita has
altogether, receive 81, ,788, ,240 which is
within a hundred and fifty thousand
dollars of three times the entire amount
Of salary distributed to Wichita manu-,
| factory employees.
THE manufacturing department OF
the Santa Fe shops employs more peo
pie than the entire manufacturing in
dustry of Wichita and the employees are
paid nearly twice as much annually as
is paid to the thirteen hundred Wichita
| employees.
1.-The per capita of the wage Garner.
is higher in Topeka The per capita il
Topeka is $512 as against $487 in Wich
ita.
LAS for the diversity of industries
Wichita will also have to take a bacl
seat again. Wichita in the very hear
of the wheat belt cannot boast the mill
| ing industry that Topeka can.
The United States census of tn
year 1900 which of course dealt with tn
statistics of the year previous, and from
which Secretary Levy of Wichita secur
ed the figures with which to juggle ar
7 are follows. They are official and will
show the superiority of the capital cit,
: over the Sedgwick town as far back a