The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-18

lion paint.
Mr. Operator, Mr.. Operator, you have
made a most distressing mistake"
shouted DIR. Mcfarland The man who
was running the lantern had gotten his
plates shuffied. Another plate was
started into the machine. 1t didn't look
much like the president and it was
Withdrawn. Then picture supposed to
be Theodore Roosevelt was shown but
created very little applause as few peo-
pie knew who it was meant for.
No one will know who this is said
DR.. Mcfarland and a life size picture of
Nick Chiles was thrown on the screen
The next was a very dim picture. A
man could be seen standing in front of
something.
Whose that?" was the shout
In the next picture two ceiling fans
could be seen. A table was nearby with
the chairs tipped against it,
Whoa" shouted a man near the
main entrance.
Keep still Frank, you're not there"
These are the interior views of joints
and gambling houses" said DR. McFar-
land who was reading his lecture from
type written notes.
MIKE THOMPSON'S PLACE
This is Mike Thompson's place at T12
Kansas avenue. The place is fortified
and hard to get into. The stairway is
guarded by a dead-fall which can be
sprung in the stairway. 1t would fail
and crush a mans head. The doors are
strongly barred and locked and made OF
steel. This place was not closed during
the Hughes administration. The police
got In once through the Skyllght, and
another time it took the police two
hours to cut through the steel doors
with sledge hammers and cold chiselS.
1t took the police two hours to get in.
Now this place is running wide open.
1t seems to be under the protection of
the police. 1t is the largest, the lowest
and the most defiant of all the Joints
in our city,
The next was picture of bar with
cclored barkeeper, and was announced
to be exhibit No. of the same joint
Now we have a picture of Ed Tim
on's joint over the opera house drug
store" said DR.. Mcfarland. you see
the tables and the chairs. This is d
joint and gambling place. Hughes
forced him to close, and after Parker
place is guarded by a heavy steel door,
and one of the employees of the place
IS Roy Daniels, of East Fourth street
fame. A Bible can be found there on
the mantlepiece. This place is next to
Crawfords opera house and connected
with it, and between acts the people in
the audience can go to the joint and
get their drinks without going down
stairs. A bell is rung in the joint min
ute before the curtain goes up on each
act. The fact of the bell being rung
| indicates that there is a very close un-
Outstanding between the management of
such a close connection with a gambling
house and joint, the opera house will
hardly be a place that decent people
will Datronize.
This is another picture showing the
gambling tables in Ed Timon's joint.
You see stairway leading up to a lit
tie room. There are two of these little
rooms There are two hard steel doors.
which are watched. This picture is an
other scene in a gambling house.
The next picture shows the joint on
4 lower Kansas avenue operated by Otto
! Anderson. The next picture is the
Brunswick Joint at 70S Kansas avenue
This was run by the Croft brothers, but
they were arrested. There was but a
partition between them and Mike
| Thompson, but the Crofts were arrested
and Thompson was not. The next is the
picture of a joint at 400 Kansas avenue,
run by man named Maer. This is the
place that Carrie Nation first visited.
and where she was put to flight by
Maer's wife
FRANK RAYNOR'S PLACE.
THE next is Frank Raynor's place at
Third and Kansas avenue. This is an
other joint interior. The next is an in
terror picture of the joint at 514, sic.
518 Kansas avenue run by Fred Ross.
May Stanton ran a bawdy house at SIS
but she was forced to move out to give
Ross room for his gambling room. This
is another scene in the Ross joint. This
is also a scene in another part of the
Ross joint.
In this picture you see a little how
standing on the rail in front of a bar.
He is so small that by standing on the
rail his face is Just over the top of the
bar. The bartender is holding a glass
of beer while he drinks it.
This picture was taken some time
ago and is the picture of the Capital
joint that was smashed by Mrs. Ma
ton"
In this picture "sheep" Lyle and 9TH
ers could be seen drinking beer. The
bar and the looking-glasses were
smashed.
Are we not ready to put the stamp
of burning disaDDrobation on this sys-
temp" said DR.. Mcfarland as the boy
drinking at the bar was shown. This
closed the picture lecture and there was
a rush for the doors. DIR. Mcfarland
had more to say but no one stayed to
hear after the art gallery was closed
Master Harold Parr was hurried to the
front to sing again but even he coulG
not stop the rush for the doors and in
a few minutes the building was
emptied
One person who attended the picture
meeting came to the conclusion that the
joints in Topeka seem to be doing a
mighty poor business as nearly all the
bars shown were made out of rough
| boards covered with o1lcloth and very
few patrons were to be seen in the
joints. The strange point was that the
Joints should be guarded by steel doors
wide open. Another observa ton was
that the bar that Mrs Nation smashed
was of oak end had plate glass side
board attachment Another impression
was that colored bartenders seem to be
popular.
Resolutions for Rev. P. Price.
Resolutions by Topeka Ministerial
union on the death of Rev Pinckney
Price, pastor First Cumberland Presby-
terrain church, colored:
Whereas, 1t has pleased God to re-
move from our midst by death ou1
worthy brother the Rev. Pinckney