The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-03-05
Wanted No Telephone COnnec'
tiOns at Concert Here.
Also Demanded That No Seats
Be Placed on Stage.
MIR. SIMMONS EXCITED.
Telegraphs Various Instrue-
tiOns to Major Anderson.
Many People Arrive to Hear the
SOngStress.

Major T. ]. Anderson and Nine. Lii
liam Nordica have been indulging in a
furious exchange of kilograms this
morning. The songstress is particular.
The major is accommodating.
First came a telegram that if extra
seats for patrons of the concert were
placed on the stage of the Auditorium
tonight that Mime. Nordica would
charge the management of the concert
an extra 5000 commission for those
seats 1t was intended to place extra
seats there but the simple request of the
singer. with the financial codicll was
sufficient. The major was very willing
to please her. He Immediately tele-
graphed that no seats would be sold on
the stage and that the only persons
who would share the honors of the stage
with Mime. Nordica would be Prof
George L. Penny, dean of the depart
ment of music at the state universitJ
at Lawrence, who will conduct the
chorus, the 173 members of the Topeka
Choral society, E. Romayne Simmons
the pianist for Nine. Nordica and g.
Washington Jackson, leader of the
twenty-third regiment band who will
as usual guard the stage door.
Then Nine. Nordica telegraphed froJd
her private car "Bhurfehilde" on Rock
Island train No. 2 from Wichita that
as soon as she arrives she wishes I'd
confer with Prof Penny with regard to
the inflammatus which she will sing
with the chorus Prof. Penny was teIe-
haste to Topeka. He arrived on the first
train.
Then came the following telegram:
Madam Nordica inferred that ar
rangement has been made for telephone
connections during concert. Will posi-
lively not appear unless all apparatus
of that kind is removed.
''E. ROMAYNE SIMMONS"
This is the telegram that went back:
''E- Romayne Simmons, care spf cia1
xloS I'll.
q:
mo telephone connections for us. We
are thoroughbreds and take nothing
second hand.
.'T. ]. ANDERSON
Since then the wires have been quiet
likewise Mr.. F. Romayne Simmons.
More extra seats were put in place this
Stansfeld's drug store at 2 o'clock this ar
ternoon and the white tickets We're taken
up as long as the seats lasted. The Audi
torium will seat 1855 and $40 extra seats
ahoe o, 3een ZEE in pn5 NE IN nbd2ms bc viii T Pe
a total of 4,070 people who will hear Nor
dica besides those who secure standing
The exorbitant prices for seats at the
Nordfca concert asked by spectators have
at advance prices. One young lady sold
two % seats eats YESTERDAY m morning @ g,,3 for i5 $2i59
cts that she had for two extra chairs
The two tickets that she has virtually cost
sides. Those who have been holding tick
cts for seats at IS apiece have been forced
to put them on the bargain counter on ac-
count of the extra chairs that have been
placed in the Auditorium and sold at 81
This morning tickets for seats were Of
fered as low as $1.50, and they did not go
fast at that price. as many people expect
to secure standing room at the regular
price.
All the trains into Topeka this morning
carried parties coming to hear Nordica.
The street car company sent extra cars to
every train and the cars were taxed to
carry the people. Parties from out of town
have secured seats to the number Of 10O.
and requests for more have had to be
refused, and when money was sent it has
been returned.
The concert will begin at $50 o'clock
and at that time the doors to the Audi
torium will be closed and no one viii be
admitted or seated except during the in
termiSsion between the number.