The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-30
STIR IN SOCIETY.
C. p. Dewey Sets Topeka's
Smart Set by the Ears.
His Manhattan House Party the
Cause.
GAVE SPECIAL FAVORS.
Evening Club We're the Guests
of Honor.
Others Send Money to Pay for
Their Entertainment.
SAVE SPECIAL FAVORS.

A house party recently given by Z. r
Dewey, of Manhattan, has furnished the
latest sensation in the local smart set
Mr. Dewey is the Chicago capitalist VINO
came to Manhattan few years ago ana
proceeded to aStoniSh the natives by MS
generous and progressive enterprises Iof
the good of the town. Most little towns
are '-one-man towns" Manhattan has
always had that reputation, and OF late
years c. p. Dewey has been the man
He is at the head of the towns most
virile industries, is a large property
owner. and has done a great deal to
increase the social gaiety around Man
haitian. Among his business enterprises
have been many undertaken without
expectation of substantial remuneration,
but merely with the idea of making
Manhattan a good town to live in. One
of the most recent of his quaSi-altrulStlc
schemes was the grand transformation
by which he changed Eureka lake d
duck pond about six miles west of town,
into the most fashionable summer re-
sort in Kansas. He built a pretty little
summer hotel. called the Manhattan
Beach hotel, at the lake, added wharVeS,
boats and bath houses. Every one who
went there for few days wanted to go
again, because it was like no other sum-
mer hotel in the world, but very like d
beautiful country home with a CORDIAL
and hosDitab1e host. To prove that the
Manhattan Beach hotel at Eureka lake
was not a money making scheme. as
soon as the regular season was over Mr.
Dewey began sending out invitations for
a series of house parties a the hotel
during tee month of October. the finest
of the year in that vicinity. Every one
who had been a guest of the house dur
ing the summer and many others were
included in the invitations. and every
thing was as free as air during their
stay.
Topeka has, all during the last sum-
mer been the most important contribu-
tor to the success of the new summer
Ill l..
peared on the hotel register more fire.
quently than any other SO Mr. Dewey'S
invitations were largely to Topeka PEG
pie and his house parties nave been
made up mostly of people from here
Mr.. Dewey has earned for himself
reputation for the most lavish hospital
ity and for his Manhattan Beach hotel
the sobriquet of Ye Place of Good
Times. But at the last house party, in
vited for the christening of the new
lake launch, THE Topeka everything
was not as unqualifiedly lovely as il
might have been. and it was all on ac-
count of the marked Partially which
some of his other guests thought Mr.
Dewey showed for the members of the
Evening club.
The Evening club as everyone knows
who knows anything at all of the local
smart set is an organization of young
society people for the purpose of con-
tributing to the gaiety of nations. Dur
ing the past summer they spent several
days at Eureka lake and like every ore
else who has ever been there were treat
ed with great courtesy and considera
ton by Mr.. Dewey in recognition of
which they made him an honorary
member of the club. Accordingly when
the new launch was to be christened he
asked the Evening club to officiate, Mrs.
E. S. Quinton being delegated, especial
ly, to break the bottle of champagne.
The hotel was filled with other guests
who were there for the house party, but
the Evening club members were the
guests of honor. Last Friday night was
the night of the christening, and at
| dinner the members of the Evening club
We're seated at table by themselves
separated from the other guests in the
dining hall by a screen. The decora-
1 tons of their table were more lavish
than those of the others and in order
that none of them should regret the bot
| tie of MummS Extra Dry with which
1.-The Topeka" was named there were
other bottles for the Evening club and
after dinner the Evening club members
were given places on the launch during
the christening and for a ride over the
lake afterwards. OF course the launch
was not large enough to hold all the
guests at once. 1t was these special ia
vors to this favored few which aroused
the ire of some of the other guests and
caused the unpleaSantneSS about which
every one is talking.
| The Evening club members who were
at the house party and christening were