The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-30
CHEER ON CHEER.
Kansas Day Club OratiOns Were
Enthusiastically Received.
Every Mention of Roosevelt's
Name Starts Applause.
WAS ALMOST A JAM.
Crush Began When Doors of
Banquet Room Were Opened.
Blazing Gasoline Stove Almost
Created a Panic.
LATER THAN EXPECTED
Nearly Midnight When Last
Word Was Spoken.
kilograms From Will White,
Curtis and Miller.
Crush Began When Doors of
Banquet Room We're Opened.
Blazing Gasoline Stove Almost
Created a Panic.
LATER THAN EXPECTED
Nearly Midnight When Last
Word Was Spoken.
kilograms From Will White,
Curtis and Miller.
1t was a great sight!

1t was a great sight!
Ten long tables, covered with snow
white linen and loaded with good things.
stretched across Representative hall,
and at every table were seated go men,
Never before had one-third as many
people ever sat down to a Kansas Day
banquet. Six hundred plates.
If the banqueters had been sitting in
one continuous row it would have re-
quired a table nearly a quarter of
mile long to have accommodated them-
Long before time for the opening Of
the doors to the banquet hall, the crowd
of banqueters gathered in the corridors
leading into Representative hail. When
the doors were thrown open there was
a terrific jam. Those behind pushed
those in front. They could not see why
they were not admitted faster. 1t took,
20 minutes for the 600 to get into the
hall, entering by three doors as fast as
the doorkeepers could seize the tickets
The banquet was served in seven
courses. The menu was as follows:
Grace: Sung by the Orphean Quartette.
New York Counts.
Mock Turtle Soup, la Tomatoes.
Turkey. ~ Cranberries.
Hot Dressing and Gravy.
flashed Drowned Potatoes.
Hot Rolls. Bread and Butter.
Sliced Ham. Cold Tongue.
Frozen Punch.
Lamb Chops and Peas.
Waldorf Salad. Lettuce. Cheesed Waters
Neapolitan Ice Cream.
Angel Food. Chocolate Cake.
Macaroons. Hickorynut Cake.
Fruits. Coffee. Cheese.
salted Nuts, Crackers.
Cigars.
frNc he haf
quet. There were 40 walters on the
floor. Mrs. Wiley, who had it in charge,
says it required the stock of three diff
ferent crockery houses of Topeka to
furnish enough dishes. The banquet re-
quired 20 gallons of oysters, 1S gallons
of ices and the same amount OF ice
cream, thousand rolls and thousand
sandwiches, 25 gallons of salad, and 30
turkeys Weighing 25 pounds EACH These
were only few of the items.
1t was an immense undertaking to
serve such a large body, especially as it
was necessary to use gasoline stoves,
but it was successfully accomplished
At one stage of proceedings there was
material for small panic, caused by
gasoline stove in the small room adj
joining the southwest corner of the BAN
quet hall. The gasoline blazed nearly
to the ceiling. Some of the women who
were preparing the eatables screamed,
and the walters and a few of the ban
queters in that part of the hall made Il
rush in the direction of the explosion,
but Colonel Veale stopped them by COM
them to sit down AMI assuring
them the danger was over
During the banquet proper music was
furnished by Steinberg's orchestra. The
toaStS were intersperSed with vocal Sc
IectionS by the Orphean quartette, which
were roundly applauded. The members
of the quartette are Clyde Allen, first
tenor; Lem MCGEE, second tenor; w. B.
first bass; Harry Knowles,
second bass. They are all young Tope-
ka boys who are just starting on con-
cert work. but their singing pleased the
crowd immensely.
A short table was placed transversely
in front of the speakers
desk and at this sat the speakers and
the officers of the club. Here also sat
Colonel a S. johnson, of Topeka, the
first child of white parents born in
Kansas
The ladies did not turn out as well as
was expected. The galleries reserved
for them were not half filled when the
speeches began, and soon afterwards
the east gallery was thrown open to the
Before the speeches began President
Finch read a telegram he had just re-
ceived from William Allen White, who,
although he is sick in Colorado Springs,
was elected president of the club. The
telegram was somewhat personal to MI
Finch, but it was characteristic of the
noted Emporia author. 1t read:
1T is my life's regret that 1 failed to
hear your speech If you forget It,
boys"
kilograms of regret that they were
unable to be present from Congress-
men Curtis and Miller were also read.
Mr. Curtis wired the following:
Il regret that business here prevents
me from being with you. Under the
policy of the Republican party and the
leadership of our martyred president,
our country is enjoying unexampled
and that prosperity will not
only continue but Will increase under
the guidance and direction of the fear
less Roosevelt, backed by a Republican
congress- l know the Republicans of
Kansas favor going forward. They VIII
oppose any policy which means back
ward step for this country, and viii
sustain any Republican administra-
tions to come, as they have in the past,
looking to that end"
Mr.. Miller's message read:
Public business prevents my joining
you in this anniversary. 1 greet you as
Kansans and congratulate you on the
glory of the state whose admission into
the union you this day celebrate. Three
cheers for Kansas and her Day club.
The telegram served a double pur-
pose They not only conveyed the re-
vretS of the Senders but they also