The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-17
Kansas Midwinter Exposition
Will Begin Monday.
Everything Ready for Record
Breaking Attendance.
ALL TICKETS ARE GONE
Every One Placed on Market in
Advance Is Sold.
Many Interesting Features to
Amuse the People.

During the two weeks of the Kansas
Midwinter exposition beginning Mon
day it is expected that there will be
not less than five thousand visitors in
TOPEKA to attend the show and the leg.
islature and to attend meetings to be
in progress here. This is a conserva-
tive guess and may prove small. Hugh
Benner, who has been in charge of the
billing of the exposition over the state,
said yesterday that he believed every
railroad point within one hundred miles
of Topeka would send from 10 to 200
people to see the show.
Benner has just returned from his
/ advertising expedition with which he
has been occupied for the last five
weeks. He says he has not had a. third
the difficulty in billing towns and get
! ting press notices that he experienced
q year ago when engaged in the same
work. He says the people knew some
thing about the exposition wherever he
/ went and in a number of towns he was
told Of the number who would come to
/ see it. Last years show opened the
way for the exposition OF 1903 and
made things easy for him.
Every last one of the advance sale
/ tickets put on the market in Topeka
two weeks ago is gone and there is
4 $1,000 in cash in the exposition treas.
uEy as the return for the Is 600 paste
! boards. Manager Brigham has placed
! on sale number of Is cent tickets and
a lot of these are being disposed OF
: today During the exposition they will
be sold at one or two places about
town and also at the door of the Audi.
torium- Visitors aren't allowed to go
/ through the building today as every
thing is confusion and the workmen
and material have filled things pretty
much already.
The work of Commissioner of Decor
alton VIII Alexander will be complete
tonight His workmen commenced last
/ Monday and have been busy all this
week Everything above the balcony
/ is done and the green light on the metal
| ceiling and on the Smilax decorations
IS very pretty. Downstairs where the
exhibitors are fixing up their booths ii
is hard to tell anything about the ulti-
mate effect. Just inside the hall ara
to be arranged the displays Of horticul-
tural and mineral products, one or
either side of the front entrance. These
will be among the last things to go in
as their arrangement will require but
a short time and the danger of damage
IS at present too great. Carpenters and
decorators VIII work all night tonight
A lot of material for the show il
ready waiting to be put in place cui
not until the show is really open Mon
day morning will it be possible to tel
| what these displays are going to fOOH
like This years arrangement of the
exhibits is to be much more effective
than was that Of last time as Manager
Brigham has used all the ideas gather
ed before for the Improvement of this
show There won't be anything in tbs
body Of the floor to interfere with the
view of the stage, which is a thins
that will be appreciated by the people
who had a hard time seeing the enter
tainments before.
Manager Brigham today announced
three more of his vaudeville features
which will be put on at discretion dur
ing the two weeks. So far no pro
gIam1ne has been arranged as It has
been impossible to close up some of thf
best attractions until within the las
day or two. One of the new ones i.
Leonzo, the American juggler, as HI
calls himself. OF its sort this viii be
one or the most pleasing entertainment
features of the exposition. An exhibition
of expert juggling never fails to please
and the skill of the present performer
has been tested by Is years of work be
fore theater gOers in this country anf
in Europe. For time he was with the
famous Schnelbacker's Majestics a com
pany of crack entertainers, and was at
terWard with Harry Miner and the A
G. Field minstrels. With him he car
ries wardrobes and stage settings suit.
able for his performance His act last:
IA m1nutes-Which means IA minutes o.
nerve tension and subsequent hal
hour of Obs and "Ahs" and Did yo1
evers" on the part of the people whs
watch him.
Another feature will be the work O
Pascatel the aerial contortionist. Thf
act is spectacular and dangerous al
though handled with unfailing success.
by its performer. Pascatel can arrang,
and rearr2nge himself in more grotesqu,
attitudes during his stay on the trapez'
where his act is put on than the ordi
nary spectator can follow with his eyes
Miss Anna Burt will furnish slacIvil.
and traDeze work in an act put on b.
herself She has become known as on
of the most valuable attractions In tn,
Chicago Amusement Syndicate's reper
toir Her act of balancing is sirnila,
in many ways to other slackwire per
formauces but in its finish and execa
ton surpasses anything that Topek.
has ever seen. These three are anon,
the most expensive features Mr.. Brig
ham has secured.
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