The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-10

The above shows the total number
Of paid admissions at the carnival
grounds. both afternoon and evening,
during the past week, and indicates
that as a financial proposition the
venture has been profitable to both
the Gaskill company and the Topeka
Commercial club.
i. NJ. Penweu. who was selected to
look after the finances for the local
interests, said this morning after he
had finished a statement of attend
snce: II think that after all bills are
paid the Commercial club will make
between $500 and $500. Our ex-
penses have been heavy. One great
mistake is always made in matters of
this kind. People are in too great a
rush in making the preparations to
consider fully the expense which they
incur. If something is needed, some
one goes to telephone and orders
It, and never thought is given to the
4act that pay day is coming along
sometime. I do not offer this in a
spirit of criticism, but I only suggest
that in future cases a great deal of
care should be exercised in this direc-
don.
Il shall be unable to make up an
exact statement of the financial out
come for a week or so. The bills are
q
ing out Of town tomorrow and will
not be back until week after next BY
that time all of the accounts will be
made up and we viii know the exact
outcome.
ct want to say something about the
men I dealt with in the carnival COM
pany. They are just about the
incest, most gentlemanly and cour-
teous men I have ever had business
dealings with. Everything went lovely
rnWaFTnh hos 7~7N
been single hitch. We all worked
together and the relations have been
more than satisfactory"
The basis upon which the gate re-
ceipts were divided was as follows:
The Commercial club was to receive
25 per cent. of the first $4,000, 80
per cent. of the next $4,000, and after
that 80 7s per cent. of all receipts.
The concessions will give the Com
mercial club share of about $3.50,
and this added to the $500 which the
gate receipt per cent is expected to re-
turn, viii swell the total earnings of
the club to about $500.
1t might be mentioned that this is
the only city in which the show has
appeared this year, that it made any
money. After Wintering in Augusta
Ca, the show opened up there for a
week birmingham, in the same state
was the next stop. A weeks stay was
made at Memphis and from there the
show Jumped to st. Joseph, Mo- from
which point it came here. At st. Joe
the attendance was less than one-third
what it was in Topeka.
treasurer Shields in speaking of the
matter said; "Our books will show
that Topeka has been our only paying
stop this year. The attendance has
been small in all of the other towns.
Various causes have contributed. the
principal one, however, being rain and
cold weather. We have been treated
very nicely in Topeka. The town has
given as excellent support and we have
been treated nicely in every respect.
From here we go to Denver
j. A. Brehany, the press agent of the
company, resigned his position TODAY
and win leave on Sunday for New
York city, to again take up the man
9gement Of Lincoln J. Carter pro-
duction with which he had been as
9OC1aLed Tor seven years before Join
ing the c5askill shows.
Mr.. Brehany is one Of the cleverest
press agents in the show business and
one OF the most gentlemanly and
courteous. He knows his business
thoroughly He is leaving the com
pany because of dissatisfaction be-
tween himself and his employers. 81
don't like it., he said today, land have
decided to return to the east and man
age Lincoln J. Carter show I was
IN that business for seven years and
ike 1t better. I misunderstood what
j was to do with the GaskilI company
and it has not been pleasant for me
therefore I have decided to give up
the place" Mr.. Brehany, though
nominally press agent of the show was
not allowed to issue tickets and had
virtually no authority.
Excursion to Kansas City.
Sunday, June Is. Round trip $1.25.
santa Fe.