The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-24
A Guest at a Small inexpensive
Hotel, the GrenOble.
HE COMPARES PAPERS
Says Only Two Evening Papers
in New York City
Haze Circulation as Great as
the Topeka State Journal.


Gazette, is in New York.
He is writing interesting things about
interesting people to his paper. the En-
poria Gazette. Here is a batch of his
paragraphs which our readers viii en-
Joy.
He makes the remarkable statement
that in New York City "only two even
ing newspapers have as large a circula-
ton as the Topeka State Journal"
He also pays a fine compliment, in
two different paragraphs. to the Kansas
city Star. which is indeed one of the
great newspapers of the country.
White, itmust be remembered, iswrit-
ing these articles for his own readers Of
the Emporia Gazette. He would not
have it known, of course, for the world
that he scatters his wealth lavishly
around the New York hostelries. He
SAYS. in his naive and guileless manner:
"The undersigned always puts up at
a small inexpensive tavern at Fifty
sixth street and Fourth avenue, called
the GrenobIe.''
The writer has stopped at the Gren-
obIe, that is. for a short time only; it
is one of the crack hotels of the me-
tropolis It is something like seven or
nine stories high and is directly oppo-
site the great Carnegie music hall. 1t
is a quiet sort of a place, to be sure, but
very swell Just the same. 1t is the
hotel where Rudyard Kipling stays
when in New York. A few years ago
ne was at the Grenoble lying at deaths
door and bulletins Of his condition
were issued daily until he suddenly
started on the road to rapid recovery
The GrenobIe was in the public eye
then every day. Lately, till White fol-
lowed Kipling, the hotel has not been
greatly in evidence
But here are Whites paragraphs
and, like al of Whites stuff, every sem
tence is readable.
Here are a few excerpts from the
matter printed below in full:
The immense stealings OF the officers
explains why the cost has been so
much greater than it should be-"
"The newspapers of the country are
the savers of the people. They are
awakening the public conscience; they
win see to it that the thieves are not
permitted to go on with their stealing -
Here is the whole article:
The most remarkable thing about
New YoTk-from q, newspaper mans
standpoint, is the small circulation Of
its best known evening papers. Though
the New York Evening Post is a re-
markably wei conducted newspaper,
and though it has six million people
within an hour of its office, it has only
a little over six times the circulation of
the Emporia. Gazette. And the same
thing is true of other New York even
ing papers, except the World and Jour
nal. A number of Kansas newspaper
men who are complaining at the lack
of opportunities in the business in kan
sas should start for New York. Only
two evening newspapers have as much
circulation as tn Topeka State Journal,
none has half as much as the Kansas
City Star The reason is manifest. No
paper in New York-morning or even
ing-is as good q newspaper, as clean in
tone, as independent in thought, as
honest in conviction, and as cosmopoli-
tan in its news-sense as the Kansas City
Star. A paper as good as the Kansas
City Star in New York will circulate
by the million.
An odd thing happened the other
morning on a Broadway car. Every
one was reading the papers containing
the disclosures Of the moral turpitude
of the head of a great insurance com
pany. The people of New York are
greatly wrought I'D about the way
things are going in financial circles.
They don't know where to look for dis
honest men. On this car came a we'll
grOomed. prosperous looking man in
his middle ffties. with a parted short
gray beard, Immaculate clothes and a
high silk hat. He looked the part of
the insurance magnate, or the manipu-
lator of high fnance-very dignifed.
very prims very much above the com
mon herd. And the crowd was mani
festly against him. He had a seat all
by himself; his fellow creatures seemed
to move over spiritually to give him
room, as though he were something
unclean. Which os course was unfair
and unkind- 1t does not pay to Judge
man by his clothes no matter how
Well-to-do he may appear to be. As
Americans we are proud Of our kind
ness to the worthy poor. Vhv then
rich?
Ihe undersigned always puts up al
a small inexpensive tavern at Fiftv.
sixth street and Fourth avenue calIe6
Lhe GFenoble. Tt seems to be a sort nj
private family resort. and though fbe
sueslS seem to be rich but honest
M v-e,.l - ll.Sie display of money here
me women don't seem to run 80
nuCh 70 tailor made faces in this hote
as Cney DO in the more pomnO1e re
aotts OF 1ashlon, and every man hers
S9tl!s 70 pc paying for the grOcerie.
on MS own Wlfe-Which in New Vorl
IS pecullar enough to cause some CO...
ment Also this is noticeableOt J'l', h,
women haven't all got their fall hats
eAG uulnDer OF them are Nearius
wells wrapped around their sumn1eI
hats-Just as they do in Emporia a
this season OF the year. It made m,
non1e-slck 10 see them. But down a
tlie Hollano mouse saw a sight which
warmed the cookies of my heart. A
lunch there today We're hundreds q
middle-aged women-more than com
monty handsome. gowned like th,
women at the Congregafior,aI - -