The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-09

the Santa Fe at 4:3O this morning to
attend the launching of the battleship
Kansas ateCamden. N. j. There were
% in the party, including Miss Anna
Hoch, the sponsor, who will break the
bottle of something over the prov of
the biggest boat in the United States
navy.
No, General Hughes, the director
general of the party. will not wear
his sword and epaulets on the Pull
man. This is a point which has been
in grave doubt for some time, but it
was settled yesterday by General
Hughes himself. He said:
1.-The members of the governors
staff will put on their ordinary
clothes to travel in. When they
arrive at Philadelphia they will don
the dress uniform-not the full dress.
The full dress uniforms with the long
tailed coats, cooked hat, and all that,
will be worn only at the launching.
After leaving Philadelphia the staff
will wear citizens clothes"
Governor Hoch and Miss Anna
Hoch will be the guests of honor at
a reception to be given Friday evening
at Philadelphia by Mayor Weaver of
that city. 1t is expected that Gov
enor Pennypacker, the man who tried
to muzzle the press of PENNSYLVANIA
will attend the launching and assist
at the reception to the distinguished
Kansans. In addition to Mayor
Weaver's reception, the New York
Sh1pbuildlng company, which has the
contract for the construction of the
Kansas, will give a banquet. or lunch
con, to the guests Immediately after
the close of the launching ceremonies
1t is expected that a large crowd of
former Kansas people now residents
of or visitors in the east will attend
the launching.
Next Monday the party will be in
Washington, D. c. They will prob
ably visit the White House and other
points of interest. but the present
plans do not include a call on the
president, for the president is not in
Washington at present.
Miss HOch's Christening Gown.
When Miss Anna Hoch christens the
Kansas Saturday morning she will
wear costume designed and made in
Topeka, Kansas, U. S. A. A Topeka
mod1ste turned out the pretty white
gown in which Miss Hoch will appear
as sponsor of the battleship which
bears the name of her native state, the
state of which her father is governor,
and Topeka halter provided the hat
which will crown her pretty head
Under such circumstances it is al
ways considered the proper thing to
say that a girl is pretty-in fact all
girls who get tn cir names in the news
papers are pretty but in this case
the description is fully deserved and if
Miss Hoch receives a good many bou-
quets from the press, far and near on
this occasion she will get no more than
is coming to her About twenty years
old, of medium height, graceful and
well proportioned, with light brown
hair, becomingly arranged, big gray
eyes, of the kind sometimes described
as melting pretty features and a
fair, clear skin, the governors daugh-
ter and the Kansas F." sponsor is one
of the Drettiest girls in Topeka No
doubt if she were not young and pret-
ty she might still have been chosen to
christen the Kansas, because her faith
er'S position seems to indicate her as
-- the proper person to perform that in
teresting function, but it is a matter
of no small gratif1caGon to Kansas
people that the battleship named for
this state will have so fair sponsor.
AS has been said, Miss Hoch will be
dressed in white. the proper color for
chriStenings, weddings, graduations
and other such important ceremonies,
when she breaks the bottle of cham
pagne or John Browns spring water
or anti-Standard OIL OF whatever fluid
may finally be decided upon for this
purpose, over the bow of the great bat