The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-17
.INNES IS WITH US
Opening Concerts Heard by Five
Thousand People.
Great Band Is Given an Enthu-
siastic Reception.
HEAT WAS OPPRESSIVE
This Interfered With Enjoyment
OF Afternoon Programme.
Kryl and Mrs. Partridge Make
Decided Hits.
HEAT WAS OPPRESSIVE

Innes and his band, direct from the
Lewis and Clark exposition, opened a
weeks engagement at Vinewood park
Sunday afternoon
VlneWood park was crowded long be- |
fore the band arrived. The people were |
there singly and in couples and by fam
Ines! Some took hammocks, some took |
lunches and all took fans, or wished |
they had. It was sweltering happy |
crowd. The hotter the sun the happier |
they seemed to be. Every train, from |
town on the city railway, was crowded. |
There were wild scrambles to get on, |
uptown, and mad ruShes to get off at |
the park. The walks, the bridges, the |
grass plots, and even the lagoon were
crowded with people. They jostled each
other on the narrow bridges and the
boats rammed each other on the lagoon.
The merrygo-round was loaded. The
switchback was buster than the Wabash
yards in East st. Louis. The boats and
the launch were tangled worse than the
two fleets were in the Sea of Japan.
The pop venders could not meet the
demand for uncorked bottles. The
lemonade man was disposing of his fin
! lShed product by the barrel. The doll
/ baby rack and the shooting gallery were
| centers of attraction. At the ice cream
!
! rushing hither and thither and yon, and
| each of the three places they went to
deliver dishes of cream was hotter than
! the first. Everybody was hot and ev-
i erybody was thirsty.
Innes and his men pIodded through
! the crowd of 5000 people. The band
1 men were pleased with the size of the
| crowd They were greeted upon their
4 crowd as they wish to be greeted by.
/ They made their way through the
! thrOng to the band shell and they be-
gan to peFspire and long for cold pop,
i lemonade and ice cream
1nneS and his men, who are used to
the strenuous musical existence, lost no
! time. They are used to reaching a
town late and to hurrying up the con-
cert. On their first Introduction to To-
Ipe1xa some Ave years ago, they arrived
at the opera house an hour after the
time for the concert to begin and they
i began playing even before the Italian
harp had been hauled up from the
depot So, at Vinewood, there was no
delay after they reached the band stand
and they went to work on the afternoon
/ programme beginning with "Jubel" by
Weber. And, Ju-bel, but it was hot.
Frederick Neil, face red and neck horid,
waved his baton and turned his eyes
slxyward as if entrea ting Old Sol to
4 ease up trifie. The band men puffed
away on brass and reed and still the sun
beat down upon the band stand shell
music lovers had seats in the enclosure,
in front of the band, and they hid un-
der umbrellas trying to escape the rays
of the sun. There were SO many UNI
brellas in the fenced enclosure that it
looked like a garden of big, black mush-
rooms.
i Innes looked around at the audi
ence imm ediately in front of the band
stand which looked very much like a
gathering of the immediate friends of
"a
perspiration trickled down his nose.
He rolled his eyes,. and looked at the
umbrella covered audience and smiled.
He waved his baton as the signal for
the stirring strains of his own march,
prince Charming" and wiped the
perspiration from behind his right ear
with his left hand He got the band
well started on the trio and then he
wiped the perspiration from behind his
left ear with his right hand. But he
kept on smiling and rolling his eyes
and looking heavenw2rd.
But Innes' band, direct from the
| Lewis and Clark exposition at Port
land, was not without competition.
The mechanical organ, in the merry
go-round, churned out everything from
"Bedelia" to Navajo and attracted 3
larger immediate audience than did
Innes' band. The reason was that
there is a large, spacious roof over the
merry -go-round under which the hear
ers of the mechanical organ could
l
The point of vantage for the hear
ing of the band concert, was the porch
of the refectory. Some people bought
Lup to six consecutive dishes of ice
cream in order to hold their places on
the porch, in the shade, where they
: could listen to the band and not melt.
1t was a great day for the ice cream
business. Then the baseball game was
finished and car load after car load OF
people came from the baseball
grounds. A little later, along about 5
o'clock, crowds from town, with
baskets of lunch, came prepared to
concert. Then the merry-go-round
mechanical organ and all, put on extra
) power. the switchback was. buster the
, barrel of lemonade broke all previous
boats on the lagoon collided more
often, the corks of the pop bottles
, opened so fast that the pop stand
, sounded like Port Arthur during the
!, ! (iunch stand in English) was SO
crowded that it seemed ready to burst
and then Innes and his band, still
|, hot perspiring and blowing, but
pleased with the audience, brought the
, afternoon concert to a close with the
"Anglo-America' fantasy.
Then the rush for the cars, the ride
| to town, the three trips of the con-
ductor through the crowded cars after
two niekels and . chance to distribute
transfers, the stops out on the prairie
in the sun where the girl in a lace
waist had the figures of the pattern
| burned into her arms
The Evening Concert.
The evening concert was much more
enjoyable because the heat was less op-
pressive. The reserve seat enclosure was
| crowded and thousands occupied VAN
tage points on the cutside or sat on
) benches throughout the park ani with
4 eager ears drank in the strains poured
out by the matchless band The audi
ence was enthusiastic but not over in