The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-13
Another Big Railway System to
Radiate From Here.
Two Blocks of Land Are Already
Purchased.
RECT TWO BIG DEPOTS
Plans Also Made for New Kan.
sas River Bridge.
President Holiday Says Name
Is a Secret.


According to Charles K. Holiday.
president OF the Commercial Club, one
of the big railway systems of the West
has plans already completed for max
ing Topeka one of its terminal centers
and has already purchased two blocks
/ OF property in this city for its freight
an passenger depots. Mr.. Holiday
name of this company until some fur
ther preliminary details have been ar
ranged by it.
A statement about this company s
plans came from Mr.. Holiday today
in the course of a talk about Topeka s
/ future.
rs Topeka going to grow?" in
CURED Mr. Holiday in reply to a sim
liar question. well rather, Topeka
is destined to become a great and
fourishing city. The foundation has
] been laid for the best city in the union
and all we have to do is to follow the
! original plan. The wide magnificent
streets, the easy grades, and cheap
rents mean everything to business and
4 then add the other fact that Topeka Is
1 today the best distributing point in
/ Kansas and the new West and you
4 can readily understand why we will
grow.
The Santa Fe, the Union Pacific.
Rock Island and Missouri, Pacific are
! the four great arteries Of the West and
they all unite and radiate from Topeka.
And Hsten,' said Mr.. Holiday in a
confidential but certain tone do you
know that a great railway system has
already all its plans drawn for a
| bridge across the Kansas river here
with lines exten ding Northwest, North
east and Southwest from Topeka?
Do you know that the plans have
already been drawn and submitted
for new passenger depot costing $780,
600 and freight depots and terminals
/ costing much TV10rpS
DO you know that this new railway
system already owns two blocks of land
IN this city on which these new depots
viii be built?
There is another line heading here
from the Missouri river and when it
comes, its coming Will be q revelation
TO the people here and elsewhere as
we'll Then goodby to Kansas City al
gret that cannot state what this new
road IS or what the new system is, or
systems are, that will radiate from To-
peka. As president Of the Commercial
club [ gave my word not to tell, but
they are facts just the same.
And there is the Union Pacific Mr..
Holiday went on. Everybody Under-
stands what the northwest ext. isfon
from Topeka means and that not an
other year viii elapse before the North
side VIII witness a wonderful transfer
nation. The great Union Pacific
through trains, its Immense western
business, viii pass through Topeka and
this city viii become a big division
headquarters Of the system. AS with
the Union Pacific, so with our friend,
the Rock Island Month after month
this road is adding to the large head
quarters already establish here.
The Rock Island buys ev-
erything in Topeka for Its western dir
vision as our factories ana business men
can testify. And then our great friend.
the Santa Fe. The people are now IA
Tniliar with what a boon its great shop
improvements Will mean to this city
Another thing of Importance is our
natural gas. Natural gas alone would
and will add ten thousand to our popu-
lation. The New Topeka Electrical
company has by its competition with
the Edison company made electricity
and power so cheap that coal for steam
purposes in this city will soon touch
the prices for it in Kansas City
Natural gas at ten cents and. coal
at begging prices mean more factories,
and they are coming Again let US not
forget the possibility of finding natural
gas and oil right at the doors Of To-
peka. It must be found and can be
found If anyone can only get down the
required two thousand feet. The Com
merciaI club ought to hang up a cash
bonus of $4,000 for anyone who will
bore to a depth of two thousand feet
in Shawnee county. Gas and oil found
here would mean a city of one hundred
thousand population alone in five years.
interurban railways planned The To-
peka and Council Grove road will be
built IN 1907. Then there are three
surveys for interurban lines between
Kansas City and Topeka and Topeka
and Atchison.
at is not necessary for me to speak
now Mr.. Holiday continued, "of To-
peka as a city OF fifty thousand per-
sons. with its fifty miles of paved
streets, its one hundred and fifty miles
of brick and stone sidewalks, it's sixty
miles OF sewers its splendid national,
state, county and city edifices, the fine
libraries and colleges and other things
too mum erous to mention. I will not
touch on the prettiest picture in the
world the perfect parking and boule-
ward system of the residence districts
nor viii I refer to the great Industrial
life of Topeka. with its four hundred
factories, Some Of them the greatest
of their kind In the world and all of
them of the best. nor viii I mention !
the great and rapidly growing dnan- I
cial institutions Of the city which are
now taking such an important part
1.-THE question you have put to me is:
What of the future7 We can only and
best judge the future by the past. Go
back three years to 1903 the year Of the
flood and figure what has been accom- /
plished In the way Of growth since that
date. despite the most unheard of diff /
culties. namely the flood OF 1903 the big
FIRE of 1904, and the big Devlin failure Of /
1905 Yet. despite all these drawbacks. I
Topeka today. in municipal life in her
street railway systems her waterworxs. /
telephone improvements, natural gas. In /
her new banks and trust companies and
her thousands OF new houses. and in her
marvellous development along all lines Of
commercial and Industrial activity, is one I
OF the wonders OF the age. What we have
accomplished in the three years Just pass
ed we can more than duplicate during the /
coming three years
s'One Of the best signs in Topeka for
the future that see Is the absolute fsr-
nony existing among our citizens You
can not purchase q hammer in any hard