The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-07
Manager Brigham of Midwinter
Exposition Extends 1t.
Will Give Semicentennial Dele
gates Passes.
WANTS THEM TO SEE.
Promises to Furnish Ideas to.
Feed On.
Demand for Advance Tickets
Has Already Started.

The Midwinter exposition manage
ment proposes to do what it can to
make the delegates to the Semicenten-
NAL meeting. which is to be held in
Topeka on the 18th inst, feel at home,
and all of the delegates from outside
of Shawnee county viii be provided
with pass that will admit them to
the exposition at any time on the 18th
ana goth.
This will give the delegates an op-
portunity to see what Topeka does in
the way of an annual exposition and
suggest what would be possible when
the state at large takes hold and
pushes with the energy that is char
acteristic of Kansans.
The Midwinters of past years have
presented much that was enIightening
to the people who attended them,
with regard to the industries of the
state, though each year that the ex-
position has been repeated has wit
messed a broadening on the part of the
management in the particular that ex-
hibitors from other state have been
admitted.
This year there will be exhibits from
San Francisco and also from New
York, with representations from many
intervening states. Yesterday the
Genesee Pure Food Co. of Leroy,
New York, telegraphed for space.
This concern puts up a line of food
products that admit of making a
handsome exhibit and their display
Will be a very desirable addition to the
line of exhibits. There are still a few
desirable booth spaces open. but there
is no doubt but what all of the space
will be sold before the show opens.
Old Exhibitors Pleased.
1t has been the case almost without
exception, that the exhibitors of past
years have been. well pleased with the
results from their displays and in con-
sequence many of them return year
after year.
The demand for advance tickets was
never as great as it is this year. The
telephone is kept pretty busy in the
managers Office by merchants over
the city who want to be assured that
tickets will be placed on sale in their
stores. This means that they are hav-
ing calls for them from their custom
ers who intend to get in early on the
sale. Last year the sale of these
tickets went off so fast that it was
concluded before lots of people real
lied that it had really started. The
number of tickets sold at ten cents is
limited to / 1000 and as soon as that
number is exhausted the price is ad
vanced to fifteen cents. A careful con-
sderation of the matter and compari-
sons with the records of past years
Midwinter that when they sell tickets
at ten cents that they are selling them
for less than cost. in other words, it
would be impossible to pay expenses
if all of the tickets were sold at the
ten cent price.
When one stops to consider the
varied attractions that the Midwinters
present. and the smallness of the adj
mission fee. it's not to be wondered
that the tickets sell.
Tho Factory Tn4o,.asts
The numerous displays made by
manufacturers are in themselves we'll
worth the admission price, but when
in addition there is provided the op-
pOrtunity to see q class of speciality
features such as are not under other
circumstances to be seen except in
the expensive show houses of the
large cities, and the high class band
and orchestra music, is it any wonder
that the Midwinter has a place in the
hearts of the people.
''EIe is always Dragging that he doesn't
owe anybody a dollar.
Well, answered the man who bor-
rows. thank heaven my credit is not
bad ''-Washington Star