The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-17
READY TO PLAY.
Topeka Must Erect a Bandstand
at Once.
No Time TO Lose, as Season Is
Advanced.
SOME MONEY ON HAND.
Only Three or Four Hundred
Dollars Required.
Plan to Erect Handsome Struc-
ture at State House.


a bandstand for Marshalls band will
be erected in the city. probably on the
state house grounds, SO that the band
can give free weekly concerts during
the remainder of the summer and fall,
there is little doubt. There are but
two questions at issue. that Of raising
about four HUNDRED dollars to add to
the amount already in hand for the
building of the bandstand and getting
the necessary permission from the ex-
ecutive council for it's location on the
state house grounds Both of these
questions viii be answered in an af-
firmative manner because the Com
mercial club has taken up the matter
with its usual vigor. A committee.
mprising tWenty-one of the promi-
nent business men in the city, has been
appointed by the club to wait on the
executive council at its next meeting
on July 25 10 secure the necessary per-
mission for the building of the stand
in the state house grounds. and as Tor
the raising of the money, why $500 is
a mere bagatele when the CONNER
cial clubs gets busy on any proposition
where a fund Is needed for anything
which will be of benefit to the people
of the city, and surely there is nothing
that will afford the citizens of the
town more benefit and real enjoyment
shalIs band.
However. there have been so many
subscriptions solicited for various
things in the city during the last few
months that the officers of the Com
merciaI club believe it will be better
in this instance not to make arrange
ments for a personally solicited sub
scription, but to call on the people OF
the city for g popular subscription or
amounts not exceeding 81 ard that
these subscriptions be made through
the newspapers The State Journal
already has nearly one hundred dol
lars towards fund for the bandstand
and the chances are that the people OF
the city viii fall over each other in
subscribing the balance without per
sOnal solicitation.
Another plan for the raising OF this
money has been suggested. 1t is that
MarshalIs band give a concert some
evening during the next week or ten
days in the Auditorium to which the
nominal admission of IS cents should
be charged. No trouble would be ex-
perienced in getting the use OF the
Auditorium free for such an occasion.
Four or five thousand tickets could be
printed for a small sum- These could
be placed in the hands Of the fraternai
and many other societies In town and
on sale all over the city and that II
would take little effort to dispose Of
twenty-five hundred or three thousand
tickets when # was known that this
money was to be used for band
stand, is beyond a question. Should
such a plan as this be formulated the
subscription for the bandstand would
be certainly 4 popular one.
The city council has done its share
towards preserving the autonomy OF
the band by appropriating 500 a
month for its support and it is up TO
the people of the city to provide the
paltry sum needed for tn stand either
by personal subscription or by. pur-
chasing tickets for concert, II the
latter plan is decided on.
AS to the location of the bandstand
there can be no question that a place
on the state house grounds is the ideal
one, and there is not believed to be any
valid objections which can be raised to
having it built there. s. L. Courtney,
who with l.. NJ. PenWell. John Sargent,
Marion F. Laycock ana Harry E. Val
entine comprised the committee first
appointed by the Commercial club to
take UP the matter with the city coun-
Gil of providing funds for the band,
which they successfully accomplished,
stated today that the members OF this
committee believed that the best place
for the location of the band would be
on the lawn just south of the west en-
trance to the state house. This would
make Harrison street and the south
state house drive available for carriage
parties and the steps on the south and
west approaches to the state house
would afford comfortable seating capac-
ity for a couple of thousand persons.
And in the Immediate vicinity of this
location, Mr.. Courtney pointed out there
are ample walks for promenading-
There can be only one possible objec-
ton to locating the stand in the state
house grounds and that is the injury
the crowds might do to the lawns by
trampling on them. But as a matter of
fact the experience of other cities has
been that the lawns in parks where
band concerts are held weekly are not
z--af
ing on them and with such facilities as
the state house steps have for seating
crowds and the extensive paths for
promenading it would net be hard work
to keep the people off the lawns.
If permission is given for the cree
ton of the stand on the state house
grounds. it IS proposed TO erect one
which Will be ornate, though not ex-
ceedingly costly,-a structure which
will add to the attractiveness of the
grounds. rather than detraet from it.
Although no definite decision has been
reached as TO just what sort of stand
shall be built it is the consensus OF
opinion of the men who have interested
themselves in the matter that if 1t is
placed on the statehood grounds it
should be structural iron on concrete
base.
There are many other locations in
town which would be suitable in way
for the bandstand if the state house
grounds cannot be secured, but so
sanguine are those interested that the
necessary permission viii be given for
the building of the stand on the grounds
that they have not considered seriously
any of the other sites.
The committee appointed to get per-
mission from the state executive coun-
ell to build the stand on the capitol
grounds consists of E. ". Thompson,
J. ". ThuTston, George Hackney. A.
NJ. Mills. Clement Smith X. E. Sterne.
W F. Roehr. F. z. Nipps John ID.
Norton. c. H. Morrison. o. Mccormick.
w L Miller, DR.. S. E. Lyman. DR.. H
H Keith A c Klingaman, r T. Hay
den. Charles W Guild. Charles S. Eagle,
w A. s. Bird and W G. Agard. BY
the time this committee meets with
the council It is expected that the fund
for the stand win be raised.