The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-21
SALE HAS BEGUN.
Tickets for the California Bene-
fit Are Now Ready.
Over $500 Worth Sold on the
First Day,
CHANCE FOR EVERYONE
This Is the Opportunity for
People to Contribute.
Best of Professional and ANA
teur Talent on Programme.

An opportunity is offered to each and
every person in Topeka to contribute
their mites in an unestentatiousv yay fol-
the relief of the victims of the San
Francisco earthquake and the devastat-
ing FIRE which followed. And this op-
portunity is the big benefit entertain
ment which is to be given at the Audi
forum on Tuesday night of next week.
Tickets for it have been placed at the
nominal figure Of fifty cents each and
there is no reason why the great ma
jority of the people of the town should
not take one or more of them and in
this way help to swell the fund which
IS literally pouring into the Commercial
club for the succor of California s
stricken ones.
From the enthusiasm being shown
on all sides over this entertainment it
is safe to say that the Auditorium will
pc packed to the doors and those who
get in Will be given an entertainment
which will be novel in the history of
the city. Although the programme for
It has not been arranged in detail it
promises to be one of unusual merit,
and those taking part in it viii en-
brace the professional actors in town as
we'll as the best Of the home talent of
which there is no mean supply. Every
one in the city is lending a hand to
make the entertainment the great sue
rank as one of the memorable events
of Topeka
A. H. Hagen, manager of the Novelty
theater, who started the movement for
this entertainment which has been so
enthusiastically seconded by the Com
mercial club, will contribute the serV-
ices of the performers at his theater
next week and they include some of
the best on the vaudeville stage. Craw-
ford and Kane have rendered the serv-
ices of the stock company, or its indi-
Vldual members, who are at their
house, and from these actors and artists
at the theaters, the professional part
of the programme will be made.
Marshall's band will be on hand and
this will be the first opportunity in
months for the people of the town to
hear the music of this crack Organiza-
ton. The band is playing better now
than it ever did before and that is say
ing a good deal.
No effort has been made as yet by
the committee in charge to fix up the
home talent end of the programme.
Everyone in town with ability as a
musician or singer has volunteered
his or her services and the committee
would have no trouble in arranging a
programme of unusual excellence
which would. take forty-eight hours of
continuous performance to present.
It is safe to say that when the pro-
gramme is finally arranged it will he
the best of its kind which has ever
been presented here or any other place
for that matter.
Tickets for this event. which will in
reality represent the sympathy of all
Topeka for the distressed on the coast
have met with an unusual sale already
and good many organizations in
town who had ideas of getting up en-
tertainments of some sort have given
them up and are deVoting their en-
ergies to selling tickets for the big
benefit.
The tickets were hardly dry from the
press yesterday when a committee con
sistIng of w. W. Webb A. G. Goodwin
A. H Hagan and ". E. Moffit filed their
pockets with them and started up and
down Kansas avenue. Within three hours
they had sold over three hundred dollars
worth The tickets have been placed on
sale IN all Of the prominent stores in town
and there is no better way for the rank
and tile of the people of the town to help
swell the relief fund than by buying them
There was meeting of the executive
board of the City Federation of Women's
Clubs at the Y. W c. A. this afternoon
at which it was decided that the members
or the federation and the allied clubs
should devote their energies to selling
tickets for the entertainments Members
Mrs F. D. Robertson at Ais West Sixth
avenue and Miss Kingman at Seventh and
Monroe streets.
Chief Wilmarth Of the fire department
mas taken an active interest in the sale
OF tickets for the benefit He distributed
quantities of them among the men of the
department this morning and thew dis
posed of them so quickly that the CHIEF
was around after another supply this af-
teIuoOn.