The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-13
WORDS OF CHEER.
President Holidays Annual
Address Is Optimistic.
Tells Commercial Club What
Topeka Has Accomplished.
A NEW RAILWAY LINE.
Assures Members That Council
Grove Project Is a Reality.
Observation-Disclosures OnTheir
Part in Upbuilding the City.

Charles X Holidays presidents
message" to the Commercial club at
Its annual meeting on Friday night,
after exhaustiveiy reviewing the year
of 1905. land going around the
world as he expressed it, pleaded
for good feeling between Topeka and
its rival neighbor cities. and relega-
tion to the rear of all trouble and
mischief makers.
Besides President Holiday, the
other officers also made their reports
for the past year. Mr.. Holiday said in
closing his report:
Topeka is especially equipped. A
city of $4,000 people. with every facil-
ity under the sun, coal rates tumbllng
every dav. despite rumors of their ad-
vance, and a gas rate for manuIactur
ing purposes. j promise you, as low as
any Missouri river town ever dare sug-
gest what more can be desired only
one thing more, and that is great
big. overwhelmingly Commercial ciuD
here. of at least 1000 energetic men
and women. to strike telling sledge
hammer blows for Topeka, nfSl' l3sI
and all the time. one thousand men
and women, who viii devote some o.
their time and 81 a month. for twelve
calendar months to the welfare OF the
city Give your new board OF directors
a backing like this and you Will nav
one hundred thousand pOpulauoH III
1911 instead of seVenty-hVe lnOusdiiu-
1T desire to congra tulate all of you,
and to thank the various standing ana
sDecial committees for the splendlu
work performed by them during M
past year. The era has oeeh tIe
greatest of all great years TOT gu
city The substantial and faplu az
vancement along all lines, need not os
recounted here. The speech OF tnS
honorable secretary OF the cruz Nallu
may his shadow never grow Iessl ~
lfvered at the Topeka Day Dahque1'
and which has been printed IN CIRCULAR
form, has told the whole story.
He Congratulates Railroads.
aT especialIv desire. however. at TINS
time to congratulate our dear old
friend. the Atchison, Iopeka q 9a Nc
T7e railway. its honored president, MI.
Ripley. its able and discerning poafu
of directors, its pushing ana up
date general manager, MI 11urley,
and an others i'm authority, IN Lnelf
wise determination to erect their own
LOCOMOTIVES car wheel, and other SHOPS
1T once i'm Topeka. / wish also TO
7sslIre them that this club and To
Deka stand ever ready now, as they
ALWAYS have in the past, to 90 What
ever they may be called upon To- do
to further the interests of the old
Santa Fe.
II also desire to congratulate and
thank the Rock Island officials, Presi-
dent Winchen, Vice President Nudge,
and General Manager Cain, for their
very generous treatment of Topeka IL
moving their western headquarters
again to this city. and for the new
inprOVem entS to be inaugurated here
Topeka appreciates this courtesy and
win not be slow to reciprocate.
Il also thank the officials of the
Union Pacific for taking hold of the
Northwest road and opening up a new
territory tributary to Topeka.
81 also want to congratulate the
Missouri Pacific upon the big improve
ments about to be commenced. which
when completed viii meet the hearty
appreciation of all Topeka.
Last, but not least, I desire to an
nounce that the contract has been
signed by the president and secretary
of the Topeka. Eskridge & Council
Grove interurban railroad company for
the financing of that enterprise, and
that the road is now d certainty.
Things Coming This Way.
"In conclusion, gentlemen. there
are d great many good things coming
to Topeka this year too numerous to
be touched upon here. In this year
of promise and good fellowship, how
ever let us permit no differences of
opinion on any question to hamper
any of our actions for the good of the
city. We must all get ready for the
great semicentennial. To this end
Kansas avenue ana other streets must
be repaVed. and repaved a z once. and
if it is the deliberate judgment of
property owners abutting on these
streets that they want asphalt. then
let it be asphalt. I must confess
however, that as president of the To-
peka Commercial club ana as a mem
Der of the $4,000 club. I think the
wise prudent and patriotic thing to
do would be to patronize our home in
dustry Topeka brick. especially as it
is the best and most durable pavement
In the world. This matter. however
can all be attended to i'm an earnest
and orderly manner. without the
necessity of the slightest friction. Let
our wise men get together.
Finally, the cities of Kansas should
drop the schoolbOy habit of making
faces at each other. All Kansas
should be united. must be united. i'm
sentiment and in commercial rela-
tons. If any one in Topeka cannot
ind what he needs at home I trust