The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-24
He RESENTS IT.
Manager Brigham Replies to
Major Anderson.
Says Commercial Club Has
PrOfited by Midwinter.
HE is SURPRISED.
Calls 1t Opposition to the
WOmen's Organizations.
No Outsider Has to Pay the Ex-
position Bills.

The Mid-winter Exposition associa-
ton is a separate and distinct chartered
| organization from the Topeka Com
mercial club. We do not ask it to stand
for our bills, but we pay them ourselves.
Our stockholders are liable"
This was the opening jolt of an inter
view given out by r. S. Brigham. sec
rotary and general manager of the big
show now running in the Auditorium.
] in answer to the demand of the adver-
Using entertainment committee of the
Commercial club that the club partici-
pate IN the proceeds Of the Mid-winter
Hasn't the club participated in some
OF our proceeds asked Mr.. Brigham.
Hasn't it already to the extent of sew
4 eral hundred dOllars2 Well I should
say so, and at times when the club
needed it too. ] am glad this matter has
come to u focus. It has been in the
! brewing for some time. The article in
the State Journal last night brought out
! the matter and it provoked a great deal
| Of discussion. One of the most promin-
/ ent members of the Commercial came
/ to me last night and said that he would
withdraw from the club, in case it in
/ terfered with our matters Another
one went to a certain member of the
/ committee which took this action yes
terday and told him what he thought
4
either.
I am very much surprised at the
j attitude assumed by Secretary Ander-
son in opposition to the ladies taking all
the proceeds of their concessions. At
his fair last summer he went before the
/ ladies of the u. and I. club and informed
them that there would be no percentage,
/ but that all earnings W ould be theirs.
He must of had change of heart since
/ then.
We are alone responsible for our
bills. Our organization is d separate
and distinct organization from the Com
/ mercial club Our stockholders are re-
sponsible to the extent of double liabil-
ity. We can take care of our bills. We
have not asked for help. Topeka is
probab bly, the only city in the United
! States that has an enterprise of this
kind that pays its own bills. These
/ things invariably require assistance to
make them go We don't have to go
around to the merchants and beg sub
scriptiOns.
our successes would have been i'm
/ possible without the cooperation of the
ladies of the u. and I. club, The Ingle-
side home and other organizations. They
/ bring TO us the best element in society
1t means worlds to US to have their| CO.
operation. In case we should not come
out clear and abovebOard, why these
ladies would be perfectly willing to give
US forty per cent of the proceeds ac-
per cent.
1T is our purpose to give the public
/ a big show for very little money. This
/ would be an absolute impossibility if we
! considered it in the light of a profit
/ making affair. It is our intention and
plan to spend within anything like con-
sentative management every dollar in
4 our show. The Midwinter is not a
| money making proposition What is
more / feel little like discussing profits
before they are made
i Il hope that the meeting viii wait
until the fair is over so that can be
! present at the meeting which it has
! asked for I suppose it viii be had
/ all right. but I do not care. 1 am read
at any time to show just exactly where
! I stand There have been criticisms OF
/ this and other kinds made before this
/ wear It won't pay to stir up the mat
fer too much. I am ready for anything
that comes my direction l am not
angry over the matter m Just READY
for them"
That last sentence just about shows
the status of things. The charitable
organizations of this city at once got to
work with the board of directors OF
the Midwinter yesterday to lind out
where they stand on the matter Ihefe
are some other people busy too.
Mr.. Brigham is backed bv the pow
erfuI influence of having made the Mid
Of its kind ever tried in Topeka, and
especially because it has not asked fol
PARTICLE of francial help in the way
of subscriptions from local merchants
rT1e Nidwinter is an established Tooeka
4 concern. The Commercial club faction
an the other hand thinks the club en-
titled to some share of the proceeds.