The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-30
BONE The ORATOR
Popular Kansan at New York
SunfloWer Celebration.
kansas Tribute to New York"
His Subject.
HE ISN'T SURPRISED.
Only a Step From Short Grass
Country to Metropolis.
Eugene Ware Is Also a Guest of
Honor.
E ISN'T SURPRISED.

New York, Jan. 3.-Kansas in
vaded the heart of New York last
evening. Bedecked with boutonnieres
of sunfiowers they established them
| selves in the Waldorf Astoria and took
the aristocratic hosiery by storm. 1t
was the second annual banquet in
celebration of the natal day of their
old home-the Sunf1ower state.
Kansans and ex-Kansans crowded
around the banquet tables, the Kan
sans dropped IN while east. Chief
among the latter were Eugene F.
Ware, who read an original poem en-
United States district attorney, who
responded to the principal toast of the
evening, Kansas Tribute to New
York.
The following officers were elected;
President. Charles w. Price; first vice
presiden, DR.. James H. Garfield; Sec
ond vice president, Paul Starett; sec
rotary. NJ. P. Gould; treasurer, H. r.
Mitchell; trustees, H. K Wood. w. c..
Simpson, T. E. Siosson, Thomas Dins-
more.
Among the guests of honor were
Mr.. Ware, H. j. Bone, United States
district attorney for Kansas; Samuel
M. Gardenhire,~ formerly of Topeka;
and the Rev. Charles Josiah Adams of
Staten Island, formerly of Wichita.
Senator Charles Curtis sent regrets
ator from Kansas. Chester 1. Long
There were kilograms from Repre-
sentative Charles F. Scott and others
In bringing the tribute of the Sun
flower state to New York, Mr.. Bone
said:
The commemoration of Kansas
birthday is a pleasant duty dear to the
hearts of her citizens Perhaps to the
outside world it is hard to explain Just
why a Kansan takes such pride in his
state, but to me there is in this re-
membrance of Kansas by this assem-
blage here in far away New York a
fine compliment to our state that only
a true Kansan can appreciate.
1T is within the memory of all OF
US that only a few years ago Kansas
man would most reluctantly admit the
real name of his state. Fortunately
that time is past and the appearance
of prosperity of this splendid assem-
blage shows the improbability of its
return.
II am not by any means singular
when, confess the greatest admira-
ton for New York, for its magnih-
cence, it's wealth, and the immensely
of its commerce are never referred to
in the hearing of any American with
out exciting a personal admiration.
Our universal interest and pride in
this wonderful city and its permanent
success are due, in part at least. to
the perhaps unconscious realization Oh
Americans, that however great the
distance separating their residence
from New York. the welfare of their
home communities depends in no
small measure upon the financial
genius of New Y orkers.
TT is inevitableb that the ordinary
stranger should be deeply impressed by
the wonders he sees on every hand is
he passes along your streets; the beau
ty and strength of architectural design
and construction; the few remaining
patches of unscraped sky;the brilliancy
and accuracy of electrical display and
device by which he is able, every hour
and minute of the night, to keep tab
on the exact condition of the convivial,
Mr. Wilson. whose vocabulary IS limit
ed to That's ALL A police force to pro-
tect him from every evil, except temp
tation and the cabnan, and a marvel
Gus system of transportation by which
the never ending currents of humanity
are conveyed across the water, over
the water and under the water; along
the streets, through the air and under
the ground.
But none of these wonders surprise
the man from Kansas; for to him it is
only step from the short grass coun-
try to the Waldorf-Astoria. He knew
before reaching New York that the
various transportation facilities of your
city were in the hands of the president
of the Kansas Society of New York.
He knew that KansanS were at the
head of your largest architectural and
concerns and that sky
scraping, the sublime motto of their
state, was their principal avocation be-
fore coming here. He knew that the
editor of your Electrical Review as well
as your principal dealer in electrical
surgical instruments gained their in
itial experience under the tutolage of
the Kansas cyclone. He also knew that
the most popular captain on the police |
force was a Kansan. and that another
Kansan runs the drug bushes of New
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