The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-27
Meeting Of Executive Commit.
tee to Arrange
Matters for the Kansas Mer.
chants Week.
MFRS. AND JOBBERS
VI Topeka Acting as the Hosts
Of Occasion.
Duties of the Respective Com
mittees Selected.

The committee on ARRANGEMENTS of
tne Kansas merchants week. July
TO- 10 and IL, at Topeka under the
auspices OF the Topeka jobbers and
manufacturers, met this afternoon at
the commercial club rooms and ar
ranged for the duties and appointment
VI committees for the following pur-
poses:
Reception Committee.
~ snail be the duty Of this COM
mittee to see that all incoming trains
are met on Wednesday and THURSDAY.
July lotn and 18th, and to extend to
visitors the glad hand immediately.
ana provide them at. once with street.
car tickets up town, and escort them
10 the headquarters at the CONNER
cial club rooms, where the reception
commlttee Will again be in charge and
PROVIDE badges and buttons and
provide visitors with tickets to the
various entertainments. 1t shall, fur
thermore be the duty of the reception
committee to direct visitors. and to CO.
operate with the other committees in
making the visitors have bully good
time.
Decoration Committee.
1t shall be the duty of this com
mittee to provide large posters with
some such legend as 'swelcome KAN
sas Merchants in large letters for use
IN retail stores on Kansas avenue and
prominent bill boards and for use in
the manufacturing buildings 1t has
also been suggested that the trolley
poles on Kansas avenue be decorated
from about Tenth street to the river
with some kind of inscription or BAN
ner, and TO see every merchant on
Kansas avenue and induce them to
decorate their stores with bunting.
f1ags, etc., to make Kansas avenue CAV
and festive 1t shall be the duty Of
this committee to purchase and pro-
vide badges for the visitors and for
the local committees.
Music and Concert.
1t shall be the duty of the commit
tee to arrange for band concert by
MarshalPs full military band on Thurs
day and If possible station the band
on Kansas avenue some place where IL
can play all day long, and to arrange
to have grand pipe organ recital on
1880 o'clock. To arrange with the
Modoc club to appear in this concert
and to secure any other musical talent
that will make one of the best musical
entertainments that Kansas merchants
have ever listened to. .....
Banquet and Speakers.
1t shall be the duty of this committee
to close contract with the National
| hotel for a grand roof garden banquet.
| specifying the menu, number of wait
| ers, time for holding, make the neces-
sary mergency clauses as to number
| who will attend. ETC., etc. 1t shall ar
range with the committee to provide
| the music and entertainers at the BAN
quet. Arrange for any decoration on
| the tables, for distribution of the
| tickets. and that every merchant who
| is duly registered at the headquarters
shall be provided with banquet ticket.
1t shall also be the duty Of this COM
| mittee to arrange an after dinner pro-
gram and have as many speakers as
| in their opinion is considered best.
Automobile Tour Committee.
1t shall be the duty of this commit
| tee to beg, borrow or SteaP' all the.
automobiles in Topeka, and arrange
for a big automobile tour through the
| city. This committee shall lay out an
| itinerary, and have this printed and
| give one to each of the chaffeurs, also
| provide each one of the merchants with
| an itinerary, showing the interesting
\ places in the city, also instruct the
| chaffeurs to be as attentive as possi-
| BILE and point out all the interesting
| places of interest in Topeka, and par
| ticularly to dwell upon the buildings
| of jobbing and manufacturing concerns.
| 1t shall also be the duty of this COM
| mittee to see that the hour of the tour
| is announced and to make the different
| arrangements, and get black and
| white promise from the automobile
| owners that they Will lend their ma
| chimes, and furnish their own chauf-
| feurs.
Street Car and Vinewood Connnit'ee.
1t will be the duty of this committee
| to make the best contract possible with
| the Street Railway company for street
| car tickets for all visitors for free
| tickets to all the Vinewood attractions;
| arrange for a seeing Topeka" car.
| This committee shall personally take
charge of the matters intrusted to their
care and see that the street car COM
| pany provide cars at the stated hours.
/ They shall direct visitors, arrange IL
| possible for "speelers" on the seeing
| Topeka" cars, provide them with meg
| aphones, and they shall also see that
| the seeing Topeka" cars are decorat-
ed: have printed any banners or an
| nouncements necessary for the infor-
| nation of the visitors, which can be
| placed in the hotels and at the Com
| mercial club for the information OF
| guests.
All committees should keep the chair
man. S. z. Lux, fully informed from
| time to time what their respective
| committees are doing.
| CHARGES AGAINST THE JURY.