The Topeka state journal., 1908-09-30
ROOM ONTAFTDAY
People Wanted Who Can Take
Care of Visitors.
One Of Largest Crowds in His
tory of Topeka Expected.
KEEP DOORS CLOSED
Auditorium Won't b Opened
Till Parade Reaches There.
Programme for the Procession
Is Given Out.

Anyone living within a short distance
of the center of town who has rooms to
rent for Saturday and Sunday Oct
and 4, is urged to send their names to
the clerk or proprietor of one of the
Topeka hotels.
Oct. 3 is Taft day, and everything
indicates that Topeka is going to have
one of the biggest crowds on it's hands
that it has ever had. Many of the peo-
pie who come to hear Taft Saturday
night will stay in Topeka over Sunday,
and they will nearly all want a place
to sleep Saturday night.
Topeka must take care of this crowd,
and while there is not much profit in it
to rent a room for one night, it is a
duty which the people of Topeka owe
to the crowds. Indications are that the
hotels will be inadequate to provide
accommodations for everybody, and for
that reason, the hotel clerks should be
notified where to send the overflow. AS
soon as the hotels are filled, people will
be sent out to private houses.
There have been $4,000 personal in
vitations to attend this Taft meeting
sent out by the state committee, and
word has been received that delega-
t1OnS are coming from as Iar west DIS
Great Bend, Hays City and Norton.
From Great Bend there are a dozen
prominent Republicans planning TO
come. Wabaunsee county will send
big delegation. and has been promised
the honor of marching next to the au-
tJmobile section. ,.
An Important Announcement.
Chairman ]. N DolIey this morning
announced that in order to protect out
of town delegations in the parade, and
others who want to see the parade, the
doors of the Auditorium will not be
opened until the head of the parade
reaches the Auditorium. Otherwise
the Auditorium might be filed before
the out of town people had chance
to get in the big building.
The plan of the big parade is as
It will form at the Santa Fe depot,
ard march as soon as the Taft train
arrives. The line of march viii be
up Fourth street to Kansas avenue,
down Kansas avenue to Ninth, east on
Ninth to Quincy. where the auto
mobiles carrying Tafr ana his party
will draw to one side and review the
parade. The parade will proceed to
the auditorium and will be followed
BY Taft and the automobiles.
The parade Will be made up as fol-
lows:
Mounted police.
Marshall's band.
Automobile conveying W. H. Taft.
Fifteen automobiles conveying party
from Taft train.
Wabaunsee county delegation.
other county delegations.
Kansas City delegation.
College and universities.
Topeka Flambeau club.
Shawnee county delegation
The following bands Will march in
various parts of the parade: Mar
shall's band, knights & Ladies of
Security band, Jackson's band. Esk-
ridge band Paxico band, Kansas City,
Kan. band, Kansas university band,
Lawrence band, Manhattan band,
Lincoln Post drum corps.
The Lincoln Post Flambeau club
will shoot $500 worth of fireworks
while marching up Kansas avenue.
1t is announced at state head
quarters that the Taft special train
will make a ten minute stop at Pea
body. Kan. Peabody was cut off the
list when the schedule was revised,
but such a protest went up that it
E.-z-Sbeen put back on