The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-18
TOKANSANS ONLY
Are Booths for Midwinter EX.
position Open.
Plan of Manager BANTER Will
Likely Win.
MANY EXHIBITORS.
EXHIBITORS.
MAN Y
Plans for Decorations on an
Elaborate Scale.
Some Interesting Figures ON
TOpeka's Resources.

The eighth annual Kansas Midwin-
ter exposition will be held in the audi
| torium from January 18th to 30th.
| 1909. Announcements in the shape of
handsome illustrated booklets have
| been gotten up by Manager Banter.
More than a thousand of these have
already been mailed out over the state.
+ The Midwinter exposition is a pub
| lie enterprise and is regarded as one
| of the very best mediums for adver-
tising Topeka. OF the fifty-two booths
to be allotted to exhibitors, all but sew
| en- or eight have been engaged. The
management is trying to confine the
exhibits to Topeka and Kansas firms
and all space granted thus far has
! been to such people, though there are
many letters from manufacturers and
others outside the state on file in the
| managers office. That the displays
of Kansans covers very well the fields
for which foreign manufacturers and
producers seek space to exhibit, GER
tainly speaks volumes for Kansas in
dustry.
Manager Geo. W. Banter is conf
dent that the Midwinter this season
will far surpass any former exposition
both in the scope of exhibitions and in
the beauty of decorations and enter
tainment. All plans concerning the
decorative and color schemes for the
building have been left to Albert 7.
decoration will exceed in beauty and
cost anything yet attempted. Mr.. Reid
is also making drawing to be used
on a placard similar to those used
formerly. These show cards will be
sent out to all towns within a radius
of 100 miles of Topeka.
Concerning the colors to be used in
the decoration of the various booths
Mr. BANTER says, I'VE would like to
get the exhibitors to confer with us in
ample time to Join in harmonizing the
colors throughout the hail. A great
many of the exhibitors have already
expressed themselves as ready and
glad to do so.''
The attractions will be the best in
the line of music and vaudeville pos
sible to obtain. A limited portion of
devoted to the presentation of high
class vaudeville, which has been the
custom for years. In order to get the
best there is to get, Manager Banter
lect a strictly high class bill of vaude-
vile acts.
The exposition will open it's doors
daily at 1880 p. m. and close at II p.
M, with an intermission from $50 to
1880 for the dinner hour and to
straighten up exhibits for the evening
session. The admission fee of 15 cents
includes everything, the exhibits, the
music, the vaudeville.
In order to show that Topeka pro-
ducts Justify such exhibition on a big
scale the management has gathered,
and printed in it's announcement, the
following statistics:
Topeka. with a population of about
fifty thousand prosperous people, is
one of the finest residential cities in
the country; is a large manufacturing
and jobbing town as well as an impor-
tant railroad center. There are 42S
manufacturing plants that have an in
vested capital of 1922, $1,000, en-
pIoys 7,45O people, to whom was paid
in wages during 1907, $4,O71, ,421.OO,
value of output was $21. 6 Sc, 7O1. 90. 1t
is on the main lines of the Santa F'e,
Rock Island and Union Pacific rail
ways; the principal shops and the gen
eral offices of the Santa Fe and head
quarters of the Rock Island west of
the Missouri river are here. We also
have the Missouri Pacific and l.. T.
& s. w lines. Its public utilities in
the matter of excellent service or reas-
enable charges and its educational op-
portunities are unsurpassed.