The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-23

really beautiful streets In any one city
in the world.
Beautiful streets. however, do not
make a city, But Topeka is surfeited
with other things that do, especially
from the standpoint of being desir-
able place for the making of home
Its school houses are numerous and
unsurpassed for convenience and equip
ment. Its two high schools, one of the
regular variety and the other, a large
manual training high school, are
models of their kind. Its colleges are
many, of varied scopes and conducted
along high planes. Within the town
is a church for every creed, and good
one, too. Few cities have such fine
public water supply. Few cities have
such good fire protection and few cities
are so we'll lighted at night. The lux
ury of a generally adequate natural
gas supply is alsoto be found here. Then
there is street car system which
would be difficult to improve upon for
the regularity of the service it main
tains. and this service is generally
most adequate for all occasions. OF
honest and clean arnusements, there is
a plethora. There are three first-class
theaters which provide about every
thing there is in the way of theatrical
entertainment during it's season. There
are number of those excellently en-
PERTAINING affairs known as motion
picture houses, and they are most prop
erly conducted. There is an open air
theater for the summer season and a
pleasure park within a short distance
from the city which is better than
many similar institutions in larger
cities.
Best of all, though, there is nothing
in Topeka that makes 1t an undesirable
place to live in. It is as free from sa-
looms, from joints, from dens of vice of
all kinds as is the health-giving air
that its citizens breathe 1t is effec-
lively policed by city and county au-
thorities but their burdens are not
heavy in this line. Except for those
of the most petty sort violations of the
law here are few and far between. 1t
was not always possible to say these
particular things of Topeka, but it is
possible now and they are the exact
truth. regardless of what some scoffers
may say.
And because Topeka is such a fine
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to do business in. Retail merchants
have emporiums here that would be a
credit to cities of twice the size. This
is true of every line of business. Job
bers, wholesalers and manufacturers are
plying their businesses with great sue
cess and increasing their SCOPE and size
| all the time. The reason for this is
| found in the fact that Topeka is ideally
| located as manufacturing and Job
bling center. Four lines of the largest
railroad systems in the west enter and
| depart from her gates. and one of them
! has here the largest railroad repair and
| building shops in the country New
railroad projects with Topeka for their
base are in the making.
| ALI of these things that have been set
down here tell in but a rather feeble
way of the many ADVANTAGES of To-
peka. Other cities have some of them
but Topeka is blessed with all that any
| city needs. That is why Topeka is
growing now and developing in all
ways as she never has before. And the
merchants from over Kansas. who are
| in Topeka for few days, can take a
pardonable pride in the fact that they
have helped to make Topeka what she
Is and what she is going to be.