The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-02
AFTER 1000 MEMBERS.
Forty "Hustlers'' viii Start to
Work Tuesday Morning.
What the Club Has Accomplish.
ed This Year.

Twelve hundred members for the
Commercial club! This is the goal to-
wards which the membership com.
lnittee, together with forty "hustlers'
of the club will start work on Tues
day morning in a concerted rapid-f1re
membership campaign.
Last night sixty-eight enthusiastic
members of the organization sat down
to o'clock dinner. The gathering
was the largest affair which has been
held at the Commercial club this fall
and it was shown that those present
were there for business.
we ought not to allow other cities
to get ahead of us in the way of
Commercial club membership said
Mr.. E. L. Copeland, chairman of the
membership committee. 1.-THE sec
rotary has the names of at least a
thousand men who ought to be mem
bers of this club. If they are not
members we ought to have a good
reason given for their remaining out
of it.
Last year we had territory divided
into districts but this year We believe
that the best way to conduct tine cam
paign is to make a systematic can
vass of the list of available men. We
will go right after these fellows
and bring them in if it takes all the
morning to do it. We ought to have
fifty men out in the campaign, each
one taking fifteen or twenty names"
Charles P. Adams. one of the hon
orary secretaries, stated that those
who started out at 9 O'Clock on Tues
day morning to bring in new MEM
bers will undoubtedly be asked to
state what the club has done. He
read list of the things which the or
ganization has accomplished during
the past six months which will be
printed and used in the campaign.
complished by the club and its af-
hliated organizations, the Jobbers and
Manufacturers association, the Mer-
chants association, the Topeka Adver-
Using club, the Real Estate Dealers
association, and the Advertising COM
mission.
It is as follows:
What the Club Has Done.
1. Secured new rooms on the fifth
moor OF the Commerce building and
furnished them at a cost of $4,000
which is entirely paid, thus providing
as handsome quarters as any club in
the west.
2 Secured from all railroads en-
tering Topeka ten day stop-over priv
lleges on all through tickets, thus al
sengers to visit our city annually who
heretofore passed through.
j. Secured the Emporia-Topeka
motor service on the Santa Fe which
brings dozens of shoppers and trad
ers to Topeka every day from Usage
City, Emporia and intermediate
points.
4. Secured new Memorial build
ing for Topeka by raising $500 the
difference between the state appro-
priation for the site and what the
site could be secured for.
D. Has circulated petitions secur-
ing 1,4OO signatures, asking the may
or to call special election for the
n
government for the city of Topeka
and is waging a campaign in further
ance of said plan.
g. Has organized a live census
committee which is seeing to it that
topeka receives a correct count when
the government census is taken next
spring. An active government is one
of the city's best advertisements.
Z. Has had 48 large display adver-
tisements in the daily papers and doz-
ems of smaller advertisements in the
other Topeka publications calling at
tentlon to the advantages of Topeka |
as a manufacturing center, and as a |
beautiful residence city
s. Has issued and distributed
throughout the state and United States |
more than 10000 pamphlets, book !
lets and circulars of interest to the |
homeseeker, manufacturer and factory |
builder
9. Has given $1,000 to the enter |
tainment and securing of conventions. |
no. Entertained LOO Kansas mer- |
chants June %, "a and 25, and sent |
them all home with the resolve to visit |
Topeka again, and we trust to remem- |
Der their entertainers in the matter of |
future orders.
IL. Entertained $500 delegates to
the state Sunday school convention for
one week-One of the largest conven-
tons ever held in Topeka-and appro-
priated $3.50 for the purpose.
IL. Entertained the Young PEOPLES
alliance (6OO strong) at Garfield park
for one week. They were so well
pleased that they are coming again
next year.
10 Entertained the EIks during
their state convention.
II. Entertained the local fire in
surance men of the state and gave
them a banquet at the club. Enter
tanned the Vermont-Kansas associa-
ton Entertained Lafayette Young at
a dinner attended by more than 200
Of our members. Entertained CON
yressmen and senators besides hum
5reds of out of town business men at
he noon luncheons
IS Entertained A. w. McKeand.