The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-03
OFF ON A TRIP.
Legislators Given a Royal We'll
come at Manhattan.
Speeches Are Made in the Col
lege Chapel.
FEW LEFT BEHIND.
Three Hundred and Twenty-Five
Make the Trip.
College Cadets Give a Drill on
Parade Grounds.


Kansas crowded into eight railroad
passenger coaches at Topeka and
pulled by a single engine left the
Union Pacific depot bound for Man
haitian where the Kansas State
Agricultural college is situated This
is the first time in history that a
state egislature-without one man
absent-was ever pulled by one
locomotive and piled into one train.
There were 325 men on the train that
left Topeka this morning and every
expense connected with the trip
with the exception of cigars-was
paid out of the pockets of the stud
ents of the college at Manhattan who
sent the invitation and expected the
acceptance. The trip was for the
purpose of investigating the college at
Manhattan relative to the recent bill
In the legislature to center the en-
g1neering schools of the state at Kan
sas university.
The day was the finest one of the
year, the sun shone clear and bright
and the atmosphere was invigorating
"a perfect day for a vacation and
the trip was invaluable to the men
who have been working day and night
at the busy Kansas capitol.
When the train arrived at Man
nattan the students were there in a
body to meet them and with yells and
cheers the legislators were escorted
10 carriages and automobiles. 1t is
said that everything on wheels in
Manhattan was at the train this
morning and every "'honorable'' of
present Kansas fame was treated like
long lost friend. The huge process
sion wound it's way slowly from the
depot up through the prettiest parts
of the city and on out to the college
a mile distant. The streets were
nned with the whole population of
Riley county who had gathered to
give the members of the legislature
the glad hand and their hearty sup
port-also a little "hunch" that Man
haitian was the only place in the
world for the engineering school of
the state. The tours of Governor
Hughes. observation-disclosures Cover
nor Stubbs and other celebrities were
never greeted with such enthusiasm.
Manhattan is the only town in Kan
sas that has been honored with the
harboring of such prominent
gathering of men of the state of Kan
saS.
The ride to the college was a de-
lightful one and the legislators were
more than favorably impressed before
they had entered the college grounds.
But the college was better. The crowd
was taken around through the college
grounds and in every carriage and
auto there was an interpreter" to
tell of the scenery as it flew by.
In College Chapel
At 11:30 the college chapel was thrown
open to the visitors and guests of hon
or and the first and only formal hap
pening of the trip was conducted. Presi-
dent Nichols of the institution presided
and gave an address of welcome togeth-
er with a little explanation from the
college and a greeting from the stud
ents and the people of Manhattan and
Riley county. Then men from the
house of representatives and the SEN
ate were called upon for talks. OF the
house Chairman Dolley. G. f. Foley of
Lyons, a. c. Mitchell of Lawrence, c.
F. Louderback of Fort Scott. Dick
Hopkins of Garden City. and S. B.
Haskin of Olathe. The senators who
spoke were Lieutenant Governor Fitz-
gerald. H. E. Ganse of Burlington, T.
NJ. Potter of Peabody, Fremont Leidy
of Leon. s. NJ. Brewster of Troy and
A. S. Cooke of Beloit. All of these
men gave their appreciation of 'the
little entertainment as far as it had
gone and spoke in glowing terms of
their first Impressions of the college
A number of other words We're said
concerning their mission and they gave
a complete explanation of the same.
But there was no lobbying on the part
of the entertainers-they simply asked
the law-makers to come and then
judge for themselves
After the speeches had been given
and a more thorough acquaintance had
been formed the visitors adjourned to
the Domestic science hall on the cam
pus where a regular college cooked
Kansas dinner was served. The girls of
the domestic science department pre-
pared the meal and many a mans
heart was touched and started on it's
way by the palatabie eatables. If the
State Agricultural college is as prof.
cient in their engineering work as they
are in the construction" of food they
will have the unanimous vote of the
present legislature. And when the din
ner was over the senators and repre-
SentativeS were not satisfied until they
could go behind the scenes and witness
the manufacturers of such a piece of
handiwork All of the pet eating fads
of Governor Stubbs were exhibited to
a great advantage
Given Drill.
After the legislators had torn
themselves away from the domestic
science hall and the pretty cooks they
went to the college parade grounds
where 500 cadets of the college gave
drill for their benefit. Everything
they had learned was included in the
performance and the famous orders
of Speaker Dolley and the routine
clock like work of the minor move
ments of the legislature were not to
be compared with the work of the ca
diets. This was Favorable Impression
No to the senators and represen-
tativeS.
After the drill each senator and
each representative was picked out
by we'll informed student and every
building and every traditional place
on the campus of the Kansas State
Agricultural college waS explained
inspected and exploited until there
was nothing left to see. Late this