The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-08
Have 75O Members and Want at
Least 1 200.
THE FACTORIES.
Will Not Be Limited
to Kansas Avenue.
Report of Work Will Be Made
at Noon Hour.

at Noon Hour.
| Tomorrow is planned to be another
big day for the Commercial club mem
bership. 1t will be another rally day,
although it will not be conducted on
as large a scale as the one of last
Friday. The membership of the
Commercial club-the paid up men,
bership-is now in the neighborhood
of $50 members. By tomorrow night
| it is hoped that it will reach the thou
sand mark
Last Friday during the big rally day
canvass all the soliciting for member
ships, or very nearly all of it was
done on Kansas avenue. This street
was pretty we'll covered at that time.
Tomorrow there will be several parties
in automobiles who will canvass for
new members in the other sections of
the city. One party will round up the
various business men in the Washburn
college section of the city. Another
will visit East Topeka. Another will
party will confine it's activities to the
business interests just off Kansas ave-
nue., on Jackson and Quincy streets.
The factories, wholesale houses, the
mills and other industries will be fully
lcanvassed.
| By this means, E. L. Copeland, who
| is the chairman of the membership
committee, is hoping to reach the
thousand mark by tomorrow night.
However, the membership committee
mark not be reached. The committee
is working all the time and Mr.. Cope
land says that by the end of the month,
the membership will be over thou
sand
The members of the committee will
meet at the club rooms during the
noon hour and report on the work.
Among those who will be active In the
soliciting tomorrow are: E. L. Cope
land. w. w. Mills. Charles P. Adams,
Samuel E. Lux. Robert Pierce. and
H. A. Heath. A number Of other mem
bers of the committee will also help.
Since the last meeting of the mem
bership committee last Friday, IL new
roster. The new members are: Burton
Hill, ]. G. B. Pinney, r. L. Tinker, e
E. Oakley, ]. j. Carter, Walter E.
Smith, J. C. Burnett. Fred c. Slater,
w. M. Levitt. F. c. Fox. w. G. Hollo-
way, H. o. Bradley, Paul Walker. ].
H. Bromich, M. A. Currie. T. E. Don
nellan, and E. S. Quinton.
Tomorrow night the regular monthly
meeting of the Commercial club will be
| held. Special invitations to attend
| have been sent to every member. old
| and new, as well as prospective mem
| bers. The business of the meeting will
| be disposed of in hurry, and the re-
mainder of the evening will be used in
| formally as a smoker, and general So
cial gathering. The members will all
make efforts to become acquainted
with each other The officials of the
association will call for suggestions
from every member. and the future
ure be outlined. There are a number
| OF different opinions as to the best
way to pull for TOpeka'S interests, and
these will be fully discussed, in rath-
er informal manner. Cigars Will be
passed around, and the new members
will be shown that they are welcome.
The Commercial club has a number
of new enterprising plans on foot to
increase the scope of influence of the
club. In the work of the membership
committee, an index will be prepared
who should be associate with the club.
This work has been started already.
1t is a card index system, and every
man whose name appears on this list
will be seen by some member of the
committee, and he will either be ex-
pected to join the club or some good
reason must be set opposite his name.
The list of names is being made from
the city directory.
Other plans will be adopted to keep
the membership of the Commercial
club on the increase all the time. Dur
ing the course of year., said Mr..
Copeland this morning. 1.-The list of
members will shrink from natural
causes about so names. Some of these
are men who move away. Then some
of the members will be removed by
death. We must devise some plan to
keep the membership on the increase
from month to month. One plan will be
to secure the names of new residents
and new business men of the city once
month. The committee will meet
and divide these lists so that each
some one to solicit. Strangers too fire.
quently come to our city and do not
get acquainted with our business men
only as they are thrown in contact
with them. We want to welcome every
new resident of the city. BY this
means we can interest the new corners
in the work of making Greater To-
peka right from the start"
Another feature of the work of the
rejuvenated Commercial club to which
especial attention will be paid. is the
matter of securing conventions for the
city. The Commercial club will keep
informed on. every convention that is
to meet and efforts will be made to
bring the meeting to Topeka If pos
sible. With the revenues of the club
materially increased by the additional
| membership, some money Will be spent
in the matter of entertaining visitors.
There is no reason why Topeka should
| not get almost every convention of
] state wide Importance, with all our
advantages, the Auditorium, and the
| first-class hotel service.
| The work of starting the new cafe
| in the Commercial club rooms has been
delayed by several conflicting enter
prises that have kept the officials of
| the club from giving the attention to
| this matter which should be given, The
plans, however, are well started, and