The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-22
LIKE A REAL CITY.
Topeka Is to Have a Real Estate
Exchange.
Preliminary Steps for Organiza-
ton Taken Today.
AFTER NEW COMPANY.
Concern Which Manufactures
WindmilIs May Come.
The Membership Campaign Will
Be Renewed.
AFTER NEW COMPANY.

The real estate dealers of Topeka
have under consideration a proposition
for the establishment of a Topeka real
estate exchange. The matter was in
formally discussed this afternoon at
the Commercial club rooms after din
ner, and six or eight of the local realty
men who attended the conference were
heartily in favor of the proposed plan.
A meeting will be held tomorrow noon
in the private dining room of the club
at which definite action will be taken
on the proposition. 1t is desired that
ALI of the real estate men in the city
be present at the Commercial rooms to-
morrow noon and be ready to make sug-
gestions and voice opinions in the mat
ter.
A real estate exchange is not a nov
city. There are similar organizations
in nearly every city of Importance in
this section of the country. Wichita,
Kansas City. Oklahoma City, Denver,
Omaha and Lincoln all have these or
ganizations and the good results have
been derived from them.
The object of the real estate exchange
will be to boost Topeka by boosting To-
peka property. Topeka, in the estima-
ton of the local realty men, offers far
greater inducements to the investor
than any other city in the central west,
and it will to advertise these advan-
tages before the world that the ex-
change Will be formed.
The exchange will also be of mutual
advantage to all the members and to
the profession as We'll. Other profess
sions have their organizations from
which many benefits are derived and
the real estate men feel that their or
ganization could be made fully as bene-
icial.
A meeting of the manufacturers
committee of the Commercial club, to-
xr-ffI ItTVa foo
of the Moons festivities in the Com
mercial club today The meeting was
held in the rooms of the Topeka Ad
club which on special occasions serves
as a private. DINING room. The pur-
pose Of the meeting was to present a
proposition from the Clipper Windmill
company of Atchison. This company
wishes to move its manufacturing
plant to Topeka, and asks for nothing
more than a site of about two and a
half acres. 1t is a fully capitalized
company, and asks no money from the
club, but merely wishes to come here
on account Of the better facilities. P.
J. Clevenger, Col. J. D. Norton and DR.
H. H. Keith are interested in the COM
pany and presented the proposition to-
day. The matter will likely be reported
to the Commercial club who will give
the committee power to act and select
a site. This is a large institution
which employs a goodly number of
men, and would be a welcome addi-
ton to the city.
A meeting of the membership COM
mittee and all of those who were in
terested in securing new members on
the two rally days recently. are re-
quested to attend. Chairman E. l..
Copeland of the committee recently had
a list of all the business men and those
who should be interested in Topeka's
welfare compiled, and those of this
number who are not members of the
club will be seen during the remainder
of the month, and urged to join the
club Mr.. Copeland win divide the list
OF those not members among the mem-
hers Of the committee. BY this method
Mr.. Copeland hopes to realize the am
bition of the club in raising it's MEM
bership to one thousand by the first of
May.
Tomorrow should be a great day for
the Commercial clubs dining room.
Mr.. Colson, who has charge of the
luncheon has announced that fish will
be served tomorrow. over ninety ate
their mid day luncheon at this place
today. The interest keeps up and ev-
cry day sees a few more of the actual
members in attendance.
H A. Heath. who is one of the
prominent members of the club, and
who is also interested in the Topeka
Ad club which is an organization