The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-25

and George Big Mouth" an imported
vaudeville performer from Kansas
the glad hand from the crowd.
Then Mr.. Kfene gave his opening
address as POSTMASTER.
He said in part:
you will see during your stay
nearly all that Topeka has to offer
shops in the world where three
thousand stalwart honest men work
like beavers to keep up the standard
OF the greatest railway system on the
continent. You have visited the
cleanest packing house in America
and have met the men that have
made it SO. You have stopped at our
commission houses where carloads
of produce are handled with as much
facility as busheI of potatoes or a
dozen lemons You have seen a
creamery where the product of ten
thousand cows is turned into heaps
of golden mamma which graces the
tables of the most eXacting epicures
In the palatia1 mansions of Fifth
avenue and brings visions of home
and the farm to jackies on the Amer
lean battleships in the orient. We
have taken you into the factory where
are made automobiles as good as the
best and you have been whirled along
the smooth pavements of the city
lulled into peaceful happiness by the
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gines. We have given you a glimpse
of our beautiful homes and well kept
lawns through the medium of the city
railway whose development has
marked an epoch in the progress of
the municipality We have con-
houses and you have been given an
peculiar demonstration of the fact
that while fire may destroy the crea-
lions of genius it can not scar nor
wither the spirit of the man who has
forged his fortune at the anvil of
square dealing and builded his temple
of success upon a foundation of
honesty. 1t is this spirit that has
kept our institutions intact. that has
made Topeka great. No city was
And finally as the browning feature
in the entertainment we have brought
you here and we have had at your ell
bows the fairest daughters of the city.
They have left the comfort OF their
front porches and hammocks and
is an honor for which kings might
beg in vain. for which a Launcelot
or a Tristram would have dared the
world to mortal combat"
In concluding he said:
"Our slogan has been IF you don't
see what you want ask for 1t not
because we could get it for you, but
rather to ascertain what brand you
use. Qaughter) whether it is banquet
hams, silver leaf ketchup or a great
Smith automobile"
President Lux Leads OF.
The first RESPONDER to a toast intro
duced by the POSTMASTER was Samuel
Z. Lux president of the Jobbers and
association and at the
head of the big entertainment in To-
peka this week
Before introducing Mr.. LUX, Mr.. Kiene
read the following telegram addressed
to Mr.. Lux and signed by Theodore
from Nalvasha, Brit
lsh East Africa:
BE prepared to handle 10000 pounds
lion meat and 1000 elephant steaks, for
warded by fast steamer"
After being introduced Mr.. LUX said
In part:
not merely to eat, drink and have
good time, but to promote friendship.
and better acquaintance, out
of which will grow a great recognition
Of mutual obligations.
you are all tonight makers of
for no gathering of this
character and magnitude has even Ia
ken place before in the west. There
have been many large banquets where
the guests have numbered hundreds, but
history has no record of a single in
stance where 1000 merchants, coming
been entertained in this manner by the
jobbers and manufacturers of any city.
I'VE want you to come to Topeka Of
ten. We are trying to make it
beautiful and attractive city, and we
thank you for your loyalty to our bust
ness houses which SO greatly aid us.
We want you to feel that Topeka is
your city. your capital, as well as
ours, and we want to make you so in
love with it and it's people that, if you
To-,
which now employ you to seek new
fields of activity. you will come and
make your home with us in this, the
fairest and most homelike city the sun
ever blessed
Mr.. Lux has been heart and soul
in the upbuildins of Topeka and he
can we'll look with pride upon the Sue
cess of his efforts and those of his
associates.
Mr.. Darwin Bradley a Topeka singer
o: statewide reputation. was then an
and the appreciation of his
solo was shown by the liberal applause.
Mayor Green's Welcome.
Toastmaster Kiene then introduced
Mayor William Green as the man who
had been mayor of Topeka for three
years and as far as his record was con-
cerned would be mayor as long as he
lived.
Mayor Green gave an excellent talk
to the point and full of the spirit and
welcome of the city. He handed the
visitors. in his official capacity, the
keys of the city and they were accept
ed with applause. Mayor Green is a
man. mind and body and soul and he
gave the Kansas merchants the entire
freedam of the city.
In part Mayor Green said:
81 am glad to notice that so many
of the merchants wives have accom-
panied their husbands on this festive
occasion. Topeka is noted for it's
handsome women, the Kansas mer-
chant is also noted for his gallantry.
l therefore am prompted to congratu
late the ladies present on their wise
precautionary forethought.
I'VE boast a municipal electric light
plant which since it's installation has
more than paid for itself in money
saved to the city, and is now being