The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-27
NORTH SIDE WINS.
Aviation Meet Is to Be Held on
Big Taylor Estate.
First Five Thousand Tickets
Fifty Cents Each.
TO ADVERTISE CITY.
Merchants Week. Comes With
Feats of 'sBird' Men.
o ADVERTISE CITY.
Events Will Mean Much to Both
Kansas and Topeka.

Charles F. Mars and j. C. Willard
Will fly on the Taylor farm, adjoin-
ing Garfield park, June z, and 9
and the admission price will be rs
cents with the exception of the first
5000 tickets, which will be sold in
advance of the event for so cents.
Ihese plans have been definitely de-
clded on by the board of managers of
the kansas State Fair association.
For several weeks more than 500
papers throughout the state have
been receiving news items from the
management's press representative,
Eugene b. StottS, and they have been
freely using the material sent out
in many instances featuring the arti-
cles, TO the extent of giving them front
page space, with big head lines.
An extra force of men is today hard
at work getting advertising matter in
| readiness to send out to all cities and
towns in the state. This material in
cludes full sheet posters with a fly
ing event pictured in f1aring colors.
The posters are being sent out in
brilliant crimson wrappers bearing the
picture of a flying machine.
Railroads Help Meet.
All railroads entering Topeka are
| distributing long flyers announcing
the Topeka aviation event, and these
are to be posted in all railway stations,
together with the larger posters which
| agreed, also, to have placed in con-
| spicuous places.
Merchants and jobbers of the city
are sending out through their sales
men hundreds of these gay posters
| there have been Is, 900 of them print
ed-and everything possible is being
done to advertise the meet to the peo-
pie of Kansas and the middle west
merchants Week.
| Today the $1,000 invitations to
! Merchants Week" were received
from the printers and distribution has
| begun, and it is confidently expected
that they will bring no fewer than
1000 merchants of Kansas and their
wives to the capital city. Plans for
| the big event are going ahead apace
and everybody is expecting gala
| time on June Z, and 8.
| On account of a good natured con-
versation and a dare Tom L. King, city
passenger agent of the Santa Fe, ano
| John B. Nicholson, have applied tc
| go up with Charles F. Willard in his
big S-cylinder 10 horse power ma
| chine which is made to carry two Oh
! three passengers. King says that he
| is going to see his company's poster!
| fly as high as any other advertising
| bill, and Nicholson believes that of al
| the schemes he has thought of pre-
viously to make the people - believe
that the Hour put out by the Kav
Milling company of which he is man
ager is the best on earth, the adver
Using gained by a flight skyward ant
a few dangling banners would be tn
best.
| Applications are beginning to conn
in thick and fast for places in thi
machine, even including daring In
dividuals from adjoining states. Let
tiers have also been received iron
numerous persons from far and wild
asking for particulars about the NEE
and stating that they will be on hand
Fly Rain OF Shine.
Rain or shine the meet will be hell
as nothing but a strong wind can Stol
a flight of the bird men, and VIII
en- in Topeka? Mr.. Sutton, the repre-
sentative of Glenn H. Curtiss, SAT-
that the North side field is ideal for
flying event.
Samuel E. Lux, a member of tn
board of managers of the Kansas Stat
Fair association has been chosen a
general superintendent of the meet
Lux has been one of the chief booster
of the meet from the start, and h
strongly urged the Jobbers' and Man
ufacturers' association to hold tnei
Merchants Week during the tim
of the aviation meet.
Taylor Tract Suits.
..The TAYLOR farm was chosen" salt
he. because the grounds are greatl.
superior to the fair grounds for
meet of this kind. Inc WOODS OF
the north screen the meet from tn
tween Garfield park and Calhoun
bluffs for the flights
ARRANGEMENTS are being made t
put the 5000 tickets which VIII D.
sold for fifty cents on sale at once
and for receiving orders for tickets b,
mail
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