Cañon City record., 1910-03-03


other.
In Kansas it isn't a question of
three OF more, but it's a question of
giving all business support to only
one or two. Politics. of course. is re-
sponsibie for the second paper. If
it wasn't for that there would be
more towns in Kansas with only one
paper than with more. The idea of the
Kansas business man of course is
! that two papers more than cover the
field, two papers give a duplicate cir
culation and it would plainly be
waste of money to give support to
more than two. This Is a business
principle that the Canon City business
man should give consideration to.
Topeka, the capital of Kansas, is a
! fine town of $4,000 people. 1t is about
the size of Colorado Springs, perhaps
| larger. It's a home like town. You
feel at home as soon as you are off
the cars in Topeka. don't know why
it is. but you have that feeling when
you walk up Kansas avenue-you may
never have been there before, but as
you stroll up Kansas avenue you
have feeling different from that ex-
perienced when alone in most strange
cities.
Big cities over awe me. / have been
in big cities enough to feel more or
less at home in any of them, but l
never do. The big skyscraper, million
dollar hotels, the gigantic utility cor
porations. the enormous mercantile
institutions, the hustle and hustle on
the busy streets and the whole atmos-
phere of bigness about the average
big city has a tendency to make one
appreciate just how small is the aver
age individual who doesn't hold in his
vest pocket the controlling interest
in one of the great trusts.
But you don't feel that way in To-
pela. / am sure If | were to move to
Topeka / would be as much at home
in thirty days as am in Canon City
more at home and better known than
I would be in Denver or Colorado
Springs in a year.
| have always wanted to stop off
and see Topeka, and missing my con-
nection at Kansas City ran out
thA- H.. a. Nhs
day in that uninteresting but busy
city. Topeka has just two citizens
was interested In One was Mr.. w. W.
Mills. a very clever merchant whom /
met up at Twin Lakes last summer.
Mr.. Mills runs a store on the order
of Baker G. Biggs, that does 100000
business year. He il Just now build
ing a skyscraper, for Topeka, a seven
story steel building, costing about
$3.50 900. II will be the best building
in Topeka. Mr.. Mills runs the same
business his father and grandfather
ran and he is training up his son to
take his place when he drops out. !
fancy II you went back to Topeka a
hundred years hence you would still
find the leading store there to be The
Mills Dry Goods Co. The old families
are pretty well satisfied with Topeka
and they don't often move away.
The other citizen l was interested
in meeting was Mr.. Arthur Capper,
the leading publisher of Kansas. re-
member back a few years ago when
Mr.. Capper, then a young man, as he
is still for that matter, founded the
Kansas Mail and Breeze. Everybody
from Kansas remembers the success
and popularity of that paper. Since
then Mr.. Capper has added many pa
pers to his list and has built up the
most wonderful publishing business
in the West.
The Arthur Capper Publishing Co.
has recently put up fine building for
its exclusive use. The building and
equipment cost about S375,000.
This company now publishes half
dozen publications. having a com
bfned circulation of over 100000. 1t |
employs over 500 people and has a
payroll of over $4,000 a week
When you walk in on the ground
floor you find facing you a hundred
girls, all busy getting out letters.
mailing circulars. correcting subscrip-
tion accounts and doing general office
work. And can say that after seeing
the flower OF the South-the rose
gardens and the daisy fields, in fact
of Southern feminine beauty in vicks-
burg, Natchez and New Orleans-af-