The Topeka state journal., 1911-08-26
GOOD FOR TRADE
COel Weather Tends to Make
Business More Brisk.
TOpekans Get Down to Work
After Vacation Season.
HAS HELD HER OWN
City Has WithstOOd the General
Financial Depression.
Building Permits Aggregated
$4,000 This Week.

shawn signs Of Improvement IN the /
last week due to the nearnesS TO sep
tember when trade always is Iloi
brisk than in the summer months anu
the fact that k1nk mas peeh "a
the hot weather.
Toneka. has held her own this sum
mer. and that cannot be said OF scores
of other cities that are OF apout apit.a.l a.
equal size Adverse crop conollloASs
+nId +emnorarily on the prosperity OF I
0lr1aborna CITY and Wichita and other
western points at least to the extent o.
causing an unusual number OF dwell
ings to become empty, but there was
never a time in the history OF tne
capital city when there were 4e"o
available desirable houses for rent
Notwithstanding the fact that certain
sections of the city are fairly brlstllhe
with new homes which have spruhs
up this season
Too Hot to Exert OOnesef-
Summer time is always a period OF
lcornnarative dullness except in the
building and a few other lines ne
reaItv market becomes more or less
| dormant. and business in general eN-
periences q DEPRESSION livery Jus
ness man who can possibly aiIoru 10
| do so seeks some cool spot where ne
i snands several weeks doing nothing
bfIt amuse himself. In fact it IS too
/ bo+ +o exert oneself to any great eX-
tent. o-,,.7
! This season there has been a marked
ldenression in business all over the
country and as was before reIlai rA0N
Topeka stood it Well
There is no demand here for more
workmen except in a few instances
yr6ara men skilled in certain lines
could he used With the exception OF
Ifha erection of homes there has not
lbeen quite as much activity among
lthe contractors as for the last two OF
three years. but in respect to the put
lting up of dwellings the season las
been an unusually lively one
Because the papers have spoken Of
the excellent state of affairs in busl-
ness way in Topeka tins summer
scores of Workmen have come hel0
from Kansas City and other places 70
find that the work here was pelhg
lcarrfed on adequately by the force Oh
Iaborers already in the city. The re-
ls,,1t has been that the Provident asso-
lciation has had to aid a number OF IN
ldividuaIs and families that nave coine
there from other places
Summary of Business Conditions.
The Commercial club Bulletin sums
up the local business condltlons IN d
} biief but pointed manner as follows;
; ..No better test of the stability OF
business in the city of Topeka ana tne
strength of the industrial guards
around the town could be optaiheu
than in the last few months.
.sSince the early summer when busl-
moss all over the country began tc
I show a falling off and when every cor
, lnoration and municipality was pessl-
mistic over the fall outlook with
small chance for good crops IopeAf
has made a steady growth
9 ssThe bank clearings have made
1 steady gain every week-gains have
: been made when every other city II
this western country was showing
y losses from to 50 per cent
building operations have gone % o.
D.. as though nothing had happened. Bll
q business houses are in the course
. construction. scores of homes are be
- ing built every week and the CONTRACT
y ors and carpenters are working VIII
a a full dinner pail ,,
q "~o for rent signs can be found il
~ Toneka. That is-they are not strunl
a laIong the streets so that they are no
=, +iceable. Recently two railroad ofh
:, tciaIs were moved to Topeka and the
Y lstarted on a hunt for homes. It too
v them three weeks to find sultapl
lhouses-and they worked with rea
n estate firms all over the city
d '4'The transfer companies report tina
# from 80 to rs families move to To
is neka every month. They have furnish
a "a the names of these newcomers t
the daily papers and they are printe
ts at the end of each week.
b ..-The santa Fe shops are workin
= Iunder full steam and full time II
creased business has kept the MAJ
shons of this big system in active opel
laticn. Here $500 men work ever
. day. 49,, r.
awhile before the rains of the last te
rs weeks the merchants were complain
inp-blt their complaints were drown
ed in the complaints of business inte
ests all over the country since u
1- =T4 =
81 rains. however the depression nj n,
TO been raised-and business is fiourisl
hs hhs seTrulv all is well in Topeka"
ie Good for Topeka.
ex The following are extracts tax
on, here and there from the Bulletin eI
P. Dhasfzing some of the things that a
mi good for Topeka:
es- In the year which ended March
n. 1911 the assessed valuation of
ne kinds of property in Topeka a
run shawnee county increased to the {
oe tent of s2.O53,145. OF this amou
MS S166S,O99 has been in the city OF l
peka. and $1,397.s42 of this amount
shown in the increased values of c
lots.
Topeka is also becoming a CEN
where there is plenty of home capl
for investment purposes 1t was
peka money that took over the ent
S125.OOO city bond issue that was foi
ed recently by the city commissions
you would be surprised to see h
many travellers take advantage OF
stop-over privileges and spend a q
, or so in Topeka" said a railroad p'
: senger agent in Topeka the othel u
$ We are not unprecedented we ;
\ dee-lighted.
y The Topeka Commercial club I
spent no money more wisely than
L 900 dollars for the purchase
flight of the balloon Topeka II III
national balloon races in Kansas
ir JULY Never before has the G.
land the city enjoyed such "