The Topeka state journal., 1911-06-05
JUST POURING IN.
Hundreds of Acceptances From
Kansas Merchants.
Indications That There Will Be
Record Attendance.
HERINGTON ON HAND.
Charter Two Pullmans to Bring
100 People.
Program for Fireworks at Vine.
wood Announced.
HERINGTON ON HAND.

Reports from merchants over kan
sas who expect to attend the fourth
annual merchants week" event given
by the Topeka Jobbers and Manufac-
turers' association are now coming in
thick and fast, and it is the opin-
ion of those who are in charge of ar
rangements that there will be any
where from 1000 to 1900 persons here
for the occasion.
Enterprising Herington will send a
delegation Of 100 members OF their
live Commercial club and Merchants
association and their wives In two
Pullman cars, which will be side
tracked in Topeka for two days.
A Coffeyville train started out this
morning on an M,sad',ei adveft'Slng Ioga an9 ar19
Nebraska, carrying along hundred
business men-retailers and Jobbers
and manufacturers. Secretary George
s. BadderS of the Commercial club
received a letter saying that these en-
terprising men would be in the capital
city on June 9. Badders has sent the
following telegram to the manager OF
the expedition:
A Special Invitation.
More than 1000 merchants will
be our guests at a smoker and lunch
Topeka Commercial club organizations
join in a hearty invitation for your
party to be present that evening. Can
you not arrange to do this?'
The big crowd is not expected to
arrive in the city until Thursday morn
ing. Thursday will be the big day of
the week of festivities" The initial
feature of the program will consist of
a trip to Vinewood park Wedn esday
evening, the trains leaving the corner
of Kansas avenue and Seventh street
beginning at o'clock.
f1~at at,,e ho M
Representatives of the Jobbers and
Manufacturers association and the Wis
itors will be take nimmediately to the
headquarters in the New England
building, where they will register and
receive a. book of coupons, which will
entitle them to "barref' of fun.
Expected to Decorate.
The merchants have been requested
to decorate their places profusely as
usual with the colors of the Jobbers
and Manufacturers association-red,
white and blue-and the sign commit
tee of the association is arranging to
have large welcome, Kansas Mer-
chants" signs placed in front of the
Commercial club and at the corner OF
Fifth street and Kansas avenue.
The bades which will be given the
visitors will be unusually attractive
and inasmuch as they bea- a picture
of Kansas avenue they will be a means
OF lIl6 CoplldJ CITY
Work has already started on the
bandstand at the corner Of Fifth street
and Kansas avenue, where music will
be played at intervals on Thursday.
Fireworks Display.
Fireworks will be one of the fea
lures at Vinewood Wedn eSday evening.
The first exhibition of Martins fire
works will be given tonight at Vine
wood and these shows have so in
creased in magnitude that the displays
will be nearly twice as large
those given here in the past three
years. Each program will include five
big feature pieces of the most gorgeous
and intricate designs, each one a mas
terpiece of the pyrotech1c art.
In addition to the aerial program OF
rockets, shells, bombs and mines, the
mechanical clown, Happy Hooligan,"
will give a series of comical acrobatic
stunts on the horizontal bar.
The tabled jeweled tree of Aladdin
will be a riot of blossoms in fire with
showers of golden scintillations.
1.-The Wheel on Wheels a mechani-
cal wheel of fire creates a dazzling
spectacle monster star turning off
from each point, wonderful showers of
smaller colored stars, and a mammoth
triple basined fountain with its misty
sprays and mists of pure white, will be
the feature pieces for tonights pro-
gram