The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-26
NORTH SIDE NEWS
New Union Pacific Ticket Office
Is RumOred.
Present Quarters Cramped and
Poorly Lighted.
MOVE OFFICES HERE2
Report of Consolidation of Rail-
roads Business:
Keep Sweet" Mrs. Kitchener to
Equal Suffragists.
MOVE OFFICES HERE?

Measurements taken at the Union
Pacific ticket Office recently give rise
to a story that a new office Will be
provided. The facts are that more
room and more light are needed. An
average of $500 worth of tickets per
day are sold at the office. 1t is about
18x4O feet. The only daylight comes
from four narrow windows at the end
of the room farthest from the ticket
desk.
on this account artificial light must
be used a great deal of the time. IN
the hot summer days, when the tour
ist travel is the heaviest and the mer-
curry in the thermometer is the long
est. the two electric lights which must
then swing lighted above the ticket
seller hours at time while he Jug
giles with time card sand tickets are
not conducive to comfort. The win
dows are at the north end of the
room.
In that same room are the telegraph
instruments. 1t is said that the quar-
tiers are often cramped.
one. rumor is that to change this
the present office in the Union Paclhc
hotel, in the same building with the
depot, will he made into a tlcket ONCE;
and that the hotel will be abandoned
to be transformed into baggage an9
Office rooms of the road. 1t is said
that the railroad officials have con-
templated this move for some time, as
they are at great expense paying rent
for Office rooms ScdlteTeu ONC4 1IN
country. not to mention the incon-
Venience.
For several years the road has man
tanned a hotel in the depot pullolhg,
renting 1t out at $50 month, II Is
said However, since the recent death
Of the last manager, Mark Putnam, a
story has been circulating that the
road has given up the hotel ldea anu
will consolidate several OF the ounces
of the road here. According 10 one re
~ room Will OC-
cupy the space OF the pleSeiA'
and dining room. .,,,5os n
MEMS waiting room at the west OF lne
building. the women.S va Wal tinEet and
toIaorrsp,, department between Inc
1'atesi nccunies the west end OF the
building.
..txeen sweet" This is the advice
Mrs lillian Mitchner, state presloenI
If the w. C. T. u, gave equal SUI
fra gists at the meeting of the SHAW
nee County w. c. T. U. institute Mnlch
held an all day session at the No i.i
Side Baptist church Iuesaay. 60 a,Ired at
suffragists who are getting soureu a.
ths sl1rs cast by the brute, man. VIII
please take notice) a,-,o,,4
yes. the equal suffrage amehoillello
which is to be voted on at the next gen
eral election was the topic OF the n ouL
and caused d lllllC AAPRAO
Wednesday afternoon on the surface u
the usually placid convention
Miss Ollie P. Bray, a veteran WorheI
in the cause, and also the originator OF
the Girls Industrial school at BeIoIl,
advised the women to cram" on equal
suffrage dope so that they would be
prepared to contradict the mlsstatc-
roents which the naughty newspaper
men and other naughtier men might
make, as we'll as to answer questions
which those "who sit in the seats or
the scornful'' might ask. She urged the
women to take a certain equal Suffrage
publication which is published In the
east. but she didn't mention a certain
weekly in Topeka, the editor of which
tolls faithfully at a sacrifice OF time
and money in the interests of votes for
women.
However, even the most obstinate
man of "perverse generation" would
admit that Miss Bray made two base
hit if not home run at least once. she
said that because women could not
fight men said that they should not VOTE
but that many men who voted were
exempt from military duty and for
other reasons. In addition she said
that as a matter of justice wealthy
widow like Mrs. Jonathan Thomas
should vote, since her coachman, who
probably couldn't read or write, had
the privilege of the ballot. And among
the women of the assembly there was
much nodding of heads at this remark.
1t happens that Miss Bray was born
in 1888, the year when the first ballot
privilege was given to women. This
was the law allowing widows with chill
dren of school age to vote at school
elections, which was passed by the
Kentucky legislature.
Miss Bray spoke in part as follows:
with 5000 women who belong to our
organization in Kansas speaking at the
right time we ought to be able to do
something toward securing the adoption
of the equal suffrage amendment. We
must recognize the three Ps,' the
platform, pulpit and press.
I'VE can not all speak, but We can