The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-24
WHO THEY ARE
Something About the Hundreds
of People Coming Here.
TOpeka Is Getting Excellent
Class of Settlers.
HE BOOSTS TOPEKA
Tom Powell Brings Young Men
From England.
A Long List of Realty Sales
This Week.

Hundreds Of persons are coming to
Topeka yearly from England and Scot
land. continental Europe and Mexico
They represent various classes OF hu-
manity, and some Of them settle down
peruanently in the capital city while
others drift elsewhere
AS compared with some other cities
of the size OF Topeka, however, the
foreign element is exceedingly small
In the last two or three years especial
". many Russians have come mere,
and in what is called Little Russia
on the North Side there are about sixty
families of this type.
In the shops district there are a good
many Germans and they are charac-
terized by their industry. Then the
Mexicans are pouring i'll in increasing
numbers, the majority OF them being
employed on the railways The Greeks
should also be mentioned
Taking it as a whole the new corners
are an industrious class of people who
came here to better their condition IN
life. They have been used to hard
work
The night school in the Harrison
building established by the school
board proved a great success and help
ed to give forty or fifty foreigners an
idea of American ways and customs.
There is still another class of settlera
which should be mentioned. They are
the young English and Scotchmen who
have been coming to Topeka in the
last few years as a consequence CT the
fact that the chances for industrious
young men to get ahead in the world
are not so great in their respective sec
tions Of the great British Empire, for
the reason that competition is more
intense.
Powell Interests Britishers.
Those who have settled down in To-
peka have become Topeka boosters.
For example. Tom Powell. manager OF
the Scotch Wooden Mills establishment,
who originally hailed from Southport,
England, went back home two years
ago next fall and conducted an adver-
Using campaign for Topeka on his own
initiative.
With him he took some samples of
the agricultural products of Kansas,
which he got at the State Fair. 81 in
terested a number of young men in
coming to Topeka" said Mr.. Powell,
land since they have been here they
have induced some of their friends to
come out, so there are now fifteen or
twenty young men from my district of
the country, and there VIII probably
be more coming.
1.-THE fellows over there are writing
all the time to find out how we like
the country. My youngest brother just
landed here two weeks ago-others
are waiting to hear reports from him.
lone couple went back because they
were homesick, but all the rest have
stayed. When 1 was at home I adver-
tised in the newspapers. The corn I
took over was quite a novelty, as in
England it is not possible to produce
what we would call a good crop here
in Kansas.
There are hundreds Of fellows
waiting to come out here, but there
are so many grafters who try to induce
young men to bite on their fake
schemes that they are very cautious
about making a move.
Seven hundred have come to Amer
lea from my home town and it is a
place with about $4,000 inhabitants.
There are great many more girls
than boys there. as there are not
many opportunities for the boys and
they either go to the larger cities or
come over to America A number of
these fellows who have come here are
painters, and they are excellent work
men"
The Commercial Club immigration
committee under r. D. Blaine, has met
with some success in bringing English
men here.
ScOtchmen Come.
Through the influence Of Waldie