The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-10-03
UNEE0A DAY IN K. c.
How the New Plant of the
National Biscuit Company
Was Dedicated

The new plant of the National
Biscuit company at Kansas City
was dedicated with pomp Of the
occasion the Kansas City Star says:
Wall street, which ordinarily runs
from the East river 10 Trini. Y
church, underwent shift on the
may this morning and ran from Cen
tral street to Wyandotte along the
Belt line tracks in front OF the new
plant of the National Biscuit com
Ihe old Wall street.-the New York
wall street-must have worn a Sab.
bath look about the hour when the
three trains bearing the guests to the
luncheon given by the National Bis
.cuit company in its plant this after
noon pulled up in the yards and dis
charged the passengers.
There were bankers, railroad pres
idents, publishers, captains tt indus
try, trust magnates and Just plain
capitalists They came from New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia and the
wide world. They came 70 inaugu-
rate the new million-doliar plant Of
the National Biscuit company.
Did Business by Wire
But just because a good part of
millions are in Kansas
City today it does not follow thai
all business elsewhere has ceased.
Not at all. A New York or Chicago
capitalist can transact his business
in Kansas City quite as well as in
his private office at nome Pretty
from his car this morning had al
bunch OF telegrams in his hand, and
his foot no sooner touched the
ground than messenger boys came
with others Eyeglasses
were dragged out and perched on
noses, envelopes were ripped open,
We're hastily scrubbed and
thrust back into the hands OF wait
ng attendants-and the business OF
he financial world went on
The first special pulled in at S:45
o'clock. 1T discharged large party |
If bankers, which was very appro-
usually being the |
irst on the ground Although they |
iad TO wait nearly an hour for the |
wo other specials, they didn't waste /
my time. Dr. j. T. NJ. Johnson, VIII
lam Webb, Thornton Cooke, J. w
Perry, Walton Holmes, A. C. Jobes
nd other Kansas City bankers were
here to meet them, and the visitors I
began to ask questions.
Kansas City is expanding, isn't it?
iOOd. Large building operations go
lg on hey? Union station and
nat sort OF thing2 Crops pretty good
! Kansas, are they not? How's call
loney?
.ansss City Was Host, Too
And then came the railroad men II
residents, directors, chairmen OF :
xecutiye committees. With them
ere the officials of the National I
iscuit company, hosts, with Kansas j
ity, or the men Of big affairs A i
ng line Of motor cars was waiting {
nd mounted police, a motor cycle /
luad and detachments of pltrolmen +
ept the streets open until the Wis s
ors were assigned TO the cars and hi
Ie trip over the bouleYaTds began. h
or first Of all the visitors were - le
e the city whose possibilities had
duued the building Of the great &
scuit plant here. The men who do +
ings were to be shown things that
I'd been done. Walter 5. Dickey +,
as 4here 10 see that the Missouri h
yer and its million dollar naviga- I
N company was not overlooked. J. Ic
Lester was there to extend the "
clubs welcome. j. e. a,
yift represented the stock yards 81
d A. A. Whipple the real estate ex- y,
ange Ia
Billion Dollars At The Tables r
The FIVE hundred guests sat dowMldl
the luncheon in The. new plant at I
30 O'Clock They constitute the lnu
satest aggregation OF capital ever fo
in the West. The first
eci3l train, carrying the Eastern 81
nkers alone, represented 750 mil
4 dollars Probably the total cap es
! represented around tie tables "a
the luncheon was not less than NJ
thousand million III
The luncheon room is circular and of
by panoramic views OF ba
nsas City When the lights were ba
ned ont in the room and turned en-
in the arcade back of The paint ia
,anyas the diners saw The indns ca