The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-06

slow as an entertasaer on his own hook
and on his own resources, but with the
santa Fe railway and the Fred Harvey
eating system behind him to settle the
bills, the hospitality of the colonel
knows no bounds. One of the details
only viii be mentioned and that is an
express carload Of California shrub
berry was ordered to be rushed to
Topeka in an iced car for the purpose
of decoration
Belleville Telescope: This luncheon
was served on the second floor of the
santa Fe's new general Office building,
which was handsomely decorated with
greenery and blossoms imported from
California especially for the occasion
py the Santa Fe officials.
Weekly Kansas Chief of Troy: Frank
Jarreu acted as section boss at the
santa Fe dinner for the editors in To-
peka, Tuesday, and put out red flags
Doth ways to stop all regulars which
exceeded the speed limit scheduled for
! rne dinner. The editors were careful
not to exceed their tonnage and stop
ped promptly on all signals.
Junction City Sentinel: Tuesday the
santa Fe entertained the editors and
their ladies at a buffet-luncheon at
were guests at this delightful affair.
The bill of fare was all in French and
we guess that 80 per cent of the guests
did not know what they were eating,
but any way, it was good and we all
enjoyed it. Two carloads of decorations
We're shipped in from California and
the entire room and ceiling was mass
or foliage. The banquet was without
doubt the biggest affair of the kind
ever put on in Kansas, and the Santa
Fe are sure great entertainers.
Seneca Courier-Democrat: The Santa
Fe has adopted a novel plan to gain
the good grace of the editors of Kan
sas. The good brothers who attended
the session Of the Kansas State Edi-
tor1al association were invited to a
sumptuous banquet in the Santa Fe
building prepared by the best French
| chefs and served by Topeka's prettiest
girls. We wonder if the same sort of
a Missouri Pacific blowout might not
serve as a mitigating circumstance be-
twixt the fraternity and the Central
Branch?
Marshall County News of Marysville:
The Kansas editors who have no busi-
ness to attend to at home are in To-
peka spending two days listening to
theoretical shop talks which won't
work out in practice, attending free
shows and free banquets and generally
having a good time. When they go
back home Topeka, the Santa Fe Rail
road company and Ed Howe's new show
will be given a million dollars worth of
advertising.
Alma Signal: No memory of the ses-
sion will stay longer with the editors
than that Of the luncheon served Tues
day noon by the Santa Fe railway. The
affair was given on the second floor of
the Santa Fe's new Office building So
profuse were the decorations of Cali
fornia palms and pepper grass that not
an inch of wall or ceiling in the i'm
mense room, a hundred feet square,
was visible. The decorations darkened
the windows, and lights were furnish
ed by tiny electric bulbs and Japanese
lanterns. The luncheon was the best
that could be devised by the French
named chefs Of the Harvey system, and
If there were any defects in it they
were so minute that even the cpl
curean taste Of a Kansas editor could
not detect them.