The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-03
THIS is LAST DAY
Midwinter Exposition Doors
VIII Close Tonight.
Show Has Been a Most Sue
cessful One.
MANAGERS ARE WELL PLEASED
Exhibitors Also Satisfied With
Result of Their Efforts.
Children Are the Guests of
Honor This Afternoon.

It sounds at the Auditorium this
afternoon as though all Bedlam had
been turned loose. There are hundreds
of shouting boys and girls celebrating
'childrens day at the Nfidwinter and
they are on d mad quest for souvenirs.
The girls are having all the best of
the hunt for novel things. The boys
simply go up to the booths and grab
everything in sight, and bolt away in a
hurry Consequently there is nothing
of great value in reach. The girls are
being favored in the distribution of the
souvenirs of real interest.
The boys of the Provident associa-
ton, the children of the Orphans home,
invited by the management to attend
the show this afternoon. Three COM
panies of youngsters from the Boys In
dustria1 school attended the Midwinter
Friday afternoon.
Hundreds of thousands of pieces of
| advertising matter have been given out
at the show in the past two weeks. and
great quantities of food stLffs. One
booth claims to have given out $4,000
sample crackers. A booth where break
fast food is being advertised has been
popular among the trinket hunters.
From this place 100 900 souvenirs in
about a dozen varieties have been
handed out-also 10 900 packages of the
breakfast food in question. At another
| booth something like IS gallons of pure
cream has been transformed on the
spot into ice cream Then at a booth
maintained by a. local firm whole ton
/ of sugar has been turned into candies
in variety, and the sweets tossed out to
| the passerSby.
| Twenty thousand people sampled a
new kind of salt.
] Thousands of pancakes served with
\ butter and syrup have been the offer
| ing of a Topeka concern, and gallons
upon gallons of gelatin = Topeka
made''-has been served with cream
at still another booth. Two hundred
pints Of a salad, a product of the city
also, were given out, and 1000 orders
taken for the same. At one booth
where the people have been registering
| 1t was learned that there are 20 states
and $50 towns represented among those
who have attached their names to
sheets of paper.
TN our Judgment the show has been
a success said Secretary John A.
Worley today. Everything has worked
out nicely. We can't tell at this time
how we came out financially. but I am
confident that there is not a loss.''
From a commercial standpoint the
show has been a great success" said
this seems to be the prevailing senti-
ment.
Gave Closing Banquet.
AS a closing feature of the AIidwinter
a banquet was arranged for the officers
of the show, all those assisting at the
DOoIhS or IN any Olner capacity, and
the members of the vaudeville troupes
This affair was held from to 7 o'clock
Friday evening. The spread was an
excellent one, and the dancing which
followed was greatly enjoyed.
NJ. E. Nickels, and Miss Lorraine
Hahn were instrumental in planning
| the social affair.
! One of the exciting features of the
show for the children this afternoon
was the distribution of basebal1s by H
B. Howard among the children.