The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-07

the meal those who We're there, sat
around the fireplace, and toasted their
shins, their host, and the hospitable
city.
Joe Longshore, oil inspector of
Kansas, on a visit to the Quaker City,
called for the writer at the hotel, took
him around to the Franklin Inn club,
of which DR.. S. Weir Mitchell is the
president and introduced him to
Albert Bigelow Paine. formerly of
Fort Scott. a great friend of the late
Eugene Ware, and now engaged upon
biography of Mark Twain.
After the first breakfast the visitors
went to the Curtis building. a large.
handsome. substantial. ten-story struc-
ture on Walnut street opposite indie
pendent Square, midst historic sur
roundinGs. At the door as part of the
reception committee, made up of the
staff of the periodicals., was Paul
Sweet, son of T. B. Sweet, of Topeka.
He occupies the responsible position of
purchasing agent, and was most COM
petent and valuable usher on this oc-
casion. In The office OF George Horace
Lorimer, the editor of the Saturday
Evening Post, We're a half a dozen
people, one whose broad back and red
dish occipital fringe looked strangely
like the executive of Kansas. He was
engaged in an animated conversation
with a handsome young lady. AS soon
as his attention could be distracted,
the two Kansans greeted each Other
warmly and marveled at the wonderful
building and the beautiful surround
ings and equipment
Mr. Lorimers wife, by the way, is
a formerly of Topeka girl; Miss Ennis
she was The young lady was friend
of Mrs Lorimer and the tall fine look
ing gentleman near her and the gov
ernor was Judge Ennis, we'll known 20
! Topekans who lived here twenty-ei
or thirty years ago Judge Ennis was
pleased to hear from his old city and
inquired particularly after a number
of the old timers, including P. I. Bone
brake and r. B. Sweet. He lamented
the death of Major Anderson.
The governor was called away and
the other Topekan took his place in
the party as it went through the
building and was shown its wonder
full facilities. This, of course, was
after Judge Ennis had made the
proper Introduction.
The building is all that could be
expected of it, and is worthy of a
more extended notice than can be
given here today.
The second breakfast, fourteen COW
ers. that day was in the blue room at
the Bellevue Stratford. It was really
a conference of officers and directors
of the Associated Press with the Phil
adelphia newspaper men, bearing on
| improvements in the service 1t lasted
until about three o'clock. That's
pretty late breakfast, but Senator La
Toilette was partly responsible. To
the farmers of the west that meal
would be called a late dinner, to the
city people a luncheon. It remained
for Philadelphia to call it a breakfast.
but despite all that is jocularly said
about Philadelphia. that was really
the only slow thing observed about the
city
John S. Phillip of the American
Magazine and the writer were trudging
along between the station and the
hotel, each Juggling heavy suit case.
with our glad rags and tooth brushes.
when We went dia gonally across the
street as if W. lived in Hoboken or
Wichita, instead of the leading cities in
New York and Kansas; an automobile
almost caught us. Wouldn't it be aw-
full" was the remark, ITO come here
by way Of New York. and get run over
in Philadelphia by an automobiler'
That was an unkind remark, and en-
tirely unworthy of a notable event
Philadelphia was truly hospitable
and is a great, big. lively, important
prosperous metropolis of which this
country is proud; the home of the
great Saturday Evening Post and the
Ladies Home Journal. two publica-
tions that each circulate over mil
lion and a half copies of every num-
Der.
Governor Stubs was slightly
stopped at the shoulders, no doubt
from bearing the heavy Roosevelt
boom which he was carrying east nd
has now brought back to the west
The governor is understood to have