The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-20
II UPENS MONDAY
Preparations for Midwinter viii
Be Completed Sunday.
Pretty Booths Ready for Two
Weeks Show.
LABOR TROUBLE ENDS
But Not Until work Had Been
Stopped.
Excellent Program Promised by
Fair Committee.
LABOR TROUBLE ENDS

Monday Topeka people by the hun
dreds will flock to the auditorium to
see the initial entertainment per
1ormances at the Kansas Midwinter
exposition Only a few of the $4,000
advance tickets have not been Sold
and they are to be had at Rowley's
StansfieId's and FIadd's.
The booths are being completed and
the displays are being put in place to-
day It is the intention of the man
agement of booths to give out various
samples, so one of the stunts at the
snow interesting especially TO the
youngsters will be the making of col
iectlons of these samples which in
clude great variety of articles.
The headliner for the vaudeville
show which Will be given both after
noon and evening Will be the Ernest
.asvo Trio from Europe The mem
Ders of the trio, who have had an eX-
tensive circus experience will perform
feats on the aerial bars that viii
amaze the Onlookers-at least this
IS what the management claims for
the act. Then there will be a lot of
good comedy mixed in which will
please the children as Well as the
erownups.
Casey and Swat Milligan will be
seen in their pantOmime baseball hit
entitled, PLAY Ball. The AMUSING
antics and clever mimicry displayed in
the act are said to produce contin-
uous roar of laughter from start to
finish.
Barte1h and Murphy will give
specially they call Bumps and Falls -
They are acrobats, also comedians
Then there will also be Luigi Paro act.
These men are whirlwind Italian aero
bats
Another act will be staged by
Kroneman Bros, who will do a com
edy stunt.
An entirely different show has been
booked for the second week of the
Midwinter.
Labor Trouble flinders Work
For a time late Friday it looked as
though the electrical work at the
auditorium would not be completed.
The trouble was an outcome of the
war that the local union of electricians
is waging against H. B. Howard.
Howard had contracted to do some
work in booth wiring. The union en-
plOSees sCrking for three other con-
tractors insisted that the Midwinter
bar Howard and his non
union electricians from working in the
A conn rOmise was made /
IT was agreed that ali work should be |
turned over to j.. =. Jordan. who had !
been appointed hy the mana cement as
the official electrician of the show.
Bert I<eihl. the union shop steward |
working under Mr.. Jordan, it appears. |
hired some ca the electricians in the I
employ of the other firms. Jordan. /
tact, refused tc agree to their being
employed by him, and the result was
that all the union men walked out.
Mr.. Jordan took off his coat. and al
most with tears in his eyes. began to
put in electrical connections with the /
help of his wife d portion of the time.
When H. b Howard saw that the
union men had left he put his men
back on the job.
'.The work is going ahead rapidly to-
day" said Mr.. Howard. land every
thing should be in readiness by Mon
day for the show"
The following is a list of Midwinter
exhibitors:
Lawson & Boyd; Capital Broom
Works; Topeka Milling Co; f. p. Jor-
dan: c. F. Gustafson; Mrs. Nicely;
Crosby Brothers. RidenOur- Baker
Grocery Co. Kansas City: Union Salt
Co., Denver. Colo; Rigby Candy Co:
William Lake; Continental Creamery
Co; Emahizer & Spielman; H. B.
Howard & Co; Western Cement and
Burial Co; Item Biscuit Co. Omaha;
B0ur Coffee Co. Kansas City; Peet
Bros, Kansas City: Lukens Bros; Mrs.
5olcraft; Ford & Doan, Kansas City;
Minnesota MacarOni Co: International
School; o. McCor-
mick: Atlas Oats Co, Kansas City; c.
NJ. Hill; Otto Kuehne; Pontchartrain:
E. V. King: o. A. Brown, Kansas City; /
kellogg Toasted Corn Flakes Co, Kan
sas City: Davis Mercantile Co; Rob