The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-15
Program for "Seeing Topeka"
Tour Announced.
Three Hundred Business Men
Are Expected.
STARTS EARLY IN FORENOON
VIII Return to Commercial
Club for $3.50 Dinner.
Similar Trip May Be Arranged
for Ladies.


Tuesday will be Seeing Topeka
First" day. Seven groups of Topeka
business men will start out from the
Commerce building at o'clock in the
morning in automobiles taking differ
ent routes. Each group will have a
captain to direct the movement OF the
division.
It is expected that between 200 and
500 members of the Commercial club
and other business men Will be on
hand to take the trip. Due to the
physical impossibility of taking one
large bunch of men to more than a
few of the scores of Topeka factories
in a day, it was decided to divide the
industrial sightseers in squads ana
even at that there will be many rae
tories that it will be impossible to Wis
it in the day.
After the noon hour luncheon, the
excursionists will reasonable in the
rooms of the Commercial club ana
promptly at o'clock the men Will be
taken in a body in autos to several or
the largest establishments in the city.
The tour will end at o'clock. Al
$50 o'clock a dinner will be served
at the Commercial club. DR.. f. L.
Loveland will be the main speaker OF
the occasion. James A. Troutman Will
talk on None Better Than Iopeka.
George p. McEntire VIII nave some
thing to say on what Our Industries
Need" Representatives of the several
groups will give an account OF "nat
they saw on the morning tour.
If the tour is successfu VI similar
excursion will be arranged for the Ia
dies The management of the Com
mercial club invites all persons VINO
have automobiles to join the eXcur-
sionists at o'clock.
Following will be the captains ana
the factories that will be visited by
L. F. Clearinghouse. captain Central
Mil and Elevator Co., 534 North
Kansas avenue; Topeka Eug g, =: ;,
and Door Co. Jackson and Nor
ris streets; Kaw Package Manufac-
turing Co., Curtis and North quincy cg
streets; Adams se5 BrotheT Inter iS Ocean
Mills. North side; Kaw Milling Co,
Mid-Continent Mills, J. F. Spetter' SO
North Kansas avenue, feather anu
plume factory. o1a
Storage, Ice and Fuel Co, First ana
jackson streets; William Schlck' sec
ond and jackson streets; W. q. Agaro'
2O6-16 Jackson street; SoutnWeste3L rn
Foundry, Co., 318-322 Jackson street;
Topeka Pure Milk Co, 400 jackson
street K. C. Bit and Novelty Coz 4O4
Jackson street; Red Seal OTera ;l - -
Dorp. SOC Jackson street; United
states Filter Co, 612 Jackson street;
western Printing Co., 625 Jackson
street; Topeka Engraving CO..; ; kei7
. .tyeet. Adams brothers, 6s5 Jackson
r. K. Hinkson, captain--Han Litho
Co., SIS Jackson street; T. j. smith and |
Machine Co., 706 Jackson street; |
-harles Eagle Cigar Factory. 40 Jack |
sor street: Capper Post Card Co., Ed |
ION Co, Topeka Gasoline, Heating ana |
Lighting Co, 1925 Kansas avenue; ID L. |
rromp, 1872 Kansas avenue; Frank |
S3z Kansas avenue,
Burghart, Sol Kansas avenue H. H.
Iinkson, East Eighth avenue.
Robert Billiard, captain - Joseph
119 Jefferson street; western
FOUNDRY Co., 1901 Jefferson street; To-
,eIxa Milling Co., Crane and Adams
,treets: ]. r. Spohn Cement Works, 5O7
EAST Fourth street; Art Glass Factory,
10 Jefferson street; McEntire Brothers,
90 Quincy street; Mutual Ice Co., liz
cast First street; The Smith Truss Co,
1850 Quincy street; Weldar1ne manu-
acturing Co., East Seventh street;
Crane & Co., East Eighth street; r. L.
xreipe, 80 East Fourth street.
g r Hodgins, captain-William Sup
lie 125-127 N Kansas avenue; Davis
Co, First street and Kansas
venue; George w. Chrichton, 23o Kan
as avenue; Topeka Tent & Awning
10. 3O4 Kansas avenue; Shawnee Mills,
,hird street and Kansas avenue; To-
eka Trunk Factory, SO Kansas
venue; Ives & Sons, Ais Kansas
venue; McCord KiStler Co., Second
treet and Kansas avenue; Whitteker
,ros.. First street and Kansas avenue;
Iyron Willcutts, 1913 Kansas avenue; S.
!. LUX, 21O Kansas avenue; Armstrong
. Fleischman, 135 Kansas avenue; To-
eka Paper. Co., 225 Kansas avenue.
III. 8. Putney, chairman-Volk Mfg.
o., 934 Jefferson street; Smith Auto
o.. Tenth avenue and Jefferson street;
Upper Windmill Co, Tenth avenue
nd Jefferson street; Standard Agricul-
1ral Remedy Co., 904-906 Adams street;
Dad Supply and Metal Co., East Fiji
zenith street; Topeka Bridge & Iron
Windmill Co., Seventh and Holiday
reefs; Steel Fixture Mfg. Co., and
apital Iron Works, East Seventeenth
rect; Richardson Paint Co., Tenth
venue and Adams street; Perrine Plow
forks, 1909 Quincy street; Crosby
oIler Mills, East Tenth avenue.
E L. Overton, captafn-Pugh Mfg.
o., III Van Buren, street; Whitehill
fig. Co., 428 Van Buren, street; Dooley Il
Sage, PIT West Fifth street; McCor-
lick Rug Factory, 522 Van Buren,
rect: Horn & Co., 51S Van Buren,
rect; Rehkoph Brothers and Hayden
Co., at 207-209 West Sixth avenue; E.
Kinley, 426 Jackson street; G. F.
AMMAN, 504 Jackson street; Brummit q
achine and Repair Shops, 2O6-2oS West
xth avenue: Jones Iron Works, 504
uincy street.
Afternoon schedule - Charles Wolff
acking Co, Quincy and Crane streets; RI
,yrnour Co., Crane street and Kansas II
-enue; Continental Creamery Co, Sec II
Id and Polk streets; Otto Kuehne Co., ii
orth Topeka avenue and Curtis street. II
Beautify Your Home II
It'll Acme Quality Paints and Fin II
hes. There's one for every surface. II
cine Quality Paint store, 62S Kansas II