The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-26
Special inducements Stimulated
Business This Week.
Circus Day the Local Stores
Were Crowded.
TRAFFIC BUREAU GIVEN BOOST
Business Men Are Pleased With
Work of Association.
Recent Rate Decisions Will
Save Them Thousands.

Topeka merchants, tobbers and
manufacturers are taking an optimis-
tic view of local business conditions.
All will benefit to a material degree
as a result of the decision of the
interstate commerce commission rel
alive to the now famous Mississippi
river or Kansas case; tens of thou
sands of dollars will be saved an
nually in freight charges. The retail
men report that business has been
brisk in the last few days on account
of trade week" inducements to
shoppers.
day, although good business has oeen
done every day. Hundreds OF out
of-town people took in" the circus
and attended to their shopping.
This has proven great week TOT
the restaurant men. The "eats" es-
adjustments have been crowded every
day and Thursday the people in some
cases lined up on the sidewalks
awaiting their turn.
Topeka Traffic Association.
The Topeka Traffic association has
been given a boost through recent
successes. Several persons have
made inquiry concerning membership
in the organization, and those VINO
are members are more than pleased
with the results obtained by the as
ISOLATION in a little more than year.
There are some Topeka mercantile
concerns that pay as h1gh as ten
thousand dollars year in freight. As
the reduction in freight rates which
will be effective after october 1 are
approximately ten per cent, this VIII
mean a saving of one thousand dol
lars. Many Topeka manufacturing
firms pay enormous freight bills each
year.
The owners of Topeka mills arr
strong for the Traffic bureau be-
cause the proposed raise in the rates
on flour to California points was
again suspended. The commission
men are delighted over the decision
in the banana case, which gives re-
duction well worth while on ship
ments from Galveston and New Or
leans. 1t is understood that the state
public utilities commission filed the
Mississippi river case Topeka was
represented by H. D. Driscon, COM
missioner of the Topeka Traffic as
Business Men Talk.
George P. McEntire, president of
the bureau. said: IT do not think we
are half through with the work. OF
course, we are delighted with the &C
comp1ishments of the association in
a little more than a year, but the re-
suits are what we expected. We do
not feel that we should pay the other
that the other fellow should be get
ting advantages that we do not have.
All that we ask for is a fair adjust
ment of rates. I do not think that
any city can afford to be without a
traffic association. The recent rate
decision will mean much towards
building up Topeka industrially.'
Samuel z. LUX, the commission
man, had the following to say:
Nowadays a traffic association is as
essential for a city as a commercial
club-or more SO. The shipping in
terests must be looked after by those
who understand freight rates. The
only way in which a city can grow
industrially is through the procuring
of equitable rates"
e. H. Crosby, of Crosby Brothers:
at think praise is due the Traffic as
ISOLATION. Mr.. Driscoll is the right
man in the right place. The associa-
ton has proven good investment.
Kansas has been paying too much
freight; all we want is what we are
entitled to have in freight rates.
]. c. Emahizer of the Emahizer
and Spielmen Co.: THE reduction in
railway rates should be of assistance
in bringing new factories to Topeka
Everybody in town that pays freight
bills should belong to the Traffic as
ISOLATION"
H. A Auerbach, of the Palace
Clothing Co.: THE town couldn't get
along without the Traffic association"