The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-23
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Another Motor Show May Be
Held Next Winter.
Is Sentiment in Favor of Elk.
hibitiOn at Auditorium.
t WAS A GREAT TRIP
Frank LagerstrOm and Party
Have Returned From Colo.
Topeka MOtOrcyclists VIII Hold
Run on Sunday.


ting on another automobile show in
| the Auditorium next winter. One of
the men who had a good deal to do
with the arrangements for the show
| last winter expressed himself as be-
| ing highly in favor of arranging for
a similar exhibition. In fact he made
the statement that the show last year
| proved to be a great advertising stunt
! for the firm with which he is con-
| nected.
1t will be remembered that the
| show last winter was held under adj
verse conditions. The local dealers
could not have picked a worse week
from the standpoint of the weather.
! Consequently the general public did
not turn out to the extent that was
{ expected. However, there were hun
dreds of persons who either antici-
pated the purchase of a machine at
the time or at a future date who were
| attracted by the show.
Back From Colorado.
! With the speedometer of their Ell
more machine indicating that they had
| travelled more than 1900 miles and
without having experienced the
slightest degree of tire or engine
| trouble Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Lager
strom, their daughter, Miss Bessie,
and Frank Scott. with the National
last Sunday night from what they
termed a ''delightfuF' trip to Colo
RADIO.
The party left Topeka at o'clock
Thursday evening, July rs, spending
the first evening at Manhattan. The
succeeding nights were spent at Dor
rance, Oakley and Flagler, Colo
| the Golden Belt route was followed
| From Flagler the party drove in TO
| Colorado Springs, a distance of 127
miles For the next ten days they
| made that city their headquarters,
but took numerous trips of interest.
In speaking of the trip, Mr.. Lager
strom said today: 'On the whole, the
along the Golden Belt route there
were rough stretches caused by
grading But the Golden Belt route is
all right. 1t is impossible for a per-
son who follows the markings to be-
come lost. Even on the plains where
the road occasionally twists and turns
i there are poles with three yellow
stripes around them to indicate the
way, and then at intervals there are
| also metallic signs. The Golden Belt
| association has done a great thing for
the autoists in marking the road. 1t
| will be a great route next year if
| they keep on working it the way they
| have this year. There is a good deal
of travel on the road this year. In
| the course of the trip we passed
| three cars that had burned, and five
others that had been abandoned tenn
porarily due to trouble of one kind
| or another.
Crank Is Lost.
| when we got to Quinton Kan. l
| found that the crank to the machine
was gone. I was alarmed at first
but local blacksmith made a make
shift continuance from a piece of Iron
that served the purpose.
There were surely elegant roads in
Colorado. 1t rained almost every
day, but the roads dried off in no
| time. The only mud We struck was
eighteen miles of it. near Wilson, in
! Ellsworth county. on our return trip
| We did not find a town where the
water supply for city use was short"
| w. o. Anderson has gone to Indian
apolis in his Cadillac machine.
F. B. Elliott, of Manhattan, was in
Topeka Wednesday with his Chalmers
car.
William McFadden. formerly of st.
Marys, who has just moved to Okla
hona City has purchased a Thomas
| Thirty-siX machine at Topeka. F. B.
De Witt left Topeka with the machine
on Wednesday with the object of deliv-
ering it at Oklahoma City.
A. S. Thomas and E. r. Taylor
each received new CadilIacs this
| week.
c. E. tyarden, who is spending the
summer in Wisconsin, bought new
machine in Chicago.
/ F. P. Whitmore left the first of this
week for Denver in a HUDSON Thirty
six car.
! Sunday Pop-Pop Run.
| The members of the Topeka Motor
cycle club, together with their wives
and sweethearts will enjoy a motor
cycle run to Valley Falls on Sunday.
The start will be made from in front
of the Commerce building at O'Clock.
One of the features of the run will
be a hill climbing contest near Rock
Creek. but perhaps the most enjoyable
part of the day will be the dinner hour.
Those who take the trip will indulge
in the very best that Valley Falls can
afford in the way of a repast. The re-
turn trip will probably be made through
Holton. The party is expected to ar
rive in Topeka late in the afternoon.
Il Erwin Keller went to Holton for sew
eral days this week on Harley-Dav-
idson machine.
W. Grammon went to ST. Marys
Thursday to attend the motorcycle
races at that place.
Thursday afternoon of this week two
pop-pop men from Aurora, Ill. stop
ped at Topeka on their return trip from
Colorado. They left Aurora on August
and up to Thursday had Travelled
Shaker and James Hough. The former
rode an Indian machine and the latter
a Thor They had experienced very
little tire or other trouble.
c. H. Machem. a member of the