The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-18

: Lease, is a curb buyer and seller for
Levy Bros.
Dan Mitchell Sells Talking Machines
Dan Mitchell, who used to be with
OFT q Tewksbury on East Eighth
street, Topeka, is export manager fol
: the Victor Talking Machine Co.. with
headquarters at Camden, n. J. His
salary is $4,000 a year.
Patience Bevier Cole, formerly j
Topeka school teacher, lives on Long
Island. She lately has written sue
cessful novel She also writes for tbs
magazines.
James H. Garfield, jr., is at the
head of the Garfield Paper company,
on Center street. His sister is Dor
othy Garfield Fisher, who writes un-
der the pen name of Dorothy Garfield.
Her latest novel. The Squirrel Cage,
which ran serially in the Cosmopoli-
tan, has been one of the literary SEN
sations. She is a Montessori mother,
being perhaps the foremost exponent
in this country of the Montessori sys-
tenn of kindergarten training for
children.
Florence Corbett, formerly of Man
haitian, a graduate of K S. a. c., is
connected with Columbia University
and Teachers College as lecturer on
food topics.
And a few hundred thousand others
| who formerly lived in Kansas.
| 1 saw w. S. Tasker on the train. go
| ing to Washington. He is brother
of Bob, grew up in Topeka, and learn
| ed to be a mechanic at the Santa Fe
shops. He is now master mechanic
OF the Rock Island Southern railway,
with headquarters at Monmouth, Ill.
Impressions of Congress.
| Speaking of Washington, 1 stopped
| there. So many folks passing
through" Washington have "describ-
| ed the town that L won't undertake
it. I will say, however that congress
/ ir,or1 cd kai XNrTl
/ state legislature, and a state legisla-
! ture always has impressed me as be-
! ing an overgrown city council. They
differ mainly in the nature of their
| law making, and in the glamour which
attaches to the higher bodies.
The day 1 looked in on congress,
Bristow was making a speech in the
senate, and Taggart was talking about
some bill in the house: Kansas always
| is in action. Senator Thompson came
out of the senate chamber at my re-
quest, and apparently was pleased to
see me, as l had assured him in
note on the back of my card that 1
was neither an office seeker nor
lobbyist.
There wasn't much going on in the
lower branch of congress, and the
Kansas mem bers, except Taggart,
We're out scattered among the de-
partments, or looking after things at
home, or elsewhere away from Wash
ington. Murdoch, the doorkeeper ad-
Vised, was making Bull Moose speeches
in Virginia. The corridors leading to
the senate and house were full of men
and women with the hunted look
waiting for jobs-same as the legisla-
ture at Topeka.
Charlie Sessions, John P. Fritts and
other Topekans who have done news
paper work in Washington, say the
city grows on one. 1t does not as a
rule, they say, please folks passing
through 1, for insance, was disap-
pointed when 1 saw the retail district.
The stores are small and stuffy-noth-
ing like the stores of Baltimore, which
is its neighbor. But I did not start
out to describe Washington.
A Kansan is tending bar at the Will
lard hotel, in Washington-Abe Slater.
who formerly ran a joint at Wichita.
So I was told.
Dodge the Public Reception.
No, I did not attend a public rgc;e z
a jay, but not enough of one to attend a
public reception at the White, House.
quite homeiike the i day was there. Some
sort OF a hearing was in progress before
the interstate commerce commission. and
it-Among them Henderson Martin and
Judge Helm of the public utilities COM
rick of the Santa Fe.
Major ]. G.. Pangborn who will be re-
and newspaper men as the correspondent
OF the Kansas City Times, is the special
representative of President Daniel Willard
of the Baltimore & Ohio railway After
leaving Topeka Major Pangborn went to
Russia, where he organized the depart
ment of transportation for the Russian
government, and for several years was
right hand man TO Russian nobleman
turing to the United States the major be
came identified with the Baltimore &
Ohio and has been with that road ever
health, and unchanged in personal appear
ance. except. possibly, a little more gray
He lives in Baltimore
Fourteen Cars of Horseradish.
On a sidetrack at the little town of
4 eshler, O.. on the Baltimore s. Ohio rail-
way. l saw fourteen carloads of horse
TadiSh ready TO ship to. pickle factories.
farmers eff Indiana and Ohio have paid a
great deal of attention to the truck patch,
farmer rode with me several hours. and
according TO his story the farmers of that
most profitable crop. considering the
small acreage required, and small invest
ment in labor necessary
Why Not Kansas.
is this kind of produce in which the
Santa Fe railway is trying to interest
farmers in its territory, and with en-
couraging results. With the rapidly in
cities the collection of food stuff sufficient
to go around is one of the big problems of
tables. which can be raised a profit on
the farm, will help solve the problem. The
Santa Fe's plan is to help the farmers on
its lines to find market for produce of
this character.
every farmers business in Indiana and
Ohio but the industry perhaps has reach
ed its highest development farther east.
Shenandoah, vast apple and peach or or
chards, lighted by electricity, attract as
much attention from travellers on the Bal
timore & Ohio trains do the famous
landmarks in history for which that rail-
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