The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-08

draggled as to spirit, nor did the
guests realize that an East Indian fes-
tival was the least antl-ciimatci to
Chicago.
Gayety was everywhere, brightness
of lights, brilliance of jewels. 1t wasn't
any garden party in the summer
gown, tennis flannel way of speak
ing. 1t was the most formal of the
formal.
To try to tell who was there would
be matter of transferring the So
cial registers of Chicago, Washington.
New York, Boston and any other cities
that appear in that august puplica-
ton.
Mrs Arthur Meeker, chairman of
the reception committee, was assisted
in the receiving line by Mrs. Arthur
Ryerson, general chairman of the
ball; Mrs. James Morrison, president
of the Chicago Equal Suffrage asso-
citation; Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mrs
Cyrus Hall Mccormick, Mrs. Frank O.
Lowden. Mrs. James Kelley, Mrs.
Frederic W. Upham. Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, Mrs. Robert G. Nc
Gam, Mrs. Medill Mccormick and
Mrs. Stanley Mccormick
One hundred and twenty-five rep
resentative suffrag ists were the guests
of Mrs. Cyrus Hall Mccormick at din
ner preceding the ball. Mrs. o. H. p
Belmont was not invited to dinner,
Mrs. Mccormick explained in an in
terView yesterday anent the unpleas-
ant notoriety about the omission of
Mrs. Belmont from the list of guests
because she had never had the pleas
ure of meeting Mrs Belmont, and an
invitation to dine at her house would
needs seem strange to the distin-
gulshed New Yorker.
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In one of the spring numbers of the
r iS Of
me work of Mr.. William G. Smyser
under the general title of Builders
or the Santa Fee" Mr.. Smyser is a re-
tlred civil engineer of the Santa Fe
system. He was in the vanguard when
some OF the early transcontinental
surveys were put over the Rockies in
the southwest, and he has figured in
many engineering operations of i'm
portance- He was educated in Ire
mont seminary and the PHILADELPHIA
Polytechnic college. He is the son of
a lawyer and district judge of south
ern Pennsylvania, who was at one
time a partner of Thaddeus Stevens,
the famous politician. Mr. Smyser
accepted a position in 1873 as office
engineer under Chief Engineer A. A.
Robinson, of the Santa Fe. He had
/ been working in railroad building in
the days when Indian hostilities made
1t unsafe to venture to place a line
across the western plains. Previous to
his engagement by the Santa Fe he
had worked for a northern railway
which was placing a line from Bangor,
Maine, to st. John, New Brunswick.
His field operations were under the
direction of Mr.. ]. S. Gitt. a civil en-
gineer of high rank, and Mr.. Symser's
future father-in-law.
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A number of Kansas City business
men are spending the day in Topeka
and are playing golf on the Country
club links this afternoon. Among the
men in the party are: E F. Swinnsy,
president First National bank, A c.
Jobes, vice president First National
! bank; F. P. Neal, chairman of board
Southwest National Bank of Com
merce; J. W. Perry, president Nation
! al Bank of Commerce;i J. F. Down
! ing, president New England National
! bank: George S. Hovey, president In
! terstate National bank; c. s. Jobes,
president Security State bank; John
/ der, inveStm ents and securities; H. P.
/ Wright president Wright Investment
company; Ford F. Harvey. president
Fred Harvey company; w. M. Fible,
president Houston, Fible & Co.. brok-
ers; Dr. James E. Logan, physician;
! Judge Samuel w. Moore, general at
torney Kansas City Southern Railway
| com pany; William Lee Karnes, capt.
talist; H. c. Flower, president Fidelity
| Trust company; Charles r. Russell,
pr 0SlOSHl Russell NITd1H company, E<O
! c. Smith, vice president Smith Nc
| Cord-Townsend Dry Goods company.
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The second great parade of suffrage
| held in connection with national party
conventions, will be given during the
Democratic convention in st. Louis
June IA and Is. The affair is to be a
| walkless parade, which means that the
women will form a hollow square
| around convention hall, standing at
arms length apart. No man will be
| able to enter the convention without
being spoken to on the subject of suf-
i frage and asked to lend his support to
! the placing of a suffrage plank in the
Democratic platform.
The women who form the parade
will serve in shifts, so that the parade
will be in session during the conven-
| ton.
| The arrangements are in charge OF
Mrs. Leighty, of Kansas City, president
of the Missouri Suffrage association
She has invited five Topeka women
! to join her in Kansas City and ac-
| company her to st. Louis. These
! women are Mrs. ]. D. Mcfarland. Mrs