The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-12
Gee, WE'LL MISSIT
Old Transfer Station Is Being
Moved Today.
Trysting Place for Years OF
Many Thousands.

Topeka's most historic and. widely
known land mark-the transfer sta
tion-is being move today. More To-
peka visitors and more presidents of
the town will miss the little frame
structure at Enghth and Kansas ave-
nue. than any building in the capitol
city. No one knows how long the
transfer station has been in service.
1t seems to have come to town with
the street railway system and has al
ways been here-a compass and guide
for the stranger, a haven of rest for
hundreds of thousands and a spoon
ing post for now demure and Sedate
grey haired men and women whose
joyous yesterdays were in the long
ago.
Probably half the uptown visitors
stopped for a minute at the intersec-
ton of Eighth and Kansas avenue to-
day and viewed the removal of the
ancient landmark. Probably four
fifths of the visitors to Topeka during
the last quarter of a century could
turn back pages of memory and re-
count personal "reminiscences of the
cid dilapidated structure. 1t has pro-
tected thousands of women and chill
dren during the blizzards and torrents
and windstorms, even tho the windows
ratified and inmates were uncertain
their heads.
Teachers viii Miss 1t.
Yet it hasn't been the protection
which the roof of the transfer station
gave which endeared the building to
residents of the town and visitors to
the city. 1t is the story of thousands
of intimate associations which can
never be told. Next month the Kan
sas teachers must come to town and
find their way to boarding and room
ing houses and restaurants and hotels
without the transfer station as a guide
post,
Almost as dear to the memories of
Kansas politicians as stories of days
OF old Copeland county-when the
Copeland hotel was in its glory-are
memories of the transfer station. 1t
was the politicians first introduction
to the town-usually in the midst Of a
blizzard which came to Topeka with a
turbulent legiSlatice session or a pre-
convention caucus in the days when
everv statesman carried a railroad pass
in recognition of his influence at
/ home.
Lookin' EN- Over.
| No matter how low the. temperature
might drop on Kansas avenue, or how
| hot the sun might be in mid August
/ the transfer station was for years the
| common meeting place of men. women
and children. Probably more success
:
their inception in some immediate
vicinity of the transfer station than in
any other spot in Kansas AS a select
place for looking them over,' To-
| pekans years ago advanced the trans
! fer station ahead of the state house,
/ the hotels and the parks No human
record will ever tell the hundreds and
| even thousands of "acquaintanceS'
! formed among the men, women and
| children who were thrown into the
common Capitalization of traffic In
hundreds of Topeka homes tonight
memories will be revived of the happy
Yesterdays when meetings were COM
mon at the old human traffic point
! During the years the transfer sta
ton waved and prospered and was a
part and parcel of the towns daily
history making. the fire department
answered several score calls to the
building. But Providence seemed tC
watch tenderly over the spot and a
few shingles and a little paint always
repaired the most severe losses.
The transfer station Will give way
to a modern under ground comfort
station. At the City park the old
frame building viii be transformed
into a pop corn and peanut stand.