The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-23
Its Business Men Alert, Pro-
gressive and Accommodating.
Come to Funston With Well
Established Regulations.
FAIR DEALING; HONEST GOODS
A Place for Needed Trade and
Entertainment.
How the COncessiOniSts Operate
and Provide Amusement.

Whatever the individual soldier
may think of army life at Camp Fun
ston he cannot say that it is a lone
some place. Nor can he say that he
has been deprived of many of the
pleasures that he enjoyed back in
the old home town. In fact in the
Zone, Camp Funston's newest city,
the average soldier will find enjoy
able recreation far beyond the ability
of the old home town to give. A good
time at Camp Funston is only limited
by the individual soldiers inclination
and his pay. The Zone is city suf-
ficient unto itself It's business firms
display an article to fit every legiti-
mate need Its business men are
snappy, too, progressive, alert and
accommodating. There does not seem
to be the slightest disposition to
charge unwarranted prices. In fact
it is we'll understood that the De-
partment of Zone Activities will not
permit the soldiers to be held up.
Many of these firms, pioneering in
military trade, are houses that have
sas City and other important centers-
This means something to the custom
ers of the Zone when it is considered
that these business firms have Great
ed a reputation for fair dealing and
honest merchandise.
While the buildings of the Zone
must conform to the specifications
laid down by Capt Dick B. Fosters
Department of Camp Activities the
cost of construction has been borne
by the individual firms. Buildings
like the bank, the theatres and the
larger stores represent very con-
siderable investment. The Arcade
was built by the government but the
cost is pro-rated back to the tena nts.
One stall in this splendid building
represents an investment of seven or
eight hundred dollars. That capital
has so readily become interested in
the soldier trade does not mean that
capital intends to rob the soldier.
Rather it is recognition of the fact
that life is a decided change of con-
dition to these National Army men
and that proper amusement, luxurieS
and necessities are essential elements
in the general contentment of the
members of the cantonment-
Each concessionist pays percent
age on his net sales to Captain Fos-
ter, who in turn distributes this money
to the funds of each regiment or sep
arate unit. This percentage is deter
mined by the nature of the business,
and margin of profit. Each conces-
sionist must make report of his sales
from a Monday to Saturday night in
elusive on Wednesday of each week.
A very considerable portion of the
money spent by soldiers on the Zone
their further benefit.
With the opening of new stores on
the Zone there is a growing sentiment
among the business men for municipal
improv ements. A cinder way answers
at the present time for a sidewalk
but it is not improbable that the firms
doing business here will build a &C.
ment promenade. Cluster lights would
add considerable to a gay white way
and this feature is being seriously
considered in Captain Fosters office
with view to creating a fund for this
purpose. The government had intend
ed to put in a rock roadway along the
three blocks but the appropriation fell
short. To digress a little, that is the
reason why so many of the rock roads
about the camp are unfinished.
The Zone has a bright future It
will grow more and more into the SOL
der favor.
These names of clothiers and mer-
camille companies have big meanings
out in the civilian world. They are
firms of well established regulations.
Wolf Bros, clothiers, Kansas City;
Charles ?. /Shipley. leather goods,
Kansas City, Schneider Arms Co.,
field Clothing company, Wichita;
Swope & Co., shoes. st. Louis; Butler
& Hubbard, fruits, etc, a branch of
the Richard Butler Produce company
of Kansas City; Campbell Baking
company, Kansas City; Cal Hirsch &
c. Lilly & Co. equipment and novel
ties, Columbus, O.; The Missouri
Dairy company, affiliated with the
Franklin Ice Cream company of Kan
sas City; ]. E. Crockett company, con-
dictionary and soda fountain, Topeka;
S. E. Lux Mercantile company, gro
ceries, provisions, fruits. Topeka;
Hoefer Jewelry company, Kansas
City; Schalker Packing company,
Lesvenworth; Rockwell & Co., gro
Morris & Co., meats, Kansas City; The
Army National Bank, Kansas City and
Junction City.
The new vaudeville theater to be
controlled by Morgan Wallace and
Maurice jerks of the Funston theater
will be located near the Schalker
Packing company plant. 1t is expect
ed to open in the course of another
month. The Orpheum picture house
is owneo by a corporation with a
string of movie theaters and is man
aged locally by Joe Silverman of Kan
sas City.
K. L. Eads, 1.-THE Waffle House"
will open a fine new cafe near the
Funston theater 1t will be enam--
eled in white thruout. Other cafes in
clude the Liberty Lunch Room, now
doing business; the Roastery. to be
operated by Frank DeMayo and Lew
Kemp; George Fishers original Chilli
Parlor; Mudus & Reeds Restaurant,
and what will probably be the largest
cafe on the Zone, to ne conducted by
Indovina & Co. of Lincoln, Neb.
The Zone is to have some barber
shop! 1t will be opened by the Camp
Funston Barber company and 1t is
planned to operate fifty chairs.
The Shirks Pool Hail has proven
so popular that its extensive patron
age warrants opening another. The
new hall will be opened next door to
the Arcade and WI. have twenty ia
bles-
Firms doing business in the Arcade:
S. E. Lux company, fruits and cigars;
HAYWARD Store cOmDanV. candy. fruit