The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-11
"Kansas Own" Played to Big
Crowd at Auditorium.
At Least 1900 Persons Gould
Not Enter Hall.
WOMEN WERE DISAPPOINTED
Twice as Many Meals as Sol.
diers Here Sunday.
Band Is Making Tour of 20
Towns in the State.

Watch out for Topeka, she won't
do anything for you,'' is the warning
Lieut.. T. NJ. Reese of the 353d In
fantry band says has been floating
around Camp Funston.
Lieut.. Reese after the concert at
the auditorium Sunday afternoon said:
And when I get back to camp 1 will
repeat the warning watch out for To-
peka-she will kill you with good
things she does for you if you go
there"
Lieutenant Reese, the band boys and
everyone who. heard the concert were
pleased. The only persons in the city
who were disappointed Sunday at the
concert were those unfortunate hun
after $3.50 and found that building
packed to the roof. The auditorium
only seats $500 persons and at least
five thousand were inside the doors.
About 800 persons could answer the
CO II for the disappointed.
Right at first it looked as if the pro-
gram arranged for the boys was to
prove a fizzle-the band got into To-
train they had ridden all night: they
lad no breakfast. After their break
fast they came out of the restaura MT
to find eighteen cars lined up waiting
to take them for a ride about the city
The ride worked, only one car being
the Chamber of Commerce, headquar-
tiers for the day were established and
the hungry boys proceeded to doll
up" in anticipation of the meals pre-
pared for them in the homes of the
club women of the city.
Boys in Demand.
1t was just here that the first diff
ficulty, insurmountable, was en-
countered. More than eighty club
women and others of the city had
volunteered to entertain one or more
of the boys at dinner in their homes.
The band had a personnel of just forty
n embers. One can't cut a band boy
in half. forty or more Topeka
women who had gone ahead and made
preparations for entertaining the boys
were forced to eat alone with their
families.
made up for all of this confusion.
Under the charmed baton of Band
Leader Meyer the boys wooed their
audience of 5000 into a state of ex-
treme readiness. Doctor Kulp stepped
into the breach, drove home a tale of
war and the horrors that the boys of
the $500 were soon to encounter and
the breach widened and began to pour
to the tune of $425.81. And then the
band played on.
One cannot go into the details of
the concert without playing favorites,
and to play favorites with such an or
ganization as that kansas own regi-
ment is unfair. They were fine be-
yond compare is the simple state
ment that was heard on all sides after
the concert and that tribute should be
unsullied by any further comment.
The boys left Topeka today for En-
poria. The route the boys will follow
on the tour is:
Marion, March L.; Winfield, March
10; Arkansas City. March IA; Fort
Scott. March Is: Yates Center, March
16; FL Dorado, March It; rest at
Camp Funston. March Is; Beloit,
March 10; Concordia, March 90: Nor
ton, March 21; Phillipsburg, March
%; Logan, March %; Cawker City,
March "a; Plainvi1Ie, March rs; Rus
sell. March 26; Ellsworth. March 81;
March 90, and Lindsborg, March 80.
Members of Band.
The personne, of the band as it ap-
peared in Topeka is:
Lieut.. T. NJ. Reese, Edwin Meyer,
band leader; Sergt M E. McAuley,
assistant band leader; Sergt. Roy N.
Young, bugler; Sergt. o. E. Valid,
Sergt. H. C. Whitehead, Corp James
Matthews, Corp. r. Popkins, Corp.
w. w. G. Loebel, Corp. E. F. Rein
hard and Privates Hal Casey, J. c.
! Suttmoeller, H. P. Sinclair H. r.
| Taylor. r. L. Smith, E. A. Lutz, NJ.
l.. Usher, H. L. Schmidt. T Pattin-
| son, w. Becker, S. Hitchcock, NJ.
Hawkins, J. G. Younger, r. W. Nell
son, E. ]. Maninger, Q. D. Salley, F.
Janousek, G. L. Knight, G.. S. Good
wyn, j. L. Spencer. H. l. Rinkel, Fred
Burnett and F. w. Dodson.