The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-12
Topeka Celebrated Peace With
Record Demonstration.
Something Doing Every Minute
of Day and Night.
AFTERNOON PARADE FEATURE
Thousands of Cars and Pedes-
TRANS in Line of March.
Only One Accident Reported in
tho Whole City.


Weakened at an unseeiily hour Mon
day morning by that unknown but
vital force, the underground telegraph,
Topeka and Shawnee county-end all
the world for that matter-struggled
up from warm beds and made ready
for a day given over to celebration
of the greatest event in the history OF
the world. The war was ended, and
JUST about the time the fighting
stopped the people of Topeka grabbed
the news from thin air, end the stage
was set.
The celebration Monday was not the
affair of utter abandon of Thursday.
Nor was the celebration Monday
fraught with danger to each and sun
dry of the participants or the onlook-
ers. Thursday afternoon following the
RECEIPT of the United Press dispatch
saying that the armistice was signed
Topeka gave herself over to uncon-
trolled orgy of danger laden exuber-
ance. Monday afternC. n, with the
city just as much agog and with the
news of the signing Of the arnistice
went about the celebration and dem
onstration more soberly but just as
effectively.
The greatest difference between the
two celebrations was that the United
Press melted celebration was spon-
taneous outburst caused by the re-
lieved tension of overweight nerves
which rocked not of what was safe
and sane and what was dangerous
while the Monday celebration was the
outpouring of Joy unconfined but held
within bounds by the Lessons learned
Thursday.
Parade Big Feature. -
Starting early Monday morning tho
city slowly prepared itself for the
cumulation of the celebration in a
monster "every citizen" parade in the
afternoon. A bell ringing quartet
ball rolling as early as O'Clock Mon
day morning. and these four held
sway until nearly 8 O'Clock. The city
refused to go without it's breakfast
and until about $50 o'clock organized
demonstration was sidetracked.
Then the boys and girls from the
high school declared an additional
days holiday. formed a line of parade
and did a snake dance up and down
Kansas avenue. In a short time the
high school contingent was given sup
port and soon outdistanced by the
Fe shops, who swung into the avenue
headed by the Santa Fe apprentice
band. These two parades set the pace
for the day and long before noon the
details of the monster every citizen"
affair were worked out and the in
structions published
Washburn Boys in 1t.
Every available bit of military glory
the city could muster was called into
action and modified to give the pa
rade the proper war time tinge. The
Washburn unit of the student army
training corps made it's first appear
ance. on the streets of Topeka. Led
by Captain Shaw and Lieutenants
Blackburn, Heap and Munk the Wash
burn men held the place. of honor in
the procession immediately behind
Marshalrs band. The five Topeka
companies Of the Kansas state guard
and the two state guard bands were in
the line, marching with the free and
easy tread of long training.
Four divisions Of the parade were
formed officially, tho it is altogether
impossible to begin to enumerate the
dozens of other divisions which formed
of their own free will and accord and
Joined in the parade. THOUSANDS of
trucks and automobiles, most of them
full of all kinds of noise, were in the
line and Kept the tension of the crowd
screwed to the highest pitch.
After the noon hour impromptu pa
rades kept the streets full of moving
vans of noise at irregular intervals
thruout the afternoon and far into the
nlSn. Inere was no single moment
after s o'clock Monday morning when
some parade or incipient parade was
not in motion on the. streets.
Flag Raised High.
One Of the features of the morning
celebration was at 1920 o'clock when
Tom Rumbely climbed to the top of
the $50 foot Beatrice Creamery COM
pany smokestack and planted there a
big American flag.
At 1 o'clock in the afternoon the
street cars of the city adjourned serv-
ice for a period of three and one-haIf
hours, in this way fittingly accepting
the all Importance of the ending of
the war. Never before in the history
OF the city has the street railway
stopped its service and taken its cars
from the street during the busy part
of the day. Not even when the heroes
of the famous Twentieth Kansas
marched home was the street car
service abandoned.
But one accident. so far reported
married the celebration in Topeka.
This accident was at Fifth and Van
Buren streets and was caused when
a built on superstructure on an auto
truck gave way on a corner and caused
Miss Sylvia Green, SIS Monroe street,
to fall to the ground. Miss Green was
severely injured, according to the doc
tors. and was removed to a local hos
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