The Topeka state journal., 1918-11-08
Old Bulldog Helped Topeka
Celebrate Peace News.
He Rut on Show All by Himself
ON Kansas Avenue.
many AMUSING INCIDENTS
One Woman Watched Bulletins
for Many Hours.
Theater Men Had Fun Taking
Fake Pictures.

While the peace demonstration
Thursday was turning into a carnival.
two women stood before thenState
Journal bulletin board to read the dis
patches as fast as they could be posted.
These women had sons in France, and
their joy was something different from
the hilarity of the shouting children
in the streets. They stood before the
board from 12 O'Clock till nearly 3.
Then one of the women said: Il have
to go to the bank. but I'll be back as
soon as 1 can Will you be here?''
Lord o. mercy" the other woman
breathed happily. 'I'n be here till mid
night"
And she was.
The Excitement of the hour COM
municated itself to a stolid, cranky old
bulldog down on KANSAS avenue. With
the guns exploding on all sides of him.
and the tumult and the shouting 60
ing on at its height. the old boy bris-
tied up with all the snap and vim of
his 1Ong-gone youth. He rose from
his shelter under an awning, stretched
his stiff old legs. extended his stubby
muzzle into the misty dampness, and
let out a joyful yelp. Then he began
IA prolonged chase after the stump
that nature had once intended for his
tail. He chased himself out of breath
land then hunted the dry spot in the
sidewalk again to lie down to dream
of the days of his Bolsheviki bull pup-
hood.
Theater Men Were Out.
The citizens took the closing order
into their own hands. The Orpheum
theater, which has been unable to
offer its gloom-killers to the public for
so many weeks. got, onto the job
again. The Orpheum men and boys
rigged up truck and equipped it with
their orchestra and a bogus picture
camera The operator. who is a real
moving picture photographer, turned
the crank of the empty box, and the
head usher managed the artificial
lights for the supposed night pho
Biography.
The van paused before crowd at
Eighth street, where an elderly farmer
was seen gazing at the movie machine.
Dad" shouted the operator, now
take off your hat and look pleasant"
Willing TO Be Filmed.
Off came the hat, and a Roose-
veltian smile spread over the happy
features of the old man. Then the
truck passed on, and the grinding of
the pretended camera continued along
the lighted way.
This morning the Orpheum tele-
phone jfngled. when are you goin'
to run that there picture?" came a
Wico over the wire.
w ldl plCtuI Z uO you
why, that ere photo you TUX O. me
last night when you was goin' along
with a camery. 1 figger on takin' my
family and the neighbors when you
show that picture"
Used Loaded Shells.
The most dangerous feature OF the
celebration was the use of firearms.
Every old shotgun, revolver and rifle
in the city, it seemed, was dug up for
the demonstration. And the shooters
didn't worry about obtaining blank
Shells Kansas avenue was "shelled'
for hours. Shotgun bullets and steel
nosed bullets from automatics rained
down from the sky.
Many were careless with their fire
arms. One revolver shot entered a
Kansas avenue second story window
and went OUT thru the roof leaving a
perfectly round hole. Awnings and
street signs were peppered. 1t was a
dangerous pra ctice but the police were
pOwerleSS to stop it