The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-17

ent it is living high. One man who
went into business there when 1t was
opened about four months ago says
that during the first month he did
$4,000 worth of business. Between
s o'clock in the morning and o'clock
in the afternoon the population of
Army City is estimated at scant 200.
By 1880 in the evening it is between
10000 and 10000. Every restaurant
and candy store is full of soldiers, the
photograph galleries are full. The
movies are full and there is a double
line three or four blocks long waiting
outside the Orpheum. What sidewalk
there is. is taken over by the soldiers,
the streets themselves are damned,
and between the crowds of jitneys and
soldiers it is as difficult and as risky
to walk down the middle of the street
as it would be in Denver. 1t is an in
teresting and for the most part good
natured crowd that assemblies in Army
City. There are men from all over
the middle west. Almost every college
and university. almost every town, liz
tie or big, in Kansas. Nebraska or Col
orado is represented, and the men are
all young and brim4ning over with
high spirits. 1t is no wonder that
Army City resembles a small college
town on the night of a football vic
tory-but on the whole the boys are
orderly, remarkably so.
Perhaps the most interesting and
certainly the most unique feature of
Army City is the Y. W. c. A. Hostess
House and residence. On the one side
street, yet close to the center of the
towns activities, stand two of the
brown buildings that have become as
ISOLATED with the Y W. C. A. war
work. One of these is the dormitory
for the girls who work in the big gov
eminent laundry. 1t contains both
separate rooms and two dormitories,
one with eight beds. the other with
ten or twelve. Since accommodations
are also furnished transients whenever
possible, the residence is always full.
The other brown building. which is
most deservedly popular among civ
ilians and soldiers. is the Army City
Hostess House. 1t consists of a large
cafeteria. In one end of the room is
a huge stone fireplace, most popular
during the cold winter evenings, two
library tables covered with magazine
and papers, an upright piano-the gift
of Princess Red Feather, and a VIC
trola. The rest of the room is filled
with tables and chairs and the custom
airy cafeteria paraphernalia The
Army City Hostess House is closer to
some of the Funston regiments than
is the Funston one, and its facilities
for looking after guests are just as
adequate. Here one finds officers
WIVES anu hOIlen WHO are spending
a week or so in Army City to be near
their boys. Here, too, come the actors
and actresses of the Zone Stock com
pany. Truly the crowd in the cafe
terra is as motley and heterogeneous
as the crowd on the streets There is
a oroad porch along one side of the
CAFETERIA where guests can sit and
watch the various phases of the Army
City life. From this veranda they can
watch the long line of cavalry horses
go down to the river twice a day. or
see the troop trains as they slide ST.
lentiy' out. From this porch many
mother has waved her last good-by to
her son. Truly an interesting place is
the Army City Y. w. C. A.
THERE'S A GIRL IN OUR TOWN
Who has offered to go to France in
Y. NJ. C. A. or Red Cross work, nav her
own expenses, take her car and paw
Tor its 'upkeep over there. Again the
independence of an heiress.
X X X
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. Richard Porter is ill at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs,
E. H. Crosby
Mrs. Harrison Morgan will leave
soon for Crabb Lake to visit her
rather, Mr.. Joab Mulvane for the re-
9 ma leit1T OF. OF the summer. Mr.. Nor
gan Will join her later in the summer.
MISS Irene Miller underwent an
operation on her tonsils yesterday at
her home in Buchanan street.
Mrs. Herbert Reynolds and her
small son, Herbert, Jr., left Monday
TO join Mrs. Reynolds's parents. Mr..
and Mrs. A. Zahner, at Crabb Lake.
WIS. Mrs. Reynolds remained in To-
peka with her young son until the
1amlly doctor from Chicago had gone
10 Crabb Lake In Chicago she was
Joined by Doctor Reynolds's sister.
VINO will spend the summer with her
at the Zahner summer home.
MISS Dorothy Mason, who is a guest
OF MISS Irene Miller, will probably re-
main until the first of August.
MIR. Louis P. Wikidal of Kansas
CITY, has been a guest the past week
of his mother. Mrs E c. Wikidal
and his sister, Mrs. Charles Eagle and
Mr.. Eagle.
Miss Elizabeth Mayer of Cawker
CITY, Kan, will arrive this week to be
MISS Ora Moneypepny and Miss
Gladys West accompanied Miss Ruth
Horton, who left today for her home
IN Litchfleld, Mimi. as far as Kansas
City. They will remain in Kansas
City for few days.
Mr.. E c. Winters left last night for
a business trip to Chicago.
Miss Susan Fay will leave Saturday
for trip to Detroit.
Mrs s. M. Hostetter and Miss Mary
Mcclure have returned from a trip
thru Yellowstone park
Mrs. S. S. Estey and Miss Helen
Estey will leave Thursday for Ludfng-
ton- Mich. for the rest of the summer
Dr. and Mrs S. J. Crumbine will
leave Thursday for Little Twin Lake.
Wis, They will make the trim in their