The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-19
TO Sublet Work on the Build
ing at Ninth Street.
"HOTEL KANSAN" is THE NAME
Exclusive Significance Attached
to the HOSteIry.
Chamber of Commerce To
Raise $4,000 in 10 Days.


Ninth and Kansas avenue, is in the
city today.
: Mr.. FitZpa trick is one of the noted
architects of the country, has maze a
speciality of hotels, is now the arcI i
tect of tie or twelve hotels. some COM
pleted. some nearly so. others build
ing; he was the consulting architect
in the great Hotel Davenport. at
Spokane, Wash. Mr.. Fitzpatrick is
here for the purpose of the resun-p-
ton of actual work on the Topeka
hotel and of sub-'etting the work on
the foundations and other portions, of
the hotel.
The hotel will be built by the Bank
ers Realty Investment company CT
Omaha, which has had large expert
ence in the construction of a dozen
or more hotels. banking houses and
other large buildings.
The '.Hotel kansan."
The name of the hotel was agreed
of Topeka men now on the board of
directors of The Kansas Hotel COM
pany with Peter Elvad, the big man
behind hotels, and A. w. Gross, well
the last two years in connection with
our hotel project
The name is THE HOTEL KANSAN
"a name which identifies it with the
capital city of Kansas and the great
state of Kansas 1t is short, euphoni-
! Gus name, easily remembered, and dis
tinctive. 1t is the exclusive name of
this hotel, at the corner of Ninth and
Kansas avenue. which will be con-
structed under the name of The Kan
sas Hotel company.
Under the present plan. the S165.000
already subscribed for the hotel will
be turned over to the new company.
The Chamber of Commerce plans to
raise the additional $4,000 within
the next ten days, making 100000
subscribed altogether by this COM
munity.
Six Per Cent on Stock.
The Bankers Realty Investment will
thereupon subscribe and pay for in
ca sh for the same kind of stock and
pay therefor 100000. The stock is
6 per cent cumulative.
H. NJ. Mcqueen, fiscal agent of Kan
sas City, Mo, who has an unblemished
record of twelve years successful plac-
ing of first class securities, will give
his exclusive attention to the sale of
| the Kansas Hotel company's stock in
! this community and in the state of
Kansas. All of this money goes into
the Topeka hotel.
The McQueens are confident that
I with the cooperation and help of the
newspapers of Topeka, the Chamber
of Commerce. and the many promi-
nent people who have already taken
stock, they will be enabled TO secure
all the money even sooner than it is
needed in the construction of the no.
4 tel. with practically 100000 already
subscribed.
| The McQueens, fiscal agents, will.
/ within a few days, take subscriptions
/ in Topeka and Kansas for the sale of
t the stock for the completion of The
Hotel Kansan under way by The Kan
sas Hotel company
The prospects are that this stock
: will be greatly in demand. All of the
money will be put in the Topeka hotel.
| The good hotels of the country are
| exceedingly prosperous and remunera
/ tive. the stock is accordingly at
tractive inasmuch as there is probably
no city in the entire country where
] there is a more crying need and de-
! mand for just such a hotel as The
Hotel Kansan will be.
| The capital stock of the Kansas Ho-
) tel company is s750,000. The officers
and directors are:
Frank p MacLennan. president
H. A. Auerbach, first vice president.
! Charles S. Elliott. secretary.
! David Bowie, treasurer.
H. D. Yoder. H. II. Welfy. George
! Godfrey Moore. George p. Mcintyre.
! Z. H. Crosby and L. NJ. Pe1weH.
! Everything CrcditabIc.
The people of this community
4 should bear in mind that the North
! American Hotel company, who organ
lied this enterprise here. have done
nothing disreputable. dishonest or in
any way reflecting upon their integrity.
1t is operating successfully number
of hotels which it owns. 1t has sold
two million dollars worth of the stock
and has about the same amount OF
assets, including the wonderful Black
stone hotel at Omaha, and other hotels
in Nebraska. Iowa and Kansas, either
in operation, to be in operation in a
few months. or under construction.
1t is true that out of SOME two mill
lion dollars of rs stock that has been
sold during the last few years. a suit
was filed in the name of a man who
had owned $1,000 worth Of the stock
+ but who did not wish to bring any suit
and had nc grievance against the COM
pany. This mans name was used
without his knowledge to apply" for
a receiver for the North American Ho-
tel company. The name of another
man. who has been dead for eighteer
months. was used in asking for a re-
ceiver about ten days ago. A millior
follars worth of this stock was sold
and is held in Nebraska.
1t will probably take from sixty tc
ninety days. according to the slow
movements of the courts. to dismis.
suit of this nature. meanwhile tht
hotels would lose from sixty to ninet,
days of the most valuable building
time, now at hand.
The paper published by a director
of the Chamber of Commerce in tbs
city of Topeka has scattered untruthi
over this city and this state to ths
newspapers in Kansas. to such an ex
tent that solicitors for the stock wert
Withdrawn from Kaneas.
4 The director of the Chamber o