The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-06-29

THE ANSWERS.
J. R. Koontz, assistant freight traf-
fic manager, Santa Fe-"I'm inclined
to trail with the bunch which wants
the hoteI at Ninth and Kansas avenue,
altho I'm for the hotel anywhere it
is placed. The main question seems to
me to be the raising of the money, not
the location of the hotel. A very large
percentage of the transient business
which comes to Topeka is connected
either with the state house or the
Santa Fe general offices, and the
Ninth street location is ideal for them.
1t is high, has a southern exposure,
and some work has already been done
on it. If it were not for the start
which has been made, I'd think the
Tenth avenue site was even better. 1
know there are many people who,
when the old Copeland hotel stood at
the corner of Ninth and Kansas ave-
nue., stopped off or came to Topeka
for conferences with the Santa Fe,
now stay away from Topeka and ask
US to come to them, at Ell Paso, or
Chicago, or Kansas City. There is
one thing which it seems to me would
automatically eliminate any of the
proposed sites on Jackson street, at
Eighth avenue or Sixth avenue, and
that is the proximity of the Edison
plant. Anyone who uses hotels as
much as I do would realize the ex-
tremely undesirable situation created
with that plant anywhere near the
hotel"
E. H. Hogueland. commerce coun-
sci, Topeka Traffic association
Personally, I have no choice as to
where they put the hotel, and my ex-
perierce on the stock selling cam
paign Monday indicated that the gem
eral public regards that as a detail.
Not a man whom we approached
raised the question of where the hotel
is to be located. If he had money
which he could invest, he regarded
the hotel for Topeka as a good place
not he had the money free was the
only one which we encountered"
F. H. Foster, state bank commits
sioner.-''When the Throop was built
it was right up town. The old Cope
land seemed to be away out in the
country. With any regard for the fu-
ture growth of Topeka, the site at
Ninth and the avenue seems the most
logical and practical, as well as most
! available
E w. Claussen. Assistant Attorney
General-"Most of the Topeka. visitors
come for conventions or have business
i before state departments, the Santa
Fe general offices or Masonic bodies.
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the lots at Ninth and Kansas avenue.
Travelling men would also find the site
as desirable as any mentioned. If the
hotel promoters want a site off the
avenue, why not the southwest corner
of Ninth and Quincy street?"
! A s. Thomas, Santa Fe Watch CO.
/ There should be a new hotel by all
| means There should also be consider
alton for men who realized this need
, several years. ago and have already
! invested many thousands of dollars in
the proposition. 1t is difficult to
imagine that in view of the present
situation that consideration could be
given to other than the property at
Ninth and Kansas avenue"
Malcolm Gray, Secretary State
! Board of Administration-"Id don't be-
lieve there is a location in Topeka
equal to the one at Ninth and Kansas
avenue. 1t is right up town and will.
! for many years. be the very heart of
the business district"
J Miss Frances Lowe. chief clerk city
j park department.-"I think that
/ Ninth and Kansas avenue is the best
place available. When our visitors
| come to town what part of town
would they see from the station to
the hotel? At Ninth and Kansas they
: see Cn6 better part O1 LIE DuSlIlCo9
! district and the state house, and are
near the larger shops and the higher
| class eating places"
/ Clyde M. Reed, chairman public
utilities commissioning seems to me
that Ninth and Kansas is the logical
place for the hotel, with Tenth and
Kansas as second choice. I can't un-
derstand how a site at Seventh and
Jackson can be considered for mo-
ment, and I hear that it is one of the
| favored sites. At Ninth and kansas
avenue the hotel would be near the
best buildings in the city, within view
of the state house. and would have
those advantages over any other sug-
/ gested location. Then I think 1t only
| fair that those who were interested in
the former project of having a hotel
at Ninth and Kansas should be given
every consideration. They lost thou
sands of dollars and I don't blame
them for any effort they make to
+ place a new hotel there. But aside
may have. 1 think the choice of all
disintere&ed persons would be Ninth
and Kansas avenues"
Charles Wolff, jr.-"Topeka should
rally at once behind q hotel project
that would erect hostelry at Ninth
and Kansas avenue. This city owes il
to the public spirited men who put
their money, their efforts and in some
cases, years of their lives, into this
Ninth street proposition. Ninth and
Kansas avenue is a city indebtedness:
to men who were not properly sup
ported when they sought to build
here"
! Miss Grace r. Parrish, state director
of the Teachers Placement bureau
1.-The best site in Topeka should be Sc
1ected for the new hotel. think that
the city planning board should choose
a location which will be both attrac-
tive and convenient"
J. F. Kaho. teacher and vocationa
! counselor. Topeka high school-''Nintf
and Kansas avenue. Not so mucf
from personal reasons as from tn,
viewpoint of the best interests of To
peka consider that the Ioeica