The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-28

son visited the girls camp ana ne may
have expected to scott. but he re-
manned to join in the campers en-
thusiasm for the beautiful place.
This is heavenly" some tourists
declared as they reached the park for
an overnight stay on cross-continent
trip This is the best camping
ground we have found. Last-night
we stayed in Swope park in Kansas
City and this is paradise compared
to that"
The new camp ground is primarily
for tourists. Every day scores of mo-
tired looking for a place to spend
night. Imagine their delight in find
ing the cool greenness of the Gage
park camping ground, theirs for the
asking of the park policeman, theirs
with the privilege of using with no
| charge whatever for wooden tent
floors, expertly constructed, and a
| large and most satisfactory brick
stove; city water from a conveniently
/ located faucet, and the community
electric lights here and there in the
camping ground, to say nothing of the
Gage park swimming lake.
/ But altho tourists will have right
to at least half of the twelve tent sites,
lege of the camping ground, Commits
sioner Robert D. McGiffert of the
park department announced. 1t is
probable that additional tent platforms
! will be built, if the demand of tourists
as well as townsPeople justifies, he
said.
For Topeka People.
! 1--WE want tourists to be cared for
but we also want Topeka people to
enjoy the full benefit of their own
beautiful park McGiffert said. 1T
is accessible to town, giving at the
same time the enjoyment that any far-
Their removed camping place can
Offer
The only expense of pitching camp
at the Gage park ground is in furnish
ing the tent top. When the floors oil
the tents, the method of cooking. the
that the plan of Commissioner McGif-
fert for accommodating tourists and
at the same time providing pleasure
for Topeka people, will be received
enthusiastically.
Road Being Improved.
A road leading to the camp from
West Sixth street is being graduated
from a rough little lane into smooth
A motor car drive.
Campers in the park are secluded
from the public even tho they are only
a few hundred feet from the mair
drive in the park. So dense is the
shrubbery that the camp cannot bt
seen from the main road and only
here and there can the tents be seer
from the drive that leads to the camp
Already dozens of tourists have
stayed overnight at the camping
ground. A week ago the park depart
ment began the building of the ten
platforms. Almost as fast as the car
penters could lay the floors the tour
lists were claiming them as places t
spend the night. exclaiming delighted
ly over their good fortune in finding
such a place.
They Like Grounds.
Among the tourists this week wer
Mr. and Mrs. C. f. Brown of Sacra
| mento, Cal, who were on their fourtl
| trip across the continent. They travel
/ ed in a Ford car which, altho it ha
Travelled $4,000 miles, is still in goo
l running order. They declared tn
ground to be the best they had fount
in both attractiveness and conven
1 fence.
The group of Topeka girls occupyin
two tents on the camping ground thi
week were employed girls who wante
diversion and outdoor life without in
| terfering with their work. Camp sur
pers and moonlit evenings, refreshin
1 sleep, and swimming more than repai
+ them for the work of bringing the
L cots, bedding and food to the parl
1 and for the small expense of rentin
L tent tops.