The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-08
K. C. JAZZ and pep
C. of C. Motor Glad Handlers
Give Topeka a Treat.
Mayor Cromwell, Who ''KnOws
~ His Eggs" Here.

Thirty-three motor carloads of Kan
sas Citians, members of the Kansas
City. Mo-, Chamber of Commerce, ar
rived in Topeka on schedule time
Thursday evening, on the annual Sep
TENDER Good Fellowship motor tour
of the young mems division of the
chamber.
There were 100 men and fifty wom-
en- in their party-all uniformed The
men wore white coveralls and the
women black one-piece dresses trim
med in orange.
After they had been assigned to the
hotels assigned to them by the Topeka
Chamber of Commerce welcoming
committee, the Kansas CitianS gath
cred at the Chamber of Commerce for
dinner. served at o'clock. Speeches
were made by several of the men from
Missouri in answer to the welcome
extended for the Topeka organization
by z. F. Strain.
Dancing was started after the din
ner, and continued thru the evening.
The Kansas Citians left Topeka at 10
o'clock this morning for Usage City,
where they will spend the noon hour.
They viii be at Emporia for their
stop tonight and will get back to KAN
sas City Saturday night.
Good Orchestra.
1t has been said that jazz has had
its day and is giving place to ballads.
Maybe ait has. But II the opponents.
of jazz had been present Thursday
night at the banquet for the Kansas
City Booster club at the Chamber of.
Commerce and observed the ovation
with which the Cordsen- Macs Jazz or
chestra was received, they must have
felt that their theory was all wrong.
The orchestra started its activities
with two selections during the banquet.
After the meal there was a dance and
a regular musical program Every
musical number was encOred. The
audience went wild to the strains of
that exquisite combination of saxo-
phone, banjo and piano music. This
morning the orchestra came into the
lobby of The State journal building
and played three selections which
drew a big crowd from the street.
The orchestra is composed of three
brothers: B. H. Cordsen, w. H. Cord
sen and H. N. Cordsen; A. K. McFar-
land of Blazers Boot shop and E. z.
McHenry, with Radford-Powell The
Cordsen Brothers are the wealthy own
ers of four hotels and three apartment
houses in Kansas City, including the
Rasbach, Buckingham and Lyndhursc
hotels. The quintet has just finished
a two weeks trip in the ,OZarks, play
ing at Lake Taneycomo, and is now
accompanying the Kansas City boost
ers on their good fellowship tour.
Mayor Cromwell Here.
About ten of the trade trippers,
those who have not been along be-
fore, were whitening in the heat as
the result of wearing their white uni
forms over their regular clothes. They
have been the object of continual
RAGING since the trip started, one
member said, and now refused to
make a change as a matter of pride.
They will know better next year, old
timers asserted.
Mayor Frank Cromwell, who makes
the trip regularly each year. was the
life of the party. He was continually
chewing on a cigar and glad-handing
somebody. On the back of his uni
form were the words, 1.-The mayor
knows his eggs" In private life,
Mayor Cromwell is engaged in the
produce business. On Mrs. CromweII's
uniform were the words, THE Mayors
Boss" 4.
Only one uniform was not white.
This was light blue and was worn by
Thomas Dods, whose ad on the back
Of the uniform announced that he was
a dyer. r.
The entertainment of the Kansas
Citians in Topeka was in charge of a
committee of women members of the
Chamber of Commerce here. Miss
Mabel Adams was chairman of the
committee, of which the other mem
bers were Mrs. T. B. Alden. Mrs. NJ.
B, Wales and Miss Pearl Cope.