The Topeka Daily Capital from Topeka, Kansas • Page 29

THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL 1 iBWBe, J.i.imui .11.1 iiimi -ii Mg; J. R. BURROW, President P. I. BONEBRAKE, Vice Pres.

S. S. OTT, Vice Pre! 1 E. AMES, Cashier F. C.

THOMPSON, Assistant Cashier 'A-i fi ft ilie emm i vi ri fj ci ii ti jri ft wv w. TOPEKA, KANSAS mm til bwr Account Solicited Located at the corner of Seventh Street and Kansas Avenue, in the heart of the business district. We seek the patronage of those desiring the services of a modern and progressive banking institution. We are thoroughly equipped in all departments to promptly serve banks, corporations and individuals. Every accommodation granted consistent with Conservative Banking INTEREST, PAIEb ON TIME DEPOSITS DIRECTORS K.

BURROW. P. I. BONEBRiVIvE. A.

Y. BRONSOK. K. AAfF.S C. S.

GLEED. J. W. GLEED. S.

S. OTT. B. M. PAYNE, Ja CLEVENGER.

V. B. KISTLER. The General Offices of a Great Railway System TOPEKA STRATEGICAL POIN been busily engaged In extending the service and there Is promise of more of this work for next season. With a strong steady flow of gas there is not nearly so mtich cos I used hi iho residence district now as there was four or five years ago.

The average resident of Topeka burns gas. He has no cinders to carry out, no shoveling to do, and when the furnace needs "fixing" he merely turns "on more gas. Topeka liken natural gas and now (hat It Ims become accustomed to it hardly knows what It would do without this convenience. ON FOUR RAILWAY SYSTEM During the Days of Pioneer Travel on the Great Overland Trails, Which Crossed the Kansas River at Papan's Ferry, the Bulk of Travel Between the East and the West Was Routed Through Topeka COLD STORAGE 60,000 BARRELS a1 Capacity of the Plants Operating in Topeka. Rr CHARLES K.

HOLMDAY. CYRUS K. HOLLIDAY. foiindpr of Topeka. wrote In his diary, Nov.

21. 1S54. the following: "Besides the natural beauty of the townsite (Topeka). there were other and much more important reason? why the present site was selected. "First: It could be easily drained." "Second: The stone, sand and timber velopment of the Santa Fe's interests at this point during the past few years the wonderful expansion of its shops, the immense sidings, or railroad yards, extending almost to Teeumseh.

its large additions to its general office buildings: can anyone who has. witnessed the great development of the Rock Island interests here, and the immense undertakings of the Union Pacific in its gradual concentration of varied interests in Topeka; can anyone, I say, who has witnessed all these changes during the past few; years imaigne for one moment that anything but the shrewdest and most far-sighted policy occasioned all this lavish expenditure of money? "Papan's Ferry is just beginning to come into its own. The policy of the founders of this city is just beginning Capital of Kansas at old "Papan's Ferry." There was nothing sentimental or ae-cidetnal in the selection of the site, and the principal reason alleged in its selection, was because it was "THEN HOPED AND ANTICIPATED" that the great trade to and from the interior and Pacific slope would continue as it has to cross at "Papan's Ferry." Today between -half a hundred and one hundred passenger trains pass through Topeka every twenty-four hours, carrying passengers to the Pacific, to Mexico, to the Great Lakes, the Gulf and the principal cities of the East. Today Topeka is the headquarters of the great Santa Fe railroad system, which system practically in its gigantic entirety was evolved and promoted by the founder 1 t' -f ry gave assurance of cheap and convenient building material. "Third: The high lands two or three miles west showed that the city could be easily and of this city and whose loyalty and devotion secured for Topeka the mammoth shops of tht.

company and its palatial office buildings with their thousands of It. a supplied with water. "Fourth: Lawrence was then the largest Free State town In the territory. This location was far enough employees. to be felt.

It was kept in check for years by the mystery of the Missouri river terminal. But now when the Missouri river is no longer a Chinese wall, and rates from Topeka west are lower than from Kansas City west, "Papan's Ferry," the Capital of Kansas, has become the point of strategy again that it always was. and always will be. It will not be long before the Chicago, Milwau Today Topeka is the Western head quarters of the splendid Rock Island railroad system, which, with wonderful foresight" of what was to be. leaped Known far and wide as a Flora ae -en ter, it is hardly likely that any town In.

the. country of Its ize doea a huflnrm in thla line equal lo that done In Topeka. There are now on storage in Topeka, apples shipped here from Wanhlngton. One plant has 20,000 barrels of them. The estimated capacity of the cold 4 storage plants of Tojwka Is W.ooo barret.

These may be orangea or even egga of an equal amount. As the capacity of a car is usually considered 200 barrels. It will be seen that Topeka can stor 500 carloads of fruit. One plant alone In Topeka has a capacity of 60 carloads of eggs. Topeka early went Into the manufacturing business and the storage business goes hand In hand with 11.

The plants are busy makln ice in the summer and the storage, In the winter brings in a good profit and does not requlra much expenee. Topeka is used; by thoe wV ship fruits to the south. For InManre. an apple grower In the Northwest, Washing, ton' or Oregon, will ahip hi applea Topeka, put them in storage here during the winter and in the spring, when tlm market Is best, rush them south from here. This has helped greatly In making Topeka a storage center.

The territory tributary to Topeka lts also helped in this work, as the people living just outside the city have learned that the best way to realize a rrofit on their fruit is lo put It Jn storage until the late winter or spring season arrives. The process of storing applea and such fruits has pity been known ten or twelve years, and as soon as It was dlxcovereri. Topeka men began the business. Olher towns, seeing the success of the Top firms In the cold storage buifine. hava taken it op on a smaller scale.

In soraj of the towns over the state trt plants which are nearly jauJ to any In Topek. But they do not have as many of them, and consequently their field of usefulness I I across the fictitious terminal of the Mis By Strawn Photo Co. The General Offices of the Santa Fe Railway, Where 600 People Are Employed. kee St. Paul in fact, before every road souri river and builded for itself an from Lawrence to not to seem to come in competition with it.

while on the west no empire in the land of the Setting Sun that is a road in this Western country-will have direct connection with Topeka, CHARLES It. HOLLIDAY. Today Topeka is strategically the most either over its own or leased lines. important point on the line of that Route." the Union Pa Take the Missouri Pacific, for instance. cific railroad, which needed but the magic touch of the wizard, Harriman, to make The time is past when it can afford to operate from the west line to the east line of the state without the immense benefit to be gained by reaosn of the short cut from Council Grove to Topeka over the it the marvelous model that it is.

Today Topeka is also a most important competing town could be built for at least thirty miles. ms the Pottawatomie reserve, 30 miles square, was there located and occupying both sides of the river. "But. Fifth: And most important of all. the two grreat trails of the continent, ne from Independence.

Westport and Kansas City to California, and the other from St. Joseph and Fort Leavenworth today, almost half a thousand factories operated at a less cost than elsewhere for the reasons given. We also are indebted to our broad avenues, easy grades and comparatively low rentals, as well as to the fact that we are fast becoming a great railroad center, for the rapidly increasing wholesale houses, which also transact their business at a minimum cost. And last, but not least, we boast of link of the great Missouri Pacific rail Chimney Sweeps and Soot Are Not Found in Topeka road system, which is destined in the very near future to be a tremendous factor In the development of the commercial and manufacturing industries of to Santa Fe. crossed each other at this having the handsomest and most attractive retail stores in the West, in the best and most spacious retail, district in the No Pall of Smoke Hangs Over the City Natural Gas Is the Universal Fuel, Piped From Southern Kansas.

world, which, for the reasons above given, can and do undersell Kansas City, St. Loius and Chicago, which fact a rapidly growing and discriminating cllen-tel from all over the West Is not slow in appreciating. Topeka Southwestern now building. From here on it is but a jump to Tonganoxie and then on to Kansas City over its own tracks, and a saving of twertty-seven miles. Extend this line, the Topeka Southwestern, to Marion and you have, a connection with the Santa Fe and a cut-off of the cut-off at Enporia for all traffic that is not for the Gulf or states as far south as Southern California.

Shall we have the Southwestern? It should have been constructed years ago. Then, again, a few more miles of road and the Union Pacific through trains to the Northwest will be routed through Topeka via Onaga and Marysville. This is an era of concentration and operation along the lines of least resistance, and this rule obtains for cities as well as railroads. We have to thank our forefathers for the generous lines upon which Topeka was founded, for her broad avenues and easy grades. And we are indebtetd to the present generation of Topeka, which has builded so well in the shape of fine street pavements, sew this city.

1 will not speak of the branch lines of these systems, running from Topeka to Leavenworth, to Onaga. to Marysville. which point to better things to come. Nor will I refer to the numerous electric roads all headed towards and centering at Topeka. and all of which will and must be built; in fact, are financed and are all but building now.

Neither will I especially make mention of the Topeka Southwestern railway, which completes the all-important strategic cut-off between Topeka and Council Grove, which line is as straight as the proverbal crow flies, and opens up hundreds of miles of new and richly developed country to the merchants of the Capital city; These roads are certain and the building thereof sure. But what I want to especially speak about is this: Can any man in Topeka who has witnessed the marvelous de joint. the old and "Papan's Ferry. "These trails." continued Colonel Holli-day. in an article for the press, written November 26, 1SS3.

"were located by the skilled engineers of the government. The trade and travel from 'the States' to the interior and the Pacific slope passed over them. And as was THEN HOPED AND ANTICIPATED, the trade and travel of the country still passes over these two great trails, still crosses at Papan's Ferry tmt instead of being moved by the slow process of the ox team, or even of the overland stage, they are conveyed by those two great marvels of modern times, the Union Pacific and the Atchison, Topeka Santa Fe railroads." It will thus be seen from a glance at the historical data above, that Topeka -as a predestined railroad center. The founders of this city knew what they vare doing when they located the future TOPJSKA HAS So well is Topeka supplied with natural gas that it is difficult to find a chimney sweep. Most of them went out of business with the advent of natural gas into Topeka.

There were no more chimneys to sweep. No smoke, no soot and th' chimney sweep was forced out of business. Although Topeka has not Lad natural gas a great while the city has grown accustomed to it that people can scarcely is smaller. According to men who are in a position to know, there is not a town In the country the size of Topeka with the storaga capacity which Topeka has. Many of tl firms engaged in this buslne have agencies outside Topeka In Kansas and the goods they purchase are sent hen? for storage.

Fruit from all over the stat and the Northwest Is stored in Topeka. Topeka's reputation aa a storage center brings the buyer and the seller here. Tho business is transacted In Torek a. Tho town Is known all over the country mm the greatest storage town of Us six. and cooking by coal and having to choose between kerosene lamps and electric lights for lighting purposes.

Topeka has now become a network of gas mains and is 'well supplied with gas from the Kansas fields. And this year the pumps at Scipso are said to be In a mood to cause no trouble. The business- section and the residence sections of the city are sow supplied with gas which is sold to them at 25 cents per cubic feet. Since natural gas was brought to Topeka the gas company has The wst efflrleat fire department, as haws by the record of the Xatloul Underwriters AMrfati, la mmy rity the sIm fa the I'alted States. The dUhMrslaa; statla for the pt-fflee depart Bieat, fhrooch which all rural mall carriers for Kaiim are paid mm aaaaal aggregate of 1530606.

imagine what they would do if compelled ers, waterworks, parks, street lighting, which makes what is possible here to return to the old manner of heating.