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HE HASJSIG TIME
Charles TT. MUer Attends Re
salon at Shiloh, Tenn. '
THE PEAK LOADS
Local News Events of the Past Week
SALES ARE LARGE
Eskimo Pie Is Popular Confec
tion in Topekav
AUNT LIVES HERE
Mamie Smith Is a tfieee ot Sirs.
D. F. MaUory, Topeka. ' . ;
Today Is a Busy Time for Tele
graph Companies.
As Depicted By Bolmar
MONDAY. ' TUESDAY.
V
XnEDN JCbJOAX.
UTOAT.
Was Sixteenth Gathering of
Veterans of Sixth Regiment.
Many Easter Messages
Sent by Topekans.
Are
Boyalties to Manufacturers
Amonnto $30,000 a Week.
400,000 SOLD IN TOPEKA
Demand Expected to Increase
During1 Warm Weather.
Was For Years Before It Won
Fayor in United States.
Famous Singer and Jazc
Hound Leader Visitor.
ARE ONLY TWO FROM KANSAS
SPECIAL BLANKS -ARE IN USE
HAWKINS WAS IN TCPEMH. S.
Saxophone Player on Orchestra
Here Last Tear.
CoL George P. Washburn Is Re
elected President.
Plant of Western Union De
signed to Meet Needs.
IVas His First Visit to Battle
field in Sixty Years.
Automatic Machines Handle
Men Who Appeared at Audi
torium ReaI'Musicfans.
400 Messages an Hour.
THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1922
r
Charles W. Miler, 414 'Van Buren
sti sot. a veteran of the Civil war and
father of Bob Miler. sheriff of Shaw
lite county, has Just returned from
a reunion of his regiment at Shiloh,
Tenn. It was the sixteenth reunion of
the- Sixth regiment, Iowa Infantry,
Lieut. Col. W. H. Clune, commander,
which went into that historic battle
a thousand strong and lost-156 men,
sixiy years ago, April and 7. Now
they managed to muster just flfty-
trjec men:
this year.
The actual attendance
Charles W. Miler.
Only one other veteran of the bat
tie went from Kansas, and that was
C.corge P. Vashburn. of Ottawa, de
partment commander of the O. A. K-
t'.lon-l Washburn Is Re-elected.
Crlonel Washburn was re-elected
president of the survivors of Shiloh.
vhich office he has now held for over
three vears.
T.e Kansas party consisted of
Colonel "Washburn. his wife and
d lurhter. C W. Miler and his daugh
ter-in-law. Mrs. Bob Miler. and Mrs.
O. W. Davis, of Tooeka.
Mr. Miler says the trip cost him
less than ISO, including railroad fare,
entertainment, board and lodging.
They went from here to St. Louis and
then took the steamer Alabama down
to Cairo and then up the Ohio to
i'admah. Ky., then up the Tennessee
a to Pittsburg Landing.
Urst Visit -In Sixty Tears.
"I had not been there for sixty
years, but I went right to the spot
where my regiment did its fighting,"
said Mr. Miler. "When I left that
field sixty years ago, it was a wilder
ncs. The trees were cut to pieces
ith cannon balls in every direction,
all shot to pieces, and everything in
ruins. Now it Is a beautiful park
vi th fine driveways, all under gov
ernment control, with markers placed
over the field to show where each
rex-ment fought.
"Sure I had & good time." said the
rid veteran. "but I must tell you the
funny part of it, if you have a little
time."
"Certainly, thafs what we want to
henr." said the reporter.
"Well, they seem to think I'm an
oid man. you see. and Bob said when
he heard I wanted to go to the re
vr.lon of the survivors of the battle
of Shiloh, 'Dad. you know you're too
old for a long hard trip like that. Tou
can't take care of yourself,' and you
know he would not agree to my going
unlc-- his wife went along to take care
of me. Well. I said, apt her go. So
she went and Mrs. G. W. Davis went
along, too, to take care of me, and I
Tun 'em both down the first day. and
was carrying their grips and things
rnn helping them along, instead of
their helpln' me. Ha, ha. Why, I'm
rt-ly 77!"
Went Into Army at Seventeen.
"I went into the army, when I was
17. I served four years and four
isjs. and -got back before I was old
enough to vote. My regiment was In
twenty-seven battles.
"; never got wounded. Never was
in any hospital and never missed roll
call except when I was in the bull
pen."
"Did you ever miss & meal?" said
thj reporter. "Not 11 I could get
one. Sometimes I couldn't get any
thing to eat." he replied.
CHINESE SUPERVISE LOANS.
Handling of Money Matters by Offi
cials Regarded With Distrust. -
Peking. March ( (By mall.) In
terest in the financial situation and
the handling of government loans has
become so acute among the Chinese
people that a society has been organ
ized ealied the People's Financial Su
pervision society. No foreign loan is
ever contracted by the ministry of
finance without an Immediate clamor
on the part of the people, and all
financial dealings of government of
ficials and of the government banks
are regarded with suspicion by popular
organizations.
In order to allay this suspicion and
- keep informed on all matters ot
finance, the new society has been
formed with the express purpose of
i supervising the financial operations of
che government and of the two gov
ernment banks, the Bank of Com
munications and the Bank of China.
The immediate program of the su
pervislsion society is one of opposi
tion to the J9S.000.000 loan on the
salt surplus which is being negotiated
by Minister of Finance Chang Hu. At
the first meeting of this self-appointed
supervisory board several resolu
tions were passed condemning the
salt surplus loan, demanding investi
gation and publicity, and warning the
Chinese Banking association. Repre
sentatives were appointed to express
to the banking association and to the
ministry of finance the attitude of the
people toward the loan and govern
ment finances in general. Full pub
licity In every financial operation Is
the outstanding demand of the Peo
ple's Financial Supervision society.
hp - Jjy
This Is the second of a series of fea
ture articles cin "Peek Loads." as these
industrial phenomena occur and are
met la Topeka public utilities. Other
articles describing peak loads la other
industries, will fullow.
BT V. e7BUNDT.
Today Kaster Saturday occurs
one of the most prominent "peaks'
the business of the Western Union
Telegraph company. For the past
several years the practice of sending
isages of congratulation and good
wishes, by telegraph, on Easter. New
Tears Day, Mothers" Day and other
holidays has been growing in popu
larity among all classes or people.
So general has the practice become
that the telegraph company is now
using special blanks on which the
congratulatory messages are written
and delivered. Ths Easter blanks are
decorated with appropriate floral de
signs, in pleasing colors, and with
special envelopes.
Peak Load Days.
Easter Saturday and the other
holidays mark the 'peak load days'
of the year for the telegraph office."
says W. C. Fox. manager of the local
office of the W estern Union.
"In general with the exception of
these peak days, the telegraph busi-
ness closely reflects the general busi
ness transacted in Topeka, When
Topeka merchants and other business
men are busy, we are busy. There
are few comparatively sharp peaks in
our load. Telegraph messages are
evenly distributed, for the most part,
thru the days, weeks and months.
"We have a little more business
during the.summer months July and
August than thru the other months
of the year. This Is true also in the
n.erchandising field, particularly In
grain trading, which gives us & large
share of our business."
Business fa Steady.
In compsring the various hours of
the day, telegraph business is fairly
steady, tho there is a noticeable
fluctuation in business messages. After
business men get to their offices and
open the first mail of the day usual
ly along toward It o'clock business
begins to pick up in the telegraph
office as telegrams are sent in an
swer to letters arriving early or in
quest of letters which should have
arrived on the first mail.
One of the peaks of the day comes
Just before noon, and is rather hard
to explain, unless the business men's
stenographers and clerks hold up the
morning's run of wires dictated, and
take them to the telegraph office on
their way to lunch. I
There is another peak in the day's
business Just before the offices close
in the afternoon, and the. last minute
business of the day is transacted over
the wires.
Business Brisk in Afternoon.
A few minutes before the closing
of the stock exchanges and markets
in Kansas City and Chicago, there is
a slieht increase in business, as buy
and sell orders are transmitted to
their floors.
"The Western Union office in To
peka couldn't possibly be swamped, I
think," Fox declared. "Our system Is
so elastic, and capable of so much
expansion, that I can't conceive of
any circumstances under which we
would be called upon to handle the
45.000 messages a day which is about
our capacity. Telegraph facilities
now have reached the stage at which
several messages can be sent simul
taneously, and in opposite directions,
over the same wire. There is almost
no limit to the number of sending irt
struments we could 'plug in' on our
various circuits.
Easy to Get Operators.
"Also it is easy to get operators
here in Topeka. We have branch of
fices at each of the railroad stations
and an independent branch office.
The Santa Fe has a lot of operators at
work in the main offices, who are
always available in case we need
them, to pick up a little overtime."
Two Automatic Machines.
In the Western Union office on
Kansas avenue there are two auto
matic telegraph machines which are
capable of handling some 400 mes
sages an hour Just as rapidly as they
can be typed. The machine, which is
a highly complicated aftair, may be
roughly described as a cross between
a typewriter and a telegraph instru
ment. At one end f .the line the
operator types the message. At the
other, with no human hand to guide
It. the automatic typewriter hammers
out the message with weird, uncanny
facility. At the receiving end the
operator sits quiet, while the words
and sentences sppear as if by tho
blackest of black magic, upon the
blanks.
It is no use for the layman to try
to understand the mechanism suffi
cient to say that "it works." The ma
chine will transmit telegraphic mes
sages at four times the speed of the
average Morse operator.
To Meet Business Needs.
The Topeka plant of the Western
Union was designed to meet the needs
of the city for some years to come,
and there is reserve equipment there
to aeai with more business than To
peka could possibly produce at the
present time. A "peak load," there
fore, doesn't mean much in the full
lives of ths staff there.
It Couldn't Be Done.
There is an old atorv current of a
suspicious but unsophisticated woman
who went to the telegraph office to
send her first telegram.
sne was handed a blank form, on
which she wrote her message. Then
she asked for an envelope and sealed
me message in it. Tbe operator tried
to explain that it was necessary for
mm to read the message in order to
transmit it whereupon the lady in
consternation and indignation, flatly
refused to let him read her private
correspondence, and left the office.
As a matter of fact." says Fox.
an operator who handled fortv. fiftv
or a hundred messages an hour, prob
ably won't know or remember a word
of the contents of any of them when
r.e quits work.
'Of course, the messages which are
handed to us for transmission are re
garded as sacredly confidential. Anyl
operator who divulged information
Recent heavy rains put Soldier
creek and other streams near Topeka
on a rampage.
THURSDAY.
Second day of Scottish Rite Re
union. Valley of Topeka. Several de
grees in Freemasonry conferred.
TO AID TEACHERS
Much Work Accomplished by
Kansas Placement Burean.
More Than 700 Instructors
Have Applied for Jobs.
That the Kansas teachers" place
ment bureau of the State Teachers'
association is proving1 to be of great
assistance to Kansas teachers in locat-
ng suitable positions is shown by the
fact that from twenty-five to fifty ap
plications and requests for teachers
are received each day, according to
Frank L. Pinet, secretary of the State
Teachers' association.
More than TOO Kansas teachers
have applied for positions for the
coming year thru the bureau, accord-
ng to Secretary Pinet. Two hundred
teachers were placed by the bureau
last year, representing a saving to
those placed of approximately 1 10,000,
secretary Pinet estimates.
"The teachers' placement bureau
has been found to be one of the' most
popular departments of the state as
sociation." President Pinet declared.
"Moreover, it promises to be one of
the most useful and successful depart
ments. To Place Best Teachers.
"The primary aim of the teacher
placement bureau is to place the best
teachers in the most promising posi
tions. One of the ultimate results of
the work of the bureau will be that
the schools that desire high class
and efficient teachers, and that are
willing to pay sufficient salaries to ac
quire such teachers, will be supplied.
"Moreover, the placement bureau
will reflect influence in stabilizing the
salaries paid to teachers and will
therefore raise the standards of the
schools thruout the state. One of the
greatest handicaps to the Kansas
schools has been the ever changing
personnel of the' teacher staffs."
Secretary Pinet predicted that the
bureau will register 3,000 applications
for positions this year and will re
ceive equally as many requests. He
estimated that the department will
place from 700 to 1,000 teachers.
Pinet stated that each applicant for a
position is investigated thoroiy befose
recommendations are made for any
position. Reports are received from'
the county superintendent, at least
one high school official and one mem
ber of the school board. Records of
the accomplishments of the teachers
placed also are kept for reference in
placing the teacher a second time.
FLY TIME ALMOST HERE
Put in Screens Now Is Advice to To
peka Citizens.
The fly season will soon be here,
and those who put in their screen
promptly will be taking the best of
precaution against the Insidious fly.
Chicago's board of health says:
"Fly screens are recognized by the
health department and sanitary meas
ures. They should be put in' place
early in fly time, and used continuous
ly until the snow flies. Keep the
common housefly out of your house
and away from your food.
"Screen your windows. Begin now
in your warfare against flies. Tou
cannot begin too soon'
o Burch Trial Until Monday.
Los Angeles. April 15. No session
was held today in the trial of Arthur
C. Burch for the murder of J. Belton
Kennedy, adjournment until Monday
having been taken last nieht.
contained in any of them would vio
late the iron-bound code, and would
be severely dealt with. But that is
really secondary.
Operator's Interest Is Mechanical.
'The operator's interest in the mes
sage is purely mechanical, and his
mind holds as little of its meaning
when the message has been pounded
out. as the key over which it has been
sent.
Heading and sending a telegram
becomes an absolutely automatic
function. Your scerets are safe, even
if you telegraph them, from any but
the person for whom you intend them.
You might just as well ask the brass
and rubber key, about a message
which has been transmitted, as the
operator who sent it."
i
AU .lams-'
Work on the Pageant of Progress Near drouth on top floors of .many Gov. Henry J- Allen an Interested
pavilion on Quincy street commenced building caused by accident at city spectator at the Gobar-Eustace wres
wlth vim and vigor. - pumping; plant. tling match.
FRIDAY.
No school, but the weather man
came very near to spoiling the little
folks" holiday.
a
Cases of Communicable
Disease Show Decrease
During Month of March
No Cases of Influenza Were Reported Last Month
Marked Decrease in Pneumonia, Says Report of Dr.
Earle G. Brown Chickenpox .Ranked First With Sixty
Cases.
According to the report of the
health department of the city, made
to Robert D. McGiffert. city health
commissioner, by Dr. Earle G. Brown,
city health officer, for tho month of
March, there were 121 cases of com
municable diseases reported to the de
partment during the month.
This is a decrease of sixteen cases
from the number reported in Febru
ary. "No cases of influenza were re
ported, and there was a marked de
crease in the number of pneumoni:
cases reported, says the report.
Report by Wards.
Bv wards, cases were reported as follows:
"First 32
Second 1
Third -1
Fourth 6
Fifth 19
Sixth 27
By race, cases were reported as follows:
WHITE W
Male 42
Female -4"
COLORED 32
Male 19
Female !
MEXICAN 4
Male , 4
Female 0
There were fifty-six cases of com
municable disease in girls and wom
en, and sixtv-five in boys and men, re
ported during the month.
Chickenpox Was First.
Chickenpox ranked first in the
number of cases reported sixty.
Thirteen of these cases were of chil
dren below school age. Nineteen
cases were reported among the chil
dren of McKinley school.
Pneumonia ranked second with
thirty-three cases, making an even
150 cases reported for the first three
months of the year six more than
were reported for the entire year of
1921. There was a marked decrease
in the number of deaths from this
disease, over the deaths from the
same cause in February, however.
Diphtheria ranked third in the
number of cases reported, with four
teen, of which three resulted fatally.
Seventy-four cases have been reported
this year, eight of them resulting fa
tally. Scarlet Fever Fourth.
Scarlet fever ranked fourth in ths
number of cases reported, with seven,
an increase of one case over the rec
ord of February.
McKinley school led all other
schools in the number of cases of
communicable disease reported with
twenty, of which nineteen cases were
chickenpox. Central Park school was
second, with seven- cases, and Potwin
and Lowman Hill schools tied for third
with six each. Clay and Polk schools
each had four cases during the
month: Quincy. Lafayette, Van Buren,
and the Holy Name schools each had
three cases of communicable disease;
there were two cases In the high
school, and one each in State. Quin
ton Heights. Harrison. Assumption,
Washburn High, Washington. Strick-
ler's Business college; and other
schools of the city. There were seventy-one
cases of communicable dis
ease reported in all the schools to
gether. Sixteen Cases of TB.
The 121. cases of comtnunlcable
disease referred to above, do not in
clude sixteen cases of tuberculosis
which were reported during the
month. Three of the sixteen tuber
culosis eases resulted in death. There
were five cases of tuberculosis in
males. . and eleven in females, re
ported to the department. One male
and two females died of the disease
during the month.
A total of 381 patients attended the
free municipal clinics during the
month. By far the great majority
200 were examined at the clinic for
the treatment of social disease. The
second largest number of attendants
was at the baby clinic, where there
were sixty-eight during the month.
There were sixteen at the skindis
ease clinic; five at
the maternity
SATURDAY.
GOfMUfN.iS'PuV
pMHOtorXrrfor N
AID OALMtMl MB JDT DAVlS'
Shawnee county Democrats held an
enthusiastic pep meeting and political
powwow at Klingaman's hall.
clinio; twenty-two at the clinio for
nervous diseases, sixty-two at the tu
berculosis clinic, and eight at the nu
trition clinic.
Aaron Green. Fred Thompson, and
S. C. Davis, the three sanitary offi
cers of the department, made 640 vis
its during the month. Of these, 545
were voluntary, fifty-four were on
complaint, and forty-one were revisits.
Dr. Ransley J. Miller, city physi
cian, attended to a total of seventy-
ven calls at his office; made five
visits to the child nutrition clinic,
made twenty-one professional calls at
the city jail, twelve at the Provident
association, twenty-four for surgical
purposes. eig-ht at accidents, and
ninety-one for other purposes, a total
of 238 calls. '
105 Births During March. ,
There were 10 5 births during the
month; eighty-nine of them white,
seven -of them colored, and nine of
them Mexican. Fifty-seven of the
babies bom during the month were
boys, and forty-eight were girls.
Seventy-live Deaths.
Against the 105 births there are
listed seventy-five deaths. The gross
death rate for the month is 1.47 per
1,000 population.
Thirty-eight deaths were those of
males and thirty-seven of female.
Sixty white persons, eleven colored,
and four Mexicans died during the
month.
Bv wards, deaths were as follows:
First 4
Second ....'..21
Toird 10
Fourth . 8
Fifth 10
Sixth 22
Strategy,
here's half-a-crown
"Waiter,
for
you.
"Thank you, sir. Do you wish to
reserve a table?" '
"No. In a few minutes I Bhall
come in with two ladies, and I want
you to tell us that every table is en
gaged." Passing Show (London).
VISITS OLD BATTLEGROUND
George P. Washburn, Depart
ment Commander of Kansas G.
A. R., Makes Trip to Shiloh,
Tenn. Plans Under Way for
Reunion at Winfieid.
a 1
George P. Washburn of Ottawa,
department commander of Kansas ef
the Grand Army of the Republic, has
been unusually busy completing plans
for the forty-first annual encampment
of the organization to be he-Id May 17,
18 and 19 at Winfieid, Kan., since his
return a few days ago from Shiloh,
Tenn., where he attended the six
teenth annual encampment of the Na
tional Association of the Battle
ot
Shiloh Survivors. Mr. Washburn is
national president of the association,
and his home at 607 Cherry street,
Ottawa, is the national headquarters
of the organization. He spends a day
or two each week at the state office
of the G. A. R. in the Memorial build
ing in Topeka.
The encampment,' which was held
April 6 and 7 at Shiloh battlefield.
proved to be one of much pleasure
and interest. Seventy-five of the
1.000 survivors of the battle were in
attendance. Many of them made their
first visit to the field since the battle
was fought sixty years ago. The an
nual trip to the battle ground is made
from St. Louis to Shiloh or Pittsburg
Landing by steamboat.
Mr Washburn, who is now serving
his sixtn terra as president of the as
sociation, has completed plans
whereby the trip will include Muscle
Shoals in 1923. A movie of the trip,
which was made in 1921. will be
sBown in Topeka in the near future;. '
FORECAST.
Rotary club show, "Follies of 1922,"
to be pulled off Monday and Tuesday
nights.
"DOCTOR" IS HELD
Fugitive From Justice for Six
Years Arrested In Wichita.
Charged With Conspiracy to
Defraud aad Evade Creditors.
Following information which
reached A. H. Skinner, assistant
United states attorney, several days
ago, "Doctor" Orrin Robertson, for
six years a fugitive from justice, was
arrested this week at Williston, N. D.
He will be returned at once for trial
in federal court. Skinner says, on in
dictments charging conspiracy to de
fraud his creditors and evade the
bankruptcy act.
Robertson owned property in Kan
sas City, Excelsior Springs, Wichita
and elsewhere valued at from to 1
million dollars. He had operated
sanitariums in Kansas City, Excelsior
Springs, St. Louis, Sulphur Springs,
Ark., and Arkansas City, Kan. The
institutions usually bore the name of
"Anthropological Non-Surgical Sani
tarium." Diseases were treated by
the application of the "Seven Sacred
Oils" to the body.
Income of $50,000 a Year.
' His annual income was estimated at
$50,000. Persons came from all parts
of the country to be healed.
The "doctor" began speculating in
oil and was declared bankrupt in
1916. At the hearing in August of
that year investigation led to the be
lief that he was hiding a part of his
assets. He was Indicted at Wichita
in 1316 on the charge of concealing
assets from the referee in bankruptcy.
Robertson could not be found and it
was reported that he had fled from
Arkansas City with a young woman
school teacher from western Kansas
who had been taking treatments at
nis sanitarium. He had never been
heard from until last week when a
relative of tho girl visited the district
attorney s office in Topeka.
Property Increases in Value.
Meanwhile, his property in the
nands of the referee has increased
in value until now it represents a sum
which should leave a balance when
toe bankruptcy case is settled.
Robertson has traveled extenslvelv
since his indictment, not only in this
country out also jviexico ana Canada.
He opened a sanitarium in Williston
where he treated diseases under "spir-
ltuallstio influences," according to
Skinner.
The former school teacher, whose
name is being withheld by the au
thorfties, was not with Robertson
wnen he was arrested, and severed
her connection with him more than
two years ago. Skinner says. She
was accidentally discovered in a dis
tant city some time ago bv a friend.
She denied her identity at first but
has told her story since establishing
communication with her relatives
wnom the friend notified.
A FRIEND OF DOCTOR WORK
George H. Fair Was Schoolmate of
w Postmaster General.
George H. Fair, 1351 Garfield ave
nue, is an old friend and schoolmate
or jjr. liuDert work, recently ap-
pointea postmaster general by Presi-
oer.t Harding to succeed Will H. Hays.
Mr. Fair, who is clerk in charcre
of railway mail service here, says he
was rather proud to be able to say
tnat Doctor Work was once a neigh
bor and schoolmate of his.
"Hubert," said Mr. Fair, "was
about a year behind me in school, so
we were not in the same class, tho
he was a year older than L We were
living at that time in Indiana. Pa. We
attended the same school in 1881 and
1882. Hubert was a bright student,
and we never had any trouble when
we played together."
In a recent letter to Mr. Fair, Doc
tor Work expressed surprise and re
gret that he had not met his old play
mate when passing thru Topeka.
Doctor Work served as a major in the
medical corps, of the United States
army in the late World war, and he
and both bis sons, Philip and Robert,
were at the front when the armistice
was signed.
Doctor Work is still president of the
American Medical association, and he
and both his sons are members of the
American Legion. '
Sales of "Eskimo pis" in Topeka
and vicinity have approximated 400.
000 packages since the confectionary
novelty was introduced about the mid
dle of last December, according to
J. F. Haskell, general manager of the
Beatrice Creamery company here.
Royalties amounting to probably
$30,000 a week are being paid by the
manufacturers in all sections of the
country to C. K. Nelson of New York
City, the inventor and associates who
are backing him in marketing of the
product, it is said. The confection
which obtained such popularity here
during the winter is just becoming the
rage in the east.
While the sales at the present time
are not so great, according to Haskell,
it is expected that the demand will
pick up considerably during the hot
weather and if the consumption dur
ing the winter months can be regard
ed as an indication it is probable that
from 7,000 to 10,000 Eskimo pies will
be sold daily during the summer.
Did Not Go Good at First.
The chocolate covered ice cream
bar went begging for almost four
years before it won the attention of
the public Nelson was the son of the
village confectioner of Onawa, la.
When he had finished school his
father placed him in charge of the
plant, where he gained a knowledge of
ice cream manufacture. He conceived
the plan of dipping ice cream in
chocolate and worked on the plan
without much success for years. Then
the elder Nelson sold his plant and.
the son was left with little more than
an idea.
Nelson attempted to get many
manufacturers to take up his idea be
fore he met Russell Stover, of the
Graham Ice Cream company in
Omaha, Stover recognized the possi
bilities of the idea and experiments
were begun on a large scale. The re
sult was success.
The main difficulty in the manu
facture of Eskimo pie was that hot
chocolate would not stick to ice
cream. The process of manufacture
now consists of heating chocolate to
a temperature of 115 degrees and al
lowing it to cool to 90 degrees, when
tho oblong bars of ice cream are
dipped in it. The ice cream causes
the chocolate to harden. The cakes
are then wrapped in tin foil and
placed in a cooling room to harden,
where they remain until sold. Nel
son says it is possible to leave the
bar in a warm roc m for thirty min
utes before it will melt.
Offices in New York.
Having perfected the process of
manufacture. Nelson and Stover inter
ested capital in the enterprise and
obtained money to form the Russell
Stover company, with offices in New
York City. Stover became president:
Nelson, vice president in charge of
manufacture, and H. E. Watson, sec
retary. An extensive advertising cam
paign was begun, with the result that
Eskimo pie has enjoyed an amazing
sale.
The Beatrice Creamery company, of
Topeka, liRe other concerns manu
facturing the confection, operates un
der a license granted by Nelson's com
pany. Several imitations are said to
have appeared on the market and
suits have been started to protect the
patent rights, it is said!
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One of the proudest women in To
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1415 Van Buren street. Mrs. Mallory
is an aunt of Mamie Smith, famous
phonograph record singer and at ths
head of her company of Jazs Hounds
that appeared at the auditorium Tues
day evening.'
While Mamie Smith was in Topeka
she visited with her aunt and told her
many of the experiences of herself
and company in the east, on the road
and in the record making studios.
Mamie has been on the stage since
she was years of age. Mrs. Mallory
says. At the present time her salary'
is $4,000 a week in addition to th
royalties on the O.keh records.
"The boys in the company are really
accomplished musicians," Mrs. Mallory
said in answer to the Daniel Muller
criticism appearing In The State Jour
nal Wednesday. "They have taken .
up the Jazs form of entertainment be
cause it is the rage but all of them,
are able to render high class musical
numbers. They are not only musicians
of training and experience but they are
well educated."
Hawkins a Topeka Boy.
Coleman Hawkins, the saxophone
player, can be termed a Topeka boy.
He was the only colored player on
the high school orchestra here last
season. His parents live In St. Joseph.
Mo. Hawkins was greeted with wild
applause when he walked on the stage
at the audltorum Tuesday evening.
His teachers at the high school state
that he was a good student and a high
class musician.
"My niece was delighted with the re
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was much too large for the real ef
fects of an entertainment of that kind
but the large crowd that greeted her
was pleasing."
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