TOPEKA KAN.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOLUME X.
NUMBER 140
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 2. 1913.
WELCOME
BIG CROWDS HERE FOR FIRST K. U. EXPOSITION
Gov. Hodges Touches Magic Button and Announcing Curtain Opens State University's World's Fair
DISPLAYS WELL ATTENDED
Laws Hold Court--Chem Lectures Draw Physiology Again Saturday--Jayhawker Out And Selling Fast
At eight o'clock this morning Gov. Geo. H. Hodges pressed a button in Topeka. • An instant later a great announcing curtain unrolled and fluttered down in front of Fraser hall, and the first K. U. Biennial Exposition was on. It is estimated that four hundred people were on the hill to see the start of the big show.
Indications are that the Exposition will draw even a larger crowd than was expected. Sight-seers here today represent practically every school and town in the state.
If the latest prediction of the weather man holds good J. Pluvius will remain far, far away until after the grand finale tomorrow night.
Because the Indoor Circus is sold out, tooth and door-nail, the Haskell Indian band has been engaged to give a concert and furnish amusements tonight west of Snow Hall upon the river for the data's ball. These unable to play a line on the circus will be treated to wierd music and original stunts
Tickets for the Santa Fe TrailPike will cost 25 cents, one and all. However, the first 600 will be reserved to keep the hungry mob from joostling. The big show starts Saturday evening.
At ten o'clock the famous law trial began in Green hall. Several hundred passed through the Daily Kansan office before noon, inspecting the press and plant. With the men, the main attraction seems to be the Engineering exhibits in the Gymnasium. A good crowd heard the first Fine Arts recital in Fraser.
The Jayhawker booth was one of the first to open, and business started with a rush. All the exhibits began to draw visitors shortly after the University whistle had become silent.
The booths will all be finished in time for tonight's crowd. Rest rooms are provided for ladies in the law building, and everything possible is being done to add to the comfort of the visitors.
The 1913 Jayhawker went on sale promptly at 9:30 at the time scheduled and up to 2:30 about 600 of them were disposed of. R. G. Allison, editor-in-chief, was too busy to talk but smilingly displayed two coat pockets bulging with money.
Tomorrow C. O. Lee, will lecture at 9:30 on "State Work in Drugs and Medicines;" C. G. Armstrong will lecture on "From the Ore to the Steel Rail," at 10:15; and Miss Agnes Anderson will tell of the "Laws of the Hotel Infirmary" 11:15. George King will give some interesting demonstrations in glass blowing during the morning, all in room 305.
Nearly 200 people heard the lectures on "Liquid Air," by L. J. Bennet, and "Kansas Water," by E. J. Chemistry building today.
A journalism rest room will be kept by the Christian Science society in room 204, Green hall. Here the Christian Science Monitor, the leading exponent of clean journalism, will be distributed. This number contains an article on the Exposition.
TO THE EXPOSITION!
OVER THE PHONE
Time, 2:59 o'clock Friday p. m.
Last scene, last act of the "May Queen Mystery."
C. O. (in a sweet voice); "Ch Omera House."
"Is Miss Dunaway there?"
C. O. (up the stairway), "Hi, 'Lis abeth; telephone."
Pause, pause, pause.
C. O. (aside, without hand over the transmitter); "What'd you say, Beth? Oh!!~alright." (Then over her heart)—hyer—er, a she isn't here just now."
Luckily for those that visited the dissecting room of the Medics today attendants were ready to administer any medicine. The doctrine of the survival of the fittest applied: Fully three hundred visited this display by 10 o'clock and fully nine hundred and ninety-nine came away because they had too. Students of the Medical school were stationed at each table and courteously answered any and all questions asked.
"All right. Thank you."
A Fine Arts recital was given this morning at 10 o'clock in Fraser hall by the students of the Music department.
Those on the program were: Francis Smith, violin; Meridith Robbins, violincello; Corinne Symph. piano; Carrie Gilmore, vocalist; Gladys Henry, piano; John Martin violin and Ruth Lame, vocalist.
A second concert will be given to tomorrow at the same hour by the Glee club, the girls Glee club, and the University orchestra. Miss Cora Reynolds, soprano, will sing.
Good crowds attended the illus trated lectures of the Spanish and Greek departments this morning at eleven o'clock. Students read the Agamemnon of Aeschylus. Tomorrow at eleven Oedipus will be in room 206, Fraser.
One of the best exhibits on the hill, says the Proxy* Weede, he of the blue suit, is the physiology exhibit. It will be open Saturday only from 10 to 12 on account of the number of students required to demonstrate
Everybody that visited the Medic display in the Museum wanted to see the bank robber.
Law cases were tried in Green hall all day, as scheduled. Decisions cannot be handed down by the Justices immediately but will be announced in the near future. Three courts, supreme, district, and justice of the peace, were in session.
With raucous-voiced barkers crying their wares, the blatant strains of bands, and the songs and performances of the show people in full swing in front of their respective tents to entice within, the seeker after a good time, the Santa Fe Trail will open Saturday night at 7:20 along the road just west of Snow hall.
The spirit of the. The Exposition has reached remote points.
SAPULPA HIGH SCHOOL
PLANS BABY EXPOSITION
Through the columns of the Daily Kansan the students of the Sapulpa, Oklahoma, high school have become very interested and have written for the plans of the Exposition so that they may be able to have a similar exhibit on a smaller scale at the high school.
Have you noticed the clock on the Physics building? If not, go look twice at it, immediately.
Visitors today must think Kansas University is a very fast place. The Engineers are responsible for it.
Late last night several persons could have been seen coming from the direction of Blake hall with knowing expressions upon their arrival, hence we need in the Physics Building FIXING the "notorious" for the Exposition.
Someone had connected a motor directly with the shaft of the clock.
Results in the Jayhawker guessing contest were announced this morning.
C. A. Badger and E. C. Roseworm each received a free Jayhawker for having guessed closest to the amount of money in the sealed jar, which was displayed in Rowland's window. Edmond Rechtold was third, and received a two-dollar coupon applicable in payment on a L. S. Pauline's coupon a $1.50 coupon, and Pauline Kitchen a dollar coupon.
There was $49.47 in the jar. Several hundred people crowded around the booth to witness the counting.
Registrar Foster has a chart on the first floor of Fraser hall showing geographical distribution of students 1912-1913 at the University of Kansas. There are 2255 students from Kansas, 191 from Missouri, 45 from Oklahoma, 11 from Colorado, and six from Nebraska.
The five best guesses were: Badger, $49.07; Roseworm, $49.75; McGraw, $70.00; L. Smith, $49.11 Pauline Kitchen, $100. The worst, Henry Maloy, $100.
Douglas county has 684 students at the University, but many of these students take up temporary residence in Lawrence to attend the University. Wyandotte county leads with an even 100, Sedgwick is second with 65, Reno third with 55, Shawenvorth fourth with 48, Leavenworth fifth with 44, and Dickinson sixth with 41.
There are 144 students from Kansas City, Missouri.
The sociological exhibit will be one of the most important at the University Exposition this week, in room 202. Administration building. It will consist of a series of charts, photographs, pictures, drawings and outlines.
The illustrative material will cover the subject of family rehabilitation, housing conditions, labor conditions, parks and playgrounds, social utilities, social phases of public hygiene, and many other interesting phases. It should be most valuable to students of sociology.
Friday morning at 10 o'clock, Dr. Howard Woodhead, of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy spoke in room 202.
Prof. E. P. Stimpson of Weights and Measures bureau has an elaborate exhibit in the University physician's office of all sizes of weights and measures imaginable.
Clair Heworth, athletic manager of the Topeka high school will bring the Topeka high school track team down for the interscholastic track meet Saturday.
Five Mechanicals are making
souvenir blue prints on an electric
blue printer. A Pratt railway truss
for construction work is also shown.
The Electricals have by far the most serviceable exhibit. Motor power generated by six dynamos will furnish power for the Exposition. An automatic telephone system and a pulmotor for recruciting drowned people will be shown.
A real sanitary filter plant for making ice cold, clear water from the Kaw river water has been in stalled by the Sanitary engineers.
Exhibits from the School of Engineering utilize practically all the space on the first floor of the Gym. Exhibits from the College, Law, and Pharmic departments, however, are also well represented.
The chemists show a murder exhibit where traces of arsenic were found in a man's stomach and through chemical tests the murderer was sent to the penitentiary.
PIKE IS CARNIVAL'S FINAL ATTRACTION
Miniature World's Fair Midway Will End Exhibition Saturday Night
The Pike promises to give the biggest, grandest, and best show that has ever been presented to the people of Lawrence. The attractions are many and of unusual excellence. Star performers of the entire school have combined to assist in presenting the stupendous spectacle. The individual attractions are of high merit.
A high merit. The list includes everything from a troupe of world renowned acrobats fresh from the Continental successes to polite vaudeville. There will be a show by Four White Blackbirds, a screening time in barber shop harmony.
There will be the only and original Senellett and Nap in their unapproachable and unduplicated juggling act. The B. C. Toors family of acrobats are unbesteable artists, from the grandfather who holds four men suspended on his white beard behind his back, and bears his mouth. A comedy of the class that makes widows laugh will be produced by the Yorke company.
The Pan-Hellenic show promises to be the biggest sensation in the line of colored minstrelsy since Al Fields started his famous troupe. The famous brunette beauty chorus will sing for the first time in the spring. The place of plucking days will be given—also old favorite songs as “Plant a Watermelon on my Grave and Let the Juice Soak Through.”
The world's greatest glee club, composed of concert solists will blend their voices in the latest songs. There will be several costume songs that are alone worth the price of admission.
In addition the army will maneuver for the benefit of the spectators. A night attack by howling, dancing redskins will be met and repulsed by the boys of Uncle Sam with Old Glory at their head. There will be the smoking of the peace pipe and the engagement in friendly contests of sport between the red and white.
Saturday morning at 9 the feature case of State of Kansas vs. Hamblet criminal prosecution for murder, comes off.
A attorneys: Griffin and Sullivan for the state. Zook and Burnett for the defense.
The facts of the above case will be taken from the play of Hamlet, where the same are admissible under the usual rules of evidence. The witnesses will be produced, sworn and examined as in actual cases.
A cover conceals the busy families and keeps them in the dark. The segregation of the males, females, and queen, and the laying and deposition of eggs forms one of the most interesting of the Biological exhibits.
Did you ever see the inside work-
ing room of an ant-hill? There's
one in the garden.
The Mechanical Engineers' miniature of a model manufacturing plant, showing the organization of it from the capitalization to common laborer, is attracting much attention.
The athletic department has a display of all events Kansas has ever participated in, scores and pictures and names of all the "K" men.
Wesley Ready, of Wellington,
will visit his brother, Wendell
Ready, a senior in the law school,
during the K. U. Exposition.
Mrs. S. E. Lux, of Topeka, will visit her daughter, Alta Lux, during the K. U. Exposition.
Dr. N. Hayes, of Seneca, will take in the Exposition and visit his family at 1300 Louisiana.
Miss Nora Pixley, of Wamego, in the guest of Elsie Potwin, '18.
THE DAILY KANSAN, 1913-- OBSERVER OF NATURE, 1874
OBSERVER OF NATURE.
Vot. I. LAWRENCE, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1874
Through the kindness of the Graduate Magazine we reprint a facsimile copy of the first page of the Observer of Nature, the first paper ever printed by students of the University of Kansas. This is one of a series of illustrations from an article on University publications written by Prof. M. W. Sterling. All these publications are now on exhibition in the Journalism building.
"PAT" PREDICTS K. U. VICTORY IN TRACK
Kansas Captain Says Aggies Will Lose Unless Jinx Interferes
Captain Patterson dopes the Kansas track team to clean up the Aggie aggregation today 2-1.
"Of course a great many things must be considered in a dual meet of this sort. Luck has a prominent position. But if the jinx doesn't appear among the Kansas men, we will have to wait a afternoon before the meet started.
"Pat" dopes Kansas to win in the 100, 220, broad jump, two mile, high and low hurdles and 1-4 mile. The mile race should be a close affair between the Kansas captain and the leader of the Argies. Hutton, who won the boys' shot put, Kansas will be closely pushed by the Argies. Patterson dopes the 100 yard race to Kansas, but admit that it will be close.
BOY KILLED WATCHING
ALPHA TAU DANCE
Walter Ecke, the 18 year old son of Julius Ecke, the hardware merchant of this city, fell from a fire escape last night while watching the Alpha Tau May party in F. A. hall and was killed.
The accident occurred shortly after ten o'clock following an alarm of fire. Young Ecke, with several other boys, was sitting on the railing of the fire-escape on the south side of Fraternal Aid hall. In the scramble after the alarm he lost his balance and fell from the third floor to the paved driveway forty-five feet below.
A broken neck was probably the cause of the boy's death. He was unconscious when pierced up and lived only about five minutes.
Walter was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Ecke, and a junior in the Lawrence high school.
Send the Daily Kansan home.
Tryouts for the senior face will commence Monday afternoon, May 5,
4:30 in room 116 Fraser hall. A play has been selected.
BURLINGTON DEBATERS WIN CHAMPIONSHIP
High School Orators Take State Cup from Eldorado Last Night
The Burlington high school debating team, composed of Lee Robolston, Vertus Wingett, and Lloyd Smith, won the championship of the state high school debating league in the tournament defeating the El Dorado high school team, composed of Heil Bollinger, Ruth Bollinger, and Edwin Rider.
The question was whether or not the recall should be applied to the state judiciary. Burlington had the affirmative, vote 2 to 1.
Judges were three University intercollegiate debaters, Frank Carson, Asher Hobson, and Frank Griffen. There were about 200 spectators.
Burlington receives a banner for permanent possession and a silver loving cup to be presented to the winner of next year's debate, unless Burlington wins again, when the cup becomes permanent property.
HANDICAP VS-BOGEY
TODAY AND TOMORROW
The handicap-bogey tournament of the Oread golf club scheduled for this afternoon will be played off either today or Saturday so that play would not conflict with the May Fete.
Players are requested to write scores on tournament schedule posted Friday on bulletin board at Tee No. 1 on Mississippi street. Tournament will be match play, by holes. Players will use three-fourths of each hole for model game. Next week the fourth annual handicap tournament, the most important event of the spring season, starts.
Politicians' Last Call
All petitions for Student Council offices must be handed to Chas. Coates, president of the Student Council, before next Monday at noon. Coates will be at the check stand in Fraser hall at chapel time to receive them.
A