The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-05-16

rooms, and TIE NEWS establishment
Next to this are the two-story stone
brick front, buildings occupied
by Smith 6 Co., and Thomas q
Jones. groceries. Then, neat two
story frame, holding John McDonald's
tsales-room, A. n. Hanna's land Office,
and DIR. Hibben. Miller & Benefits
brick Restaurant, Atyeos meat mar
kes, = Harness store, and the express
office. stone bufTding, brings us to sew :
Eenth avenue The west side from
ISixth.tc Seventh starts of with Esk-
ridge s-hall-a sflrst-class three story
brick, where Smiths dry goods store
occupies the ground floor. Bachelor
& Jones' land Office, Mr.. Waterbury's
and other offices, the second, and Esk-
ridge hall the thlrd. Next come the
neat two-story brick buildings of DIR.
McCandliss, and Kelsey's grocery and
boot and shoe house. Then a couple
of good two-story frames, one OF
which holds Ferguson e Co.'s bakery,
reach to DR.. Criley's and the postoffice
two-story brick buildings. Frank
tSchmidling's brick residence next ap-
pears, and then Tandy & Eastman's
drug store, Hadley's grocery, Jones
s. Aliens marble works and
Harvey's bakery, most of which
are worry good two-story frames, brings
us again TO Seventh avenue. Above
Seventh on this side is a tine two-story
frame, occupied as millinery estab-
lishmenr,and Carlow s. Rewey's black
basement wall, which has not yet re-
ceived its superstructure, and Heneck's
smith shop. From thence to the
Normal Commercial street has few
residences, the two large two-story
Normal school boarding houses, the
Episcopal brick church, and little to
the right, on 9Th avenue, the PFesby-
terrain brick church. OF the grand
style in which the Normal school it.
self caps the head OF the street we
have before spoken The street grad
ually ascends, enough to drain itself,
all the way to the Normal.
Sixth, Fifth, Fourth and Third
avenues, are all, to a considerable ex-
tent on each side of Commercial street,
business thoroughfares. On Seventh
avenue are Nichols stables, the stage
company's stables. and Sprague's car
penter shop. On Sixth is the sub
stantial two-story stone, and brick
front of Newman 6 Co. The base
ment contains Horr's eating house, the
ground floor the dry goods, and the
third floor Mrs. Kidder's millinery es-
Establishments. Ryan & Corners car
rage works, on Mechanic street, and
Carter, Stone & Coats carpenter shop,
Hirth's former furniture store, the
Madison house, ard Gillett's and LeIn-
ards two-stOry frames, fill up pretty
well to Riggs, Dunlap & Co.'S. The
Madison house is of stone, with brick
front, two stories high, and very deep.
1t is one of the best hotels in this part
of Kansas, and well kept by Mr.. Funk
houser. Holderman Bros frame
warehouse, several handsome two
story frame buildings, and Gill & Gill
Hands stables are also on this ave-
nue.. On the southeast corner of
Sixth and Merchants stood that popu-
lar and solid stone hotel, the Robinson
House, which was destroyed by fire
during the past winter. Opposite this
are the spacious residence and fine
grounds OF Judge Ruggles.
On Fifth avenue are the Buckeye
house, the Central Livery, good two
story stone building, the upper floor Of
which is known as Social hall, Gran.
dall'sand other blacksmith shops, and
the famous Bismarck. Fourth avenue
holds Jay & Co.'s lumber yard, Champ
Inns stone cutting yard, the Merchants
hotel--an excellent and popular new
'two-story frame house-a furniture
shop, Davis livery stables, and several
blacksmith shops. On Third we note
Champlin's and MacClellan's coal Of
pot, several eating houses, and last
and bigge-t, c. F. Pierce & Co.'S iunl-
Der yard, supplied with switches from
the railroad track which fronts it. At
the east side of town are the NJ. K. &
T. depots and the. Emporia Foundry,
ut the Cottonwood, south of town, are
the water power mills of Soden and
McDonalds nearer town that way are
Hallberg's and Waite's nurseries.
West OF town are the fair grounds,
Truths nursery and the coal Minis,
and north on the Neosho are Polla rus
brick yards, Armor's water-power
ill, stone quarrie, etc.s
We might mention various 9th err
good business structures on several
streets, and scores of handsome and
commodious private residences in all
parts of the city and suburbs. Our
many church and school buildings
are worthy of much more
extended notice. But enough have
been named to show that the reputa-
ton OF Emporia as we'll built city,
rests on substantial stone and brick
( foundations and superstructures. And
every year will witness steady pro-
gress in this direction. Every such
structure has proved good invest
ment, and number of merchants
who are still in frame buildings are
making arrangements to put up as
good brick houses as their neighbors
possess. And as the remaining gaps
on Commercial street are thus closed
up, it win steadily improve until il
will become not many years hence the
finest business avenue west of the
Missouri river.