The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1873-06-19
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The Reception, Speeches. Dance,
Party and Other Items

The Reception, Speeches. Dance,
Party and Other Items
A dispatch was received last Friday
evening from A. +. Touzalin. Of the
land department Of the A.. T. Il s. r.
X. r.. announcing that the members OF
the editorial association of Illinois
were en- route for our historic garden
patch, and asking if the city of Wich-
ita would entertain them for one night.
A meeting Of the city council was called
who in their fundamentally we
think-dctermined by a tie vote that
they would not extend the Inequalities
Of the city. The action not meeting
( the views and ideas of some Of our
more entcrprising citizens, an i'm
/ promptu meeting was called together
in front of Steele & Lcvy's land office.
for which VIM. Greiffenstcin was elect
cd chairman and Geo. Salisbury, esq,
secretary. Following statement of
how matters stood, some pretty severe
criticisms were offered. touching the
action of certain members Of the coun-
ell, whcrcupon subscription paper
was suggested, and no sooner suggest
cd than acted upon The chairman Of
the committee put down $4,000, he be-
ing followed by Steele 4 Levy with
SO. 90, Sol II. Kohn $500, James Dag
ner $1,000. &. A. Phillip $1,000, Cook
& Adams $1,000, n. a. English $1,000,
and so on, until, within afcw minutes,
several hundred dollars were raised
The action was magnanimous. but not
more liberal than wise, and fully as
efficient az if the council had appropri-
atcd direct, only we don't believe il
the thing to call on the libeSal and
willing to bear burthcns which are
calculated to benefit the whole and
which the whole should assume as such.
Following this action Mcssrs. c. F.
Gilbert, NJ. W. Levy and II. =. Muir
dock were appointed as a committee
Of reception and assignment Fred
Schattner and o. w. BrOmwcll, COM
mittcc Of arrangements for ball and
music: Mcssrs s. III. kohn, j. NJ. Steele
and Frank Wright committee on
finance and carriages Mcssrs. n. A.
English, j. NJ. Ba,dcrston. L. i. Jcwctt,
f. b. Allen, j. NJ. Steele and VIM.
Grciflenstein, committee on introduce
ton. Geo. Salisbury was designated to
make the reception speech. When all
had been satisfactorily arranged tel
cgram was transmitted to Mr.. Touzalin
to send on the brains by Mondays
mail train.
And right here is good place to re-
mark that all the committees acquitted
themselves splendidly. The commit
tee of reception went as far as Emporia
Sunday night to meet the party. The
committee Of arrangements for the ball
and music spent Monday in decorating
the hall, while the finance committee
saw to everything else. The livery
stable men most generously turned out
their best rigs. and before Monday
evening all feeling had well nigh died
out and all were working IN harmony
for the common good and pride of our
Young city and her name.
At Z O'Clock the train that trans
ported our guests, with scrcech and
rumble, came laundering down the
valley and into our corporate limits.
1t had been excessively hot during the
day, but cool wind had sprung up in
the wake Of a passing storm, while over
head foatcd innumcrablc little rosy
tinted cloudlcts whose varying shad-
dows left streaks fbright and pale sun
shine upon the great vclvety green
meadow that for twenty miles is fringed
BY the Little river timber on one side
and hemmed in by the railroad upon
the other Like the work of magic,
when the whistle sounded '.down
breaks" everything in the city that
goes on four wheels lit out for the de-
pot, headed by our city band who were
fairly blowing the keys of their horns
in their endcavors to be heard above
the rattle. din and confusion made by
the buses. carriages and all manner Of
vehicles which were taking a hand ia
the race for the depot. In the mean
time N least two thousand people got
out upon the sidewalks and streets.
Mr.. Geo. Salisbury welcomed the
brilliant itcmiZers from the land of
suckerdom in short and neat speech,
which was replied TO on behalf of the
ladies aud gentlemen comprising the
party by Prof. Rodney Welsh, the cdi-
tor of the Prairie Farmer, Chicago.
and president of the association. who
facctiously remarked that he had long
been in the stock raising business. but
that Wichita beat any three-year old
that he had vet seen. Mr.. II. l.. Clay,
editor of the Carrol;on Ga-e cite. also
made short reply. in which he ac-
knowlcdged that Kansas was bound To
aud was now taking the place formerly
held by Illinois as the great stock pro-
ducing state. Not in all his life had
he seen or in his dreams ever pictured
valley in beauty rivaling the one the
party had Just come down.
The party were driven up Douglas
avenue 10 Market street, up Market to
Second street, up Second TO Main street
and down Main street to Douglas ave-
nue.. and then around 10 the Douglas
Avenue house. tho Daily house aud the
Planters house. the hotels to which
they were assigned. The party con-
sisted Of the following ladies and gen.
tlemch: