Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-04-10
HOW IT NOW APPEARS.

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HOW IT NOW APPEARS.
A trip was recently made over the south
ern portion Of the city and the following i'm
provements were noted. South Msin street
is being completely and nicely graded, the
cutting down and filing up boing systemat-
ically and thoroughly done and the work is
now well nigh completed. 1t makes hand
some avenue and when the street car line
shall have been laid and the Improvements
now going on are finished, it must prove
popular and favorite quarter Of the city for
residences. Lees Park, belonging to H. G.
Lee is nicely leveiled and beauti-
fed and is being still farther
improved by the setting out entirely around
it of shade trees. A nice house and barn
erected upon these premises are being com
pleted. The surveyors were at work laying
and stalking out lots on this street Among
the improvements being made are A. R.
Hays house, Jas. Messervy's house, Mr..
Deans house, J. J. Fegtley's fence. b. p.
Craven's house and barn, Mr.. Dieter, two
houses, etc.
Fitzgerald's addition join. Lees upon the
south, and this is laid out in lots. 1t ex-
tends half mile south of Lincoln street At
the southern terminus Of Lees addition and
two houses to be located on lots at
the extreme southern end Of Fitzger-
aids land will be erected At once
These lots are selling readily for though
they are some distance out, yet the purchas-
ers are calculating upon the street cars and
the prices upon the lots ($75) make it an OBJ
ject. when but half mile nearer the busi-
ness streets they cost $3.50.
South Market street is being filed up in
the low quarter in the vicinity ofthe w. q
w. railroad and is being systematically and
nicely improved The railroad above re-
ferred to, is dumping dirt at their intersec-
ton with the street and expect to use in that
way some nine hundred carloads.
| Among the new houses noted upon this
street are three cottages, being built BY Mr..
| Brooks; d residence being erected by Mr..
Major, and number of others.
Lincoln street, at the junction Of which
with Lawrence avenue is to be the street
railroad terminus, has been nicely graded
and filled, is provided with drainage and
culverts, and is very pretty thoroughfare.
Orme & Phillips addition, on South Law
\ l..h CO.. naaeox,
past favorite location for building and
now presents an almost compact array OF
some of the most attractive homes in the
city.
From this standpoint was noted two story
house on Topeka avenue. being built BY
John Kennedy; residence on Lawrence
avenue, BY Mr.. Copeland; two houses on
beautiful lots on the corner Of Lawrence
and Lincoln, by Howard Case. Andrew
Minich has sold his farm and is erecting 3
| residence on Lawrence. Mr.. Whitaker
has just completed and stocked q grocery
and meat market on the addition under con-
siderstion. Mr.. Miller, the merchant t,ilor,
is building = nice two story home. Mr..
Bethel house on Topeka. Mr.. Basket Is
fitting up his grounds with terrace, sod.
and Maple shade trees. Mr.. White is ar
ranging the basement Of bis house for .
grocery stock.
I,ots on this addition sell at from $50 TO
$500 each. This joins the Perry and Zim-
merly additions on the north, both of which
are beautiful plats of level land that must
now that building has crowded up to them,
become very popular for the locating Of
residences and houses for rent and invest
ment. There are already several cottages
and houses of larger size on these two addi-
tons and with the completion of the street
cars before referred to, which is expected in
sixty days, these pieces of land must become
very popular and will doubtless be taken
very fast. These lots sci, now at from $76
to 500 each and are considered fne invest
ments at these figures.
Fred Baldwin and Millison captured the
patrons of the FL Dorado rink BY their SUI
perior performance, so says our special cor
respondent.
A new plank walk is being laid At the
corner Of Lawrence avenue and Third
street.
Geo. w. Bartholomew has been re6tting
and otherwise fixing up his real estate once
in Swarbs tailoring establishment on Main
street. Il is now one Of the neatest ofices
in town.
The ladies of the Womsn's Relief corps
will sit . lunch table to-day 1t the Third
and Fourth ward polls, and in the other
wards II suitable places can be procured.
Candidates, take notice and feed the voters.
IS. ]. siddall and +. R Malstte. Of Find
lay, Ohio, are in the city. The former Ia
probate Judge Of Hancock county. These
gentlemen are prospecting through the state.
They 90 to Anthony to-day.
Among the guests at the Douglas Av-
enue yesterday we're w. II. Peak and C. F.
Colcord, Medicine Lodge, and John White
lev. aren't for the "World" theatrical com-
pany, which is to appear in the city soon.
Among the guests ct the Occidental yes
terday we're Mrs.. S. d. McAlpine, Kingman;
Jno. Kull, Staunton, ILL.,; R. Gilmore, En-
poria: N. B. Kellogg, Kingman; Edward
Moore, Lafayette, Ind; w. Cowgirl, brs-
donia; N. 7. Hsdden, Columbus, 0.