Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
PICTURESQUE INTEREST
Kansas City's New Estimate
of Wichita.
Zone of the Pleasantest and MOS
Promising of Border Towns
ASKS No Odds.

Wichita seems 10 have absorbed the lde
that she is despised by Kansas City. Not
all. On the contrary, Kansas CITY admire
the dash and enterprise Of Wichita, and es
teens II one Of the pleasantest and mos
promising of the border towns. Not eve
the defiant screams OF Mr. Murdoek's come
what noisy EAGLE can rob US of our regsr'
fer Wichita as point Of picturesque inter
est.-Times.
The announcement that Wichita is Who'll
ly Indifferent as to either Kansas City's es
teen or contempt may prove somewhs
startling TO our metropolitan contemporary
vet such is the cold and clammy truth. TIT
Palingenesis of the Nile Of America, posing
as metropolis, with chip on her shoulder
as big as a sawlog, don't know that ther'
are any rival towns in Missouri, or knowing
don't care. The valley of the Missouri ad'
jacent TO Kansas City, may be, per Sc, capa'
bic Of sustaining metropolis, but its pres
ent generation of occupants will never sus-
tain anything, unless it may be a crossroads
doggery. They are a generation of long
haired tobacco biters who take TO Aop-eared
dogs and log cabins rather than to building
cities. For their blood, corn-meal-
mash is rich food and SOW
belly delieacy. Their ideal
hero is train-robber and the city that Kan
sas people have built up meath the shadow
of the Sni Hills is at once their wonder and
their LEGISLATION. Oh, no, nothing, il we
except the matter of check, ever comes from
Kansas City which either absorbs or startles
the promising border town." not even the
regard Of the Times for our pic,uresqe in
terest. Two hundred and twenty-sevon
miles is a long distance, but it's safe dis
lance, te be regarded from. That is the dis
lance that separates the Times and the
EAGLE. For the most part the distance is
covered by magnificent agricultural coun-
try, dotted with hundreds Of fourishing
towns and villages, but there is a more mag
niicent, and bigger country, lying south
and west of Wichita, upon which our Mis-
souri, tangle-haired creole sister can only rest
her regard, but her paws, never. But
Wichita, with her two independent railway
lines TO ST. Louis, and the great Santa Fe
soon 10 be competed from her Chicago con-
nections; Wichata, with her four
hundred and seyenty-one business
houses and interests; Wichita, located in
the midst Of the grsndest agricultural
region in the known world, bears no i'll will,
harbors no spirit Of rivalry with Kansas
City,notwithstanding Kansas City has grown
and 1ourished at the hands of kans as peo-
pie. If circumscribed area of Kansas has
done so much for Kansas City, what may
not an almost boundless vslley do for its
own city. Chicago and St. Louis are both
good towns, but they are as far apart as
Kansas CITY and Wichita, farther apart in
kindly feeling and mutual interests. And if
Wichita fail, to become frightened at Kan
sas City's Goud-Paola links and letters and |
other didos, we hope that that people will |
attribute it to Wichita's obtuseness rather |
than to any want OF appreciation of Kansas
City'siroubles. And, Kansas City might |
remember that the construction of Wichi- |
ta's Omaha connection and Wichita's |
the effect TO force the Chicago
and Alton and the Rock Island and |
Pacific from Kansas City down into this
valley, which, as anybody can see, will tie
Wichita to Kansas City closer by at least
two new links, to say nothing of the Paola
There is still another way by
which the picturesque interest, TO which the
Times sc teelinglY alludes, might be more
cultivated. As Kansas City and
her board of trade seems desirous of more
assiduously working Jay Gould they might
meet that gentleman and his son here, for
they seem inclined to run out over their
main line quite often to the promising
border town. The combined pressure of the
two towns could hardly fail Of not only
securing tie speedy construction Of the
Paola link, in which Wichita is as deeply In
ierested perhaps as Kansas City, but of
bringing about many other picturesque"
results