Wichita eagle., 1886-12-12
..sOME FELLOW BY THE NAME OF w. E.
STANLEY"
To the Editor OF the Eagle.

| To the Editor OF the Eagle.
sSome fellow" over the signature of wv
E. Stanley" thinking perhaps the name
would add weight to his sentences) has ad
vertised = as the local attorney OF
the Fort Scott and Rock Island railroad
| companies. for all Of which is
grateful.
| The EAGLE having permitted * to
write, and permitting ''some fellow" over
.ssiy" OF wv E. Stanley to criticise, can
not well afford t. permit a newspaper cor
respondent, which will become offensive to
the public, and in nowise direct public at
tention, to the matter of public interest,
and which will in a measure reflect on the
EAGLE. Hence x i does not wish Or
desire q personal wrangle in the EAGLE
with ''some fellow" who uses the name of
''W. E. Stanley"
= has no personal interest in any of
the matters mentioned in his article, and de-
voted no more space to street railway than
heretofore devoted to the double bridge
and the market house., and simply gave an
opinion on the street car business
As to Riverside Park, and its president, j..
O. Davidson, the park is admitted to be a
necessity, and Davidson admitted to be a
''shrewd financier," an average banker and
a good citizen.
x 4 y frankly admits that a street car
line to Riverside park, if not now anecessity,
will be shortly.
y : reiterates that what Wichita de-
rnands now is as follows, viz:
|. Settlement of railroad right of way
through the city, and that the extension OF
Rock Island avenue is one way to do it. This
is now the important measure before the city
council.
3 Market house.
>. Double bridge on Douglas avenue.
4. Franchises granted Tor the public
good7-not the individual good. If any
franchise asked, after consideration, is shown
to be for the public" grant it.
). = has never been interested in
any franchise, that the public has not ap-
proved.
The facts are that the West Side franchise
was obtained to compel the present street car
compeny to build On the West side to the
fair ground in time for the fair last fall, and
as soon as this was done the franchise was
turned over to the company.
Riverside might do the same thing. This
statement can be verified by Robert Law
renee, F. G. Smyth, ST., Y. S. Woods, NJ.
". Levy, \. F. Niederlander and A. W.
Oliver.
Let us keep I'D the BOOM and discuss
those things that will keep up the boom. The
discussion of ''ta1 titles" and tho average
profit on purchase of same in a given term
of years is not of any interest TO the general
public and will be omitted in this article.
What Wichita wants is a discussion of
methods to accomplish ends, not crit
icism. The best methods should
be adopted, to the end that the
the ''boom" be upheld, Whoever has q
method let it be suggested
''Carping criticism" can do no good.
''Some fellow" might write an article,
''some fellow criticise it and bring ''some
fellow" into being, noticed by the public"
which ''some fellow" does not deserve, and
yet all this might not do any one any good.
Michael Angelo criticised by creating, not
by sneers.
So far as being ashamed of my name ~
can onl say that when enc realizes how little
weight is attached to the signature of even
great man," one can be pardoned for using
only ~.
~ has written for the EAGLE many arti-
cles, and they have been published and read,
~ wanted the article published, not his
name. ~