Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-07-21
THE GREAT CITY OF KANSAS.

W. w. Admire, the regular Topeka cor
respondent of the st. Joseph Daily Herald.
has the following to say concerning Wich-
TIA
Your correspondent has just returned
from brief visit among acquaintance in
Wichita Your readers have probably
heard of Wichita 1t is now city of the
first-class. claiming population of $4,000.
A man who doubts this statement is re
garded with suspicion by the people of that
Young city Everyone there is a self con
stituted committee of one, whose duty it is
to convince strangers that Wichita not only
has %, 900 inhabitants, but that in five years
she will be rated as a city of 100000. And
Colonel Dick Walker even goes so far as to
declare. with increased vehemence," that
the southwest will, in few years, move
the capital of the state to that point This
ludicrous idea, strange to relate, is shared
in by few Of the more enthusiastic people
of that place, but this cannot be charged as
a serious statement made by Colonel
Walker
1t does not require close observer, how
ever, to note that Wichita is a thriving city,
and this is due. in large measure. to the
a unit, when any proposition tending TO
benefit the town is at stake. There is no
wrangling over minor details, but all unite
in common cause, having for its OBJECT
the upbuilding Of the future great city of
Kansas And this is a laudable ambition
on the part of the citizens of Wichita.
The greatest objection a stranger can
urge against Wichita is the lack of proper
!. l. FL,
obstacle is one of the problems that is now
in course of IA satisfactory solution. Engi-
neerS have been looking into the matter, and
find that an ordinary sewerage system win
not answer the purpose al all. There is
only natural fall of about six or eight feet
10 the mile, and this, the reader will under
stand. is almost a dead level 1t is thought,
however, that a system will be adopted by
which the city can be thoroughly cleansed
once day by flushing This is an eX-
pensiye luxury. but something will have to
be done. and that soon, for the foul stencil
that rises from the cutters, streets and
ALLEYS. is something horrible to contemplate.
But the prediction is vent,Ired that Wichita
will prove equal TO the emergency
1t is always a pleasure TO note the pros
perity of Kansas towns. and especially of
Kansas newspapers, without which there
would be no Kansas towns worthy the dig
nifty of 50 high-sounding title. And no
newspaper in this state has done more to-
ward building its town than has the Wichita
EAGLE. now a prosperous daily, with a
circulation second TO none in the state.
Dropping into the office Friday. Mr.. NJ. NJ
Murdoch. the handsome blonde of the
southwest. could be seen taking great in
teresj in the work Of planting his new press
and paper cutter. just purchased at a cost
of ten thousand dollars cash. The press
bears the name of j H. Cranston, and
is the largest and most perfect machine of
its kind in Kansas Il was built to order.
the original patterns having been
altered for this machine, especially for
Mr. Murdoch, with the folder attachment,
also new and the latest improved, the
large edition of the daily EAGLE may be
printed. cut, pasted. and folded, at the rate
of forty per minute The engine that is |
TO furnish the motive power 10 run
this machine has been ordered. and IS SINH /
lar to that used by the ST Joseph Herald, /
l. e.. an engine run by gas instead of coal I
Before frost comes again the Mundocks will
erect third story 10 their present building,
and high up above the confusion of the