Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-06
THE RAMBLER.

Yesterday was one that pleased people
generally, as far as the weather was con-
cerned. anyhow. It was an April day, ard
business improved somewhat.
Building operations, which had Numbered
the last three days of last week, were re-
sumed all over town, and the sound Of the
tools was heard everywhere.
1t was q field day for emigrants. Prob
ably greater number Of teams of that clasi
passed through the city yesterday than any
one day in two years.
One can hear almost any kind Of railroad
news, and some of the most absurd things
manageable.
The latest thing out, and what my In
formant said he got from good authority, il
that the Santa Fe will tear up their yards in
this city. OF course this story is the veriesi
nonsense. That company put in 800 feel
additional side-track not long ago and they
have hardly enough yet to accommodate
their business here.
Mr.. Root said yesterday that travel is the
lightest he ever saw in this city. This is ow'
ing partly to the strike and partly to the
season Of the year.
The political chaldron boiled and seethed
all day and every candidate was on. can
wasting in his own interest. Interest wa
awakened beyond expectation. Probably
the liveliest contest will be between P. v.
Heaiy and n. A. English, in the First
ward.
The candidates for justices are working
hard. It will be free-for-all race and the
best man to win. Politics cut no figure il
any part of it.
A man who had been working fol
Davidson in his Riverside add
ton told me that q large gang
are at work there and are putting things il
fine shape. A race track has been graded
and fixed in splendid shape and it will prob
ably be the best half mile course in the state
A vast amount of labor and money will b
expended on this, College Hill and Frisct
heights additions this summer and many
very fine residences with spacious lawns
and gardens will be built in all three Of thess
fine additions.
Occasionally ones attention is called Is
pecially to the want Of manufactures to give
employment to skilled labor Imet q mum
Der of young men here last Sunday who hat
come from the machine shops of the cas-
hoping to better their condition here. They
like the country and city and regret the alb
ssnce of machine shops and manufactures
They will come by degrees.
was talking with gentleman who haf
lately been in California and he said SaI
Francisco resembles Castle Garden, go msn,
people are going there. He declares ths
there are thousands of working mel
there in starving condition, and that PEG
pie with plenty of money are unable t
get accommodations so great is the rusl
there. There are many who 90 there be
cause of the cheap rates, who have littl
more than enough to take them there, an
their condition is most deplorable. N
state in the union comes as near being con
trolled by capital as California So grea
has been the determination that the Chimes
must 60, on the Pacific coast, that the Who'll
of the Pacific states have effected township
organizations for the purpose of boycottin!
any one who gives them employment of an.
sort. This will prove one effective plan o
driving the pigtails out aud will DO avs,
with the numbering racket.