Wichita eagle., 1886-12-05
BORN BOOMING.
Distinctive Characteristics OF the
Metropolis Of Kansas.
The True Inwardness Of Genuine
Entity Of Developing Greatness.

mon, we woald say there are booms and
booms but
Wichita was born booming!
The chemistry Of each individual boom no
doubt differs with the locality, to properly
analyza which would employ the trained
powers OF an expert, but
Wichita's boom is q self evident fact!
Booros are numerous, if not lnultitudinous,
in this section, yet they all differ in style,
makeup and magnitude. What constitutes
a boom, Not magnificent lying and vain
immaginings; not artificial wind and base
limitations: but faith and business: I'M
bounded faith and old business.
Wichta's boom is simply Of this character!
4 genuine boom is not only seen but felt.
It ramifies a town and oil its belongings,
from its postoi1ice center to the verge Of its
latest addition. It's spirit which possesses
everybody and touches everything with its
MAGICAL fingers from the newsDoy to the bank
president; marks the gross transactions of
the pea nut stand on the corner, as surely as
the total footings of the clearing house; ami
mates alike the political caucus and tho re-
Iigious revival; rushes up bridge and
church, POUNDS a temple, college and bucket
shops with equal facility, certainty and
promptness.
Wichita took it in the regular way, and
has got it bad.
Where volume Of money pours into q
town at the rate Of from twenty-five to one
hundred thousand dollars per day, for weeks,
and months and years, necessarily, pours in
from the bank vaults and old women's stock
ing legs of the east to be invested in lots at
from $50 to $500 per front foot, which lots
were but short dozen years since cut
up out of lands that cost $L25
per acre, and which aggregate
| profit and immense volume Of money is but
so much added capital that is Immediately
employed in erecting imposing and Inagnifi-
cent business houses and in building attrac-
tive and palatial homes BY the dozens, 1ifties
and hundreds, all constitute a sure indica-
ton of genuine boom.
! Wichita has been experiencing this kind
of thing for years.
Where a town is full of strangers, its ho-
tells crowded with new people month in and
month out, where eating houses and restau-
rants have to be improvised with sleeping
annexes to accommodate and victual the
jam, where men jostle you on the streets
AMI crowd you from the sidewalks in their
haste and eagerness, and where you no
longer know more than one individual in Il
dozen whom you meet on your way to the
drug store OF to tho prayer meeting, and
even those few with wild demeanor
and hungry cye only stopping You to
ask you what you will take for your home
place or what are your figures on that bust
ness lot? sucha town is feeling tho breadth
ening and stim@ biting influences of a genuine
boom.
That's Wichita all over,
Where the mercantile establishments are
ba;,cr doubled II, N a, ri,
season and all the old merchants are being
scared out OF their boots for fear that their
trade will be so divided up that they will not
be able to meet their obligations, but where
these same Old merchants double their stocks
and double their sales in spite of all the new
corners, then the business of such a town is
on the boom, and on big boom.
This is the exact status of the trade in
Wichita!
Where the greatest regret for the death of
his neighbor is that it viii take up too much
time to attend the funeral; where the bright
est men cannot be persuaded to run for Office
through fear that the campaign
might lose them chance Tor
a profitable investment; where the average
hired girl asks ten or Atty dollars in I'D
vance that she may make another payment
oa her last speculation, and where wives and
daughters use their bonnet and hat money
in carrying options on corner lots, and where
your hired man of today can buy you out
tomorrow, paying cash down, there is a town
that is revehng in boom.
Wicaite sits for that picture regularly
every day in the year.
Where nine out of every dozen of charters
taken out or filed for new railroads make
your town as terminus or a way point
where in all conversations among travellers
on distant railway lines or Steamboat lines
east or west, your town is invariably named
; as the coming town OF Your state and for {
: thousand evident reasons, then set it down
that that town possesses 4 boom in full blast
Winning Wichita Is worried with tti
: wonderful wind work
Where a town springs suddenly from a.
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