Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-14
HE SCREAMS AGAIN.
Scotre Anoher Victory for
Wichita.
The Kansas Metropc Ires
the Rock Island
Road.
The Omaha, Abilene and Wichita Line
Materializes and the City OF the
Valley is Yet to Experience
Her Great Boom.

Yesterday in this city the stock, rights
and franchises of the Omaha, Abilene and
Wichita railway company were in effect
transferred to the Chicago and Rock Island
company, in this that the same was trans
ferred to the new board Of directors, which
new board in part consists of the representa-
tives of the Chicago and Rock Island who
were elected to take the place Of those who
resigned of the old board. The new men,
bers of the directory elected were NJ. A.
Lowe, Il. A. Parker, c. F. ellison and
John Sebastian. The new board of direct
ors organized by the election Of N. A. Lowe
president, H. A. Parker vice-president and
Chief Engineer G. F. ellison secretary and
treasurer. The terms and conditions are
substantially as heretofore set forth in the
EAGLE.
The Omaha, Abilene and Wichita rail-
way is to be constructed as an extension Of
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific sys-
tenn, the line from st. Joe via Topeka taking
up the line from Lost Springs, Marion
county, to this city, the other section being
built to connection with the Nebraska line
to Beatrice or Fairbury. The sixty-fve
thousand dollar. heretofore voted by this
city and the townships will be allowed to
lapse, the company resigning all claims
thereto and instead the city and county to
vote $4,000 for line through the county
from the north to the south line.
1t is unnecessary for US to indulge in ex-
tended congratulations over the successful
consumation Of an enterprise which, from
the first day it was set out by the EAGLE,
has commanded the hearty support of 50
many. True, some jeered and Knocked it as
wild scheme, an impractical dream, but
the EAGLE never lost faith, as our readers
well know. Three private companies
have offered to take the franchises
and construct the line under heavy
mortgage, but the directors never lost faith
that ultimately some one of the great Chica-
90 trunk lines would be induced to take the
line. As it is, the greatest and richest and
best of all the Chicago trunk lines has taken
the enterprise, and within year, or at far
thest, fourteen or fifteen months, its through
trains from the great city of the lakes will be
rolling into Wichita. II the EAGLE had
never been instrumental in securing or doing
anything more for Wichita than in contrib
uting in securing this magnificent triumph
for our beautiful and prosperous city it
would feel that it had returned f;ll value for
all the generous patronage 81 conf
dence which has been accC this
community. In securing IT, and
Rock Island :. the great ultimatuia tor which
We wrote and labored SO long, the breaking
of the Missouri pool system. has been ac-
complished, and the other great lines will
all now come into Kansas, and not only
Wichita but thousand other communities
will be benefited and enriched.
As for our own bright ambitious city, if
there were any lingering doubts as to her
future greatness as commercial metropolis,
as to her magnitude as the greatest city Of
the great state of Kansas. there can be no
doubts now. With the three greatest, yea,
four greatest competing lines of the west
centering here, namely: The Santa Fe, the
Gould, the st. Louis and San Francisco and
the Chicago and Rock Island systems, all
other trunk lines coming southwest Of the
Missouri river must, for self protection.
come here. As for other ambitious towns
along the Missouri river, it matters not what
importance they may attain as they are all
full days vibration of trains from this city
and there can DO no conflict of interests
only generous rivalry.
The EAGLE this morning, then. indulgss
in another big scr am, scream big enough
for every man, woman and child Of Wichita
to claim as part of their own.