Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-04-23
THE RAMBLER.
Four New Railroads, Making
Nine in All.
The Business Men of Wichita Pre-
PAIRING for an Unprecedented
Boom.
Four or Five Bridges Spanning the Two
Rivers-Fine Parks, Boulevards
and Lawns-Elegant Resi-
dences, and Business
Blocks.

was no longer ago than last Sunday, and l
may remark right here thst it is no easy
matter to surprise me. There is q new
house going up in almost every block and
half dozen in some, while hundreds of old
houses are being raised up, new foundations
being bnilt under them and new additions
made. Improvement is the order every
where
| A large gang of hands are at work on the
| Oak street bridge and number of men and
teams could be seen at work over in the riv-
erside addition grading race track, streets
and boulevards. Capt. Lee told me there
were many inquiries for property in that
addition already, but it will not be thrown
on the market for sometime yet. Col. Geo.
L. Rouse told me that streets, boulevards
ard parks will soon be laid cut in the River
| View addition, where the new street car line.
will cross from Carey avenue and a mag
niicent drive 100 feet wide will be built
around the rivers edge beneath the over
hanging foliage thst fringes the Little Ar
kansas, distance of about five miles. This
with the drives in the Riverside addition
will form a magnificent circuit of ten or
twelve miles on sandy surface and in shade
sweeping along in graceful curves and
Joined to the city by two splendid iron
bridges,
am told these additions will be laid off
in park lots and that the whole will be sown
in blue grass. Here fine homes will be built
and year by year will appear handsome,
| well built and commodious dwellings in the
most fashionable style Of modern architec-
ture, bristling with peaks and angles and
gables. Broad avenues shaded with trees,
will separate the premises. Flower beds
will abound, and pretty stretches of green
lawn will combine TO finish the picture.
Behind this and stretching away
out into the open country lie rich
farming lands in high state
of cultivation. Green fields and waving
corn will lend pastoral beauty to the back
ground, while the busy city will fill the
front Of the picture.
Nobody now doubts that that this will be
the great city of the southwest, and they
are making preparations accordingly. Pc
titions are being signed like wild-Are, the
stock will be subscribed and the roads built
as fast as men can do the work. With these
| four We will have nine roads; then what
western city can dispute orr supremacy?
We will get the Snyder Wagon Works, the
headquarters of the new Cataolic diocess,
and the federal building will soon be COM
menced.
met Captain John B. Carey, and he said
he and Hacker & jackson were each under
heavy bonds, one with another, to build
| fine brick blocks on the south corners of
Fourth and Douglas avenues. Captain
Carey's building will be build for first
class hotel right from the ground. Two
different parties are wanting to rent it
already. That is one thing this city can
boast of, viz: Every building that is being
erected for rent this year is let before the
foundation is begun. Probably there is no
other city in the country that can claim &
like record
had pleasant conversation with Messrs
j. A. Talmadge, of Westfeld, Mass; VIM.
B. Todd, of Washington, d. c.; and E. b.
Thsyer, of Meriden, Conn; who are guests
at the Manhattan, and who will remain in
the city several days, and may conclude to
make it their future home.
Mr.. Talmadge was here about ten years
ago and like all who knew the Wichita of
that period he is astonished to see such ex-
traordinsry.. develope, but like all strangers be
can form but very imperfect idea of what
the'town really is at this moment, because
there is so much in an embryo state that
only those who know things down to the
roots can understand. Mr.. Talmadge said
be had been reader of the EAGLE and that
daily paper is good index of a town.
| "People back east" said Mr.. T., chad no
idea of such town being away out here on
the prairie, but when the EAGLE WAS handed
round from one to another, they all said
city that supports such paper as that must
be CITY in fact. Why" said he, ait is
better paper than the Springfield, Mass, Re-
publican, paper that has a national repu-
tation."
| Mr.. Talmadge tells a good story of his
hotel experience when be was here before.
He and friend stopped at the Douglas
| Avenue house. He was not very hungry
for breakfast. The waiter called over the
bill of fare and his friend gave his order:
Beefsieak. ham and eggs, etc. Jus: Cor fun
Mr.. ralmsdge gave first-class hotel order
including quail on toast, lyonisse potatoes
and a full list of other things, none of which
he expected to get. The girl soon returned
with bis friends breakfast but none for him,
and he supposed she was going to pay no
attention 70 his order. He sat and
talked with his friend during the meal
and when the friend got through, he wanted
to 60, but just then in came the waiter with
large tray containing nearly everything he
had ordered. except the Lyonsise potatoes.
The qusil wss there all right, and the two
gentlemen were astonished- The girl WIS
going on. when the other gentleman said, II
guess i will take a quail. too" The waiter
turned around and replied ,hs, they had
shot only one. They learned afterwards
tina. IS soon as the order was given, the pro-
prie.or took his gun and went out and shot
a quail. and here i, was all cooked and ready
for eating.
Mr.. Tslmsdge says be thinks from the
looks of the town now thst it would take too
long TO go out to the quail pasture and shoot
one TO order.
The strike mania has reached our city
schools. The scholars of the FRS; ward
school hsve organized = strike, demanding
shorter hours and longer recesses. A large
majority of both boys and girls are in the
strike, and probably the thing viii hsve
to be settled by congressional committee.
| There Was an item in these columns yes
terdsy which stated that q petition was iled
in the probate court the day beyore ssking
that guardian be appointed FOR Benjsmin
V. Baird. 1; ought to have been an admin
istrator on his estate
A gentleman who came here from an cas-
tern city hunted the city over yesterday
looking for house 20 rent He said it was