Wichita eagle., 1886-11-27
SHE SPREADS SO.
The Magical Mascot OF the Sixth
Meridian,
The Pride of the Prairies. the Peer.
less Princess of the Plains.

e spreads. Pew nave any cenDlte luea aH'
fewer fully realize how this city. how thei
own city, Wichita, is spreading, spreadin;
. her corporate limits, spreading her home
= out over new and unknown additions
spreading her business out on unnamed Of
e unnameable streets. How she spreads Al
afternoons faithful driving about her iv'
and busy throughfares convinces us more
than ever Of Show she spreads From thi
( center, where the EAGLE flies, business i
spreading out on Main street north sever
blocks, out on Douglas avenue east ter
) blocks, out on Douglas avenue west away te
the other side of the river for nearly mile
down on lower Main street, around on Mar,
ket, over Oh Water out First street, and we
don't know where all else How she spreads!
Fine residences, some OF them costing from
fifteen to thirty thousand dollars, and many
of them from FIVE to ten thousand, each, are
going up in the northern precincts of the
city, many Of them distant eighteen blocks
or nearly two miles north of this common
center. How she spreads! East in the new
additions, this side and beyond Chisholm
creek, and over on the rising prarie-roll
known Us College Hill and Frisco Heights,
hundreds of cottages and scores and
scores Of residences, some Of them costing
away up in the many thousands, have
been erected and finished this SIMMER and
fall and all occupied. So too on the south
side, for q mile or more, ana SO on the west
side, away beyond the Big River mile and
half, where clustered about the great mas
sive foundations OF the Garfield university,
about the Catholic See buildings and every
where they thickly stand. The modern cot
tage, the Elizabethian, the English Rennois-
ance, the Queen Anne, the stately home, by
the hundreds There have been more build
ings put up this year in Wichita and at a
greater cost than would absolutely consti-
tute any other town or city in the entire
state of Kansas if we except five of her lead
ing cities. How she spreads. Twelve hun
bred buildings in single year and
almost three-quarterS of a hundred of
that number of three and four story business
houses, great magnificent modern business
houses, some of them employing polished
granite AID marble ornaments intheir fronts,
others artistic thing, others Of solid iron and
glass and brick, attractive and all costing
moro money in the aggregate than all those
built this year by any city in the west, not
excepting Kansas City How she spreads.
On the west side, where year ago there was
but little to remarl, or attract notice in the
way of improvements, are now fine business
houses, one OF the most magnificent public
school buildings in the state Of Kansas, about |
complete, two new churches completed, the
foundations Of the Sisters Academy and
Hospital and the foundations and |
basement walls of the largest !
educational institution in the state of |
Kansas, not excepting the State University, |
and all over west Of the river; on upper Mar
ket the towering roofs of the main building
and the two nearly completed wings Of the |
Lewis academy, the most artistic school |
building in the state; over beyond the Santa
Fe tracks and north of the Frisco tracks an
other new addition with it's scores OF houses
and two completed churches, all built with
in few months; and north and west of that
an other addition with many fine houses and
another almost completed church whose
square cut ornamental brick tower stands
against the sky, while away over
to the southeast, fully two miles, is the newly
chosen site and the first work of still
another great educational institution. which
a church, through its organization in other
states, has undertaken to build and to foster.
How she spreads, In every direction. up
and down every street. in every addition,
new buildings are going up or being com
pleted, new foundations are going in o. ma
terial is being delivered for that purpose. If
the buildings should be erected where the
has been delivered and or all the
which have been staked off or
IA id out. before the SHOWS Of another winter
could fly Wichita would be the largest city
n the state. Many strangers and travelling
men maintain that she is that now.
How she spreads Where we had but
three or four miles of street railway
and four or five cars, a year or so ago. we
now have sixteen miles of street railway.
With more building, and dozens OF ears and =,
more coming; and two rapid transit compa-
MES begging the city for n franchise for
moter lines; and, belt line company offer
ns to give bonds in many thousands to build
a belt line and establish union stock wards.
How Size spreads, Where one and two years
ago We marked modest little shops, the build
ngs have been enlarged, their machinery in
'reassd and steam power added, until the +,
working hours and the quitting hours OF
ZACH day are sounded from the brass threats I
# many hoarse ard screaming whistles: