Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-15
and gIoriously blue all one day while /


was there, and it's often so. | am told,
while the sky isseldom overcast whole
day. The atmosphere is always dry and
strong prairie winds blow night and day.
1t Is never very hot; the nights are al
ways cool and never very cold. 1t is, al
together, the most comfortable and at
the same time the most invigorating
weather ever experienced in city.
Inc people, OF course, dress just like
similar people in the east, except 1.-The
Old soldier, political power in that
country, who still wears his uniform
every day in the week. They live as
comfortably as Philadelphians, which
is the highest possible comparison.
They have not only good but
good looking houses, with pretty
surroundings, and everybody seems
TO have excellent horses and carriages.
They have handsome opera house,
which is in the grand circuit, so that last
winter they had, among other attrac-
tons, Booth and Barrett, which is more
than we IN Washington can say. They
have numerous churches and half dozen
colleges, to say nothing of the academies
and schools, including among the latter
the only first class preparatory school in
Kansas school which fits candidates
for West Point or Annapolis in three
months
Wlchita's morning newspaper, the
EAGLE, Is its chief institution. 1t dates
back towards the beginning of things,
and has done great deal to make things
what they are. 1t was the EAGLE that
advertised the town and its boom; il was
the EAGLE that kept the boom from out
running the town; it is the EAGLE which
now keeps the world informed about
Wichita, while it keeps Wichita inform
ed about the world. There are other and
excellent newspapers, bat there Is only
one EAGLE.
You cannot see Wichita in a day. You
ought to have one day for the north end,
running out the packing houses and the
car works; one day for the south end,
running out to other manufacturing en-
terprises; one day to the east end on Fair
mount Hill and College Hill, with their
fine houses, and still another for the
west end across the Arkansas river, aptly
named the American Nile, with Garfield
University and the great watch factory
dividing the attention. Driving over the
smooth, hard. dry roadwayS behind a
speedy horse for hours and hours with
out ever getting into the country, al
though you pass great deal OF unoccu-
pied real estate that would be fields if it
were not corner lots, in four days you
ought to get pretty good idea OF this
modern miracle as 1t Is and as 1t Is short
~ going to be, with its four railways
steadily bringing people and products to
1t. Then go down to one of the dozen
thriving banks 90 per cent is the current
raJe) and talk with the president, "Uncle
BIZ Mathewson. the original Buff
falo Bill (.Colonel the Hon. Will
liam +. Cody being a base plagair-
ist), and one of the first settlers, about
the time when he built the old log cabin
that now stands on his lawn and traded
remarkable man, famous trapper and
hunter. whose credit with the Indians
was just as good as the credit of his bank
is now. Uncle Bills cooperation was
simply invaluable to the government
agent or the private individual who
wanted to deal with the Indians. If
Uncle Bill said it was all right, all right
it was, but otherwise not. Uncle Bill
looks young yet, although wrinkles be-
gin to creep over his strong face. and
his gray hair proclaims his years. He is
still in his prime, though, and vet he has
seen the Indian and the buffalo disap-
pear; he has seen this great city rise out
Of the prairie to greet the railroads as
they pushed toward the Rockies, and he
sees now almost every day the inevitable
chipping a piece from his
old log hut as the dearest souvenir OF
MCFARLAND.