Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-09-12
THE SOVEREIGN GRAND LODGE OF
THE WORLD |. 0. 0. F.
En- Route to Their Annual Encamp-
ment at Los Angeles, CAL, Roy
ally Entertained in
Wichita.
An Enthusiastic Reception and Whole
Souled Hospitality Extended by Wich-
ita Warmly Reciprocated by
the Visitors.
Agreeable Surprise and Satisfaction De-
picted ON Every Countenance and in
Every REPRESENTATION, Until
You Come Again.

Yesterday was one of the most pleasant
days ever seen in Wichita. The day was
one of those rare early autumn days that
have contributed SO much to Justify the
reference to southern Kansas climate as
an Italian climate. Such perfect weather
seemed to lnstill corresponding degree OF
perfection into every other feature which
made yesterday memorable, not only tC
Wichita people, but also to those who
were on that occasion welcomed as her
guests. There was pervading
| the very atmosphere itself
a feeling of good-feilowship which was
contagious and affected alike the visitors
and their entertainers. Perhaps more
agreeably surprised body OF ladies and
| gentlemen never woke up in a strange city.
This conclusion is based wholly upon the
universal and spontaneous expressions,
and EXPLANATIONS of surprise, in which at
| every turn our guests gave vent to their
agreeable surprise and unbounded pleas
ure at finding here such city, such peo-
pie and such reception.
Where ever they went, whatever they
saw that pleased them, the visitors in
tuitively expressed themselves in terms,
the warmth and sincerity of which will be
long cherished 10y their escorts about the
city.
Many there were who came to Wichita
with sorrowful misgivings and certain
feeling of shame at being guilty of having
permitted themselves to be misled into
spending what had been told them would
be dull, listless day, in a cold blooded,
dying, half vacated town of blasted hopes,
broken promises and blighted prospects.
These impressions were acquired away
back in the New. England Hills, in the
busy cities of the east, in the valleys of the
southland and on the prairies of our nearer
neighbor states. They were absorbed
from thoroughly saturated atmosphere,
laden, from the lakes to the gulf and
from the Atlantic ocean to the Missouri
river, with the poiusnous aspersion, that
Wichita is dead town of the past" For
the prevalence of such an erroneous and
unjust opinion within the section designa-
ted, there is the valid excuse, that the
exact facts were there understandable
and these differences We're the outgrowth
of wanton falsehoods, maliciously circu-
lated and accelerated by towns even in our
own state, whose information is sadly
deficient or whose motives are wholly I'M
worthy of emulation by any town under
any circumstances. Even after the eXcur-
sionists had entered our grand state of
Kansas and their purpose to stop at Wich
ita was known and Interchangeable, the den
liens of a certain shop town on the Santa
Fe railway, in which town the excursion
lists were permitted to pay their
own hotel, livery and all other
bills, poured into their ears the most as
tonishing tales of the misery, woe, inhospi-
tally and utter depravity of Wichita and
her citizens generally. These were the
impressions with which our visitors left |
the royal banquet of water, pie and cheese
ing for the pride of every true Kansas |
When they arrived here, in the twenty
five Pullman sleepers, divided among
three trains, they Immediately began to |
discern that they had been imposed upon |
by willful and malicious prevaricators |
and We're not slow to let that |
fact be known to any and everybody
That they had such opinions, afforded
splendid opportunity for Wichita to over
come that sort of calumny and to prepare
he minds of those who really saw for
against any misrepresenta-
ions which may in future be made CON
,erning Wichita.
The one thousand or more, who com
)rised the excursionists were met at the
Douglas avenue depot of the Santa Fe
'ailway and Immediately escorted to the
eading hotels of the city by the citizens
reception committees, who were on hand
With the Board of Trade band and
ome three hundred Carriages to
Welcome them and show them
'ur city and the consequent reason, for
the faith that is in them, when the Ques-
ion of Wichita's future presents itself
Without any confusion this great body of
arriages was quickly loaded aud the visit
RS whirled away to the respective hotels
o which they had been assigned by the
eception committees. They were inform
that after breakfast and a brush I'D
hey would be shown the city as only
Wichita can be shown by Wichitan.
All forenoon the city was alive with ;
arriage loads of astonished Odd Fellows
nd their families, who with craned necks
nd in open eyed and mouthed wonder ask
j innumerable questions only to be more
stoniShed when they learned the actual |
ruth.
On account of the fact that the city en-
srtained without any cost whatever ali OF
lie excursionists, they We're not requested /,
register at the hotels, but simply used
ckets given them. For that reason only ,
small proportion of those who were here 7
,gistered.
The following are those who registered a
the four leading hotels of the city. r
Iany were entertained by friends at their !
rivate residences: 7
CAREY GRAND HOTEL. j
Roy Clements, Mulvane; Mr. and Mrs +
Sloan, st Louis; Miss Katie Sloan. ST V
ouis; Mr. and Mrs c l. Curtis, South Earth 5
gham, Mass: + l. Merrill and wife, Port
nd Maine; j H Pettigill, Manchester y
!; VIM Trust, Mass; l. inn H Maxwell I
H; Geo Goss and wife, Lewiston. Maine: {
b Long and wife and daughrer, Els c
orth, Kan; I Q Sanbourn, Pittsfield. y +
/: Mrs c c \ Harlow, Boston, Mrs Eva c
NTH, Waltham, Mass: Mrs II Smith, {
oston. Mass; Mrs E Slocum, Boston, S
ass; r r Barnes st Johns, y B; Elk
'ilcox, Cleveland; \ D Hawkes., Cincin- T
I'll O; p Murphy, Boston; j B Rowley Y
naha: W W Zizler. Chicago, NJ 5 Scott, V
,peka:Wil Levy, st Louis; Mrs N E Cor f
sh. TRAY cor Galveston Opera Glass: \
ilveston. Tex; Stanley Glidden, Chicago: \
H Cunningham, Chicago; K +
ldduk, X X X; Alfred Benjamin.
c; W d Gilman, Derby.
I Merrill and wife, Portland, Ne; A f f
LEY, York, Pa; f d Entrikin, McPher- t.
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