Wichita eagle., 1888-08-24
PERSONALS AND OPINIONS.
The Conclusions Of Several Gentlemen Worth,
OF Note.


Through the ever mysterious manipula-
| lions TO which an editors thoughts are
| subjected from the time they drop in silence
from the end of his Faber until in their
meanderings they have passed the ordeal
OF foreman, compositor, proof reader and
makeup and until finally made rigid and
permanent in the stereotype plate of the
revolving cylinder of the perfecting press,
! there almost nightly occurs some unac-
| countable mishap in which ideas are twist
ed sense destroyed or expressions marred
| and butchered beyond recognition. How
ever, our feeble reflections generally appear
next morning in some shape, even if
scarcely recognizable. But night before
! last whole hook full of sound editorials,
tender personals and bright locals disap-
| peared, unaccountably and absolutely van
| ished. Somewhere between the editorial
table and the composing room on the third
floor, or between the last named
room and the stereotyping department or
I between that hot place and the press room
on the ground floor, they dropped out Of
sight and existence Of course nobody
ever saw them and nobody presumably
ever missed them. The sooty manipulation
Of Goals who feeds the fires and, twists the
Unbelievable was heard TO intimate
that he didn't believe the lost
articles were ever really written. But
we know that they were, among which
were three important personals which we
will try to reproduce this morning:
Hon L. 4. Smith, editor Of the LeaTen-
worth Times, accompanied by T. L. Dore,
a Boston capitalist, is visiting Wichita.
Mr.. D. being an old time friend, the
former concluded that he must show him
Kansas in her typical prairie glory and SO
brought him out TO the interior. They
had visited all Of the towns and cities of
the central portion Of the state and Of the
upper Arkansas valley One day in
Wichita convinced both gentlemen that.
brisk and prosperous as were nearly all OF
the places, yet the Peerless Princess IN
doubtedlY has the lead, and such
lead as will never be over
taken. Mr.. D0re observed that many Of
her buildings would be a credit TO Boston's
finest streets. In the afternoon they took
IN the packing plant, the stock yards, car
works and educational institutions, leav-
ing by the 4:30 train for Newton.
Ward Burlingame spent yesterday in
the city Few men are better know to old
Kansas and few in town know Kansas
better than Burllngame. For fifteen or
twenty years he was conceded 70 be one of /
the leading Newspaper writers of the west, |
and the political history Of the state bears, /
in many directions. the impress of his /
brain. While he still retains his home in /
Topeka, for several years he has been con-
nected with the dead letter office of the /
postoiice department at Washington Al F.!
though a stranger to the Wichita of today, /
he WAS near enough resident when it was .
an Indian trading post TO take a hand in /
organizing the first political con-
vention ever held in the county-in
fact it WAS before the county
was organized. After riding about the
city yesterday up till noon, Mr.. B. said
he would have to acknowledge that IN
business and in the number and magni-
tude of her business blocks and establish
ments Wichita leads all the cities in the
state, including the capital, but he thought
that Topeka beat the Peerless Princess on
fine and costly residences. Returning late
in the evening, after buggy ride about
the resident streets of the city, he said he
had another confession to make in the way
of an acknowledgment, and that was as TO
the matter also of costly and fine resi-
dences, the Magical Mascot of the Mer
idian laid it over all other cities of the
Sunfower state-in short, that Wichita is
the commercial metropolis of Kansas.
Thos. Criggs, silk merchant of London,
England, whose son has been a resident of
our city for some little time past, called in
with his son and Mr.. Whitaker
Mr.. B., who starts for his home in a day
or two by way of Chicago, Niagara, Mon
treal and New York, in speaking of the
growth of cities said that no one could fail
to be impressed with the coming import
ance of Wichita, and that he should visit
Us again, bringing with him some London
friends. He purchased valua-
bic tract of real estate from VIM. Mathew
son, the banker, as an investment. Mr.. B.
expects to sail on the Umbria, Sept. S,
from New York for Liverpool.