The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-06

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homes in proportion to population, per
haps, than Wichita, but their inmates
! swelter in the humidity of a sea-level heat,
while the fortunate jewellers of the Peer
less Princess, in the cool nights that follow
the brilliancy of the midsummer days,
find sweet rest and Fefreshment in a rari-
fed atmosphere of an altitude of one thou
! sand, three hundred and twenty-six feet
| Gulf. The bright activity and glitter of
our business streets are so closely backed
by the dense umbrage of the
protecting green of home streets and
resident avenues and in a way and by a
degree that is not boosted by Washington
City or by any other city of the east or
west that can be named, while the more
remote suburban plots of slightly eleva-
tions and Of sheltered hooks constitute
the bright frame of an ideal picture.
If Wichita's twenty-five or thirty thou
sand men, women and children could all
be scattered for the next thirty days out
into the heated, humid towns of the cen
trail and eastern states, nine out of ten of
those who returned alive would without
farther argument agree that Wichita in
midsummer or in dead winter is the
healthiest, most comfortable and prettiest
city in the world The sun here, at this
altitude, and in this rare dry atmosphere,
may blaze unobscured from sky
of Opalescent blue, steadily, intensely
from horizon to horizon, yet with our never
failing breezes and cool shadows pros
tration from heat is not dreamed of or
dreaded, the walls and distressing cries of
heat-stricken children and dying babes are
not heard, while the falling temperature
of the nights bring only rest and healthful
repOse.
YES. nature here grows close to man
With lenent eyes,
OF griefs and signs
No stranger, be he from the most attract
i've health resort of the south or of the
east, or come he from the most favorably
situated location of the pacific, after view
ing Wichita ever fails TO eXclaim chow de-
lightfull how healthful is Wichita"
To appreciate these truths one has butte
go away from home. OF course it is true
that there are many towns and cities stu
ated on the great plateau that stretches
from the Missouri river to the foot of the
Rocky mountains which includes Kansas,
Nebraska and eastern Colorado and
which towns enjoy the altitude of Wichita
and which are cooled by the same never
failing, life-invigorating zephyrs; but not
one of all the number has Wichita's loca-
ton, her combination of rolls and of rivers,
of dells and of dales, nor her unmeasured
abundance of sweet, sparkling waters, and
above and overall, her many upon many
tree-lined streets and foliage protected ave
nues with their leaf-embowered homes.
Look down upon Wichita from College
Hill or from Paramount as it lays spread
out like a great park, with only church
steeples. school cupalos and the domes of
public edifces observable above the sea of
foliage, or sweep it with bird's-eye view
from some Gifts morelstately or meas
ure it by squares in drive for hours, and
then say if. in all your observations of
travel or experience of life, you ever found
a more delightful city, more enchanting
abode, a more inspiring spot for the home
of man.
There are doubtless a goodly number of
our people contemplating a season at the
seaside. at some spring, mountain or other
resort. and doubtless not a few will seek
the one or the other of the places named,
but we are safe in saying that nine out of
more enjoyment, more pleasure, health
and contentment in Wichita, and at home,
than it viii be possible to find at the most
famous resort. If all the people at the sea !
side. or at Saratoga, or any other fashion
able summering place could be transferred
but a single night to Wichita during this
heated term, Wichita would at single /
bound become a famous pleasure retreat.
Our first sentence alluded 10 evident /
newness." Newness, in such a connection, /
can only mean incompleteness. OF course !
Wichita Is incomplete, but who ever saw /
SO much completeness in city so new; /
And if the city, in the process of growth /
and DEVELOPMENT makes such an attractive |
picture. what viii it be, or, rather, what I
won't it he in the way of deSirability when /.
the pavementS of her business streets shall /
have been completed, her residence streets |
further improved and people find /
more time for identifying and /
the value of the home surroufd- |
ings9 The United States census may be, /
will be, scanned in vain for a parallel to |
the growth and development shown by /
Wichita in the past ten years, but the next /
ten years will make her the ideal inland 4
city of the continent There may be, at !
tho end of so brief a period. one CITY within !