The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-23
THE BEST CITY IN AMERICA.
The Vain Imaginings of a Vulgar Liar Squelched
by Cold Facts

hy colo Facts.
a commercial traveller just from Wichita Kan
was talking the other day at the Dennfson hotel o
growth few Years back He ssi ei y o. baib a
It was duler than the duIlest Il was estimated tina
place The stagnaton of business and growth gen
orally was partly owing to the Overgrowth few
years ago consequent upon the remarkable boon
that beset the place and partly 10 the sharp compe
utlon OF newer nelghDoring towns. As indicating
Jhe extraVagant notions Of the early boomers, ths
| drummer mentioned that syndicate purchased fOl
S+.LU1 farm OF ABOUT lU0 acres, all Of ten mile:
from the center OF Ine city, with the purpose OF sool
converting the fertile into the site OF an ariso
cratic and high priced suburb One half OF the slip;
the other half recently became due The syndicate
offered the original owner his land hack instead OF
the remaining $21000 and he promptly rejected the
! proposition As 4 means Of rapid transit 10 and
street railway line was constructed during the boom
but this line has disappeared The story is that one
/ and engines one night and ran OFF with them
! To the Editor of the Eagle.
! The above appeared in the Cincinnati
! Times-Star of the 18th inst, and several
! copies of the paper, pencil marked, have
| been sent TO me. Had this false witness
| given his name or identity, either of which
! would no doubt be sufficient to refute all
that he states, there would be no necessity
for reply. He has, however, unwittingly
given opportunity for few remarks. The
DennisOn hotel, at which the interview
concerning this city occurred. is on the cor
ner of Main and Fifth streets, and from
the opposite corner came one of Cincin-
MATHS leading merchants who, after year
or more of fair trial and proper attention
to business, hgS succeeded beyond his eX-
pectations, and testifies that by a given
amount of application and energy business
men of this city are sure to meet with
commensurate success; and from a large
building next to another corner of the
same Main and Fifth streets, one of the
best known merchants of that city, after
having thoroughly Investigated his pros
poets for business in this city, will this
month have the familiar name of his firm
in one of the great business blocks of
Wichita. There are many other cases in
point, and these are referred to because
they refer to the immediate neighborhood
of the Dennison hotel The success of such
men will not be uncertain. They under
stand that an enterprising industry, guided
by correct conception of the productive
ness and markets of the great west, will
certainly lead to commercial success and !
profit and that the emigrant of today, !
whether farmer, manufacturer or mer-
chant, has assurances of thirty, fiftyOr an |
hundred fold" Another fact in response |
to the commercial traveller who reports |
Wichita at present, in a business way, as
''duller than the dullest:" On the 10th of |
this month | spent an hour at one of the |
hotels in company with traveller, who for |
years has represented the linen and lace |
firm of Pullman & Sons Established at |
Belfast in 1892 and in New York City in |
1920 in Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Color |
ado and Kansas, he assured me of the re-
markable growth in the general business |
of this city as compared with his. expert
ence among business people last October |
here and in other large cities in his circuit. |
He spoke of the principal dry goods firms !
on Main street and Douglas avenue who
bought larger supplies than ever before,
and expressed themselves satisfied with
the business outlook for the present year
1t would seem reasonable to conclude that
buying large supplies of laces is not live
ly expression of opinion from merchants
that stagnation in business is overwhelm-
ing. | know, and so does every man who
cares to find out. that there are not many
using the word many as it applies to
other cities as well as this-houses
in or near the center of Wichita for
rent. [ do not know anything about large
number Of houses at ten mile off points the
DenisOn hotel impossible travelling gawk
refers to- but whatever the fact may be it
is certainly unjust to charge up to the
business character of Wichita the failure
Of men who had no better judgment than
10 make investments such as these. There
IS in truth at the present time, as believe,
more business life, more opportunities,
more confidence and well grounded hope
fulness as to the near future of this city
than in any other city of its size in
and the traveller who can only
describe the place as being duller than the
fullest, IS describing one of the principal
points of his own character, and is possibly
to supply some sort of an ex-
;use to his employer for the blunder of
Identifying such chaps as he is with the
title of commercial traveller. To put
.rolley wire on such specimens and run
hem by electricity would not promise
great success to an ordinary merchant of
his wonderful City N BIRD