The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-13
THINGS THAT ARE COMING.

One, two, three times and out. No, we
guess not. But it is a big three all the
same-three important interests on the
tapis now for Wichita, two of 'em certain,
to be announced within week or two and
the third up for decision this afternoon.
and as good as a CO. Big things: not the
biggest in the world, not as big as two
others now fermenting-one in Boston and
the other in st. Louis--but big things as
the world goes in the way added capital.
added enterprise and added people. By
next spring Wichita will be in the swim
bigger, greater and stronger than at any
time In all her wonderful history of ac-
compllshed facts. Nothing but financial
earthquake, and business wreck, TO the
country at large, can beat her out of enter
prlses which soon will be announced, one
after another, by the EAGLE, in the coming
weeks and some of which will account for
the pesence in this city during the past week
OF the New Workers, Bostonians, ChiCa-
goans and St Louis men, whose names have
appeared in the personals only of these col
umns. The many now will say it's all
blow, but the same many, before May
next, some of them before Christmas, will
look wise and declare that they had hints
all along Well, it's all right Wichita
is here, solid in many respects, splendid in
all; here as the principal objective point OF
vast area of country; here with more
g..
with more capital and brighter men than
are boosted by any city of its size and age
III the state or in the world, and that she
should, under such circumstances and of
such a composition, make another
astounding stride is as logical
as that food produces fairness.
Three interests we spoke Of, and
two additional. What was meant, was,
that that number would materialize i'm
mediately, were settled upon, determined
and fixed. There are, IL told, and all
seemly probable if not equally probable,
fourteen important interests with their
eyes now on Wichita The governor of
South Carolina in his observation to the
governor Of North Carolina only referred
TO relative, not to absolute, time The
long lane did come to turn, and it was
doubtless big turn. Wichita's time has
elapsed and her turn has come again.
With all her splendid opportunities and
possibilities, with all her transcendent adj
vantages and uneqnaled facilities, her
~ hn half
the subject of surprise, won
der and speculation as was her less
understood past. No explanations of her
uneXampled growth are necessary to her
own people And those who abandoned
her when she was struck with the same
adverse wave that swept over every grow
ing town of the west, viii declare, as she
PUSHES forward again with an absorbing
that they knew all along that il would be
so, whereupon they will proceed to cite
the factors. There has not been a single |
man of all the capitalists and representa-
tives Of the enterprises alluded to, and |
who have been here in the past few days, |
who did not say, in effect. and a number of |
them in the exact words, that Wichita is as
a city, all that Kansas City, Omaha, Den |
yer or Minneapolis are. save in age only,
and that in the matter of time she will not |
be half so long in attaining the commercial /
statues of either the places named, no
more than that they were not half so long
in gaining the Importance of like sliced /
cities further east.
Wichita is all right, and no man can |
visit any number of the other important /
with her relative advantages and with her |
superlative claims to present Importance
coming greatness.