The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-08
THE PRESS GANG.
Some Choice Excerpts From Number
Of Elaborate Descriptions of the Prin-
cess Appearance When They
Were Her Guests.

From the Smith Center Bulletin.
1--WE were soon flying again
over the beautiful prairies of central Kan
sas and not another word was heard until
we reached the city of Wichita, which is
so beautifully located in the great Arkan-
sas valley.
This was our first visit to this city, and
we expected from what we had heard to
walk up past seven or eight blocks of
empty buildings and find little one-horse
tavern where possibly we might be able to
get a cold bite, but instead we found one
of the liveiiest cities in the state. We
found it a live, bustling, busy city, with
thrift, enterprise and wealth displayed
upon every side Wichita is one of the
youngest cities in the state and her devel-
poment has been simply wonderful, allow
ing her to forge ahead of nearly all of the
cities of the state, This has of course
caused jealousy to spring up against the
young giant which was telling its every
competitor with a ruthless hand and as
result the papers of the state
have spoken only of the vices of
Wichita and covered with the mantle
of jealousy her many virtues. We do
house of any description in this city and
while being shown over the city the long
string of carriages were frequently detaln-
ed several minutes by the streets being all
torn up with paving material, a business
which Just now is furnishing employment
for hundreds of laboring men.
Wichita is becoming the great meat
packing center of Kansas, and the large
packing houses are the pride of the people
and they did not neglect to show us
through these immense institutions, two
of which slaughter and pack $500 hogs
daily and make equally as good a showing
in the slaughter of cattle and sheep. There
never was a city in the world at any time
that has made the wonderful advancement
in this enterprise in the same length of
time that Wichita has. This business is
growing very rapidly and we will not be
surprised if Wichita, in the very near fU-
ture is not ahead of Kansas City In this
great industry This IS a matter that
should be the pride of every Kansan, but
unfortunately there are those cities
whose people look entirely over
these great Kansas industries, and
the fact that this city also contains
some of the largest elevators, wholesale
houses and manufactures in the state, and
do all in their power to injure the city be
cause some of Its citizens do not agree with
them upon the prOhibitOry or some other
political issue While certain newspapers
of Kansas are busy in their endeayOr to
pull Wichita down, the people Of that city
are moving right along in the even tenor
of their way and are building city that IS
q credit TO the state and Is destined IN the
not far distant future to be the great COM
mercial center of Kansas.
There has been great deal said about
the vacant business houses in Wichita, and
while there has been some little founda-
for II no in
that city in the least nor does 1t show that
there is any less business done IN Wichita
than there always has been. The vacant
buildings referred to are vacant for the fol-
lowing reasons: During the immense
boom certain men and syndlcates who
owned large additions out several miles
from the main business portion OF the city
built large blocks of business houses with
the hope that they might each build up
large suburban town. These nearly all
failed to mateTialIZe, and a. re
suit the buildings are nearly all va
cant, They are not mt for resi-
deuce property and are TOO far out
for business, hence are charged up against
the city in whose suburbs they were allow
ed 10 be built The business portion Of
Wichita j going ahead a. rapidly as any
city in the state. and large wholesale
houses are going up every DAY and filled
with wide-awake business men. The c1tl-
ZenS or Wichita are the same large hearted.
whole souled, generous people for which
Kansas, as state, Is justly celebrated.
They did everything IN their power to
make our stay in their city pleasant and
to MAKE Us feel at home, not 50 much be-
cause we had newspapers through which
we might sing the praises OF their city, but
because 1t seemed to be a pleasure for them
70 do 30. During our full half days stay
N this beautiful city we never heard the
Of a
toned. nor did we hear one single word
said against he good name OF any city In
the state. The citizens seemed pleased 10
have Us IN their city and the entire party
left with a warmer feeling for Wichita
than they had ever hsd before and pleased
that we have in our state such live, pro
gressive ana busting city as Wichita