The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-05

SI1lOa0O, 1llS.,
Toward the Gladstone Spring.
Perhaps no institution of the great.
throbbing, chin whiskered west is more
unique or more distinctive than the
Whitechapel club of this city. 1t is
bright, CHEEKY little crypt, which is
Reached through narrow, somber stab
i'm the still blacker blackness, and soon
to be called Whitechapel alley, opening
off La Sale street Inside all is coy
and bright. You enter by going down
several steps, and find yourself in an
enteroom, on the left of which is the tap
room and on the right the reception
vault or general sarcophagus.
Bright and CHEEKY skeletons hang up
wherever the pleased eye rambles DER
the walls, and blood spattered garments,
torn by the coroner from murdered in
Eocence, soften the harsh outlines Of the
bony decorations. Skulls with phos-
phorescent eyes in them stand upon the
~hatncts--or whatsnot, perhaps should
say-here and there.
! Ali is CHEEKY and appetizing, especially
to the weary mind and The tired and
spent brain. Here we see several white,
ghost dance garments from Wounded
Knee, upon which the blood yet looks
ilice and fresh. Here is large west
ward hoe with which an irritated farmer
ll1illed several of his children in an IN
guarded moment. Over yonder is the
somewhat battered and knockkneed
charger formerly belonging TO Herod's
somewhat morbid daughter
Many relics, from the early history Of
crime and horror to that of the present
day, are here-here to please, to be-
guile and to perpetuate. Yonder is the
cloven helmet of a Haymarket police
man, and back of it model of the gal
lows on which the anarchists were
hanged.
Comfortable solitude is said to be the
object of the London club, and in this
respect it is doubtless modelled after the
Whitechapel club of Chicago. Solitude,
surrounded by wealth of brass
knuckles, highbinders' knives with fresh
gore on them, freshened each day by the
Armour abattoirs, and skeletons from
which ever and anon a vertebra, a
patella or a few phalanges fall with a
startling yet sodden PUNK on the dead
ened floor, may surely be found here.
The Whitechapel club oe Chicago was
endowed some two years ago by Jack
the Ripper for the purpose of engender-
ing more fraternal feeling toward hui
manly, and also to advance intellectual
refinement and to encourage thought
waves Realizing the uncertainty OF
life, he desired, he said, to perpetuate
his name in this way. Il might be cut
down at any time," said he, "as my
night work, of course, is one of constant
exposure to the unwholesome atmosphere
of London. Besides" he added, ''there
is growing feeling of antagonism to-
ward me here. Sometimes l think
would like to try the climate of Amer
lea, but / am afraid | would get run
over and killed by the professional
drunkards who drive drays over people
in New York, or If ! came to Chicago
might get 'bindged and die of pneu
monia. So perhaps l am as well of
here among friends, suppressing vice and
evading the keen eyed police, as would
be in America, where the social evil doe:
not as vet own the town.
do all that you can," he said, ''tt
make the club cheerful and bright.
send by this steamer gray plaid shawl
stiff with the gore of No. 3. 1t vii
make nice piano cover, / think. Gould
you not arrange with the city to com
bine your dining room with the city
Inorgae, so that rent could be saved anC
your dining hall have about it home
like air which money alone cannot pro
cure?
II am almost discouraged at time
when | see how slowly l am getting
along with my great work looking to
ward the suppression of vice, but VII