The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-06
LOVE FOR WICHITA.

| Wichita is not a town. Tt is a city.
This is what the EAGLE has always
claimed. 1t is essentially metropolitan
in its citizenship, in its location on the
map, and in its life.
This fact has been apparent to all its
people during the last week. Great
crowds have been here from the south
and west. They have been handled with
comfort and rapidity inside the city
walls. They have had plenty to see and
| do. The fair has been in progress. The
theatres have been running. There have
been political meetings for those who
prefer politics. Hundreds have come to
Wichita to buy. llilliners from other
towns have been here to see the fall
styles. Merchants have combined the
pleasure of trip with the business of
laying in fail stock.
Very few, if any, of the visitors have
gone away disappointed. Wichita has
always beer lively. Its women are well
dressed and well-mannered. Its men
are as modern in their ideas and in their
business transactions as the biggest mer-
chants of New York or Chicago. All
parts of the city can be reached easily
by our street railways. The news OF the
day is furnished morning and night in
better shape and more completely than
in any other city OF like size IN the
United States. Wichita is strictly mod
ern in everything and there is nothing
provincial or little about the whole COR
poratIon.
The cause of Wichita's metropolitan
styles and life is known to every one.
Wichita was boom town. Most of the
citizens today are from cities and keep
in touch with the large centers of the
country. They can be found from every
section of the land and there are resi-
dents here today because Wichita has
and always will exercise charm over
the people who have once called II home.
OF the thousands who have left the city
since the boom there is not one who
would not return mere instanter if he
could see an opening. This is so true
that it has become q street proverb.
Men who hane been gone for years keep
coming baX to Wichita. with tales to
tell of the misery of living somewhere
else.
Wichita is not behind in anything.
Her stores are more complete and their |
goods are more modern and up to date |
than those of any other city in the west. |
Her facilities for handling crowd are |
better. Her facilities for entertaining |
visitors are larger and her life is more in
than that OF any Kansas
town or Kansas City, Mo.
During the last week the streets have
been more crowded than usual. Among
the people, you could occasionally catch
the face of Wichita man beaming be-
on all about him, and adding
new life to his eternal confidence in
Wichita and Wichita's interests and
present success and Wichita's
future greatness.
Men make cities. The men of Wichi-
a stand ready. All through the pro-
onged business depression, which has
been national, through the financial
qUeezes, which have brought penury in
orne cases, and always hardship, during
he hours of gloom and business misery,
he men of Wichita have stood firm,
never wavering for moment in the
asst belief that Wichita is city of
lestiny.
1t is said that better times are coming.
When better times come that fidelity
will be rewarded, and Wichita will, in
victorious column, lead the
IAN.