The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-16

Tar Tar below that everything seems pigmy-
 nnne nneo ana strange-the railway yards of the and wide through the valley of the Raw it.ser innnmerable rows of bright, shin- sts raIs reflect the rays of the sun; straight and curved, they lead in every di-
 recuon; busy little switching locomotives a.e running hither and thither with brisk
 SS,aies Sne. ~ ana spurts-looking like spiders rac- .ns vVer the strands of metal web. Thou sid saLos oi freight cars motionless upon the eslustracks, and long, tenuous passenger
 o,sl naihs are moving northward and eastward Tul oi the city and westward into the
 Onlon oepot. which lies black in the dis
 st.ance. The scene is one of bustlng activ-
 h5y,, KY, ana the sound of whistles and engine
 pr breeze; h the background the great mass
 f,i ui buildings in the heart of the city rises
 r-hi,a a mound of fantastic shape and build !;
 h,,ii1, h%,iiE nere and there an unusually tall
 DuLulng o rears its head into the clear Mis-
 Surl SKY; To he northward there is an-
 nears ana. amQ different view: one which ap-
 tois IestIul In the quiet and calm in con
 SlasI with the crowded citys throbbing
 nr sr U. The broad. blue expanse of the riv-
 Wooda6 escarpment of the bluffs; the
 Moooed hills to the eastward and far. far
 hiIIs ene valley range on range of purple
 1,, nnlts, growing fainter and fainter in the
 Suliiine. until they are blended in the misty
 azon, ana are lost to sight.
 aaa.as nansas City has been beautiful since the sSiys when IL was entitled first to call It. SCI s city; although to-day 1t has out SlO"n every semblance to the city that the rav,N er4,wned the heights and nestled in tn tne raVlnes that were made musical by sns sounds of ripping streams on their enobrey eUubbrey 10 the great river. The territory puny compared with the present space now eoEered with princely mercantile houses Sant snu statey private residences. and pre- what the present dweIler would irnagine, swa s11iis nave been leveled.. guiches filled. reciamed and the outcropping ledges of fbn fpu rocK nave been blasted away, until haer bne oroken and diversified landscape has re.sl peen ompletely changed. Indeed nothing os oesHains ta as 1t was save the gerteral outline Ol, or et tne everlasting hills" the towering break against their base The hills. made Dy mightier hand than mans, have been ma harIeo s m detail. although still retaining have have been defaced by the iaborer's pick. Jut s. tneir grandeur remains: the glorious | .at mas nad its purity defied and its cur ner resistIess sweep But in spite of it all | ne Kansas City of the present is that of | bT .bg,dp past as the man Of 50 years IS the, = The The western side of the river. although ,niu ,ninv,tins. ihansas City, Kas., was partly an we, ,vernowed and partly a dense forest that a sas npenetrable save by the few trails Q vs oo " 5 she savage beasts or still more ne very foot of the bluffs reared their ,I nans 1s heads toward Kansas azure sky un- o, II the foliage almost concealed the bare ocks with a changing garment of green nu crimson during the summer and au- ulnh; U I; only to expose their nakedness to se pIung piasts of winter. From the crest the pIun an unbroken prairie stretched way into the distance until it seemed to 1oGn ,o. the heavens, and its silence was only Ioheh Dy the rustic of the grass or the ong of the birds. Here the woodman's az as as undreaded. because 1t was unknown. nere were no bridges to carry the busy lrong from the village side of the river no' save the noseless tread of the Indian 2, no tne steaIthy footsteps of the less skill hna | ound was heard and no other human res peered down the vtstas
 Prospects for the Future.
 Not city In the United States has a alrer prospect for prosperous future aan Kansas City to-day. and this mainly reason of the foundations laid for it | nee the collapse of the ha..1o- tipaaame.SI..