The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-25

Secretary Tom Richardson OF the Cal
city yesterday and made call on The
Eagle as ne has always done during the
fifteen years he has visited WichSs-
Ar. Richardson IS full OF Galveston
ENTHUSIASM and he is probably as well
able to present the merits of that CITY SIS
shipping potut as any man in Texas.
He was especially enthusiastic owe.
the fact that the tendency OF Kansas
grain shippers was noticeably toward
Galveston and thinks that at no distant
day the bulk OF western exports will 60
through the harbor Of hts city.
He says that Galveston is spiendidly
equipped now to do not only an export
and importing business. but that IL e
also equipped 70 become an important
immigration port.
Recently the North German Lloyd
steamship company put on q line OF
steamers between Bermen ard Calves
ton direct and that fact will be Of great
Importance 10 the west 1t viii, n a
great measure divert the Immigration
OF Germans to the western states ana
thus enhance the value Of farm lands.
Hereafter most OF the migration of Ger
mans 10 Kansas will be by way OF Gal
weston. as the railroad companies have
met the steamship companies in max
ing rates that will be advantageous 20
those who contemplate coming from
Germany To the western states.
The Lloyd service includes some fr.t-
class sailing steamers that win sail on
regular advertised dates az do the trans
Atlantic steamers entering and leaving
New York. Baltimore and Philadelphia
The Lloyd steamship company VIII
do everything in It's power TO induce the
immigration 10 the west from Germany.
II IS now advertising the west m the old
country, giving its resources, It's pros
poets and its opportunities.
Mr.. Richardson thinks that Wichita
Is bound TO be the great trade center OF
OF the people OF this valley to make Il
so by building elevators
Mr.. Richardson was accompanied by
his father, the venerable head OF the
dry goods firm Of Thomas Richardson
& Son Of Wellington. Kan. Mr.. Rich
erdson Is So years OF age and still an
active and energetic business man who
is at his store the first one IN the morn
ing and the last one to leave H. He
has been in the dry goods business for
sixty years without intsrmfssion For
thirty years he has visited the dry goods
market OF Philadelphia twice a year.
He first entered the dry goods business
in Missouri in 1886 and the old gentle
man had fund OF information concern
ing the rapid and radical changes OF
the trade during the intervening time
His memory Is in perfect condition ano
he remembers incidents OF seventy
years ago as IL they happened yester-
day. He came TO Wellington seven
teen years ago and has been one Of the
leading dry goods merchants ever since
He thinks Wichita Is all right He was
here he said yesterday when It was the
biggest wagon wheat market in the
United States. He says Wichita was
intended for great city and that 1t VIII
yet fulfill its destiny.
Mr.. Richardson was born during Madi
sons adminsstra tien and has taken a
Conservative and dignsfied interest in
politics ever since Jackson's first cam
paign. He - a Democrat for about
fifty years but was Wing before that
T.. and w. W. Johnston me wholesale
dry goods merchant OF this city, met yes
terday and INDUCED in many remenis-
cenoes OF W1Hgism. Mr.. Johnston was
also a Whigd in early HE