Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-11-20
MAIN STREET NORTH OF THIRD.

best of the collection. Nearly every detail
recalls a train OF recollections. The office
of The Journal, Kansas City's oldest news
paper. was i'll one of the brick buildings
on the east side OF the street. The sign
board Of Gabel Il Egelhoff. boots and shoes,
Il suspended N front OF one of the stores
on the west side of the street. Mr.. Egel-
hoff has been in The boot and shoe business
ever since and is now located at Eleventh
and Main streets.
Tie buildings at Third and Main streets.
shown in the picture. have been replaced
by the Loose Bros. cracker factory and Il
livery stable on the west and by the Greg
DRY Grocery Company and other business
houses on the east.
Hitched to posts in front of the little
stores. in the picture. are seen several
dead twenty-five or thirty years. owing
to their position in the picture they are
quite distinct. \ dozen men, most of them
on the rough. unpaved. rocky street An
other of the wooden signboardS suspended
oyer the dewaik reads Boarding
a farm implement stor. with an old-fash-
Toned turning pillow for a signbOard. A
one-horse expires wagon loaded with boxes
of freight has either Just come from a
or is going TO one.
Looking north down Main street the eye
follows the picture across the river into
Harlem. which is a great patch of dense
woods with two or three white houses ON
the margin next to the river.
that time said j. T. Egelhoff. this
was away out in the country. There Were
not even any residences this far out. Do
l remember the time when that picture was
TAKEN Very well. | lived then in Il house
that stood where the Jail now stands. 1t
seemed a long walk then from the store
at Third and Main TO my home There
were no streets SO far over as that Later
| lived at Sixth and Penn. There was Sucn
a steep hill between my house and my
store that whenever it was slippery | had
to go around by Tenth street. | have often
fallen in trying to climb the hill at what
is now about Tenth and Broadway
of course We had no railroad then.
Nearly all of our goods came by rail from
ST. Joseph to Weston and by boat from
Weston tn us. One winter. | recollect, 1T
took me three months TO get = bill or
goods from Weston to Kansas City
establishment of Emery. Bird. Thayer ~
Co. at Eleventh and Walnut, was then
located at Main and Missouri avenue. on
Mr.. Williams will also exhibit a picture
from the West bluff at Ninth street over
looking the West bottoms and the river.
The bluff was then a pretty hillside. COM
pared with its present unsiShtly aspect,
with trees and shrubbery. and the West
bottoms was a forest with but one old
warehouse in it. This was on the river
bank at the point where the steamboats,
unloaded.
Speaking of the West bottoms" said
Mr.. EgelhOff. Il used TO get off on a vac;t-
tion and go over TO Wyandottc. The road
over there led through "a forest of large
trees that covered the ground where the
packing houses are now The river was
a great deal farther east than now, but
the trees We're so dense you couldn't see
it, This side of the packing houses was
Mr.. Williams will exhibit also a picture
of the old city hall.
1T was a two-story brick standing close
to the corner of Fourth and Main. said
Mr.. Williams. when the new building
was erected Captain Cade. the ferryman.
bought the old building and put up several
brick houses in Harlem out of the material
OF the old hail.