Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1899-11-17
KANSAS CITY SIDE LIGHTS
And a Few Chords of Its Social
Harmonies.

AT 9 clock in the evening the curiew
| sounds in warning notes. and all children
on the streets unaccompanied by parents
are taken In charge by the legal author
Ities.
Kansas City is distinctly representa-
tive community. There are people here
from all points of the compass. and all
parts OF the United Staies-North, East,
South and West. There are many ele-
CANT homes and handsome residences
here. and grea, deal of wealth is repre-
sented.
There are a number OF multi million
| aires in Kansas City. There are beauti-
full drives throughout the city, and no
city has finer boulevards. Kansas City
differs from most other cities. One can
go up into building two or three stories
and still be on the ground floor. Kansas
City. like Chicago, has its street railway
tunneled under some Of its streets. One
OF these tunnels extends tor three blocks
through bluff.
Theatres are open on Sunday in Kan.
sas City. as they are all through the
West. and Sabbath breaking horrifies
the fastener. Until recently the names
of the streets were not marked at the
street corners, but an appropriation Of
several thousand dollars has been re-
Gently made. and the signs bearing the
names are fast goiog up. some streets
have the names carved in the sidewalks
| at the street corners.
In the past year there has been fifty
miles oi sidewalk laid in Kansas City,
where there was formerly board walk.
Kansas City has the largest mandatory
of agricultural implements in the world.
1t has FIVE packing houses and these, to-
gether with its stockyards. employ S.32I
persons; equal TO over 40. 600 people di-
rectly dependent on them for a living.
Their killing capacity is 10000 cattle.
$4,000 hogs and 6.ooo sheep daily.
Its manufactures consist of smelters,
sawmills. breweries. iron and steel. brick
and clay. -four and meal. candy, furni-
ture. box factories, agricultural imple-
ments, harness, planning mills, lime. soap,
ice, oil, tinware, mattresses, paints, car
riages. cooperage, syrups. glue, copper
works, brooms, awnings and gas. One
third of the cattle in the entire United
States as given by the Agricultural De-
partment In Washington. is here in the
Kansas City market.
There are numerous handsome stores
in Kansas City, and they do an extern
sve business. The merchants believe
in advertising their stock, and the daily
papers are full OF ads. of all business
houses in the city. One street in the
shopping district is called Petticoat Lane.
because the ladies frequent this locality.
Most Of the stores are department stores.
and one can hero purchase anything
from shoe string to brick house. The
largest establishments have tea rooms in
the upper floors. where delicious lunch.
con, with the best service, may be had
at moderate prices.
| A feature of the schools is the cloak
rooms. At the Manual Training High
School each pupil has his or her own
locker, the same as clubman has, with
key. In this way there is no trouble
from loss OF wraps or misappropriation of
overshoes. In the West there is always
an "Orpheum" theatre and "Troca-
dero" in every city, and Kansas City is
no exception. Among the prominent
cigar stores here is one OF which Jesse
| James. son of the late notorious, of that
name, is proprietor. He is very proud
of his name and the notoriety attached
thereto. and is largely patronized.
Kansas City is all we have claimed for
it. and more. 1t is a typical Western
city. filled with Eastern people. yet it is
far ahead of US in many ways. We OF
the South and East are cultured people
with high ideas and aspirations. Let us
awaken from the lethargy in which we
have too long indulged; let us get some
of this enterprise and progressive spirit
| of the West, and let us attain that high
place in the business world for which our
capabilities and environments have so
eminently fitted us.
THE BURLINGTON ROUTE.
One Of the most popular roads OF the
| West and Northwest is the Burlington
Route, which is well paironized. Its
road bed is easy, its cars among the fin-
est equipped in the West. with all mod
ern conveniences and appliances. its
service complete and its officials polite,
courteous and oblging.
From Kansas City to Omaha tho Bur-
lington Route runs through the Missouri
Valley, rich in farm lands. Here large
farms of grain stretch away for miles and
| this is one of the largest and riches farm
districts in the country. We saw farm
of I 200 acres of corn which produces 10
| bushels to the acre. and which is owned
by one Mr.. Rankins. Our train put off
100 men at this point to be employed in
corn husking on this farm.
| Observing the moist, black soil, COM
mon along the route. we inquired rela-
tive to its usefulness. II is called gumbo,
and is taken to Watson. burned in kiln
and becomes a red clay, and is used
along the Burlington road bed for bal
last. The first town across the line in
Iowa is Hamburg. thrift business little
| city. We have always been gifted with a
| great amount of Southern pride. and the
following little pleasantly has tendency
to enhance that vain gloriousness:
81 am sure you are Southern lady" !"
said the conductor whom we had been
| interrogating "Why do you think so?''
we inquired. Because you are so care
| full to say thank you for any little serv-
| ice rendered, and | have noticed that
Southern ladies are always mindful of
this. / have been on this road for sixteen
| years, and come in contact with a great
many people in course of year, and
even in course of a day. / am some
| what observant myself. and it has been
my experience that the most appreciative
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