The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-05

general result The majority said bet. The
| next move was 70 rouse everybody and
! turn the town into a Methodist revival at
/ the Board of Trade rooms.
! Enthusiasm imparts itself magnetically
and fuses all within its zone into one
! happy and harmonious unity of feeling and
sentiment. The above sentiment is good as
| far as it reaches. In Wichita after the
| boom bust bankruptcy and all boomers had
Only a cake of soap with which to wash
| themselves TO the shore of the financial
flood, the above definition Of enthusiasm
vas as much out of place as knickerbock-
| ers on a 15-year-old kid. Though no phi
Illogical society formally revamped the
definition, we gradually adopted the idea
that the true meaning Of enthusiasm was
about as follows. viz:
Enthusiasm is the temporary idiocy of a.
man who, on ordinary occasions, has COM
mon horse sense.
After We located Dold, Wichita suspend
ed all rules relating to business princi-
pies and took day off that lasted a spell.
And in that day we conducted business as
sober men generally conduct themselves
at Bobby Burns banquet or New Year
Gals. We were rich and we did not at
tempt TO conceal it. A man who was
not connected with corporations or town
lot additions was a. miserable mannakin
He was a 'feather-top," bereft of friends.
and was Stunned by all, even as much as
an American citizen from Honolulu would
be who should appear on Douglas avenue
with jaundice. He might make oath ne
i n
looks that he was a leper, waking around
to save funeral expenses.
The Eagle. next day after the meeting
at Sluss' office had some locals 10 Wichita
to 60 TO the Board of Trade rooms. Aus
o'clock there were at least 800 men: every
body talking at once. \ meeting at night
was arranged. Governor Stanley said:
I'VE want a band. music songs. etc, 50
everybody will feel good; have some music;
then speech; more music; more speech;
then music: then donations; then music,
etc"
The speakers were Lewis Stanley, Fl.
Winslow Albert and some exhorters. The
result of this meeting was a fal-down as
to assets. The next day the crowd was
on hand and better in the matter of attend
ance. The next day was spent IN making
out names. and assessing men as TO what
they should do. This plan of assessment
was not very popular. That night was to
be the grand effort. 1t was to be Wichita
day at the fair. A detail was sent after
DR.. John D. Hewitt, the pastor of the First
Presbyterian church.
Hewitt was an all-round man. As young
man fresh from college he was launched
IL, lie
preacher. He saw in Montana man. in
al, his phases as God turned man out of
the machine as a product. and realized
that environment had much 10 do with a
mans impulses. He learned that men
who possess vices had honesty. benevo-
lence and charity; that men who had no
observable vices might be dishonest, sell
fish and bereft Of charity; that men who
belonged to his flock might
Compound for sins they were inclined to-
BY damning those they had no mind to-"
Hewitt was of that genus eccIesiastic
that in an earlier civilization would have
been a Rowland Hill. a Peter Cartwright
or a Lorenzo David. He was practical to
intensity and was identified in Wichita
from the date he came until he went
philanthropic or e,eemosynary; many
things that tended to inculcate simon-pure
worldly money root of eviD getting les
sons. Hewitt was a "stayer" a fighter
He knew king from a jack; he could put
''gaffs on a chicken; he knew thorough
bred ''hoss.' and he knew the handspring
that governed men in ordinary life. Hel
not only had strong hold on the sheep
and goats of his flock but he commanded
the respect of Wichita as a man. by rea-
son of his strong forceful. energetic meth
DDS. His enthusiastic nature was Metho-
distic. from early training. He was j.
strong Presbyt with a strain ofMetho-
dist alloy. He was the church militant
He might have been one of Hudibras'
preachers. Of whom he said:
For his religion it was fit
To match his learning and his wit;
Twas Presbyterian. true b.ue;
He was of that ecclesiastic crew
Whom all men grant
To be the church militant,
Who build faith upon
The text Of pike and gun
And prove their doctrine orthodox
BY apostolic blows and knocks.
Therefore. in enlisting Hewitt. we were
getting a hold on his flock securing an
earnest speaker. who believed what heI
said: good practical reasoner. who sa W
in the growth of Wichita the uDbuilding
of many churches Hewitt was once criti-