Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-01
ALL RECORDS BROKEN by KANSAS
CITY IN 1895.
BANK CLEARINGS, 100000
WHOLESALE TRADE AMOUNTED TO
SI15,OOO.O 600.
Manufactured Were Worth
$780, 900 ,OOG-PaclsinG House Prod
ucts, sS5 200. O~OO-BuiIdinG
Permits More Than
~$3,0O0,OOO.

Kansas City has Just closed the most
prosperous and the happiest year in all her
e~ventful history. Every line OF trade,
wholesale and retail, has felt the stimulus
of new life and increased activity; in nearly
all there have been new records of business
made. The city has done much to add
TO her Importance. She has increased her
limits by a wonderful addition of valuable
territory; she has added miles to the paved
area OF her streets. and she has continued
the development of her valuable system
of parks and b~oulevards. While the city
government was doing all this the COM
mercial lines. with that determination that
knows no obstacle that it fears. have gone
into the fields OF the West and de-
veloped a mass of business IN the varied
lines represented here that has added IN
told wealth to her Importance and gained
for her new laurels among the markets
and cities of the world.
There is nothing in Western history that
parallels the history of Kansas City. Start
ing from the little settlement down on the
levee with Westport Landing for its name,
there has been developed here a city. a
market, a source of trade and traffic, and
a supply end distributing station for the
people of the West That is without a peer.
Charmingly located as a capital for COM
merce, her claims have been splendidly
backed by the spirit and determination Of
her people. AS their claims have shown
their worth more and more each year
they have attracted the favorable consid-
Grafton of the tradesmen of the land, and
to-day Kansas City has the reputation
from ocean to ocean of being the BEST
located city in the whole land, and where
for investments that will be safe and more
liable to attract and interest the million
aire and the toiler alike than any other
place on the map covered by the stars and
stripes.
The increase of over sG0.ooo.0 90 in bank
clearings fer the year shows in the most
conclusive manner the real condition of
business here during the past year. There
has been more money in circulation and
II has been kept moving more rapidly than
ever before. More people have bought and
built homes than in any previous year and
the dawn of a rev year finds the city fac
ing a situation as rosy as the dawn and
as full of promise as the bow that spans
the heavens. Those promises are certain
OF fultillment. The general appearance of
the city with the thrift and energy and
business apparent all over its limits makes
the conclusion irresistible that here is a
good place to live and do business in.
Wholesale dealers. manufacturers, retail
ers, skilled workmen and those SEARCHING
for the best city in which to live are CON-
ing here and locating. There is assured a
very substantial growth in the population,
in the manufacturing interests and In the
wholesale and retail trade.
With her unrivaled railroad facilities her
immense lire st0rt interests. her ever.
growing grain markets, her banks increas.
ing in business Importance and her peopIe
one IN a determination TO continue the de.
~velopment. there is certainly much for the
city in the future, and it ought to afford
the citizen great satisfaction at the dawr
of the year to look upon the promises !,
The future and contemplate the advance.
ment of every good interest that is reure.
scented in the city.
With all established lines of husFpas,
prosperous and charging every year witt
the splendid country surrounding il d.vpI
oping steadily each year. and with a fctur,
as radiant with promise of good things II
come as were ever Seen by any place. Kan,
sac City is rapidly becoming a good rI9g,
TO live in Having attained a commercial
importance OF great credit. the CITY ha.
turned attention TO some OF the finer an,
better things Of life. The beautiicatiun q
the city with a splendid and COMMENCEMENT
system OF parks and boulevards has bee,
well started and has produced the besr n
results. The system viii be carried to com
IAtAAOl Iil VIII aILtGI VIII l< pB
touch every part OF the great city. II Mi
add im-measurably to the attractions of m
city The splendid school facilities that ar
being enlarged annually TO accommodat
the growing demands, and are maintaine,
ct a very high standard. offer a superin
advantage TO the young for a practical an,
splendid Manual Training school. which i
acknowledge to be one of the best an,
most complete in the West. tells for itse!
how readily the city responds to the prar
tical demands of the age. With II. the sit
can give to the boys and girls an educatfn
that fully hts them for the duties of lii
end starts them on their careers full
equipped to achieve the success they ma
desire The magnificent library with il
thousands OF volumes and storenousa a
good literature furnishes a never faiiin
source of benefit and enjoyment 10 RI
young and old of all classes. The West
ern Gallery of Art in the library br;Idin
offers still other advantages To ihs nnLIiy
With a large number of established en-
terprises. that employ thousands OF labor
ers the year around, and pay vast sum
each year for labor. with a constant in
crease in the number of manufacturers an,
a healthy enlargement of all material in
terests. and with plenty of opportuuitie
for careful. legitimate Investments, m
city offers a doubly strong attraction 70
men who have none to invest or labo
TO sell. With the system of beautiicatior
and the enlargement of all those thing
that make a city pleasant and attractive
es a place to found a home. with its ma
terial, educational. religious and socIa
conditions constantly improving, and wit
sure promise OF brighter days TO come
81 offers an attraction for those seeking
place TO establish a home where il ma
be surrounded with conditions that ele
waite and ennoble manhood.
Viewed in whatever light one ma
choose. or from whatever standpoint on
may select. Kansas City is a place bril-
liant with attraction. For business or 50
cial reasons il is a good place TO live In
and II Will be better as the years e
by. The realization OF this fact IS wha
makes those here willing TO stay. and Dc
eirous that others may also come. and
also is a reason, good and strong, VIII
Others are looking at the city and hunt
inE locations.
While other larger and older cities hav
held conventions and discussed in alarme
and philosophical way the problem of wha
TO do with the rapidly increasing u:ba
population. Kansas City saw the duty an
met II with her parks and pleasuI
grounds. her manual training school ar
the free night school. 1t was Indicative {
the Western spirit and energy that hi
always marked the record of the city.
The city has no tenement house di:
trict. her annie TRANSFORMATION facilitit
render that evil out Of the question. It
destined 10 be a ci.: OF homes as ~certainl
as IL is now the commercial center. an
che viii meet her newer ard Graver duti'
as readily and successfully as she h
met the duties OF the past. In any and a
respects Kansas City has shown she
all right.
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