The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-21
1.-THE MAN ON THE STREET,.

try to estimate the exact size of the
crowd on any day this week. The people
were never together and stationary for
( single second and that is the only man.
ner in which they could have been count
{ ed. [ have heard estimates of $1,000 for
yesterday. This may not be too high.
5 were $500 people who passed into the
) fair grounds. There were easily 10000
people who did not so 10 the fair grounds
! that day who were on the street more
: or less. That would make 3S 00J people
on the streets. That there were 1900
more people in Wichita yesterday than
( there were on Bryan day no one can
{ seriously doubt. 1t may have run much
s over that.
Yesterdays crowd was much larger
than the crowd on Wednesday. 1t was
equally placed along Douglas avenue and
Main street. From the Santa Fe depot
{ on the east TO Elm street on the north
the crowd was densely packed, the only
thin places being where the sun beat
down and drove people away.
The Eagle this week has been curl
Gus newspaper. Probably people have no
ticed it. There has not been a minute
in the day or second in the first part
of the night that there has not been a
caller with a contribution of some kind.
One man wanted this IN, and another
wanted that. This man wanted special
mention made of this and that man want
} to notify a certain crowd to be at a cer-
} tain place at Il certain hour on the NOR
row. and another wanted an explanation
of why he did not do as he promised.
Everybody wanted something written up.
Some of the boys have been doing on
three hours sleep in twenty-four The
Eagle has tried its best TO please every
body. only in the most exceptional cases
where 1t was not just to give publicity,
has publicity been refused. Everybody
with something to say about something
of his own has been permitted to say it
on request The columns have been wide
open for the exploitation Of legitimate at
fractions. There have been so many
things that occasionally something would
be overlooked. Then a committee would
eau and the whole force would retreat
into corner in alright and promise to be
good. In booming the civic parade the
Hover parade thought ii was sighted
Ihat was nNed. George Bergman stuffed
club and deman ded more space FOR the
carnival 1t was evident to those inter
ested that the human incubator was not
getting its share Of notice and that had
10 be attended to and apologies extended. /
Ii has been riot from Monday morning
ed over and tramoled upon carefully
oiled and geared newspaper system. The
Eagle has been theirs more completely
than it ever was before.
The Eagle pays q great deal Of careful
attention to the classification Of news Il
QleI 20 90 TINS this week. 9ut vas STAN 5
peded. That may explain why local news
sometimes got IN among the telegraph 1
this week. and an Oklahoma item st-ayed (
OF among the South African news and a I
parade direction item got tang ed np in (
the live stock notes.
Bnt it was all part of a great week. the (
greatest week Wichita ever haf. sud 4 4
/ c.osc ~ The tr.ewriter the set uf of .
reyeiry below brings 70 my N 81 rtis vel 1
beilet IN that enduring ne AMI rus-ie and /
Doom which les AT che core of the heart I
OF W . IA he shirt y Aich huiil : city
IN me frontier. which aNCd tile Issi-
roads west. which captured the great .
cattle trade. watch took leading Tsrt in
the opening az vast territory. which cx-
tended great bonuses fer Industrial co.,
Germs the spirit that IS sieealcss far +
NiNaita- Tor her E-owth. for her d mi
nancy Tor her distjned greatness
A8Ser th4s ~eeS, can sou doubt where
Nichits stands IN this territory Can
you doubt her destiay2
MAS on THE STREET.