The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-30
City Regulator
To the Editor of the Eagle
Some Further
Suggestions are Made.


Suggestions are Made.
To the Editor of the Eagle.
certainly would make a radical
change in the management Of the AUDI
forum. For example. Friday night
twelve or fifteen hundred people attend
ed the entertainment. The most of them
had purchased their tickets in advance.
They were compelled to stand on the
sidewalk and be crowded and damned
because the management, for some unac-
countable reason, compelled them 10 go
in at the one Nentrance four feet WIDE
at the same time there are two side en-
frances and at the close of the perform
ance the gallery occupants were COM
pelIed 70 pass down through one exit,
the same one that the first floor used.
What the results would have been in
panic with these side exits closed 1 viii
leave for you TO imagine. The steps TO
the front entrance are steep and mar
70 wand should be torn away and the
front entrance cut down level with the
floor An architect could soon arrange
it. The side doors should have attend
ants. so that the audience would feel
safe and know that they could pass out
through them at: any time. Especially
should the gallery entrance be free from
any incumbrance. There is also, 1 I'M
derstand, a gallery exit on the south
side with an open door and no stairway
to it.
came down the street the other day
and was attracted by that newsboy on
the street with a fog horn voice. He
was crying out at the top Of his voice
the name of his paper and something
about one hundred people killed. /
bought one to see about this great trag-
edy, wondering why the Eagle had not
published it. I found it was an account
Of the cyclone in Minnesota, which had
been published in the Eagle two days
before.
The sidewalk business is not only being
run onto, but into the ground. Busy men
and non-residents are taken advantage Of
by petitions surreptitiousiy circulated
and sidewalks ordered built in the out
skirts of the city, where there is no need
Of them whatever, while within one nun
bred feet of the city building is a pond
on account of there being no sidewalk.
Now that Wichita has a golf club we
Shall soon be introduced to the golf walk
and swing, which is swinging both hands
together to the left side in the posi-
ton of holding a club, walking sideways
in a bantering style Ike the barnyard
animal challeging his neighbor for a
fight. This applies to men only.
see money still accommodating in our
banks, piling up. and it will continue to
do so until the election is over. 1t will
not cease then if there should be a
change of administration. Capital sell
dom takes any risk Safety vaults and
stocking legs will be stuffed again.
met little lad one day this week
and asked why he was not at school,
He said that he had no books; that he
was promoted to another grade from last
year and was saving his money so he
could buy books and start to school
again. There are no doubt number OF
similar cases IN the city.
Webster says a gaper sis one who
gapes in longing Syeariness,'' and the like
But 1t makes the opera and play goers
not only weary and tired but disguised
with that crowd of gapers who regular
ly gather about the opera house whenev-
er there is an embarrassment.
I would establish grade for the city
and then order the sidewalks built tc
conform with it, There are a number OF
places in the city where the sidewalks
ought to be cut down to conform with
the grade and end this toboggan bust
ness.
If I were the mayor and city council
] would see that the sidewalks were
cleared of boves, barrels coal boxes, BIZ
Gle houses and any and everything tha
will obstruct the street travel this week
Wanted-A man TO take contracts t.
sow and cultivate lawns by the year
There are a hundred property owners
that will give SIS year or more to hav,
Wichita has two men who live mys
terious lives. always have the good thing
Of life and are good fellows-never work
They are. and Will be until they die
enigmas TO the public.
Wichita, like all other towns. has It
peculiar characters. There is a man liy
ing in the city that has worn the sam
suit of clothes continuously for NOR
than a dozen years.
1t has been demonstrated time an
again. as it was at the coronati ton. tina
one lady soprano singer can not sing adj
vantageously with brass band for a
accompaniment
For several days this last week ther
was groweling about too much rain i
Kansas. Think ofNt But after all I
IS great starter f6r next years whea
crop.
And now the Missouri Pacific ha
huilded sSs.0o0 depot and set it bac
from the avenue where It can not b
seen until you get right on to it.
Everybody in-the city is glad II hea
that there are TO be no taking scheme
run in this city this week Thanks :
the mayor and his police force.
I hope the newsboys Of the city wi