The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-08-19
City Regulator
Some Further
Suggestions are Made.

Some Further
Suggestions are Made.
To the Editor Of The Eagle.
would serve notice on the owners OF
supposed owners of that old City Mills
building that it must be torn down. If
Il was not done III thirty days 1 would
femove 1t and if they did not ike it
they could add fresh lawsuit to their
troubles this time a foe worthy Of their
steel Every passenger coming to or
Passing through this city on the two
trunk lines is confronted with thaI
wreck I am told that one party who
Claims to own it says he is not in any
hurry TO have the court settle the case.
He doesn't want 10 see il settled because
st is increasing in value ali the time.
Grant it. But it can De declared nul-
sance and dangerous, as it certainly is.
That stack and the walls Of the old MIL
Dart are liable to fail any time. If it
falls on the city Regulator or any Of his
kinfoIks it will cost the city more than
1t would TO tear it down.
want TO call your attention to the
business Of this city are young men,
many Of them less than 3o-just about
one generation. The men who came here
and started the town and established the
various branches of trade and business
have about all stepped down and out
think J. z. Caldwell, J. P. Allen, R.
Jacks and you Eagle people are all that
ere left to tell the story Of the business
IN 1872, and behind the counters and in
the offices are to be found the sons Of
these establishers
There is a decided tendency these hot
days. with almost everybody, to crowd
20 the shady side Of the streets, and in
Doing so they forget the old established
rule Of keeping to the right. Especially
IS this so with a lot of strapping big
colored gemmen, who take this advan-
tage Of the ladies more particularly. Now
I don't want some small bore politician
to bob up and try to make political CAPT
tai Of this, for some Of the most polite
men 70 be found on our streets are col
ored gentlemen.
7 attended church last Sunday night
and saw a row Of ladies, about a dozen,
with three hats off; and when the choir
Sppeared in the loft the ladies, a half
dozen or more, were without hats. We
are progressing. 1t don't make any diff
erence what Paul said about women
wearing bonnets, he IS not setting the
fashion pace for this generation. He was
al right on religious and moral ethics,
but somewhat mixed and off color on
fashions, love making and marriage.
There are a lot Of the old Schweiter,
George Strong and Valley Center cars in
the city, enough to equip CampbelPs Fff-
ieenth street line in first-class shape
Might start them at once with horses IN
81 the electrical plant is gotten ready A
fne opportunity for Scott to play even
by selling Campbell power for his line.
Why not extend it to the Burton car
works. the Oriental railroad division
headquarters for the state being there
will soon grow a young city.
The editor Of the Eagle hands me this
note. written at Cherryvale, Kansas, Au-
gust 10. OF course I indorse it:
81 note with interest what the City
Regulator has to say about Wichita trav-
cling men. What's the matter with hav-
ing drummers wife for carnival queen
"a queen in reality. natural beauty. a
specimen of Kansas beauty. Line 'em
Up 10 the firing line. Kansas has some
beauties"
During the summer months It IS re-
raarkable the great amount of victuals
Il takes to satisfy the appetite Of the
Everage fellow whose family is away for
the summer. You viii find them march
ing out Of the cafe with a tooth pick in
their mouths after satisfying their crav-
ings. which If offered them at the family
board would cause a large sized family
disturbance.
am in favor of letting teams trot on
tie bridges. Five dollars fine for driv-
ing faster than a walk is an old chest |
nut inaugurated when they built sespen-
sion bridges with grape vines. A cat |
or dog trotting over bridge will cause |
a greater vibration than a pair Of horses |
hitched to a vehicle. They counterfeit
each other.
If the man who does the odoriferous |
SET on First street between Market and |
Lawrence, between those two churches. |
and elevate his smeller he will discover. (
in a second or two. that there is some /
thing radically wrong with the sewer.
I wonder why people do not cultivate |
more trailing vines about their porches /
during the summer months. It can't be /
THAI they won't grow. for there is d
practical demonstration on the three 4
residences south Of the Congregational |
church
have often wondered why lot Of /
the church bells are rung with such /
slow and measured time, like a summons /
t a funeral. Why don't the janitors
Eet a move on themselves and ring the
bells with quick and rapid motion.
7 would put conductors on the street
cars. 1 was going TO say young ladies.
buc it would not do; they are always /
jumping of the cars backwards and that
would only add another annoyance to
Manager Nelson's troubles.
I wonder If IL is true that some Of the
residents Of Paramount are objectinx to
the car line being built along their
streets after all these years Of waiting.
fuszins and scrap2ing.
Anyone having computations Of con-
science about the Sunday afternoon band
r.,-,,.-- mad only 90