The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-17
BOUND FOR WICHITA
Special Train of Threshers
Arrive Tomorrow
FROM PORT HURON, MICH.
Van ZandtS to Distribute
Over WiChita'S Territory.

Tomorrow afternoon a special train Of
twenty-slx cars loaded with engines and
separators will arrive in the City. The
Grain is from Port Huron, Mich, ana the
machines are to be distributed over the
large territory adjacent to Wichita The
machines are manufactured by the Port
Huron Engine and Traction company and
are for the Van Zandt implement COM
pany of this city. The Van zaadt people
have only been doing job5ing business
for the last two seasons and in that
length OF time they are the first firm to
bring in an entire train loaded with
threshing machines for their own trade
The train has been making day runs
through Indiana and Illinois and mas
been attracting much attention along the
line. II was scheduled to reach St louis
last night and today will be taken
through Kansas City by the Missouri Pa
ciGc 10 Geneseo. Tomorrow morning at
$40 the train viii start for Wichita and
will arrive here about 4 o'clock in the
afternoon.
line, and Wichita's growing importance
as jobbing center win be brought to
the notice Of those towns One Of the
things Of interest in connection with this
train IS that It has a fully equipped cleo
trio light plant with it. At night $50 in
candescent lamps are used and the train
pre- ents a brilliant appearance going
through the country In connection to
this the train has on it very large
search light. This light viii make things
very bright a a distance Of one to two
miles There is also a kaleidoscope On
board the train. and this has been ar
ranged so that it viii throw pictures 70
be plainly seen by the spectators. Scenes
from the factory where the thrashing
machines are made are presented and
many other things Of interest. Kansas
is not forgotten in this deal and many
pictures Of her prosperity are shown to
the peonle Of other states This is the
first train to come into Kansas special
" loaded for a Kansas firm and not one
Of the cars viii be unl0aded before It
reaches Wichita. After the train reaches
here it Will he placed on the Missouri
Pacific track about Central avenue. On
tomorrow night the people who have
charge Of the train viii give quite an ex-
teusive program. consisting Of music
kinetosc0pe pictures, etc This train wiz
be Of r1uch interest to Wichita people as
it marks another stage in the progress
Of a metropolis. There are a number Of
people with the train, and among them
Is the editor Of the Farm Implement
News. one Of the leading implement pa
pers in the United States Several ex-
perts from the factory are along and
this trip IS something i'm the nature of a
vacation for them
Wichita IS rapidly Incoming recognized
as a iobbng center and is setting fast
pace Tor her competitors. It has not been
the iobbing centers for southwest Kan
sas and Oklahoma. but today Wichita is
doing a larger jobbinE business than any
other city in the state With her match
Jess facilities she is bound to grow into
prominence more than that os the pres
ent time. and firms who desire to yet In
on the ground floor in the i1hbiug busi-
Ness VIII eventually come to this city.
As fast as the Oklahoma country devel-
ops it win mean that Wichita's trade
VIII increase. and she can not have any
formi5ahle rivals on account 0f her loca-
tiou Firms who would not do business
IN this territory several years ago are
beginning to send their representa- 'ves
here u look the field over. When The
Van Zardt Implement COMPANY 6rs, en-
tered into NEGOTIATIONS with Tho port
Huron people they refused to 60 business
IN this ter~I-7-v. nut - present they con-
si5er this the true wheat oelt Of the
T-ott.7 etot-.