The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-08
ON SOUTH Topeka
Citizens Want Street Cars to
Run That Way.
WILL PETITION COMPANY
Nearly 500 Families Agree
to Patronize 1t.

The citizens of South Wichita, and par
ticularly those of South Topeka avenue,
want a street railway line on Topeka
avenue, and have taken a lively interest
in the matter within the last three days.
Petitions are being circulated and will
be presented to the street railway people
ing Monday night. The petitions are be-
ing signed by the best people of the
south end, section OF the city which has
progressed wonderfully within the past
two years, and is entitled to considera-
ton. The petitioners claim that there
are at least so families between Douglas
avenue and Lincoln street that would pat
ronize a street car line most literally.
1t is the desire to have the company
build as far south as Lincoln or Harry
street, where a loop can be made with the
Main street line. Such a line would
serve passengers from Lawrence avenue,
Topeka avenue, Emporia avenue, and as
South of Lincoln street there is large
settlement which would be glad to pat
ronize the line There are several
churches in that section of the city that
need the service TO insure better atten-
dance at the various meetings during the
week. The people are quite sure that
the line will pay as well or better than
any other line in the city with the excep-
ton Of the North Topeka avenue line
During fair week the Main street line
cannot handle third of the travel, and
on such occasions the Topeka avenue line
would come in good use.
The people of South Wichita are very
proud of the new railway people and their
manner of doing things. They thinA
Wichita is very fortunate in getting a
new and up-to-date system, and they do
not want to be left behind in the good
things which the other sections of the
city are getting in the way of public i'm
provements. They can supply the patron
age and think they are justly entitled to
a street car line. Lawrence, Topeka and
Emporia avenues are becoming fine resi-
dence sections. The houses are being re-
modelled and reprinted, lawns beautihed,
and new houses being built until that sec
ton of the city glistens with newness and
. evidence of thrift is everywhere.
! DR.. ]. C. Wilson had received three pc
titions up to last night containing in all
about 120 heads of families There are
four petitions out yet which will swell
the list to three or four hundred. These
have been secured hurriedly.
ha tO tfa Of
pany, together with the signers, is as
follows:
Wichita, Kan, April 4. 1900.
To the Street Railway Company of Wich-
! tia:
The undersigned citizens of Wichita,
| especially interested in that part of the
/ city lying south of Douglas avenue.
earnestly request the maintenance and
operation of a street railway on Topeka
avenue south of Douglas avenue. You
would have our hearty cooperation in
making such a line one of the most profit
able in Wichita and we feel a thorough
investigation on your part will convince
you that it would prove an excellent line:
C. w. Carey, ]. F. Mccoy, Cash Hen
derson, ]. C. Wilson, Henry Balling,.
Margaret Dryden VIII V. Burns, H. 1.
Colin, c. D. Flanders, w. ]. Jones. S. R.
Turner, II. Flanders, J. Woodring, Ed
ward Baldwin, w. A Hart, Jesse Gwyn,
NJ. ]. Kennedy, Chas. Garden, E. Scher-
merhorn. VIM. Herbaugh, Joseph V. Cor
win. G. NJ. Grimes, Joseph w. Green, G.
F. Fuller. E. E. Balling, Ed Cone, G. W.
Foster, Mrs. Laura Pray, Mrs. Katie
Adams, Ed Lawson, Dick Frank, Mrs.
Emile H Frank, Charles G. Ecardt, J.
II. Dillon, T NJ Voss. T. Z. Preston, H
Schnitzer, John B. Heimermann, Geo. F
Wilke, Chas. A. Schnitzler, Jack Clar T
H Barley, A. f. McNess, J. NJ. Briden-
slime J. c. Erick, G. w. Fryer, W. w
| Trotter. Jno. H Shields. E. K. Nevling
L. E Ward c. w Massey, ]. P. Ne
han. Nellie D. Wilbur Robert Vanwey
J. NJ. Derr, T. s. Sellers. A. Pauline. J.
D. Sturgeon. a. D. Jones, H. B. Jones, P
r Allen. H NJ. Sites, Fritz Huffman
Mrs Carilia Huffman, Henry ". HUT
man. w. B. Calender, II. NJ. Lewis
George T Parry. Bruce Griffith o. P
Massey ]. ]. Shepard, w. S. Kinsey, R
S. Pryor. J. s. McClung, E. \. Elem
ming. E H. Stevens. Thos. Banks. G. A
Wolfe, w A Caldwell. B. I. Whitlock
A E. Baldwin. J. V. Wood, George
Hartzen, Herman Pulls. Henry 0. Simp
son. A. a. Gehring VIM. Hossfeld, J. w
Gale. c. B. Atkins. Jas. NJ Bentley. Thos
Tracey. J. S. Winters, Amos Biddle. J
y Myers. jacob kolb, D. S. Pence, F. NJ
Furnish, A Klein. L. S Bright. \. a
Barlow J. F Saver. c. F. Guyer, J. f
Jet. John Sprowl. John Nolan. E. c
V-s,a Richardson