The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-07
City Regulator
SUfne TuFlner
Suggestions are Made.
To the Editor of the Eagle.


To the Editor of the Eagle.
The FRISCO Railroad company did the
| handsome thing all this week in fur
| nishing Eureka Springs water from two
large tanks with attendants to hand IT
out. Thousands of people who attended
the carnival will remember the cool. re-
freshing drinks of fresh water that they
got from the Frisco railroad tanks. Fifty
barrels were drank during the week.
| Always on circus days and carnival
days, when there is an unusual racket
! going on, when horses are unmanageaole,
| 1t seems that women have an unusual
| desire to get out with fractions horses,
| fill the traps with children, drive in the
thickest of the crowd, and have scene
! with screaming children and fainting
women.
Now that the fair is over let's go to
work this coming week and finish up that
| packing house proposition. One hun
bred men ought to voluntarily go TO
the committee and give their checks for
ten dollars each, two hundred for five
dollars each, and five hundred for one
dollar each.
7 saw a real pretty, sweet-looking
young girl going along the street the
other day. Beside her was a specimen
of humanity who pulled from his pocket
a cigarette paper and a bag of tobacco,
and made himself a cigarette, lighted a
match in the usual way and smoked.
If the fellow who is making himself
so conspicuous in his criticisms about
the Sunday street car will give his poor
old horse rest on Sunday and walk or
ride on the street cars, he will at least
not be open to criticism by his neighbors
for cruelty to animals.
I know Of no better way for the people
Of this city to show their appreciation
of the successful weeks entertainment
than to go to church this morning, listen
to the sermon carefully and prayerfully,
and contribute an extra amount to the
collection.
How soothing to the nerves 1t is when
you are rushed to answer a telephone
ring, to have some YELL ''Who is this?"
a half dozen times. 1t is so easy to say,
"Can speak to -" naming the
party you wish to address.
Why is that one man or lady may be
in ever so large a, crowd on the street
and the crowd will part right and left
and let them pass, while hundreds and
hundreds of others push ana crowd to
get along?
Next year the Carnival people ought
to build an amphitheatre that will hold
ten thousand people. employ a first class
vaudeville company-the best in the land,
and have a fine street parade every day.
A street masked ball might be fairly
controlled by having a policeman with
each person allowed on the ground, pro-
vided the policeman was vigilant and
attended to his duties.
II
I saw as many people this week, I
think as anyone in the city. and did not
see an ill-tempered person or an intoxi-
Gated person. Neither was there an ac-
cident of any kind.
The City Regulator said at the very
start that unless the ladies of the city
became interested in the carnival it
would be a failure. They took the palm
for the week.
Next year there should be provision
for drinking water for the people and |
not compel them to fill themselves and |
their babies with cheap circus lemon |
ade. -
Now the park commissioners have
something that will be a real decoration
an arch BETTING the place. for the |
Murdoch avenue entrance to the park.
Next year every merchant in the city |
ought to furnish a row of seats IN front |
Of his establishment during the weeks
T think it would take about one police
man to each masher TO be able to con-
duct an orderly street masked ball.
The Kansas City man who so boasting-
" said that Wichita had bit off more
than she could chew was mistaken.
Now, let US have the splitting ordin-
ance enforced again. The sidewalks look
ike a checker board.
I wonder why the park commissioners
yilded the base OF the Ross fountain. 1t
S shocking.
CITY REGULATOR