The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-11-11


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Now that the wave Of prosperity that
is rolling everything over and expand
ing is 10 continue, I presume the business
manager Of the Eagle win raise the
! Eagle office sidewalk to some kind of a
level and have the front windows
washed.
7 would make a roof garden on the top
of Bryan Bros candy factory.
Business win certainly increase. for I
heard one lady say that her husband
/ promised her a new hat if Mckinley was
I elected, and another one that they were
going to get a baby wagon. Another
one was promised a trip to California;
| another her hat made over; one a horse,
one trap. and one a new dress.
TIE Missouri Pacifcs new depot has
bestirred the other roads. I see the
Frisco management has joined with an
employment agency and put out on the
sidewalk a joint bulletin board. Du-
laney and Drake can no doubt find some
one to join them.
7 would see that the street cleaning
force kept the watering troughs clean.
It is to be hoped that the Missouri Pa
cific management viii tear down that old
depot and not allow it to remain to mar
the beauty Of the landscape.
If I we're running the elections in this
city and county I would call the conven-
tons and have them make their nomina-
tons. Then would get the candidates
OF both conventions together with the
central committees Of both parties and
require each central committee with the
respective candidates to give a bond ac-
companied by a certified check, that not
one dollar Of money should be spent for
anything connected with the canvass IN
til 1t had been submitted to an executive
committee comprising members Of both
central committees and met its approval
I would build a nice gravel walk from
the Herman & Hess waiting room on the
street railway track in the park. east to
the boulevard.
The First Presbyterian church. the
First Baptist church, the First Methodist
church and the Consistory ought to park
their grounds and plant trees.
If I were custodian Of the government
building 7 would plant tree on the gov
eminent grounds and invite the post
master, the clerk Of the federal court
the district superintendent of the mail
service. the pension agent and the dep
uty marshal to plant a tree each. and
the mail carriers to plant one represent
ing the whole force
An Usage hedge fence around a resi-
dence is neither "a thing Of beauty nor
"a joy forever" unless It is trimmed
very low and closely
West Central avenue since the ca
track has been built is entirely too mar
row That big ditch on the north side
ought to be tiled and filed IN.
The Friends University campus ought
to have a thousand trees planted on It.
This fan is the time to do it.
The balance Of the campas at Fair
mount should be planted with elm trees.
I would kindly suggest to the west
Side Improvement society that they have |
an arbor DAY and plant a row of trees
ON each side Of Seneca street north to
Central avenue
That part OF Linwood Park south of
the lower wagon bridge ought to be /
looked after and a lot Of tree repIanting !
done.
would find out who owned that little |
grove Of trees on Chisholm creek on East /
Douglas, get their permission to clean it |
up, and I would send the street force /
put there and do a first class job. It /
ean be made a very inviting place.
I would clean NJ the street railway /
power house grounds and plant trees in 4
It. The power house inside is thing of |
beauty. clean, neat and handsome as
anyone could desire. but the grounds
2h, myl
Wichita has the most uninviting-look-
ng. shabby and treeless lot Of school
grounds of any town in the state except
Topeka Why they are allowed to 90 I'M
is inexpIainabIe Elm trees six
% eight inches in circumference ought to
be planted in well prepared holes-trees
With large roots-and the janitors
should be required TO keep them wei wa
cred. Franklin and Irving school
grounds have trees worthy the name.
Webster and Emerson particularly are
disgrace to the town. If IL IS not deem
d advisable to attempt to grow trees on
he grounds, the parking should ne filed
With crushed stone such as is put on the
,ark boulevards.
7 would establish a school garden in
eaching children how TO raise flowers,
bringing instruction in botany and nat
lral history into practical use by cult
-atng flowers in beds on the grounds.
I think that the police judge Sc TO Be
highly. commended for fning that fellow
l5teen dollars for shooting one Of the
ftv SQUIRRELS The squirrels are in the
labit OF crossing the Murdoch avenue
'ridse into the city visiting the barns
p search Of corn
Another decoration Of the park win be
he Spanish gun sent rs by the war de-
which IS now in the marble
HOP being fitted 10 a marble base When
mt in place This viii sive Us a Battery
. four guns
The old dam at the Chisholm creek mil
night be rebuilt with a hsh-way ana a
ice body Of water he maintained. che