The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-07-29
City Regulator
To the Editor of The Eagle.
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Sue geStiOns are Made,

70 the Editor of The Eagle.
A hundred or more school teachers will
spend a month in the city attending the
institute. There are a number of places
Of interest in the city which, if they
would visit and study, would not only
widen their field of intelligence as peda-
gogues but would prove a source Of graf
ification to themselves. One of the great
est inventions ever produced Is the Mer-
genthaler linotype machines to be seen
in the Eagle office. They are in operation,
some of them, in the daytime, all Of
them at night, and can be seen by any
one who will take the trouble to walk to
the third floor Of the Eagle Office.
] have no objection to a policeman
picking I'D a farmer for splitting on the
sidewalks. the first man after two weeks
vigilance; but it is too gauzy for any po-
liceman to tell the public that it was the
first instance coming under his notice.
Any policeman can go along any hour in
the day and see crowd Of loafers from
two to a half-dozen or more, perched on
abe sidewalk splitting in puddles Of their
hastness.
] sat in the Carey Hotel Office Thurs
day. Three men came out of the dining
room wearing red badges worn at the
Fort Scott convention. They were dis
cussing majorities for Bryan, and two Of
them decided that Bryan would not be in
II at all in Kansas. and they thought it
doubtful if he carried his own state.
I saw Just one real idiot who attended
the Demo-Pop convention. He went
through the city with a couple of badges
Ct some kind and a 15-cent cotton flag
wrapped around his head He ought to
have been arrested for violating the
United States law for making vulgar
and inappropriate use Of the flag.
The latest fad in the line of carriages
resembles very much the trolley car go
devil But none have reached the city
yet that are regulation height The very
latest thing in that line carries a ladder
with it for entrance and exit. Some one
Is going to bring one to the city. Guess.
I hope the city won't make any mis-
take in the electric light business and
step the present lighting on the SUPPOSE
tion that It viii be replaced in two weeks.
We can't afford to be without lights. 1t
can be done in sections or districts. and
the lighting continue without stopping.
Sore people driving teams think that
pedestrians or wheelmen have no rights
on the streets which they are bound to
respect. A footman Or wheelman has the
Name rights on streets and crossings as
4 person with a team. Reckless drivers
VIII do we'll to observe this.
The custodian of the postoffice has a
sign out mo Loaffng on These Steps"
The other day I saw two fellows sitting
and leaning up against the sign, COM
Vietely covering it, and about a dozen
ether sleepy-heads perched around.
1 would not allow the street cars to
seave the junction of Main and Douglas
unHl five minutes after Il, noon. There
are a number Of people who don't leave
'Sheir working places until Il, and they
can't catch a u o'clock car.
would styp the 5T''lI carts and wag-
o2s from being drteen through the
streets unless they had tight covers on
them. and then I would positively forbid
7aem being hauled through the busy.
thronged streets.
7 see the Carey Hotel is not the only
place that is tearing out their lumber
floor and putting in thing The Eagle,
not intending to be outclassed, has put in
thing also in its press and machinery
room.
If I were a member Of the w. c. T. u,
] would get some signs painted and post
ed: mo Splitting on the Sidewalk" There
IS still a chance for them to do some
thing in substantial way.
1t IS a mistake to say that Sanford was
hired to join the Ministries to prevent the
band from playing in the park Sundays.
Sousa left the Marine band at Washing
ton. still the band played on.
7 was told that the question to name
The eight congressman from Kansas was
submitted at the teachers institute with
cut a response Now, don't laugh. Can
you name them?
Wanted-Candidates for three repre-
sentative and one senatorial district in
This county on the Pop-Silver-Re-
publican ticket. Free for all Ad-
dress b
think a man is smalI-yery diminu-
tive-his breadth of vision extremely linn
f.ed-who would disfgure the picture of a
presidential candidate hanging in a pub
Nc place.
7 think if I was manager Of the street
r. line I would grant almost any re-
Guest made by the directors Of the street
f4ir association. Reasons apparent
sometimes think that some women
II d. not think the anti-spatting ordinance
was intended for them.
CITY REGULATOR.
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
PROFESSOR GENTRY COMING