The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-15
City Regulator
Some Further
Suggestions are Made.

To the Editor of the Eagle.
He commenced to play golf 1t did not
particularly interest him, but he had
| joined the club; it means something to
belong to the club; it is the fad to be a
club man and be able TO talk golf, so
| he went two or three times more and
began to be interested a little so he would
go out couple Of times after p. m.
/ Then he found time enough-it was
quiet. business .. little slow-to go out a
| little earlier and so over the links once,
! and rush in IN time to see the establish
ment closed for the evening, but it is re-
| markable how different it made him feel
| He had a good deal Of stomach trouble,
| headache, and since he has been playing
| golf. he is getting rid of all that trouble
and he finds it Just the thing for him,
/ and with this self-satisfying excuse he
| got SO he went every evening, starting at
promptly. he could 90 without its inter
fering with business. and nothing much
! is going on after that hour, notwith-
standing something now and then would
drop, which indicated that his business
was unraveling a little, and that his es-
Enlistment was losing a point now and
then and that his partner was adjusting
things his way. shifting around so that
the business would and could run with
out him He has called halt and con-
Guided TO return to Observation-Disclosures
stomach trouble-and occasionally a trip
to the links and let the other fellows
do the club act and get fooled
I would NOW the hay in the court house
grounds, give the. evergreen trees to the
park commissioner. pIow up the ground,
SOW it in English bluegrass and white
clover. 1t ought TO be done at once.
I would let the water out of Little river
ana dredge it and clean it.
I would buy a thousand American ivy
cuttings now and plant them at the roots
of the largest trees in the parks.
1 would not allow lemonade and peanut
stands to be conducted in the park with
the band concert. Please Eliminate for
a f ew hours the "shop" annoy the
people with shop Sunday afternoon
in the park at concert.
Some night when the wind is blowing
at the rate of sixty miles an hour, the fire
belt will announce fire. The pressure
viii be put on, and those old wooden
pipes viii burst in a dozen different
places. One-half of the city will be up in
the clouds next morning Then you will
hear it on all sides: Il told you So" This
talk. of extending the mains TO the pack
ing house until the wooden pipes have
been replaced, is foolish.
7 would organize all Of the societies, So
ciaI, scientific and benevolent into a con-
federation for the purpose of taking care
Of the poor children in the city and
would see that they were properly
clothed. and see also that they were sent
to school regularly. here are hundreds
of children of school age running the
streets that should be compelled to go to
school. I would pass an ordinance for
bidding them TO run at large. If their
parents viii not send them to school,
they ought TO be compelled to keep them
on their own premises.
If I was mayor I would appoint three
citizens, heavy taxpayers one lady and
two gentlemen, who would be willing to
act in conjunction with the sanitary po-
licemen and instruct them to clean I'D
the city It is simply nasty and the
money that is expended and the laws that
the city possesses under its sanitary or
dinanees. the city ought to be clean /
There is positively no excuse for the filth
that is lying loose in the streets and
alleys Saturday night seems TO be set
apart for the business houses 20 fill the |
cutters with old wafer melons, toma- |
toes and rotten vegetables to reek all day |
Sunday.
If were an employer of men, I would |
not let one work for me that had any
anarchist sentiments about him. If he |
expressed himself he would take a walk |
If all employers of labor woul do that. /
and the government stop the dagoes and /
Russians from landing in America. how |
long would it be before we would be rid |
of such cattle?
The finest growth and display of cannas
in the town is in font fthe Brown fiat l
on Murdoch avenue. between Lawrence 4
and Topeka. They arc on the north side /
Of the building, the most of them never /
having been touched by the sun.
would not allow any sideshows or
performances of any kind in the city dur
ing carnival week that would not allow
my boys and girls TO attend.
I would see that all the Worn places in
the asphalt pavement on Douglas ave
nue. were mended-ard everything that
could be possibly done TO make the city
clean and attractive during the carnival
week. No time should be lost [
saw q young man hunting a job this
week. He wore in his shoes one red and
one green shoestring. His hair was care
fully arranged down over his forehead
and temples in rinslets and stringlets
His hat back on the sharp point of his
head. and "a cigarette in his mouth.
felt like referring him 70 the fertilizing
department OF the packing house.
ara glad to learn that no one living
on Lawrence avenue cares 10 move on ac-