The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-10
City Regulator
To the Editor of the Eagle:
Some Further
Suggestions are Made.

10 the Editor OF the Eagle.
1 would. as between two men publish
ing directories. one called a business di
rectory, gotten up by a Kansas City man
and a regular city directory published BY
a Wichita man, decide in favor of th'
1 Wichita man. A good city directory j.
all we need, and it is needed badly.
I have found one man who is more
filthy even than the man who spits in tbs
church hot air register. 1t is the fellow
who will come into your Office and spit il
your waste basket
SONG OF THE SKIRT.
/ Sweep-sweep-sweep
Where the waste of the street lies thick
| Sweep-sweep-sweep
| However our path we pick;
Dust, bacillus and germ, Germ, bacillu;
and dust,
| Till we shudder and turn from the sorry
sight
With a gesture of disgust.
oh. men with sisters dear.
Oh. men who have well dressed wives,
It is not alone an expensive mode,
1t is one that hazards lives.
For malignant microbes swarm in the
triturated dirt,
And the dress that sweeps it up may
prove
shroud as well as skirt.
I would have an organization of bust
ness men in the city who would lend en-
enlargement to new enterprises desiring
to come here. From some things 1 hear
some proposed businesses are discour-
aged rather than encouraged, while 9TH
ers have simply to force their way in.
I would order the Missouri Pacific rail
way company to run morning train to
and from Kansas City.
I wonder if anybody thinks that Wich-
tia can grow to city Of sixty or seventy
thousand inhabitants and not take in the
Burton car works-if anyone expects the
city to go no further north than the pack
ing houses.
If the round house and machine shops
of the Orient road were to add three
thousand inhabitants to the city, when
they had a dollar to spend they would
come down town to spend it. There never
has been anything small about Wichita.
Let her spread.
went to church last Sunday. The
theme OF the pastors sermon was on
giving 1t is more blessed TO give than
to receive and could not help but note
the profound silence that seemed to pre-
vail among the amen brethren and sisters
during the sermon.
He was locked up. He did not know
that it was wrong-did not mean any
thing. but he was locked up. That was
the Lao who ignorantly and thoughtlessly
turned in the fire alarm at the auditorium
an item in Tuesday mornings Eagle.
There is a great difference between a boy
that will turn in an alarm and innocently
stand by the side of It until the fire
company has made the run and still not
know that he was the cause of il, and
the boy-that willingly turns in the alarm
and hides out to see the run-but neither
one OF them should be locked up; neither
one of them are criminals. There is a bet
ter way TO deal with such boys.
would stoy cyclists from leading their
and keep it open continuously until
o'clock. 1t should not be closed at the
noon hour. There are a number of clerks
who would spend a half hour in the IL
brary at the lunch hour if it was open
4 great mary Of them would make their
exchanges at that time. A public library
is supposed to be conducted in the interest
of the public.
I would very much rather that my kid
should have a spell of the Cuban itch
than to run the risk of incculating him
with some other kind of itck-by vaccina-
ton.
I would establish a vegetable and fruit
market at some convenient place in the
city. with all the necessary rules and
governing it and be prepared
for business when it opened up in the
spring.
I would stop cyclists from leading their
bicycles On the sidewalks in down town
business streets.
stump, setting fire to it, and smoking and !
piling old chunks of asphalt around Il
stump. setting fire to it and smoke and /
Tuning and smudging the whole neigh |
borhoOd is not good form. Dig a hole |
around the stump large and deep enough |
to bury it. and use the surplus soil for |
your parking, or lot filling.
Almost every day we read Of child |
being burned to death by carelessness or
playing with fire. There are four or FIVE !
hundred children in the city burning |
leaves every day. Whose child will 1t be ? |
l would take that man who arrested \
that little sirl up into ,he tower of the |
court house and tell him to select the l
route he wanted 20 leave town by. and |
after keeping him there for q hours would /
take him down TO the city limits and see
that he took that route. Then I would /
write 10 Governor Stanley 10 take his /
commission away from him. Humane. |
indeed Inhuman, To lock a 15-year-old !
girl up in a dark room in the court house /
in the name of virtue and humanity is too 4
mich 10 stand in a civilized community.
In the name Of virtue and humanity. bah, /
Thousands OF women N the city are
afraid 10 stay in their own homes over
night. with gas burning. and neighbors on /
both sides of them. in the next lot Ii Is
anosh TO give a man the mangrums 10
mprison him in that way. out with such
cruelty. CITY REGULATOR
TAMMANY'S NEW LEADER.
John F Carroll who Is said 70 have sue
eeded Richard Croker as master OF Tslu-
many. Notwithstanding The denial Of The