The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-07-21
LIKE
THOSE AT A
STREET FAIR
All the Crowd at Ell Reno
Needs Is Confetti.
GOOD HUMOR UNIFORM
It Is a Beer-ConSuming Event
Whisky Cut Out.

| FL Reno. o. T, July 2o.-"Well, this
| stumps me- said man Friday evening
as he stood in front Of the outdoor res
| tauTant where you can get all you can
eat for twenty-five cents. "Ten thousand
boomers walking up and down the streets
and not pair of high-topped boots with
the pants leg inside. in the whole num-
Der"
The man who had been witness to other
boom events was correct The crowd is
wholly lace-snoe contingent AS it diff
fers from the personnel Of former open
ings in the respect to footgear, so it does
in other matters The man with the re-
volver hung TO his hip is not here; he
is supplanted by the fellow with a straw
hat and a silk umbrella; the man with
leather breeches and a white broad
brimmed sombrero isn't here; his place is
occupied by a gentleman in a tailor-made
suit Of clothes. So, too, has the individual
with the tobacco juice dripping from the
corners of his mouth and eyes made redly
evil by the use of too much rot-gut, dis
appeared.
And his absence brings up another diff
ference. Former openings were whisky
drinking affairs. This is exclusively, Who'll
~ and teetotally a beer consuming event.
The small bottle is paramount and ubi-
ouitous You don't have TO stir the mem
DRY up much to recall some Of the scenes
at border towns at former openings, to
think of the man with pistols strapped Ia
him who about midnight, reeled out of a
saloon and malicious and satanic with
poor whisky, shot and yelled like mad
man. If such one would appear in ri
Reno tonight. the crowd would trip him
up. sit on him. gag him and take his gun
away from him and hand him over to the
police.
And II would be the beer drinkers who
would do it. The beer drinkers have no
desire to shoot up the town; they are not
filed with a wild wierd hunger to kill and
destroy humankind in general. The beer
drinkers are jolliers. The furtherest they
go is to suggest to some individual laden
with grips that he viii have to hurry, or
veil to a man who is singing that he will
have TO "cut it out"
The lines in front of the registration
booths are made up largely of jolIers who
Josh one another and everything in par
ticular Incoming trains fun of boomers
cheer outgoing boomers. Diners joke the
walters. In the booths. on the streets,
where meals are cooked, the crowd order /
ing steak viii throw a cracker or two
st the cook and the cook viii fire q couple |
hack. People on neighboring cots get ac- |
ouaintetd through their propensity to jOl- |
~.
You find it everywhere-the same uni /
form good humor Anyone is privileged I
to take a try at the same. Yesterday in /
front Of VIII Hoenscheidts newspaper !
Office tyvo men got into a discussion about /
what would become OF the first envelope /
drawn if the man drawn should die just /
as he reached the land Office. One MAJ;
said his widow could then make the first (
selection The other said not. They vera (
talking pretty loudly. A large man step /
ped in between them and said:
Gentlemen, cut this noise out. We /
must have order
He walked on while the two men looked |
after him in establishment. Il
Must be chief of police" said one.
''Wen. he amt" said a citizen standing |
near. Il don't know who he is, though.
Governor Richards. expect" volun- |
teered another.
But it wasn't Governor Richards or the |
chief Of police. 1t was just fellow hav-
ing fun
Put confetti in the hands Of the crowd /
and you would practically have another
Wichita street fair.