The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-28
City Regulator
Some Further
Suggestions are Made.
20 the Editor OF the Eagle:
Suggestions are Made.

e Suggestions are Made
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To the Editor of the Eagle:
It is high time that the street car com
pany increased their service and accom-
odations, when the police have 10 b
called 10 regulate the loading Of cars
Yesterday 2 Paramount avenue car wen
out wit 81 passengers.
To the Editor Of the Eagle:
Each property holder in the city ough
to be public spirited enough to plant
tree in one Of the parks. not an ordinar,
one, but something rare that viii grow
IN this latitude Trees from Japan
China, Ohio. Indiana, California. Colora
do tab them, keep a regular record o
each tree and who furnished it.
/ would not allow bicycle riders to lead
their wheels along the sidewalks on Mair
or Douglas avenue.
l would enforce the awning ordinance
There is no reason why two or three es-
adjustments should be allowed 10 ignore
the ordinance. greatly 10 the discomfor;
Of the travelling public.
/ wonder why the Eagles horse editor
as long as he had undertaken TO write
up good horses did not mention some
good horses.
The attention of the proper persons is
called TO the fact that there are a num-
Der Of boys and an occasional girl who
make practice of visiting the garbage
! barrels Of the groceries every morning
/ and pull from them decayed fruit and
| vegetables and eat it. The health com
mittee should put a stop TO it. There
/ are more ways than one.
It is not considered good form to go to
the club house or play golf on the
grounds Of the Country club if you do
not belong to the club or are not invited
by a member.
If putting on a cornice and painting and
penciling two or three fronts in a block
makes the balance Of the block look so
rocky, why don't they stop it?
I see the periodical notice has been
given to resi- tents, Clean up Your Al
10y. ne man WHO Keeps MS alley
clean, don't need a notice of that kind;
it's gratuity uncalled for, and the man
who needs TO be notified says, ooh. well.
that comes annually; we won't hear any
thing more from the health board until
next spring; some new fellow will get in
and he viii have a spasm and quit"
If I was member of the city council
I would not grant anyone a franchise
for gas or coal oil until there was
company organized with sufficient CAPT
tai to operate the proposition that they
offer and then if there was any bonuses
I would see that it went into the city
treasury. I see no reason for the city
giving somebody something for nothing.
The city is confronted with a problem
that viii cost a lot of money. The sew
ers are. no doubt. clogged. 1t will be
necessary to open them at many differ
ent points and remove the accumulation
OF sand, tree roots, etc. The sooner the !
better.
7 am sorry to see that Linwood park is
being neglected. 1t ought TO be kept up.
George Harris should be given the gener-
al management of ali the parks with
enough men to do the work needed.
I would name the new park on South |
Lawrence avenue Ross Park in honor Of I
our friend, Finlay Ross.
The street crossing at street car tracks |
ought to be filed with crushed stone.
I would put up curtains at the windows
of hose house number two.
I wonder that more people Go not go to
church. lam sure many would go that
do not if they knew the hearty welcome
that would be extended 10 them and
lost all OF the good sermon they would
hear. and the fine singing as we'll Wich-
tia is famous for her good preachers. If
you go to the first church you come 70
this morning you VIII hear q good SER
mon I win vouch for it if the regular
minister breaches. Go and learn q lot of
things you never knew.
I don't understand how it is that where
he Building and Loan association OF this
,ity earns such dividends that there are
not more o fthem organized in our city,
and not patronized associations in Min
lesOta and Missouri.
The best kept block in the city. lawns.
parking. sidewalks and all is on North
Topeka avenue between Murdock avenue
and Ninth street, on the west side Of the
avenue The next best is the block be-
ow on the same street on the opposite
side. What one OF two blocks can Go,
me hundred can do.
I wonder that more people do not go to {
he park and walk through it. Get up a
circulation. But it seems that the park
S for people who drive
The best kept grounds in the city arc
hose Of 1Ir. l. W. CIapp on Eighteenth ,
treet
7 think that the street commissions 1
deserves great credit for the amount Of ;