The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-05

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| To the Editor OF the Eagle:
The health policeman is respectfully re-
/ cuested TO take a drive in the quiet hour
/ OF this morning and look along the
/ bitches in front Of the business houses
and make a note. take an inventory Of
their contents
IF was riding q wheel and net a team
that was on the wrong side OF the street.
would dismount, plac ethe wheel in
front OF me and stand my ground. and
would certainly report the deposit Of
glass I found in front OF business places.
I Cyclists have rights. They ought 10
learn what they are and unitedly main
tain them
And now the annual dog catcher
trouble has TO be gone through with.
would levy tax OF twenty-five dollars
on every dog owner in the city. and in
addition TO that would require every dog
TO be muzzled. They are are an abomi-
nation upon the earth when allowed 10
run at VIII about the streets.
The trolley ride business has again
been inaugurated viz: Load car with
anche Indians. Why not have them
sing patriotic songs if the want to at
tract attention.
Golf players can play golf at night if
they viii see Charlie Ferguson and get
his door plate illuminator and soak their
balls
OF course we cant hope to prevent all
the boys in town from trying TO kin
birds in the city and parks especially
those whose fathers go to the country
cunning and come home with their game
bags full OF turtle doves and meadow
larlls. It's shame.
For Sale-Twenty-seven miles Of spite
fence; iron, wood and wire no gates.
Inquire along the street wherever you
see one
I would stop the sIop wagon trade dur
ing the DAY time
Atelephone is needed at the Country
club house.
The street car ran over a large black
cat on Topeka avenue. The feline grew
larger and louder each day. The mo-
toneer instead of saying, hold fast, would
sing out hold your nose The health
officer was notified several times about
it by telephone to have it removed. Fail
ing in that the neighborhood turned out
late one night and buried it in the ditch.
Requies-Cat in pace.
I would certainly stop livery stables
from filing up the streets with vehicles.
This thing of renting an old shack that
has to be proped up TO keep standing in
which a few horses are Kept, regular
fire trap. and make a buggy shed out of
the street is not good form for city.
One hundred times a day horses are
tied to fire MIGRANTS of the city. the act
is Unable ten dollars
Throwing rubbish into the streets or
alleys OF any kind is Enable ten dollars.
Hang up a sign on your fence reading
This fence given away to the first party
that viii haul it away and do a clean job.
There are half dozen diaries in town.
You can find them by the odors rising
from them.
I smile to hear the fellows on the golf
links enthuse over the healthful, delight
ful. restful. beautiful thing the game is,
and around they so, knocking the chunks
out of their balls. chasing them over the
bluffs. but the next day they look like
thirty cents and are as cross as a bear [
with sore head
Why don't the commercial club keep
the grounds Of the club house in better
condition. They are raising enough dan /
delins to seed the country.
We are reminded almost every Gay by /
hearin ga woman scream or seeing peO- I
pie run, that women cannot drive down |
in the busy streets during the busy hours I
of the day with safety unless she has |
a lot Of nerve and brings it with her.
that sign of the board of health which
reads: Stay out would be more sem /
sible If it read "Stay in and then
see that they did it.
7 am glad that I have lived 10 see the
day when some Of the school boards in
the east have stopped the examination
tests that rattles. wrenches and wrecks
minds Of children until they forget what
they did learn. out OF a school Of thirty
or forty, nve or six viii pass without
tremor, while the balance of the school
must be put upon the rack and screw.
If I was mayor, I would appoint
commissioner OF birds and animals. would
make IL an Office Of honor and decoration, 1