The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-06-02
City Regulator
Some Further
Suggestions are Made.

Suggestions are Made.
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To the Editor Of the Eagle:
1 wonder who is responsible for the
growth OF weeds in the parking OF the
High school grounds. and Webster, as
well.
would like to have this city enumer-
ated once. This going about hit and miss
business IS tiresome. Any one with a
lick Of sense knows that we have not had
correct enumeration.
Why don't the W. c. T. Z. stop their
singing and praying long enough 10 do
something practical, and put in three or
four drinking fountains for people? Men
drink because they get thirsty, and many
times If they could get a drink of water |
they would be satisfied and not hunt for
something else. If I were merchant |
and did not run a soda fountain, I would |
put fountain in front OF my store.
Loyalty to the cause. fidelity TO the c. |
a. R., and respect for the day, was beau
tifully illustrated this week by the jan |
itor Of the court house. who hoisted Old |
Glory at half mast the evening before /
Decoration Day.
Talking about philanthropy. know OF !
nothing more philanthropic than to Sc
cure the names Of farmers throughout |
the valley who would take our boys for !
the summer months and give them en- !
ployment for their board. Parents can
not do a better thing for their boys than |
to send them TO the farm for vacation. /
I can I'll this column with good, strong !
reasons why, and not one single reason |
can be offered against it. There is moth /
ing in the city to occupy the boys. and /
Satan always finds something for idle |
hands to do.
I have been studying the dam question /
a good deal and am free TO confess that if |
the dam was built at the west end of
GriswoId, which is the most beautiful !
spot in all the park, isolated from the /
drivers. where carriages can not go, and |
the grove filed with park seats and seats |
built around the trees, it would certainly
be very pleasant and attractive. Every !
body driving to the park usually visited !
the dam in their rounds. The pedestrians !
had no place to sit or even stand and |
watch the water pour over the lower |
door, but were chased about by the |
teams. If built at the west end Of the |
park, then teams will not be permitted |
and the women and children and the low !
ers can get the benefits equally with the |
rich who ride in chaises, while they listen |
to the roaring Of the dam Give us the |
dam at the west end Of Griswold, and
give it to us quick.
If I had built that Soldiers Pavilion I
would have lined the inside with slabs
Of marble, so that any veteran or his
friends who wised to do so could have
his name. company. rank, etc. carved
in the slab. Their names would in this
way be perpetuated for the present cen
tury, at any rate.
would erect a nice building on the
court house grounds for the detention Of
women and children-a building free from
iron bars and cells. It is cruel to arrest
women who are slightly demented and
place them in a cell or rotunda of the
jail to await the action Of the slow plod-
ding court to determine their condition.
The shock to a delicate, nervous woman
20 be placed in jail is in itself enough to
further unbalance her mind; and placing
young boys in jail is wrong. The whole
principle is wrong. And. again, the cruel,
heartless way that women, many Of
whom are adjudged insane, are handled
placed in the hands of an officer TO be
conveyed to the asylum, a day or nights
travel on train, often placed in the
smoking car, during the trip in the care
Of a man. OF course the man is not TO
I'll
but it is not the thing. The county com
missioners should have a good. sensible,
tactfuI woman, who could take the un-
fortunate in charge. and the officer not
to be called on only in case OF actual ne
eessity.
was IN the park Friday afternoon and
met a wagon that was loaded with mer-
chandise, not less than thirty hundred
weight. I also could see at the same time
five uniformed and ununiformed police
men. OF course the sun was shining, and
it was little warm.
If were the street commissioner
would see that the water-works company
put the street in as good order as they
find it after laying pipes Every square
in the city has either a ridge or a ditch in
it, made by them.
Sparkling is all right, sitting around and
spooning goes. but. really, I don't think
it is in good form to practice it in the
cemetery, especially in the face of the
fact that we have such lovely parks.
The worst CRATER that has hit the town
this season was The fellow from Texas. 4 /
total stranger. 1t would be interesting /
to know the graft he worked on that bevy I
of old ladies in order that he might get /
out Of town.
7 wonder how many people hear that I
mocking bird that perches on the highest !
spire OF the government or city building /