The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-12

planted one hundred trees On the town
site He is one Of those fellows who
sympathized with the words OF the High
land laird who said TO his son Jock.
When ye hae naething else to DO, We
be aye sticking il a tree; Il viii be
growing. Jock, when yere sleeping"
Plant tree and bless the earth
Heaven and earth help him who plants
tree,
And his work its own reward shall be-"
would tear up the stone paving AT the
intersection OF Main and Douglas and
replace II with asphalt or relay the stone
as they should be-
think there are some things that are
inezcusable and barborous, and one OF
them is. when a funeral procession is
passing along the street to drive your
team through, parting the procession
Carriages, drays. delivery wagons ars
all guilty. If you have no respect for
friends Of the dead. have some for your
self.
The evolution OF a frontier town from
q tent to a board-shack 10 a weather
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then a one story brick or stone with an
extra high front cornice. or a low two
story brick or stone with cut stone door
and window sills- But cutting out the
front and putting IN plate glass adds 10
the looks some, but It don't make bus
mess house in a city.
II the Sedgwick block pays q fair in
terest on the investment. what would q
similar building pay on the corner Of
Main and Douglas.
It is not good form for the street car
company to allow a lot OF their work
men, tracklayers. to crowd onto regu-
lar car already full Of well dressed ladies
coming down town TO 90 their shopping.
Considerable interest is being manifest
ed among residents OF Topeka avenue in
favor OF paving that thoroughfsre. A
great deal OF the property along that
street belongs TO non-residents who do
not intend TO improve 1t. but simply
holding it as an investment
The lot owners OF College Hill would
DO smart thing If they would macada-
nize Douglas avenue the balance OF the
way to hillside avenue. With paved
street and a FIVE minute street railway
service, College Hill problem for resi-
dences viii be settled.
I am afraid the spring months will 60
by before anything is done toward re-
building the dam. Don't build It any
higher up the stream, go lower x any
thing. Why not build it at the mouth
Of Little river?
asked tramp the other morning why
he passed the large. fine residences and
went TO the cottages for a hand-out He
said there were two reasons: One was
that the moderate, simple liver was more
kindly to tramps; the other was that you
generally ind young married people in
the cottages, and they were more gener-
GUS
And still that old booth stands IN Crit
fenstein park. The sight OF IL fl its
tumbIed-down condition is enough 20 give
visitors 10 the park the magrums.
would stop those staggering, insolent
porters from parading the streets in their
working costumes.
The most abomnable nuisance that has
struck the town lately Is that street
sweeper. 1t should not be allowed to ap-
pear on the street until 10 o'clock p. m.
1t is an outrage on the community 20 al
low it to operate until the public have
left the streets
think it is high time for the Santa
Fe railroad company to remove that
homely, unsightly cross roads signs sus-
pended on two posts by their depot. II
can be used in Missouri.
1t IS amusing how the golf players fan
down IN the tournament. 7 have been
reading Of hfty-fve, ffty-six and fifty
eight records. but that seemed 10 be
when the fellows did their own counting