The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-09-14
City Regulator
Makes Suggestions as to
How to Build a Wichita.

Makes Suggestions as to
How to Build a Wichita.
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To the Editor of the Eagle:
How nice it is to have a dwag, don't
cher-know; it's so English. don't-cher-
know, to sit on ones porch evenings and
have your dwag chase every vehicle that
passes, bark, yeIp and snap. and If there
is smaller dog following the carriage.
bounce upon il, don t-cher-know. and
chew it until the owner stops his team
and returns and pulls them apart, don't
cher-know. How it makes your neighbor
think of you, don t-cher-know, for as
soon as it gets dark ne will take a posi-
ton on the corner don t-cher-know, and
| bay at the moon all night long, don't
/ cher-know. and keep half of the people
within block awake half Of the night,
! on't-cher-know-and then is when your
! neighbors do their hardest thinking about
you and the dog. don t-cher-know-and
then the dear dowag, covered with germs
of disease that physicians and scientists
say is the most dangerous purveyor of
contagious disease, is allowed 10 lay on
rug in the coolest part of the house dur
jig the day and the children allowed to
play about over him. exposing them
selves 10 his infectious covered carcas
while he sleeps, preparatory to the next
rights reveiry, or perhaps the motony
of the day may occasionally be broken
into by taking a ride with a ribbon bow
tied around his neck, don t-cher-know.
Oh, it's so lovely to have dwag, don't
cher-know
1 would stop that boot black nuisance
on the sidewalks There are regularly
furnished rooms occupied by boot blacks
who pay high rent for their rooms.
Property owners have no right to rent
the use of the sidewalk in front of their
place of business and the city has no
right to rent or give anyone permission
10 run a business in front of your estab-
lishment Just walk gently and kindly.
yet firmly out tomorrow morning and
pick up the plant and throw it into the
ditch and tell them not to trespass on
these premises. 1t is not only an annoy
ance to the merchant OF which it is i'm
mediately in front, but on both sides.
Notice to conTactors-Bids will be re-
ceived for fencing several miles Of un-
protected cement sidewalk, builded across
the country in different directions where
there are no improvements Object: To
keep farmers from driving loaded wagons
over them.
An old saw: 1T is long lane that has /
no turn IN it." SO, too, it is said that
there are long sidewalks that have no /
cement in them.
did not think when 1 made the pre- |
diction short time since, regarding the |
shifting of the trade center of the city /
on account of the delapidated old shacks /
which hold down the most valuable lots !
IL the city that I would have to say. I /
told you so, so soon. Every week Market
street surprises the public with a new
move. Owners of property who are con-
templating the building of large business J
houses on other streets need not hesitate
on account of a possibility of the pos
SCISSORS of the buildings on the corner of
Main and Douglas being supplanted by
larger ones-for not while the present
generation owns the property will it
occur.
I move that the merchants call a meet
ing Of the merchants ana professional
men and resolve that they will, on a GER
tain day, before the fair commences. tear
down every sign-board, post of every
kind and description in front of their
place Of business and resolve TO abandon
the Arkansaw style of street decorations
forever.
1t is conceded by everyone that streets
must be repaired and cleaned The cost
of doing it is one of the largest expenses
taxpayers have TO meet. No portion of
the structure of city has such a direct
and important a bearing on the health.
comfort and wealth of its citizens as the
paving of its streets.
1 would use the park appropriations TO
cleah up the city, and / would clean it if
il took 100 teams and 500 men.
In the town Of Hutchinson not a tele
phone or telegraph pole of any kind can
be found on any of its streets. They are
all in the alleys Now that we have then,
on our streets and cannot get rid of them
We ought to make them look as respec-
table as possible I would require the
who have the poles to paint
them, three coats of white, and keep them
painted
If you want a shed or what is common
y called an awning in trout Of your place
Of business. build it of lumber or any
thing else that suits you: put a big sign
On the outer edge of it and along its sides
irive rings into it to tie horses 70. Don't
hesitate. There is no ordinance to pre-
fent it.
One Of the oldest and best located resi-
lences of this city possesses one single.
'cTaggly Tree that viii soon have to be
ut down.
The benefits 10 be derived from putting
n cement gutter without paving the ,
street is TO move the mudhole two and J
'ne-half feet farther out in the street.
When viii this farce end. 1t puts one ,
n mind OF man wearing a silk hat at
he same time barefooted-
I have made 1t a special point to talk :
@ a number OF business and professional
men this week about the sign nuisance {
n the sidewalks. and without a single
they all agree that il is q regu-
ar country-town AFFAIR and each one 4
hem said they would gladly take theirs
way. but as long IS others did it they