The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-28

away TO laugh at him as he vainly
CROPPED along the sidewalk for it. Howe
sees him. He finds his stick for him,
laughs, slaps him goOd-naturedly on the
9ack. Sips a quarter into his hand, leads
MIN TO the street. waits till car comes,
sees MIN safely on, bids him a CHEEKY
goodbye and turns to greet cOlOred
man carrying a basket of garden pro-
duee He has had his moments chat
with MIN when along comes a well
dressed man. He receives the same sa-
lutation and smile from Howe as did
the blind man and the gardener. Then
the editor of the Globe shakes hands
with banker and is led into the bank
on the corner for another short talk.
So It Is Everyone knows Howe. Every
one receives the same greeting from him
ana everyone feels better for that
CHEEKY passing of the time of day and
the handshake. Mr.. Howe is on the
streets the greater part of the time and
ne picks up as much news, large and
small, as any of his reporters. And he
has other things to do.
Your ear is starting. It takes you past
the Globe OFFICE 1t is small two story
brick building. Next door is the office OF
the intermittent Atehison Champion which
can not compete with its next door neigh
Dor Passing the office YOU can see the
men working at the cases Ivnotypes are
not for Howe. The notorman of the car
is Dad Lott. You ask him DO YOU know
Hover do I? TVhv here's what he sa5S
produced a paper contaiai1ay the foTovyii9s5 .
An Atchison woman heard her children
refer to Dad Lott. the street car motor
man; Children, she said you should
Dad Lott has white hair. He is an old
man. y In m too old for railroading" he .ex-
the job first rate since they put sand boxes
on the platforms and I can sit down"
Sand IS necessary to the running of the
Atchison cars The hills are full grown
and in wet weather it is hard to tell
Dad Lofts car takes you past the res
idence of the late Senator ingalls,. That's
IA tF1cF nc hf0r41 Tote rrr11N
points to it. There is a touch of reverence
in his voice It tells the story of another
Atchlson man.
Every Atchisonian knows ingalls, IA
nous sonnet, Opportunity. by heart
Ihere are many who have profted by it.
For there is as much wealth and many
successes to be credited to the town as can
people remember. too his essays on Blue
Grass" and Goldfish AristOcracy." About
every man woman ana chiid VINO can read
has digested everything they could get
hold of that came from ingalls, pen. The
just as proud as the people of Sleepy Hol-
low are of Washington Irving And there
are many who say that had ingalls, de-
voted his life to literature that he would
have been the foremost man of letters in
the country. The street car men may tell
you that ingalls, stories of the Carson
City prize fight were the best things he
ever did. Everyone finds something about
his writings Of especial interest to them.
Dad Lofts duties are many. He must
news to the south part of town. If negd
be he must stop to tell some woman that
man with the red tie who were going TO
town to get married did not go on his car
He runs his car in the same easy manner
IN when Atchlson people 1--we. Tor the pop
ulatiOn seems to take life easily. Not that
the union station explains that Atchison is
a prosperous town with more than hun
dred manufacturing and Jobbing houses.
But people seem TO understand the art OF
enjoying life. They don't rush. Men don't
run to get on the street cars and jump off
before the stop Ihey take their time
They accomplish just as much as the man
who tears his raiment There is none Of
the cod1Sh arlStOcracy about AtchlSOn-
ians. An Industrious woman Of the middle
class explained the situation to her com
panion as follows:
Il tell my Jennie that gfngham dresses
are plenty good enough for her for every
day, with a white one on Sunday. We are
not bankers and besides the bankers dress
their girls that way. They not stuck
up and they do not try to get rid of their
money. We have done well in Atchison.
Ny husband started on $50 month and
now we own two houses. We can't com
plain, and clean Bingham is good enough
You can transfer to car which takes
you to Forest park. On this particular
day there was picnic of school children
at the park and rival Sunday school base
ball mines, of the Sunday school size
were playing a match. A dozen Catholic
Fathers sat on the top seats of the grand
stand and applauded the players Every
one in Atchison. even the priests, are con-
firmed base bah fans No one seems to
care for billiards and ping pone is having
a hard time. There is a billiard hail but
the fact that the cues are tipless and the
wire for the counting buttons Fusted until
the buttons will hardly move, proves that
/ the game is not popular.
You will see from the sign boards that
Atchison gets the good along with the bad.
THE Christian PLAYED in John Seaton's
theater and was followed by. Isl Punk
erd i, Atch dS+ has asa 5000 theater; that hat
building and faded window cards show
that such plays as LADY auntsworth,s
among the best class of attractions which
PLAYED in AtchisOn. because it has a good
theater with an enterprising manager, and
/ passed by other Kansas towns. John Sea-
/ ton does more than own the theateT. He
fsran Ses IN fT eagng e pig iron INTO df
/ store fronts. You will see them, the store
/ fronts.
Scattered all about town you will see
4 buildings occupied by a large seed COM
not of the free congressional kind that are
! for looks and political Puncomb, but the
/ their market value and they grow. For
that reason the house has grown from a
small institution to one which presses into
service the vacant buildings Of the town
There are a couple Of large hardware
/ stores, big drug companies and dozens Of
/ successful business houses despite the fact
| that Atchison seems slow
It is river town and mighty like the
/ places Mark Twain has told about. There
| is a long bridge across the Missouri river.
! II Is Il Tall DEluE0 ana HAS iilS1e the OWL
ers rich. One span is made to swing to
| allow boats to pass. The river is naviga-
/ Bile. Once or twice a year the bridge span
/ creaks and groans as it is swung around
! to allow government boat to pass. The
boat goes up the river with engines and
| transit men for the purpose of seeing II
I the river is still in the same place and il
/ Atchison has moved. AtchiSOn stays but
| the river is frealSsh.
You Will see a beer sign now and then
| and you may forget for the moment that
you are in Kansas-but you are. You are
in Atchison, Ed HoWe's town. You Will
| find 1.-The Story of a. Country Town" for
have to get off the street cars for that
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