The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-13
How THE EAGLE is CELEBRATING ITS THIRTiETH
ANNIVERSARY.


of the Arkansas valley. Kansas is the Wichita
Eagle. No list of these would be complete with the
champion and defender them all left out the
Thrtieth Anniversary of the paper To the writer it
but yesterday when the materials publica
ton. consisting Washington hand press few
fonts of type we're unIoaded from wagon at the corner
of Third streets from wagon which had pre-
railroad into struggling frontier village which
has since grown be of proudest cities of the
commonwealth; but yesterday when not single build
ing Of any character broke with its outlines the green
expanse grass that stretched from the Big River
holm Creek stretches today ctys greatest
oughfare; yesterday yet unborn
grown to mature manhood and womanhood, and what
but the grazing grounds for alternating herds of
bufaloes and longhorns not only dotted with
but entirely occupied by the homesteads prerequ
SITES compensations of contented and prosperous
people. it been almost third of a century
made up of years into which more growth has been
crowded changes wrought than whole century
Of much Of the past more of these than will
probably fall within the experience of single lifetime
future which SO much of newness is not among
the possibilities
The Eagle not the first paper ever published in
the Arkansas valley but has always the first
every other respect only circulation
patrons and readers but first in influence
in the accomplishment great things for the Peer
Hss Princess for Southwest Kansas and for Oklahoma
The paper also TIE in other particulars
install cylinder press the first to employ steam
power the paper state to put in perfecting
press and the first to order Linotype machines.
Great has been the evolution and improvements in
printing presses the day hand mankiler
unloaded from that wagon on upper Main street
fashioned lever press was successfully replaced
by Fairhaven then that by Drum-Cylinder that by
Cranson TwoRevoution and that By scottHoe Perfect
ing Press which latter has been doing duty since the
days up the present hour subscription
of the Daily having long since the capacity
of the webbperfecting tapefoIdng device the Eagle
is today celebrating its Thrteth Anniversary by install
ing ponderous new and especially devised mechanism
yeclept Double Decker" weighing forty thousand
hundred pounds or upwards of twenty tons manufac
order with capacity far greater than any press
set up the state Kansas equal printing
cutting pasng folding automatically delivering
twentyour thousand Of eight page papers per hour or
Eagles per minute hfyfour pages com
pete every second time With this upodate press and
improved sereotyping appliances no train how
ever early fast will ever missed nor any carrier
Kept waiting Though the subscription list should in
crease never rapidly. every patron viii receive his
paper promptly hereafter on time.
It being imDossbility for the Eagle to congratu-
without by the same sign prasing Wichita and
because of the that for Wichita and the cys
unryaled environment the Eagle would not have been
What it is today no more than would the Wichita of
today be what It is but for the Eagle. We can now
afford to say that we are proudor Of one thing than any
other of its its character as paper prouder
than of its success boom promoter and all that
the darker days Of the early Npeties
when strong friends being swept from their feet
calamity precipated by many reverses was squeez
ing fevalue everything and ambition and hope
out everybody. Eagle in never losing faith for
minute never oeang to cheer and reassure those who
held simply because they couldn't let 60 without fa
tering admitting the pains Of adversely unainch
,ngly the dawnng of the day IN whose prosperity
Wichita and all its people and interests and the Eagle
and all Of its patrons and friends are now backing
May Wichita continue to expand in business to grow
in wealth TO win scch additional numbers Of men and
VIII make the Peerless Princess the greatest
city in all sunaowerdom. and that We may be here to
and the press to proclaim the proud fact is on
this Tbteth Anniversary the Eagles sncerest wish
and fondest ambition
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