The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-30
HOW TO BUILD
4 GREAT CITY
Well Known Citizen Gives
Valuable Pointers.
MAKE THINGS AT HOME
Which Come Naturally From
the Soil.
PAST AND The PRESENT
Chamber of Commerce
Advised by Old Timer
PAST AND The PRESENT

A wei known Wichita man writes to
the editor of the Eagle as follows. The
article is AweH worth reading as it gives
many sugg stions which might be worked
upon and f Flowed out to advantage:
To the Edit, n of the Eagle:
July !, 1881; to be exact. July I. 1887, at
II O'Clock p m, the Wichita Board Of
Trade was ca lied together at Niederland-
er.s Office, over the Wichita National
Bank. to hear the report Of J. o. David
SOFA by wire. as to his success in the
Bur, ION Car Works deal.
Of the men pr esent that day. few are in
Wich tia. and OF that few4 very few Of
shem are pron.nent or c bnsidered fac
tors il what nay be called the palingen-
esis OF Wichita. 1 think bne may Dor
row q phrase to say that S lnce that date
Wichita has witnessed the chagrin and
defeat { f rivals: beheld TIE sun of aus
ferity 81 oriously Inning; Fit itself blot
Ted cut as a place, becamse for a brief
season Il by-wOrd and q rebroach; exiled,
banished, it Witnessed reign of financial
terror, and is now witnessing the hundred
days. full of hope and ambition.
To every Wichitsln the question arises:
Has VIE hita returned to empire or
only to brie power. TO be enjoyed for
Getting ho9T and then again TO snk2"
Personally, / believe that this question
IS solvabl. within the minds and hearts
of this proten people. The new blood,
brain and Industry of the town hold the
future within its power. The Chamber
OF Commerce IN its officers. membership
and committe IS is nearly all new and
compared 10 tlse former Wichita should
have one thou. sand members interested
IN the upbuilding of Wichita The for
mer Board of tt ade was creative in tbs
work, the present one should be to solid
fly what We have. Never IN the west
was such a foundation for making a city
given to a people on which TO build "a per
manent city
In business. capital Yoca ton and tribu-
tary territory, Wichita can sclaim super
iOTity to everything within d circle two
hundred miles in diameIer and to the
west more than this and with the "ChOc-
taw and Orient soon TO be sours Wich-
tia viii have q trade opened up that no
other city can deprive us Of. When one
considers that the only real rival Wich-
3ta has is Kansas City, No, claiming
eight times its population, il is matter
OF astonishment and when the fact IS
known that Kansas City has worked on
railroad rebates, and in constant violation
of the law governing railroad shipments
81 is more astonishing. The real wonder
is how Wichita, under it's adverse cir
the progress it has made
The real answer is. superiority OF To-
cation and railroads" Our Eeogra phicaI
location is our anchor. Our railroads
want rs few centers as possible and hay
ing now Witnessed our growth VIII indi-
rectly help as 10y frowning on the up
building of a railroad center nearer than
kansas City and Denver.
Kansas City. No. and Kansas City
Kansas. as iaseparahe as the Siamese
Twins. VIII hoe bound together forever.
This is logically thcir destiny. The rail-
roads viii never permit any aggregation
Of people in Kansas north and east of US
- develop as a rival To pr6sent railroad
centars. The railroad haul from Kansas
City 20 Denver viii never i'm our life time
break bulk. and the haul 10 The south OF
Wichita viii De maintained bv the rail-
roads. as long ass possible. As cities on
the river became such as the head Of
navigation Wichita is as surely to be
the head of commerce south west and
southwest. as Kansas City is the head
from the Missouri river If our people
do their duty. Wichita is lamentably
short in many lines THAI demand atten-
tion. amon- these lines are ass follows:
First Producing the best material.
We find Dttumwa. Iowa. with half our
population. supplying Kansas. Oklahoma
and Texas with silver Gloss Starch
The remedE is tn Wichita
Second. Surpassed rl- no agricultural
people one million dollars worth of
canned fruits and vegetables are today
resting on tie shelves of five hundred
grocery stores I'm Kansas. Oklahoma and
Texas waiting for Custom ars- Not one
dollars worth Is put up in Sedgwick
county Kansas.
The remedy is in Wichita.