The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-13
City Regulator
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How to Build a Wichita.


| How to Build a Wichita.
To the Editor of the Eagle:
1t is high time that the city should
establish an all night electric light ser
vice. a city with $4,000 inhabitants ana
| growing so rapidly as Wichita should not
hesitate longer. TIE city is virtually a
park, and for the lights to go out at 1
o'clock in the morning and envelop the
streets in absolute darkness-the hour
when spooks, hobgoblins, thieves and
thugs stalk forth-should not be allowed
TO exist longer. Not a O'Clock service.
but from dark until broad daylight.
Wichita is no longer country town.
I would, for the relief OF the housewife.
have the wire Of the doorbeu so con
structed thu one could by touching a
button knock those patent medicine lit
erature, poster. dodger and sample dis
tributors into the middle OF the street.
a fellow clad in a 1893 suit will come to
town and employ two boys and load them
down with their trash, follow them up
the street. require them to deposit the
stuff on the porch or in the door ana
ring the bell, or slam the door. No
well regulated city allows It,
I don't believe. if belonged to a
club, and the entire membership. save
two, would agree touching upon some
important question, not by resolution,
but by action and common consent, that
I would be one of the two 10 ignore their
wishes. The most forcible laws extant
are ,1nu-rftfan larrs
tee from each club. with an auxil-
larry of ladies to call on and wei
come new residents on their arrival
in the city. Wichita was once famous
for the hearty greeting ond kindly vel
come which they gave newcomers.
see the Commercial club is talking
about prospecting for salt Several years
ago Mr.. McClees found salt water
while prospecting for coal. in the bluff,
east Of the city about four miles. Later
the city prospected for coal near the
cemetery. under the experimenting or
Martin Hellar. I believe the city stin
owns the hole and they have not
forgotten the $1,000 that was spent on
North Lawrence avenue a few months ago
bobbed off-a spring pole and threshing
machine engine that hole furnished salt
water that tested over 50 per cent pure
salt. II this city is going to invest in
any more holes, she better employ an
expert driller, one who has the machin
cry necessary and experience in oil dis
tricts, and contract with him for num-
Der Of feet and know what the city is
getting. And yet if the money. proposed
TO be spent for this enterprise. with a
little more added, would organize. sur
Vey and commence railroad in the d.
rection of the coal fields. that we know
exist when once reached, would solve
the fuel question.
am glad that it was a mistake. the
report that a policeman was found
drowned in a lake of tobacco spit. on the
avenue one morning this week. Such q
thing would be hard on the town. don't
you know.
With the cyclone of prosperity that is
rolling over this country. southwest Kan /
sas and oklahoma, will come cyclone /,
of grafters of every conceivable form. /
size and description. If I were the coun-
Gil l would place a license on every one I
OF these schemes so high that they would
move on to the next town.
admire the regular Kansas nerve of .
the man on Douglas avenue who hired a /
hole dug deep and wide in the edge of the /
sidewalk, set in a post, sided it up with
sheet iron, attached two hitching rings.
and then put sign on it Please do not
hitch here" 1t suggests the idea that
might be followed out by every merchant
in town, as everybody fights shy of that
dangerous looking post.
If there is anything that arouses my. in
dignation and at the same time sympathy
for the fellow who is so clumsy and de-
void Of consideration Of the bereaved. if
not of himself. that breaks through n
funeral procession with team. Il is
worse than heathensh. for in many coun-
tries that Americans call half civilized
the people on the sidewalks stop and IN
cover and bow their heads while the pro-
cession is passing.
Next time the Country club entertains
1000 people with a fireworks display they
ought to arrange to fire each piece about
tour or five minutes apart, so that the
would last ten or fifteen
minutes at least.
Some people get a horse which does
hem good and faithful service for years.
md when it is worn out and unable to
10 the work any more. they give il to the
irst eolored man that comes along thar
viii take it. or in payment for moving
heir lawn or cleaning their barn, and
he faithful Old animal is thumped around
IN the streets in some kind Of an old
'amshackle Of q go-cart. half starved.
While the former owner drives by with
lew young horse that Will finally reach
he same fate. II there is anything in
he reincarnation theory. ] tell you some
II these fellows viii catch IT, The hui
name thing to do with worn-out ami
nal that has no teeth and cant even di-
;est grass is TO spend a couple Of dollars
n chloroform and a grave. and give the
aithful old friend an easy death and a
Iecent interment
Patrons of the street car line are TO be
Congratulated now that they have cut the
-rass along their route and further an
.oyance may not be expected from CHG
,ers for some time
The startling announcement has just
.een made that the National Fiber com
any of Chicago has secured the exclusive
OF process for turning Germ