The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-04

$4,000 would cover the expenses of the
reunion and his purpose OF making this
speech before the Chamber Of Commerce
was to get that body's endorsement, as
they had of the Commercial club. The
Commercial club had even appointed a
lcommittee TO assist in the work OF soilc-
iting funds. and on motion Of q. II.
Fultz the president was instructed 70
appoint a committee of five TO help the
old soldiers, and the movement was in
dorsed by the organization. President
Davidson will make his appointments in
a few days.
The secretary reported that $40 had
been collected 10 take care Of the two
big political conventions that were held
| here within the last two weeks, in March,
and of this amount $s15 had already been
expended and there were some bills yet
unpaid and that when all outstanding
bills were fully paid there would be a
balance OF S4.15 in the treasury. He said
that everyone who made application 10
| the information bureau had been fur
nished with rooms and that the secretary
had rooms for more than 600 people. Mr..
! Davidson made little speech and stated
that the two conventions had been taken
care of the best of any state convention
|
4 pleased with their reception. The To-
/ peka papers have made big howl thit
Wichita did not take care of the conven-
ton properly and that many Of the Wis
! itors did not have a place to sleep, but
the report OF the secretary would not
bear out these statements. There was
also some howl about the auditorium,
and Mr. Davidson stated that the last
convention he attended in Topeka the
delegates were cooped up in little old
opera house and some IF them had TO be
seated on stage ana some had TO go
up into the gallery. and besides Wichita
took care of the biggest convention ever
held in the state of Kansas.
w. r. Padley, the suga beet expert.
made the following report of the con-
dition of the plants:
Number of experimental patches
planted ..--..-.-....-.-....- .-.......--.- o.
Patches up ..--....................-.. 81
Having good stand ....-................. 43
Coming up l
Recently planted ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Thin OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The reason that beets did not come up
good, some of them were planted on
low ground, here the wet weather was
too much for them. Others planted too
deep. Condition of land, good. Kind OF
soil best adapted TO beet sugar raising,
deep sandy loan. Quality Of soil, good.
Condition of soil. wet. All beets are be-
ing carefully cared for and properly Gull
tivated
Mr. Levy reported that ten people had
signified their intention of going into the
contest to have the best kept lawns and
gardens in this city and President David
son appointed Mrs. L. S. Carter, DIR.
Hoss and Charles Mueller as judges Of
the contest. The following are contest
ants:
A w Hoehle, 2sO5 East Douglas ave-
nue.: Mrs. Miller. 3l9 st. Francis ave.
nue.; ]. f. Wilkin. 100 East Murdoch
avenue; H. A. Gascoigne 1859 North
wichita street; John NJ Knapp 300 Riv-
erview; Mrs. L. NJ Myers, 2126 East
Douglas avenue; T. J. Van ArsdaIe, 4S4
South Main; j. T. Riley. 157 Estell ave-
nue.; L. A. Knittle, 1145 Lewellen ave-
nue.; ]. H. Shields, 800 South Water
street.
George R. Fultz has new PROPOSE
ton TO induce manufacturers to come to
Wichita. He advocated the city passing
an ordinance making all manufactures
exempt from city taxes for a period of
years, provided their capital invested
was 5000 to 5000. He gave as an Illus
tration that the town of Burlington, VT,
had done this thing and one of the larg-
est factories In the state was located in
no reason why Wichita should not do the
same thing and although II would lose
the taxes on building and machinery a
factory would bring hundreds Of men
who would pay taxes and this would
greatly add to the population and taxa
bic property of Wichita.
J. Elmer Reese stated that 5000 people
went to Geuda Springs Sunday to see
ball game and he wanted the Cham
Der of Commerce to take some action
so that this city would have cheap ex-
cursions run 10 Wichita during the sum
mer. There are plenty of attractions in
Wichita and there are hundreds of peo-
pie who would come to this city if a
cheap rate was given, and some of the
railroad officials are willing to place the
matter before their passenger depart
ments. if the city wants them TO do so
and they seemed to think that the city
would surely get the excursions.
Mr. Levy reported that he had taken the
matter of morning train TO Kiowa up
with the Missouri Pacific officials and
at first had received a favorable re- |
port, but later the company stated that |
the crop condition this year would not
warrant putting on the extra train The /
people along the line are very indig- I
nant about the train service and ask that I
the matter be taken up with the state
railroad commissioners.
Mr.. Levy reported that he had re- |
ceived letter from the state geologian |
which stated that this city had about /
one chance in a hundred TO find gas or |
oil near it.
George Fultz Of the advertising com |
mittee reported that his committee had I
had something over 5000 of the adver-
Using maps Of Wichita printed and that /
they cost $3.50 and this was ali paid for
and the subscriptions amount to more
than the number printed He stated
that number had been sent out and
that il was a very effective way of adj
vertising
Just before the meeting adjourned.
President Davidson announced that there
would be q meeting of the board OF dfrec-
tors of the Chamber of Commerce in
the rooms this afternoon at o'clock.
Good appetite and cheerfulness follows
the use of PrickTv Ash Pitrers = .,,,.f I