The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-26
City Regulator
Makes Suggestions as to
How to Build a Wichita.

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Makes Suggestions as to
How to Build a Wichita.
To the Editor of the Eagle:
A statement in the Eagle the other day
that a soldier in the regular army put
his hands around his mouth and an
nounced stable calls, that the horses even
knew what it meant, was enough to make
"a horse laugh. There is a regular
bugle stable call and the horses know
the call After they have been in the
service a short time. as well as his rider,
many of the old stagers give evidence
Of their recognition of it, not only BY
picking up their ears. but by neighing.
kicking at and biting and scrapping With
each other until their rider comes with
their nose bag of oats.
1 would sprinkle part of one of the
unpavcd streets with coal oil TO demon
strate TO the unbeliever and incredulous
that it was a success. Numbers Of the
towns in the vicinity OF oil wells 90 it
and there is no dust. We need no further
demonstration of what it will do than is
to be seen on the Country Club golf link
greens.
The law OF divorce and marriage as
interpreted il Kansas. does not contem-
plate that when a divorce IS granted that
the parties getting a bill can go into
another state and get married immedi-
ately and return TO their home in Kan
zac nd he he
ton of the law and the marriage be ac-
cepted as legal.
l wonder when people, especially pro-
fessionaI men, will learn, when they set
tie in a community and at once set about
using the church, the Y. P. S. C. E, the
Youths League and Y M. C. A. to get
on, that the average citizen sees all the
way through their attempted graft?
Modesty in these things is a very COM
mendable attribute. Merit wins sooner or
later and is demonstrated every day in
enlightened communities.
Friday there was little snoozer on
the street with a lot OF small bills, thrust
ing them in the face of everyone he met,
which announced there was 70 be a pub
lie meeting on the corner OF Market and
First street, but it did not say who would
speak or what about. It turned out to
his name on the poster?
Winter will soon be upon us and with 1t
i'll ventilated churches and opera houses.
Such a thing as breath of pure fresh air
in many of these places is not known.
Church trustees and opera house man
ayers ought to have some kind of de-
vice by which dead air is taken out and
fresh air continually supplied, not by
opening the windows. pulling them down
at the top and allowing the cold air to
POUR in on the heads of the audience.
Neither will the carbonic acid gas which
is being constantly thrown off by exha-
lation raise and pass out of the tops of
the windows 1t should be taken out by
lues or registers near the floor. Many
people contract pneumonia and grip in
leaving one of these lily ventilated rooms
going out into the cold air.
I would have our City Ministerial Asso-
citation hold their "blue Monday" meet
ings in the Y. NJ. C. A. gymnasium and
spend an hour in physical culture. Forget
the trials. burdens and vicissitudes of
their strenuous pastoral life and the
wickedness of the world for an hour. by
spending 1t in real rollicking physical
scramble and have no blue Monday"
In the absence of gas, let me recon-
mend a new proposition, not an expert
ment, but a practical, clean, easy, cheap,
proposition. 1t viii only cost ten cents
TO prove it, Take a fine grade pressed
brick. it is the best. any well burned
brick will do; rub it off clean with a
cloth, soak it in coal oil for fifteen
minutes, then place it in your stove and
ignite the oil with a match and it will
burn slowly and steadily for three-quar-
tiers of an hour and produce enough heat
to cook meal. The same brick can be
used indefinitely If you will rub the sut
cff each time before soaking it. If you
will take two ordinary bricks and place
them in coal oil. let them soak over
night they will burn for at least two
hours, producing enough heat to cook
anything you may desire to cook taking
that length of time.
I would have the Wichita Gas and Elec-
trio Light company paint their poles. The
Western Union and Street Railway have
painted their poles. Why should not the
others?
Now the fair is over and the public
have reached a decision-and il Is decid
eddy averse: not but that II was much
the best in the state. but not worthy OF
wichita Two and three years ago this
city set the pace for a weeks carnival.
a week of joliifcation and pleasure.
amusement and fun-a recreation from
the time the visitor landed at the de-
pot until he returned 10 the depot for
home: ard on his return home he had
something TO think about. 10 tell and
TO talk about. County fairs may be
all right but who wants 70 attend a
fair. look at industries in the way OF
cattle and hogs and sheep tied up in
stalls and pens. and look at a threshing
machine run By a traction engins that
screams every minute enough TO drive
one distracted, and call X a weeks car
nival of fun and recreation. Wichita
must regain her prestige or abandon the
fall festival entirely. She must aban.
don the idea or expenses and cheap
shows and fake concessions with view
OF getting a x Per cent rake OF for hoo
dooing the public Such shows as appear
ed on our streets during the past must
not be allowed. There should be an
unique parade every day-ore that viii
please and amuse the visitors. Our
city can raise six thousand dollars. so