The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-17
City Regulator
Makes Suggestions as to
How to Build a Wichita.

How to Build Wichita.
To the Editor of the Eagle:
1 heard u lady say that she was COM
PEELED a few evenings since, to so home
from a sick friends late at night, and
the dark darkness was awfully Oakland
as she tiptoed along The sidewalk she
suddenly became aware OF approaching
footsteps and she and her heart both
stopped still until she discovered head
light in the shape OF cigar She at
once proceeded on her journey. for she
was assured by the light from the burn
ing cigar that the smoker was not a
! burglar.
Forty-three little orphans in the Child
ren's Orphans Home. with accommoda-
lions for twenty-five or thirty and appli-
| cations for more. Here is an opportu-
nifty for a phiIanthropist TO do genuine
work by building an addition.
! If L was the foreman at Hose House
No. !. 1 would spade up the ground on
the vacant lot south of the hose house
| and plant it in flowers. and trail vines
over the side OF the building. Make it a
| spot OF floral beauty.
! The fagman at the Eleventh street
crossing on the Missouri Pacific railroad.
has set the pace for men who have
| leisure time by planting trailing vines
around his little house. with lattice work
| in front, which is covered with vines.
making it cool and attractive place in
| which to while away the monotonous
/ hours.
There are enough careless people who
have allowed dandelions to go 10 seed
| on their premises TO seed the whole
| country. 1t would be a very easy matter
to cut them off at the surface of the
ground and drop some salt on the roots,
which will kill them.
Get out your grand-motf1er's old fashion
magazine and imgaine that our sweet
young girls have just stepped out of those
| old pictures. Long. sloping shoulders,
| flowing sleeves with under-sleeves. full
skirts. ample wraps. fiaring hats and
high heeled shoes, all proclaim the 1890
girl reincarnated. Their walk puts one
| in mind of the gait of Shanghai rooster
with his toes frozen off,
| Good morning, Mr.. Merchant. Do you
| know that you have salespeople behind
! your counters that are so Indifferent TO
your interests that they do not even take
| the trouble TO read your own ads? And
a sorry figure they cut when they are
met by the customers who were drawn
into your store by reading your ad. L
| would have every clerk in the establish
ment keep thoroughly posted in what you
say in youp advertisements. If no other
| way would have a. clerk act as a reader
| in the early morning before business
| commenced. whose duty would be TO read
| to the clerks of the various departments
! that part of the advertisement which re-
| lated especially to their department, in
| order that they might be posted and act
as il they had written the ad them
| selves.
| I was riding in the park the other day
and saw scores of ladies riding. and II
| seemed to me that almost all Of them
were hanging on to their hats. Why
| don't someone introduce style Of hat
for driving-a light, small jaunty sailor
1
wearer will not have to place themselves
in the awkward position Of arm and
elbow in the air. hanging onto their best
hats. Driving in the park is not good
place TO display millinery.
! would place cow-catchers or tenders
on the street cars. They are in general
use on street cars and have proved to
| be great protection TO life.
II has become an established fact that
| Wichita is the greatest convention town
| in the west But we must build that
Auditorium in order to be able TO hold
! our prestige.
! think that it is time to call halt on
courtesans who become bold enough TO
| drive through our streets smoking a
| cigarette.
Twenty-six years ago today this city
/ was covered with water. save the high
spots. Many homes had to be aban-
| doned. Many families set their furni
| ture upon blocks, bricks and sticks. The
| day was bright and sunshiny and every
/ body was out in wagons, carriages,
/ horseback afoot. in boats, on sections of
| sidewalk. piano boxes. rafts-or what not
anything that would float, was used. On
Douglas avenue the water covered the
street and ran like a mill race from near
/ Market street to Emporia avenue from
one to four feet deep. The swiftest cur
rent was from the corner of First and
/ Topeka south. The current was 50 swift
/ that parties were unable 10 row boats
! against it.
! am glad that the residents Of North
/ Market street. between Twelfth and
/ Thirteenth streets. are going to sprinkle
the street with coal oil The city VIII
watch the results with interest
/ Some morning this town VIII wake up
/ TO the fact that the Missouri Pacific
/ system has commenced building a cutoff
/ Of twelve or fifteen miles from Wichaa
! 70 Belle PLANE and another about the
same length from oxford to Arkansas
/ City and on down the Arkansas and
( across to the coal fields which Will prac-
( tically shut of any other independent
/ railroad proposition for years to come.
( We all know that road from here direct
I into the coal fields owned or controlled
( bv either ore or the roads now running
( into wichita would do rs no good They
\ an run through coal fields and own and
: operate them 10 Wichita's disadvantage.
/ The Rock Island Choctav division runs
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