The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-26
City Regulator
Makes Suggestions as to
How to Build a Wichita.

| To the editor of the Eagle.
I would have an automobile tournament
or rather parade through the parks
and streets 1 none procession--forty or
fifty vehicles-they are herein one pro-
cession would make an interesting look.
l would organize a society chartered
and capitalized and give an annual musi-
cal ffiubilee 1t can be made exceedingly
attractive and popular AFFAIR. 1t will
bring to the city class of people who
do not go to the shows. street fairs and
circuses. People of means who will come
with their good clothes and money, fill
our hotels for the week, hire the autos
and best hacks and have the best that
is going. and will ask no special rates
only want good Accommodations and a
first class musical program.
1t is tiresome TO the optic nerve to
drive along the resident streets and see
the trees decorated with posters on street
corners. The trees look like the trees at
the cross roads in the country 1t is
an easy matter to not only stop it but
to make the fellows who stick them up
return and tear them down.
When a fellow starts in to give you
song and dance about the probable short
corn crop, just tell him Kansas raised
this year seventy-five million bushels of
wheat this year which is worth at least
fifty cents bushel will amount to thirty
seven million five hundred thousand dol
lars. Then shut one eye and give a low
whistle and walk away
1 see the railroads are refusing to take
wheat shipments for Kansas City. Now
is the time for Wichita TO get in her
elevator work
For one dollar per anum per head
man is allowed TO own any number of
dogs TO annoy his neighbors and enter the
zoo, attack tear in pieces the fawn and
deer.
When there is a call through the fire
alarm the fire bell should be sounded
loud and long. or better than that the
water works boilers should be furnished
with a caliopee whistle. which should
be touched off. giving notice of the fire
and every user of city water on the town
site should st once shut off the water
running on their premises until the fire
is extinguished. If this is not done the
city will suffer a grievous loss some of
these days from fire on account Of the
scarcity of water pressure. The water
company is not at fault for the failure
There is no machinery known that could
bring pressure enough into the pipes lain
in the city to throw water 25 feet high
under the existing circumstances and
then something else will happen. One Of
these evenings you will be served with
n notice from the waterworks company
that you will be allowed to use water
on your lawn a certain hour in the day
and that your rate is raised and that
meter will be placed on your water con-
nection, not because Of fair and legiti-
mate use Of water but because Of the
profligate manner in which you use it.
turning on the hose with nozzle off and
letting the water run because It is too
much trouble to turn it off, watering
gardens and even small sweet corn
patches: using two nozzles on the same
small lawn at the same time; in fact sit
ting up and lying awake nights studying
how TO use more water to get even with
the company. Better cut it out. when it
can be done by a simple twist of the
wrist.