The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-24
City Regulator
Makes Suggestions as to
How to Build Wichita.

1O tlAt VI tiAS A-1eAN-
l read in the Eagle this week of how
two women worked a church and the
merchants These are not the only two
I that worked the merchants this week.
for one merchant will testify that he was
called upon by a woman who said she
| was working in the interest of denomin-
| alton having the next greatest member
| ship in the city and falling to get an
! advertisement by coaxing him. she turn
| ed on him with threats OF the withdrawal
of the patronage of the church. And she
not only scared him into taking an ad-,
| but to pay the money in advance. After
! the business was closed up she said she
did not live in the city but she was work
| ing the merchants. and that she was
here last year and had a beautiful rake
| off Rainy weather is fine for suckers
| I would send circulars TO all the col
| Ieges and seminaries throughout the
country, giving the thousands Of young
men wis will be idle and want jobs, 10
come to Kansas and help harvest our
wheat.
The southeast railroad proposition is
| assuming shape. Now get the terminal
| bonds ready and county or township
bonds at this end; then go to the coal re-
| gions, secure help from the owners and
! lessees of coal lands. and whenever
knocker appears go after him. and dom
stop until you have his scalp. You may
| be sure they are knocking on purely
| selfish basis CT on retainer.
| While the people of the state, after
! electing men to represent them In the
| legislature to enact wholesome laws and
| TO prevent pernicious legislation, are re-
posing confidence in them TO do so. the
railroads thrust their hands in and Sc
| cure the passage of laws that make it al
| most impossible for new railroad propo-
| siticns TO be introduced in this state.
even TO the wording and allowing a COM
non charter
| Among the many blessings derived from
| the continuous rains is a sanitary one.
| They have washed the tobacco from the
sidewalks which had been deposited there
in the absence of the vigilant and busy
! policemen.
Now that We have a telephone system
1
a government weather bureau notice Of
| the approach of a cyclone could be given
| 10 the city very readily when in the day
| tins. and they are nearly always in the
afte noon. The city has two thousand
telephones so that the entire city could
be 1orewarned in time to retire to places
| of safety.
I
run the grader over three of four streets
north and south and three or four east
and west Immediately following the rains,
as soon as they were dry.
And still we founder along in the mud.
and then over the rough streets that are
cut to pieces. on Jumps and bumps. gut
tiers and tracks.
If this city is overlooked by the June
rise, which no doubt it will be, who will
| pav the damag es. the man who filled the
! river up with sand. or the city which al
| low, d it to be done? 1t Is very certain
that a jury will decide that some one
will have to stand for it. Riparian rights
1 do not exist in an unnavigsble stream.
| The parties who are filling up and max
| ing town lots out of the Big river bed
| car assume the right to fill up and fence
| the whole river bed and turn the water
cut to seek channel wherever il can
find it If Kansas wins her case against
| Colorado. with the Alderman island and
| the narrowed river, one June rise would
| do this city more damage than three land
| graz bers could p oairfynshrdlunetaoi DIN
| grabbers could pay for in a hundred
years The city is responsible. All the
| land lying between Sullivans dam and
| the Missouri Pacific railroad will become
subr1erged-the parks. the water works,
and electric light plants will all become
| inundated.
Why should the hoodlum wagon be
| driven along the main thoroughfares Of
the city and the driver work his leg of
ringing the gong? Why don't they drive
| on the side streets and alleys. and not
shock and disturb the public with such
| unpleasant scenes?
The proposed railroad from Salina
south has assumed enough proportions to
deposit twenty-five thousand dollars in
Salina to pay for right-of-way through
| IlldI county " ltillIa can nave Aidt Ibdb
II is time for some scientific man 10
rise in his seat and account for the miles
Of treeless land in the west by saying
! that ne country was once a forest but
was denuded by cyclones
With what a grateful look or approval
| and gratiiication-kind Of a "feIlOw-feel-
! ing" making them wondrous kind
! passes between two fellows who happen
TO meet on the street who have ventured
10 don straw hats. The uncertainty Of
| the feeling regarding the forcing Of the
season brings it about
I would certainly follow up the resolu-
ton passed by the council reaffirming the
ordinance regarding the removal OF signs
awnings and stacking OF goods on the
sidewalks. This proposition Of renting a
small room on the principal crowded
streets too small 70 do business IN. only 10
| be used 20 store goods during the night
and then filling the sidewalks with their
wares. and building low awnings and
hanging canvas around. to the incOnveni-
I ence Of the community. should be stopped.
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