The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-29
City Regulator
Makes Suggestions as to
How to Build a Wichita.


To the Editor of the Eagle:
L would pass an ordinance forbidding
the reprehensible practice of distributing
free samples of medicinal preparations
by carriers from house to house. Young
children often get these articles. pills
for instance, and the results from eating
them are often serious.
1 would furnish the motoneer stool to
sit on at his will.
1 would devote one hour during the
week in the public schools on bird study.
teaching the children the practical use of
birds, their beauty and their habits by
this process of education So that in the
next generation laws will be passed so
that at last their destruction will be
stopped.
l would not allow the express wagons
10 obstruct Lawrence avenue, so that
but one team can pass by them
This city needs a real city directory.
one made by a thorough canvass of the
town-names, numbers. business or occu-
pation-not rehash of an old directory.
a hit-and-miss affair. with the names OF
people in it long since departed.
If | was going to plant shade trees i
would plant elms. They grow almost ID
fast as the soft wood variety and they
are tough of fibre. not easy broken. are
long lived stand trimming without rot
ting. Naples are short lived, broken by
the wind and when trimmed the rotting
process begins and enters the body Of
the tree
We all remember the racket the Cream
cry trust got up on the manufacture
of oleomargarine before congress, that Il
was robbing the farmers. running their
sale of butter. Now that the bill has
passed and the trust comes. the far
mer don't get one cent more for his but
ter than before the law was passed.,
while the creamery trust gathers up all
the old butter to be found lying around
the groceries and commission houses
stuff that won't make good soap grease
for a mere song and after manipulating
it with milk and coloring. sell it for
double the former price.
7 would have every householder plant
one or more elm trees on Arbor Day
and when Fairmount college announced
the day for tree planting. plant a tree on
its campus. And IL the Friends university
should conclude TO plant trees. l woui
have the mayor issue a proclamation
asking the closing of the business houses
in honor of the event, and invite the
whole town 10 turn out and plant trees
on that barren waste.
would ask the water works company
after mending the bursted pipe. 20 remove
from the streets the limbs. posts. brush
ana trash piled UP as danger signals
The Commercial club has a first-clsss
plot Of ground around their club house
susceptible of being made very attractive
and inviting Why don't they make a
model yard Of IL
I would build a club house for the
Country club with about two Thousand
donars-a real country club house with
lockers. q lunch room and a porch all
around it twenty-five feet wide-a build
inE for summer use and not for winter
use-because it viii not be used in the
winter only by a very small minority
OF its members.
Oue-half Of the money that has besn
paid out for sprinkline the asphalt pave
weekIy-would paw for white wings
enough TO clean up these streets with
brush and dust pan
II we are going TO clean up. Its be
gin right especially on the downtown
streets BY hauling of the coal boxes. ash
boxes and bicycle houses that are Perehsd
on the sidewalks in every direction
! wss standing on the cerDer q Doug
Jas and Topeka avenue Tuesday evening.
when 4 little newsbsy came along. cry
ing the evening zaper. stopping in front
a fellow. who II he had kept h-s
mouth closed. would have passed for
gentleman instead Of a bear or boor. the
lad asking him 10 buy The fellow, With
q swag q SNAIL and a zrowi az crowded
into one climax oh. Eit out that lit
tie fellow cringed shank sEST. 4
ard hurried or 10 sell his psPers- II The 1
public. generally. knew what I knox q 4
the trials and struggles THAI sonHs of 4
these IttIs. ragged urrhius have 70 bear. 4
they Mould be treated more kindly.
THE CITY REGULATOR Z