The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-18

out, pioneer spreaders and annexed Ia
the city of Wichita, all that part of the
present city lying on the south side OF
Douglas avenue, from Water street t.
the Santa Fe depot and also from Law
renee avenue to the Santa Fe depot on
the north side and also from the corner
CT Murdoch avenue and Lawrence ave-
nue. TO Ninth street On the east side Of
Lawrence avenue. a strip OF ground $50
feet wide and 1900 feet long. This was
doEe eight days after the council met
and was for revenue purposes only, tax
able purposes and is recommended to the
present administration for the beEefit of
those people. who have speahe5 their
stuff outside the city limits to avoid tax
es and yet at the same time have all
5000 people.
Hopes Administration.
jim Hope $ administration will live as
the cattle trade" administration. The
character of Jim Hope ard his attributes
demand a strong artist for their Gelinea-
tion and for the present, any attempt will
be omitted.
Geo. Harris Administration.
George Harris administration (present
city treasureD was the first great wheat
year after the ''grasshopper' and it was
the year that old Eagle Hall was adorn-
ed, decorated and festooned with the
fruitage of the happy valley" as named
by Commodore Woodman. The people at
that time brought forth the first fruit.
even as Cain did his sacrifice to be of
fered up for the Qualification of the Ar
Kansas valley. At this gathering POO edi-
tors from New York ard Missouri called
upon Wichita and 100 OF them got full,
fuller than geese and five of EN- got
left and missed the train. Wichita, from
that visit, got about three hundred col
umns of free wIite-up and in that pri-
mordial stage of evolution from savage
ways TO modern civilization; in that pr
meval way. Wichita established It's repu-
tation for hospitality and self-abnegation
by the surrender of the keys Of the gates
of the town to the visiting stranger. This
freedom to all who visit us is known
wherever the commercial traveller makes
his way, wherever the newspaper circu-
lates and wherever people whose blood
runs warm as wine, congregate, smoke
talk and swap yarns Some years ago a
Boston man said to me, "Once I trav-
eied out of Boston and stopped at man.
places and for some months l was conf
pletely a foreigner. one Sunday morn
ing j reached Wichita and STAYED there
three days. The day I left Wichita was
a regret. Some twenty years have rolled
away since that trip and all that l now
recall is that once out west I spent three
days in Wichita ana had tire time Of
my life" / cannot recall, at this time
to mind the name of a solitary individ-
ual / met, but If lease of life should be
granted to me for more than 9e9 years.
| shall always remember the three days
/ spent in Wichita. in the year a. d.
s76 in the "eariy month OF May. when
green buds were a-swellin'."
Creiffenstein's Administration.
During GreifIenstein's time from 1913 to
SIS. were glorious, great and triumphant
years. The Frisco railroad and the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad were built: the
Santa Re went west to Kingman and
south 20 Wellington; the Gas Company's
franchise was granted; the water works
sr Hall at the corner of First and Mar
get streets was builded by a syndicate
and bonds were issued on FIVE years time
1t five per cent interest and stood 20 the
patriotic citizens of Wichita 10 enable
he Germans 70 build the old Turner
Hall. These years were busy years. full
# JOY and profit and modicum OF tears.
During the year \. ID. 1879. 1880 town lots
we're sold at a judicial tax sale for the
average OF S1e0a and at the present date
here are one hundred thousand dollars
rorth of real estate in Wichita. held
Inder that Judicial tax sale. Pat Healy
bought the lot where Behring's drug
store now stands for Sl1o.0o: a lawyer got
he corner OF Main and William streets
or $1,000. A portion OF Governor Stan |
ey's- home on Topeka avenue was in
his same sale oak Davidson's old home !
Il the corner of Murdoch and Lawrence I
VENUE was in this sale.
These years were formative years, we're /
1li6inS stars and their influence govern /
Il succeeding years. These years were /
he Douglas avenue years. when the I
Steele dynasty pllnnel. di- +
-ected and executed The things which
we're undertaken. This was when the
var 'twixt Main street and Douglas ave 4
rue ragged fuiiousfy. When q Main street /
nan proving en- Douglas avenue was an 4
portent; when the rear room in 4
Tow JEWELS saloon on Douglas avenue. 4
where George McNears barber shop is 4
low situated. was the actual beard OF /
rade rooms for Douglas avenue IN this 1
oon il IL said. Frank Herman heated \
With booze" agreed for sl.o0 love ana +
rection to build to Wichita The Missouri I
'acifc railroad and place The depot on
he corner Ct First and second streets on .
Wichita street and this was done one
ear before the location was made pub
&C. During these years. land was
ought, that when sold made enough /
money to keep the wolf from the door,
T men had been satisfied. hut The blood
ras hot. the ambition was fred. The
esire 10 obtain millions. and then came
n ths boom then The deluse and
hen assets melted as snow under an
august sun The result was insolvency.
xpatriation. misery. humiliation, dssre-
alton and death 10 many: proud h mes
fere abandoned: ruinate fortunes. thick
T than fallen leaves. in Wichita in each
ucceeding year. were Witnessed on ev-
y hand: noble. generous. liberal mea
-a1ked the streets OF Wichita in agony;
roman OF culture and refinement surren-
cred the jewels Of prosperity 10 bug
read or nsCe -slty and adversely Wed
ing gifts were barterej. sold and pawn
4 to pay rent. Cos;iy farrita-e was
old ar secondhand stores to raise money
-ish which 10 get out OF town; and. IN
re case. known 20 the writer. after the
oreciesurs OF a mortgage. the owner
ne Sunday took 4 carpenter ard p'aster-
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