The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-21

imagine the INDIVIDUAL "
is assigned the task of taking charge OF
the ventilation of a church has an IN
welcome position when he is called upon
TO open the windows at the same time
others asking him to close them, and
still others leave the room because it IS
too hot, and at the same time some be-
cause it is too cold.
What would you think of man in your
community who was dong an extensive
business which depended largely on the
good will and confidence of the business
men, and who possessed an overweening
desire to be in every deal of commercial
interest to the city, and in failure TO
get in. turns around and knocks the prop
osition? Wichita has cattle OF that kind.
I would pave Lawrence avenue from
Douglas avenue to Seventeenth street
with asphalt.
If we had a southeast road we would
be able to reach the asphalt beds in the
territory. Major Miles, who was so
many years in the territory, says there
is enough asphalt easy of access in that
I see that Topeka is making a move to
ask congress to make an appropriation
to dyke the Kaw river. 1 move that it
be made unanimous, and dyke Big and
Little Arkansaw rivers and Cow creek.
1 would open drive way into Riverside
Park from the West Side near the street
railway station.
I would fill the holes in the park near
the new lily pond.
I would save the large elm trees in the
park that will soon fall if not taken care
of. by building cribs around them.
From early morning until dewy eve has
the hitching post in front of the Eagle
been in use. Never less than one team,
and sometimes three teams can be found
there under the watchful care of a train
ed f1y-shooer. The response to the Reg
ulator has been so general that he is
thinking seriously Of shipping in some
blue clay from Kentucky for the horses
with tender feet and corns to stand in,
and possibly an electric fan attachment.
But It is understood that there is to be
no scrapping over who shall hitch there
and no limit to the number of teams at
any time.
I would forbid the dog catcher driving
| along the public streets with his loads
of victims. He should be made to travel
the alleys.
The evolutions of today are the tele-
phone, the rural delivery. and the inter
urban railway. When the Eagle was
started the mails were carried by star
routes. Some offices were supplied in this
southwestern country once a week. some
twice a week. few three times a week
and the farmer would manage to send
some one to the office once a week for
the mail-usually Saturday night so he
could get the Weekly Eagle for Sunday
reading. Now scores of these same farm
ers are reading the Daily Eagle every
morning. all the news of the world, mar
ket reports. crop outlook and stock
breeding. and not content with daily
mail. many of them have telephones and
are in connection with the city markets
OF all kinds. The forecast or prediction
made to the same farmers when they
commenced taking the Weekly Eagle that
they would some day walk out and sit
on their gate post and one Of Uncle
Sans mail carriers would ride up and
hand him his morning Eagle the same
as the man i'm town gets his Eagle, he
would have pronounced insane. l will
make forecast that will seem more i'm
probable. but nevertheless will transpire-
That is this entire southwestern coun-
try will be covered with a network Of
interurban railroads. The child OF to-
day viii live to reach any town. village,
hamlet or farm. or pass very near it, on
the interurbau railroad. First the main
lines connecting the leading citiese and
towns. then the latersls. The farmers
will help to build these roads. own stock
in them and use them to ship their stock,
grain and other farm products to the
market center.
I think the people who have the patri-
otism in charge in this town have big
job on their hands. if the display OF
flags on flag day is any criterion. for
about one residence in fifty displayed
flags. and one business house in one
hundred.
The people in this country are growing
weary, really tired. waiting around rail
road stations for belated trains. Roads
that are attempting 70 make well bal
lasted road time on dirt roads ought 10
give it up and make a schedule that they
can maintain.
II the woman who hired the neighbor
boys to xiii the birds because they ate
her cherries. will tell the boys that il is
cruel. uncivilized and fendish to kin
birds. and send one Of the boys to the
City Regulator he will buy her a bushel
of as nice cherries as can be found on
the market.
There IS a three-story building on the
Missouri Pacific railroad near the depot
with a handsome front. but the windows
all smashed out. Why don't the occu-
pants TX it up Il looks Ike the bats
AMI owls could not live in IT,
The town is full OF fakirs. The suckers
must be IN high gIee. The schemes are
so many. numerous and artistic III de-
sign that the most factidious sucker can
be accommodated.
II we had the southeast road built We
would be able 10 furnish the mex towns
and counties with their supplies for