The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-18
City Regulator
Makes Suggestions as to
How to Build a Wichita.

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To the Editor OF the Eagle:
Just think OF the miles and miles of
of streaks OF rust that have been built
in Oklahoma and still being built that
will be torn UP inside the next half
| dozen years ard carted away.
/ would not allow the street sweeping
to be done nights until the business of
the city is over and the people have left
the street. The dust that is raised by
the sweeper is an intolerable nuisance,
| unhealthy and unclean, causing pedes-
TRANS in order to evade il, to dodge into
stores. up stairways and alleys. while
people driving have to take it.
College girls you don't know it, don't
mean to do it, but those of you who ride
to college on the street cars every day
are spelling your voices unconsciously,
talking as you travel on the cars. In
order to hear each other you pitch your
voices to an unnatural key. Don't do it.
One of your many charms is in your mus
ical gentle feminine voice and rythmical
laughter.
II I owned the Rock Island railroad
the next road that 1 purchased would
be the Wichita and Western-a much
more valuable adjunct to its system than
many of the up-the-creek lines that they
have purchased.
I would have Representative Adams
secure its passage in the present legis-
lature that would empower cities of the
first class to vote bonds for internal i'm
provements to a limited amount Of fifty
or sixty thousand dollars and then vote
the amount to build an auditorium on the
Hamilton park. Cover that ground and
the lots belonging to the city on the east
side of the city building. We must have
a building that will seat five or eight
thousand people. with a large arena, SO
that we can hold musicales, lectures,
concerts, horse and cattle shows, trades
displays, and all the things that gravi-
tate and belong to a central trade city.
If WI had such building we could and
would have a half dozen different kind
OF attractions that belong to us. each
year. and would be equipped to do it in
6ecency and order. The two clubs ought
to appoint joint committee at once and
take the matter up and see that the bill
is passed
1t is a grave mistake for the city to
allow the low ground along the river
bank below the Douglas avenue bridge
to be made the dumping ground for
garbage. 1t is one of the most unsightly
disease-breeding holes that anyone ever
looked upon, almost in the heart of the
city. When the spring raise in the river
comes the water will lsoak through the
bank of sand. back into that ten acres
ing miasma and stencil that will arise
from the decaying mass. brought about
by the hot rays of the sun. will fill the
homes of that part Of the city. 1t ought
to be stopped.
When you are out during these fine
days driving and want to see the hand
soonest avenue in the city. drive to Uni
versity avenue. on the West Side and
you will see it.
1t looks cruel to me to see men with
axes and saws engaged in {! y ting down
the large, sound, healthy cottonwood
trees. In this dry air and climate there
is no need of cutting down any healthy
growing trte It would not allow a tree
cut down on the townsite unless it was
to make room for a building
a man who has one of the largest signs
standing on the sidewalk. said this week
that he wished the council would order
every sign on or across the sidewalk
removed and every pole stripped Of
signs.
Good pavements in a city are second
only in Importance to good public schools.
Either poor schools or poor streets will
seriously affect the prosperity of a city.
Wichita has the good schools-none bet
ter-but the condition of her streets arc
to be deplored. When city is spoken
o; as being fine city in which to live
one of the chief considerations is the
appearance of her streets. The health
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