The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-18
Shall Wichita Have a Historical Society?
Such ogaDzHo7 Urged Reasons for Towns

icf inc BeE cars anu U0ck ana com
reneed To operate the read as soon as Il
could be gotten under way.
IL Il estimated that the loss n the
! building OF the street cars IN the city
OF Wichita from the organisation II the
first street car line n 1870 down 10 the
time tina; the present street railway sys-
| TEN purchased the electric line taree
years ago. amounts 20 about s-s0.0-0 n
| this connection st Taight hs said thar
the arss street car line was organized In
1855. BIZ The Colonel John w HaFtsea
then OF Topeka. Kan. J. n. Sseele. kos
Harris. L. n SIMMER and Frank Hart
sell This street railway hnc-ran from
the Santa Re depot up II Main street en-
(; Douglas avenue and thsace Rorth to oak
street. now Murdoch avenue. AMI thence
the old santa re depot.
| The present city street railway rails
weigh over 100 pounds 10 the yard The
Wichita street railway. when built N
lSS. used iron. which weighed but four
J., teen pounds to the yard. 50 that enc can
readily see the difference between build
| ting a mule car lire ara an electric car
| line. The Wichita Street Railway Com
pany organized in iSSs. issued it, bonds
TO the amount Of si4.0e. payable 60 s W.
Wheeloek % Rock Island. IL. and amer
this line was built. cars purchased as
well as mules. che company had about
s. ~ In addition 20 the si4eo furnished uy
wheeiock The earnings the first year
were is7 per cent GA the amount OF capital
stock subsequently this road was soid
10 Colonel Powell FOR ses.0so and there
after Colonel Powell sold one-kaS inter-
est for sss.oo. and thereafter he SD
hts other half interest for Sleooop. which
was paid in notes and mortgages TAX n
by him In part payment and he lost over
IS .ooo. During this time the Garfield
university was started By the Chr.s;iau
church. also Fsirmount ooilezs. the Ger
man Reform college. now used BY the
Catholic church south OF III goif
grounds. Daring this time. John rsriEht's
university was started. There II fs.shaps
one person IN soc In the city % Wichita.
who remembers where John Drivhts uni-
verslsy was located This administration
was the one that gave so Wichita the
celebrity and II Is period 81 high values.
The apex Of Its prosperity and this cd
n1inistration passed into history hetofe
wichlts realised that q IVES ihsaivemi or
dreamed Of what would follow.
As a matter OF fact the city Of Wichita
vas In the condition Of n man. who
goes home and finfs some Of his family
IL III. While NJ Is shocked 20 SOME .x-
tent. the member Of the family lies sick
for one month. two months or three
months. The doctor tells them that there
h doubt OF The recovery az the SICK per
son. BY the time the person dies. shs
family have become accustomed srd rec
oncfied 10 the condition and che death Is
not rs much OF fhoci< as the osisinal
information Of she Illness. Where q per
son goes home sad nn4s q memief e
the family has been suddenly Killed. re
shock - terrible. Wichita was a sick
man. n did rot Know whether D. would
recover. or not ~ the days. months and
years went by md had become r. s0Bciird
condition. II on some morning in isss.
ell OK the misery. deaoi5;ien ard bank
ruptcy had rliadeniy came - wi kits Ia
the night fhs shock would have teen 90
great. that the un6eftakers q tAis ci;Y
would have had 20 telegraph % eastern
cosan manufacturers 70 order boxes with
which TO bury the suicides Ay 5uda-
nnent IS that al The sgsiekfine. areerie.
prusic acid and iaadsnuHi iu the town
would have been used D. sfrty-s sht
hours. n ne-haig 81 the misery and aes8-
lstIon had struck "a sp3denly instead %
being long drawn oss
During this time i4avood fark was
Laid out. whkh was the frat real parz
In thr clfv The Clsrfstrnas ~ Isfs zzs
the ~Tdsst and HoisisFt DAY la epceBla-
lion that wichita ever behsid Rsai -
,aie traees Ira, amounted nnifiirnr %
dollars Hsfe rnsds Gas fhst Cas-. There
xas Indebtedness .nouxh created on that
day 70 baakrupf "a reset affy families.
on that day the writer was rnennisef -
A syndicate ard put " his raFtiaa 4
ts0.aos IN = pierre - preserty whsch was
,hercaftsr carried tfn years ard f'fa
sola feq abouf fhe same ansetnt ~ lax
- hat bad beer sid out ~ fhs Frsuef-
= frv-S 1885 % TIE dsy q iie sis PER
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sry Eossi - ths elsy xas fen aaa fsis-
ning over Busisess rnen BAD esana 1ss
their ftorva and became real estz.e
ufat0rs Stocks - Eoess were sotf SRI
boxed up and TIE stores Uefs feaisd
Tor busiss=s houss- Gee tnsinees hoss@
on Sarfh Mzin street reafel 20 81 peg
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