The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-04


The Eagle has been a little off color
for a few days this week on account Of
rebuilding the newspaper press. The
Eagle has just Installed a three deck
press-the largest newspaper press in
Kansas.
If 1 had a handsome horse that could
| cut the fringe on twenty and was being
driven in race, and was straining every
nerve TO lead his competitors ana fall
ing in his efforts TO reach the goal ahead
of the other horse and the driver wouid
commence to lash him numerically Win
a whip, 1 would hire a big double hsted
fellow TO take that same whip and give
| that driver two ticks FOR every welt ne
had put on my horse ana then 1 would
| give the driver the grand bounce.
Wichita has tried many different
schemes for an annual week Of enter
tainment and her experience has taught
her that there are two classes of people
TO entertain. One class comes for fun
| and recreation TO be entertained in sports
| and midway attractions; another class
wish to combine with their pleasure bust
! ness features. In order to meet the wishes
! of the two l would furnish the very best
races that could be secured by offering
purses for trotting, pacing and running,
/ and a midway of the higher order-sorne-
/ thing that could not be criticised OF
| two days of the week a parade Of some
kind and two nights extensive fireworks
| or electric floats one night and fireworks
| one night. Pay large premiums on races
I actually made-no race no money. Let
the other fellow stand all equal risk on
the weather problem. 1t is mistake for
an association TO take all the risk on
weather. If a program Of this KIND IS
thoroughly carried out in first class
and business like manner. there can be
established an annual entertainment so
! attractive that the people will come and
the organization can be placed on a, pay
ing basis. In order to do this the organ
ization should have a permanent secre-
tary POSSESSED with GOOD executive abil-
! fly, backed by a strong executive board.
! What display of fresh young manhood
Kansas born and bred was to be seen
! in that two miles of mounted men on
the opening day of the fair, known the
Anti-Horsethief organization. All of them
well mounted, not an inferior horse in
| the entire troop. 1 could not help but
think what a fine body of men composed
that parade-what immense possibilities
were to be found in them both in war or
peace.
| Why don't some one invent a smoke
consumer for automobiles?
! I see the Santa Fe Railroad company
has removed that big, ungainly sign
/ which stood near their depot 1 have
been puzzled about that sign, wondering
why they did not paint on it, This is
the Santa Fe railroad if they must have
a sign board. The other words painted
on the board are entirely superfuous.
Some one of Wichita's rich men ought
to build a nice colonial residence on-Col-
lege Hill and join with the residents who
live on the hillside and valley and drill
an artesian well.
We note the fact that the death of Mr..
Sykes, who was foreman in the job de-
partment of this office, is the first one
ever occurring in this office. That is, the
first employee taken sick while at his post
of duty and dying. A most remarkable
statement. when one considers the length
of time the Eagle has been published. be-
ginning in 1872, and the number of en-
ployes that have come and gone, and the
number employed at the present time
being more than one hundred persons,
and has averaged that number for years.
/ It is rearkable Quite a number of chill
dren whose fathers are Eagle employees
have died, but no employee, nor the wife
of an employee has died in the thirty-one
years.
l wonder if our merchants are taking
care of the trade on the Orient railroad
! as it pushes it's way to the Pacific coast.
Wichita is the first point of importance
on the road that the people from the
south will reach between here and Old
Mexico-the radiating point to Chicago,
St. Louis and farther east. The extern
/ sion of that road means much for
Wichita, if her merchants and packers
! take care of IL.
There is Il vast difference between
standing on a dry goods box and spelling
! 10 a cTUNu VI -hlS8tbildhS III d AdlSSONkA
town and crowd of Kansans in Kansas
! town. on a fair day. In the former case
the average Missouri yahoo thinks that
a man who stands on a box and pounds
! the air and hollers so loud that you
/ can hear him mile is wonderful. Makes
no particular difference whether he says
/ anything or not-only wind in occasion
! ally the down-trodden common people.
+ the poor farmer. being devoured by that
/ awful octopus known as the trust, that
/ is sinking its tank tackles into the
4 threats OF our Industries and paralyzing
/ them. He stands with his mouth a-gap.
| while the Kansas Jayhawker comes
along catches y sentence or two, and
/ with a grin or shrug of his shoulder,
I passes on.
/ The bare walls OF the new Country club
house furnish an appropriate place for
pictures for a club house; athletic pic
/ lures. embracing the different games.
/ Members could club together and pur-
/ chase a few well-selected and appro-
/ pirate pictures-not many. but nice ones
! Lying around on the sidewalks snd in
( the bitches could be seen ali this week
s;xteen-page eheaply printed publication
+ which bore on its first page The Official
! program which was nothing more or