The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-05
City Regulator
Makes Suggestions as to
How TO Build a Wichita.

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To the Editor Of the Eagle:
/ notice that the chap who comes along
| the street and cuts across the corner over
the grass is the fellow who does not grow
grass himself.
| You need rake, a spade, and a wheel
barrow. Keep them In a convenient handy
! piace-and you should use them every
| day-about your premises. Your prem
| ises extend to the middle of the street
The next move of the railroad combina-
ton. the great Rock Island system. will
to tear up parallel lines and operate
jerkwater trains, and railroad building OF
the three lines will come to stand still.
Now let there be a determined move
by this city to build the Tx. & T. rail-
road, and with that road. the Orient and
Missouri Pacific, Wichita will be per-
fectly safe.
1 don't think a Salvation army man
has any business to ride on street car
these beautiful spring mornings. especi-
ally when he is out on begging tour.
| would gather all the dogs in the city,
both great and small, every dog, without
the loss ofeone and put them in one room
air-tight, and fill it with chloroform and
transport their souls, spirits and barks
to the dog heaven and give the nervous,
sick women, the little babe. lowering be-
tween life and death. the moon and the
squirrels a rest, TO say nothing about the
10 rtz>1 rayxnQ
home evenings with the anticipation Of a
nights sleep. which he so much needs.
but is annoyed all night long with mis-
cradle fest or a bird-dog that don't know
bird from a brick, having never seen
one, but has pedigree and reputation
among the neighbors OF barking all night
long What business or right has res
ident of the city to own or keep dog
to disturb and torment dozen neigh
bors? 1 would make the dog tax $50 "A
week.
There is large elm tree in Mckinley
park which has fallen across the stream.
alive and growing. 1t is a living rustic
foot-bridge. All it needs - a rustic BAN
lister. The park has been trimmed up,
trees trimmed, grass seed sown-thanks
to the commissioners-but it would make
one cross-eyed to look at the little
scrawny, crooked, little whip sticks which
have been planted in the open ground.
The treeless part of the grounds should
be planted with twice large trees. Resi-
dents in that part of the city ought to
take the matter in hand and replant
those grounds. There is no practical way
of reaching the park as it is, but 1t would
only be necessary to put floor on the
old street car bridge, which lies in the
edge of the park, to overcome this diff
Guilty.
One real nuisance to carriage drives
along some of the streets which the street
cars occupy, is the great quantity Of loose
stones lying along side the tracks, which
were used by the old street car company
to prop up their rail with. Since the
building of the new track, they have been
thrown aside. They should be hauled
away.
l would clear the streets of the rs It's
who line along the sidewalk these spring
afternoon making ogey eyes or fitting at
the ladies as they pass, staring at them
with an inquiring look. They come out
some afternoons like cock reaches in a
printing Office in the night after the prin-
ter's lunch or the EDITORS paste pot.
Physicians will tell you that when you
are eating a meal the conversation should
be of a pleasant nature. light and airy;
something that will make one laugh and
forget the trouble and trial of life and
business and not about appendicitis,
ulcers of the liver, filling old teeth, tuber-
culosis, skin grating, improving nails and
old ulcers.
l found in my front yard one day
this week roll of paper. On examination
it was circulars. twenty six of them in the
bunch, advertisements of a special sale {
of one of the houses in the city. That is
a sample of the benefits derived from that
kind of advertising. At that rate of dis
it would take one hundred and
twenty-five thousand circulars to cover |
the six thousand homes in this city. Not |
one in ten is ever looked at by the men, |
bers of the household but they are thrown |
off in the cutters or raked up and burned, |
while the newspaper is carried into the |
house and the advertisement is seen and |
read at the breakfast table or later by |
the lady of the house, whom you want to |
reach.
When you answer the telephone call and /,
you are accosted with the inquiry, who ,
Is this?" just ask them who they want and !
keep it up until they tell you who or what |
they want
I would not allow hotel porters or any
body else for that matter. to run push |,
carts on the sidewalks on business streets. |
How refreshing and invigoratipg it must :
be to roll ten pins or play billiards in
room dense with cigarette. cigar and pipe |
smoke.
Kansas City merchants sent out from /
their town last week a lot of clerks and !
hired men ana hangerson under the name /