The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-29
City Regulator
Makes Suggestions as to
How to Build q Wichita.
To the Editor of the Eagle.

Makes suggestions 40 20
How to Build Wichita.
To the Editor of the Eagle.
For rent. any corner on the sidewalk on
any street in the city. Apply 10 the occu-
pant Of the abutting property. Empty
bottles or cases and puddles of water run
ming across the sidewalk cut no ice.
If 1 lived on North Market street or
Tenth street between Lawrence and Main
I would charter a car and take the resi-
dents of those streets TO St Louis and
walk them through resident portion,
Van Deventer place, SO they could get
an inspirat ton and few pointers on how
to improve and beautify the unimproved
space in the middle of those streets. A
little money, little muscle and Market
street could be made the handsomest
street in the city.
Old time nasty streets-wili the mer-
chants stand to have our-streets reeking
with filth soaked down, not even the
crossings kept clean. while heretofore,
with the white wings ladies could cross
the streets from store to store with light
low shoes on and not soil them? Now
they need rubber boots.
Said one CRATER to another CRATER yes
terday afternoon, when they met on
Douglas avenue: This town is punk.
have failed to work a single merchant SO
far. and my graft has never been worked
in this town, either" Said the other
CRATER: II am going to work my hotel
for tomorrow's board and leave town
Monday and hunt town where suckers
live
'Tis pity its, it's true, that people viii
steal flowers. 1 have neighDors who grow
beautiful roses in their yards, and thieves
come along and steal them. 1t cannot be
that they enjoy flowers, that they pull
handful only to carry short distance
and drop on the street. Such persons
only give themselves away, because any
one seeing them knows that they don't
grow flowers.
Speaking of the St. Louis fair and of its
incompleteness, 1 beg to say that there is
enough completed to occupy the attention
of the most industrious observer for sew
eral months to come. If you want to
find unfinished work it is to be found, but
the buildings are finished. the grounds
are nearly completed. There need not be
any hesitancy on the part of any one
about going now for fear of the unfin-
ished condition. The government build
ing alone has enough in it to keep one
busy for week from sunrise until mid
night. The Pike, you may be sure, is
complete in every detail. The Philippine
grounds are complete, forty acres of Mis-
souri, woods, with here and there bam-
boo house occupied by the most COM
pletely dressed lot of men since the day
Adam was invited to leave the Garden.
save possibly the fact that they use much
less material in their suits.
I wish the people Of this city would
hurry up and sign up on the gas con-
tracts. Gas is preferable to coal at the
same price. If in the use of operating
machinery, it saves a stoker, saves ma
chinery, and is cleaner and quicker. If
in a CRATE in your home one only needs
a match. If in the furnace a match is all
that is needed. No annoyance of coal
wagons filing up cellar with slack and
coal; no ashes; no furnace cleaning. Why
don't YOU telephone in your name or sign
up contracts at once and let us have gas
for next winter? Don't you fatter your
selves for a moment that the rate on coal
will be cut fifty per cent. Even If they
made the price of coal equal gas is prefer
able.
The resident on University avenue said
to the resident on Lawrence avenue:
when are you going to pave?"
In st. Louis they are putting down four
kinds of pavement in the aristocratic res
ident portion of the city: cedar blocks
thoroughly saturated with tar and a
coating of tar poured over them filling up
the crevices: aspralt; brick laid as the
postoffice grounds in this city were built
and a patent combination of sand. crush
ed stone and cement The latter for wear
and endurance and slippery weather has
been pronounced the best. The cost is
fraction more than any other kind or
pavement. and ought to be If IL is 50
much better, which Is claimed tor IT. The
reason given by the parties who are using
cedar blocks is that II is noiseless and
heavy traffic is positively forbidden to
travel on II. it will last for ages. The
way traffic of any kind is kept out OF
these fine resident streets is that one end
of the streets is closed: but carriages and
pedestrians are allowed to travel on these
streets The streets are kept clean. most
of them. by white wings. with the push
carts. one does not have to wade through
filth in crossing the streets, because IL Is
cheaper II each merchant viii give %
per cent Of the money paid by our mer-
chants for sprinkling. it will put two
white wings to the block. and If the neT-
chants want the sprinkling continued,
they can get it done for less than the
other 75 per cent.