The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-10
City Regulator
Makes Suggestions a. 10
How to Build 4 Wichita.

~ iiic EOltOI OF tOe Eagle.
Watch the railroads for the next three
or four months. They will cut rates all
along the line; will seek interviews with
their traffic managers: will publish
abroad reductions in rates in a month. or
as soon as new sheet can be got our.
etc. But as soon as the election is over
they won't have train that can run
fast enough to put the rates back agaln
higher than they are now. and get the
reduction all back again.
To any intelligent citizen It must be
apparent that paved streets are one OF
the most essential requirements of a
modern city, without which progress IN
other directions is greatly restricted. Re
cent discoveries in the manufacture Of
brick has settled the question of durabii-
ity as between brick and asphalt. Brick
costs less after the period of guarantee
has expired. The asphalt street will cost.
during the remainder of its life from five
TO ten times as much to repair as a brick
street. A city of small size cannot afford
TO maintain its own plant for repairs
The way to lay brick is 20 build a con-
crete base of six inches; then two inches
of sand, on which the brick are placed
and rolled to a true surface with heavy
roller: then fill The joints with grout or
equal proportions of Portland cement and
fine sand. The building and repairing
can be done by home labor.
I see the Woman's Humane Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals at
ST. Louis are throwing up their hands
in hn1r
The Igorotes are purchasing dogs to eat,
and propose to arrest them if they eat
dog, on the ground that it is cruelty to
animals. This straining at a gnat anu
swallowing a camel makes one tired.
Think of a woman going into court COM
planning against a party for eating some
thing that he has been taught to eat
from the time of Adam down, wearing on
her head a. hat covered with birds wings.
How mueh more cruel is it to kill ana
eat dog than to kill and eat a dove or
quail, a squirrel, a Jersey calf or a Ches-
ter white pig? would not give one squir-
rel for all the dogs in Missouri.
1t is not considered good form, when
you accept an invitation to dinner at a
certain hour, to appear a half hour or
more late. If you find that you will NOT
be able to make it AT the appointed hour.
spare the hostess nerves and a prepared
menu by telephoning your regrets.
The beautiful springtime has come with
its birds and flowers-and grafters with
their fine talks, cook books. directories.
sign painting, cross roads signboards TO
to- nd ND
posts, 10 be torn off by the farmer boy
or shot to pieces by the sporty town boy.
but the merchant pays for it to keep his
competitor from getting it. or because
some church or secret society endorses IL.
Now everybody who owns his home.
and thousands who do not are cleaning.
planting and beautifying, doing every
thing that can be done to make their
places look handsome and clean. And
how we'll they are succeeding can best be
told by driving about the city. Each sue
ceeding year our young city grows more
beautiful.
There are bill posters and distributors
in the city who, to avoid being canght
at their small business. do their work
at night, which can be stepped by proper
effort.
It was a mistake-the policeman was
not run over by the push cart man, for
the push cart man waited long enough
for him to move. e-sr
About the time congress removes the
Ill fa
turers will have combined In a trust and
Canada will add a queens bounty. which
they cannot do now because it would
make it prohibitive. The result will be
that paper will go higher Why doesn't
congress make a trust impossible?
Just watch how the town grows along
the line of the street railway as il is ex-
tended. And yet one will find people who
make fuss because a line is proposed to
be built along the street in front of their
places. But you hardly ever near anyone
complain after the road Is once in oper-
alton.
Under the new city charter bill or act,
cities OF the first class a1e empowered to
clean up and keep clean vacant property
in a city and tax it up to the property
II is to be hoped that this city will take
advantage of this act aDd clean up lot
of nonresident property as well as some
that belongs to residents.
Inquiries reach this Office constantly
from people living in the north ana
northwestern country for papers viii
information regarding ihe country. II
the real estate men OF southwest Kansas
and Oklahoma would form an organiza-
ton good and strong. with money invest
ed in good literature and newspaper ad-
yertisins in the northwest. and two or
three live agents sent into that country.
they would be able TO start and turn an
immense number OF people into this couh-
try. Thousa nds are ieaving-can't stand
the cold weather-and the railroads are
ready and glad to forward scheme of
that kind
This is the most unpatTiotic town I
know of when It comes 10 a display OF
flags. / would have every business house
in wichita OWE a nice flag. with a pore
on the building to fly il from, or a socket
from, the window TO hold it. and on the
occasion OF the meeting Of political coz
veniIons. secret organizations. holiday -
c,1rsions. etc. have everybody hang out
the stars and stripes
would charge the slot weighing ma
chimes a good round license and forbid
them standing on the sidewalk
An, glad 20 see that the free kinder
earten move has assumed permanent