The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-03-06


Doctor Of Philosophy conferred on him
this year. His estimable wife and pretty
children are in Chicago making the hours
away from the Libraries very pleasant for
the genial professor.
Anna Eva Fay is travelling around Kan
sas again. Wichita should look a leetIe
oud' and not let the Chicago papers say
Of the Peerless Princess what they did OF
Topeka. The Tribune rises to remark:
Topeka appears TO have gone wild over
Anna Eva Fay Where has Topeka been
keeping herself for the last quarter Of a
century" Ugh, isn't that awful?
Henry Huffman. former assistant coun-
~ attorney Of SeGgwick county, is making
a success in Chicago. He is connected
with one Of the best lawyers in the state
Of Illinois and the firm are the attorneys
for two million dollar mining and rail
road corporation which has the cash and
men 70 back it. Mr.. huffman has had the
political bees stirred UP and the people in
his ward, the 23Td. are insisting that he
make the race for alderman in the spring.
Mr.. Huffman insists that he has not lived
In Chicago long enough to aspire to such
honors but the constituents tell different
story. Mr. Huffman can have the nomi-
aation if he wants it and that means
election in the 23rd.
Miss Rosalia Schultz manager of the
telephone exchange of the C. b. & q. r.
r. in Chicago. has returned from a pleas
ant visit with her mother in Wichita
Chicago has been covered with snow
since Thanksgiving day. No one took the
trouble about calling it the beautiful"
for the snow didn't look pretty within an
hour after 1t fell. 1t turned black There
has been thaw for the past few days,
the storm sewers are blocked with ice
and sections Of the town are flooded.
Great ponds can be seen in the outlying
sections. There was fire in a cottage in
one Of these lakes last week and strang-
er padding through a lake accosted
native thus: Had FIRE down here late
Iy?" ''Yerp," responded the resident,
Tasting his eye over 20 the ruins. she
burned clear TO the water line" Pedcs-
trians carry their own bridges around
town. When they como 70 a deep hole they
pusn the plank across. walk over dry-shod
and pull the plank after them.
Henry Lampl. formerly advertising man
agcr for Herman & Hess. is a freshman
lawyer at the University of Chicago His
bed fellow swears that Lampl wakes up
in the nicht and repeats the principles of
common law to the bed posts.
\ good many Wichitans viii remember
". Irving Osborne. who had an office in
the Whine building about the time tho
boom busted" Mr.. Osborne is vice pres
idcnt Of the Central Trust Company Bank
Of which ex- COMPTROLLER Dawes IS pres
ident Mr.. osborne came to Chicago IN
heraIded and unsung. became interested
In a gas franchise deal and won out. His
star rose rapidly until now he is regarded
as one of Chicago's most successful law
yers and business men. Tie is "A member
Of the Union League and several other
well known clubs.
Ed O'Brien is general counsel for the
New York Life Insurance company. He
has fine suite of offices in the New York
Life building. which building. 10y the way.
doesn't belong to the New York Life com
pany at all but is owned by private indi-
viduals and the insurance company has
only minor Offices in the building
There has just been completed n system
Of tunnels underlying the greater part Of
the entire retail district The tunnel is
10 be filled with pneumatic tubes carry
ms goods to the depots aud stations out
side the congostcd district where il viii
specd II is expected thar later the mails
from the depots viii be sent to the post
office through the tunnels. \ short time
ago the company operating the tunnels
gave a banquet in them The tunnels are
8 lighted with electricity The banquet was
very swell. Yet all the viands were prepar-
ed in the tunnels and one would think
they were in big dining han Of some
club.
Talk about the severity Of Kansas
blizzard: Chicago was forced % ackuowi-
edge that other places have bad storms
At Moutocello. a suburb less than twenty
miles from the heart Of The city. Miss
Ellen y. Robinson was lost in Il storm ana
as result has lost both hands and feet
She is a trained nurse. supporting an aged
mother and younger sister She was cali
I'd 70 Monticello by physician who fail
ID 10 meet her at the depot. The youoS
Eonan started 10 walk to the physician
home. 4 binding snowstorm was IN pro-
gress and she lost her way on the prairie
between the depot and the residence sec
ton Several hours after the train ar
rived Miss Robinson friends became
worried about her n0n-apHearaDce and @
search was instituted A. time went on
the party was augmented until more than
one hundred men were searching over the
prairie. About three o'clock the next
morning Miss Robinson was found, un-
conscious and almost buried under the
NOV
Chicago takes good care Of its children
and young people in the way of providing
places o. free amusement. The city pro-
vides simple but comfortable and warm
houses at each Of the large lagoons where
he Young people may put on their skates
and rest. Besides an this the city keeps
three or four teams and dozen men busy
,,esuinc and scraping the Ice. Hundreds
n lights are provided for night skating
rhe polfcernen are scattered about TO pre-
cent the smaller ones being injured or
retting in the way Of the elders. Every
onportunity in the way OF reserving
space for fancy skating is afforded