The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-02-07
The Founding Of Washington, D. G.
By DAVID D.. LEAHY.

Washington, Feb 6-It has been said
that by faith we can move mountains.
! have never seen any mountains moved
that way myself but 1 suppose it can
be done. L want TO move a range of hills
this Sunday morning, but as my faith is
not equal to the task, l viii see what i'm
afn7ation can do.
FOR the purpose of this article College
Hill must be taken up by the roots, trans
ferred to the West Side and laid down
upon the geographical line separating
Wichita from Delano township. On top
Of it. right over the spot upon which All
Hallows Academy now stands, 1 will
erect d building. modelled after the Tenn
pie of Theseus, with a noble Doric front
facing eastward. and call it the Lee Man
sion. if you imagine a cemetery with
5000 graves around this building, you
viii have before you Arlington" Now,
after this, we must remove all the beau
tiful and pleasant homes of the West
Side and having nothing west of the river
but brushy marshy tangle of brick
yards, in al stages of dilapidation. This
is the state Of Virginia.
On the east side of the Arkansas river
at the Second street bridge. we will again
begin work and wipe out all the houses
east to Lawrence avenue and south to
kellogg street and have a beautiful park.
leaving all the streets where they are,
&. and as they are, except that We pave
them with asphalt We must continue
this park to Hydraulic, leaving no build
tnss but that row of business houses be-
tween Douglas avenue and William street,
from Lawrence avenue to Lulu avenue
Hyde Park is covered by a crystal build
ing with a beautiful dome and two very
beautiful minerets. in which are living
plants from every nation on earth. The
six blocks surrounding Hyde Park.
bounded on the north by Douglas avenue.
on the south by Division street, on the
west by Lulu and or the east by Hydrau-
lie. constitute the Botonical Gardens.
At the intersection of Douglas and Hy-
draulic avenues, the Peace Monument
stands concentrating the happy conclu-
sion of the Civil war.
Douglas avenue west from this point TO
Lawrence avenue is Pennsylvania ave
nue.; Lawrence avenue to Second street
IS Fifteenth street. and Second street
west to the river is G street, y w.
Where College Hill now is we must
have a river runnig into the Arkansas
g little below Linwood park. From this
river to Hydraulic we must have ali in
cline. instead of d decline. until the alti-
tude, at the tragic Black residence, is
ninety-seven feet above the Arkansas
river. From that point westward the
lay of the ground must be as it now is in
the Peerless Princess
On this eminence Douglas avenue runs
plum into an edidce built of white
granite 751 feet and inches long, $50 feet
wide and about 800 feet to the top of its
dome. We must cut out two blocks on
either side of it. east of Hydraulic for a
park. and henceforth we viii know it as
the Capitol
If. on the eastern extremity of the Cap
itol grounds, on the south side of Douglas
avenue. you cut out three more blocks
and erect a white granite building. COW
ering three acres. you would have the
Congressional library. The Navy Yard
wiuld lie in between Linwood park and
the Catholic cemetery and the Arsenal
and War College Would be at the Law
renee avenue bridge.
AT Fairmouut college We would have the
ton Car Works We would require a nice
hill for the Soldiers Home; between them
We would require another hill for the
numerous fine buildings constituting the
Catholic university. At DOld's packing
house we would have Howard university
and the naval observatory would be well
out towards SuliVans dam.
We will now locate the Government
printing Olive on the corner of Murdoch
avenue and Pratt streets; the City Hall
and the Pension Bureau would occupy all
Of Mathewson's pasture; the Land Office
would occupy a block on Third street be
tween Washington and Mosley and the
Patent Office would occupy two blocks
on Third street between Washington ave-
nue. Mead and Central avenues. George
town would be that part of Wichita north
OF Riverside park. Iowa Circle would he
at Colonel Murdocks house; Dupont Cir
Gle where Scott L. Whine lives anu Thorn
as Circle would be in front of the county
Jail. Farmer Dooittle would not have
70 do any reporting and Doc Kelly
would not have TO haul any more par
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