Polk Topeka, Kansas, city directory, 1893-1894, Part 1

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ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 00866 4317


REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION


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1893


1894


IRECTORY OF


TOPEKA AND CHAWNEE COUNTY


AND GAZETTEER OF GENERAL INFORMATION.


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Largest, Best and Cheapest CLOTHIERS, HATTERS AND FURNISHERS


IN KANSAS.


Being Manufacturers enables us at all times to place before the people the Latest and Best the World's Markets afford. Our Prices are always Lower than the Lowest.


MEN'S SUITS, $6, $8, $10, $12, $15, $18 to $25. MEN'S OVERCOATS, $5, $8, $10, $12, $15 to $30.


One Price to all. Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded.


KNOX WORLD STIFF AND SILK HATS. - RENOWNED


BOYS' AND CHILDREN'S CLOTHING.


It is a known fact that at all times we carry. the largest, most varied and complete assortments of wearing apparel for juveniles.


KILTS, JERSEY SUITS, $2.50 to $6. SHORT-PANT SUITS, $1.50, $2.60, $3.50, $5.00 To $10.00.


We are sole agents for the celebrated Bessemer Suits, double knees and seat, all wool $5.


LONG-PANT SUITS, $5 to $20. COMPLETE LINE OF FINEST SHIRTS, NECKWEAR, UNDERWEAR, ETC.


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709 KANSAS, AVENUE. AUERBACH & GUETTEL, Topeka, Kas.


PATENTS!


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Successful Invention.


Secure Protection.


T. S. BROWN


SOLICITOR OF PATENTS,


AND COUNSELLOR IN PATENT CAUSES,


624 KANSAS AVE., TOPEKA, KANSAS.


OTHER MEN HAVE MADE FORTUNES OUT OF PATENTS. WHY SHOULD NOT YOU ?


PATENT LAW


SEND FOR CIRCULAR.


GENERAL INDEX.


PAGE.


Publisher's Salute,


9


Topeka,.


II


A Kick,


521


A Page of Ancient History,


619


Additions and Subdivisions, .


33


A. O. U. W. Calendar,


84


Alphabetical Directory of Names,


109


Amusements, Places of,


47


Bands and Orchestras,


48


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Banks and Bankers,


48


Board of Education,


59


Board of Health,


45


Board of Police Commissioners,


44


Business Directory,


522


Cemeteries,


51


Clearing House Association,


48


Clubs and Societies, etc.,


55


Council, Members of, etc.,


44


Churches and Religious Institutions, .


51


Colleges and Private Schools,


62


Colored Organizations,


89


Educational, Schools, etc.,


59


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Finances,


46


Fire Department,


63


G. A. R. Calendar,


85


Gymnasiums, .


65


Hibernians Calendar,


83


Historically,


II


Hospitals,


65


Incorporated Companies,


65


I. O. of G. T. Calendar,


89


I. O. O. F. Calendar, .


83


. Justices of the Peace,


45


Knights of the Golden Eagle,


87


Knights of Columbia,


86


Kuights of Honor,


87


Knights and Ladies of Honor,


87


Labor Unions,


73


Libraries,.


75


Masonic Calendar,


81


Mayors of,


43


Military Organizations,


76


Modern Woodmen of America,


88


Municipal Record,


42


Museunis,


76


National Union Calendar,


87


Topeka -


Newspapers and Periodicals,


76


Necrology,


610


Numbering by Lots,


30


Officers of,


43


Patriotic Order Sons of America, Cal-


endar of, .


86


Police Court and Officers,


45


Post Office and Mail Service,


78


Public Buildings,


80


Railroads in,


80


Red Men Calendar,


86


Secret and Benevolent Societies,


81


Street and Avenue Guidc,


18


Teachers in Public Schools,


60


Voting Precincts,


31


Ward Boundaries,


31


Potwin Place -


City of,


90


Officers,


90


City Council,


90


Board of Education,


90


Shawnee County -


Assessment of Property,


91


Board of Commissioners,


91


Directory of Taxpayers,


552


Judiciary,


92


Members of Legislature,


92


Officers,


92


Kansas,


94


Congressional Delegation,


97


Elections,


94


Executive Department Officers,


98


Financial Exhibit,


95


Governors,


96


Government of, .


94


Institutions and Commissions,


99


Knights of Pythias Calendar,


84


Judiciary,


97


Legal Holidays,


95


Post Office Directory,


595


Subordinate Officers and Clerks,


103


Territorial Governors,


93


United States,


105


Cabinet,


105


Executive Officers and Judiciary,


105


Judiciary in Kansas,


106


Officers in Topeka,


106


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Salutatory.


A THING long desired, anxiously looked for, repeatedly and solicitously re- quested ; a thing which we have known intimately for a quarter of a century, which has been a conspicuous and useful part of our office furnishings and busi- ness equipment-a household friend often consulted and always deferred to; that has grown with our growth, developed with our prosperity and kept even pace with our progress ; that has represented us with credit abroad and held up the mirror of ourselves on every page from title to finis, can scarcely need an introduction : therefore, I SALUTE YOU.


I salute you at the close of a year of unprecedented prosperity, and on the threshold of another which promises even more abundantly; at a time when, political differences being happily adjusted, we stand together applying our united strength and undivided interest to the development of our almost limitless resources, the mines of wealth that lie awaiting the hand of the persistent pros- pecter, or the faith and devotion of the new Columbus who shall give to a wait- ing world these treasures of earth and air and water.


We rejoice in this age in which we live-an age of education, of intellect, of physical and mental strength, of inventive genius, of gigantic capacity to labor, and magnificent rewards for toil.


I salute you in full sympathy with your ambition, your hope, your strug- gles, your love for our common home-the city whose birthplace and cradle was the sunny banks of the beautiful Kaw, whose infant slumbers-if ever it slept-were lulled by its soft music, and whose mature strength will soon curb and confine the volume of its waters and force it, like prisoned genii, to do its bidding.


I salute you triumphantly ; I salute you exultantly, proud of our institutions, proud of our energy, proud of our success, proud of our future-proud even of our failures, since, like the storms that wring the oak from root to crown and strengthen its fiber from heart to surface, they have bound us more closely together and fitted us for greater struggles and greater triumphs.


I salute the business men whose practical shrewdness and good sense, whose sound judgment and liberal methods have made it possible to issue a Directory -2


HE KANSAS MUTUAL LIFE Limited Payment Life, d Endowment Policies, with large guaranteed paid-up Insurance and cash surrender values the end of each year after the second from date of issue, plainly written in the contract.


Issues Ordinary Life,


You will find a SAFE INVESTMENT for your savings in MORTGAGES negotiated by T. E. BOWMAN & CO.


10 RADGES· TOPEKA DIRECTORY.


this year. To them the salutation rings out as from man to man among those who realize that to live wisely is also to let live, and whose vision is not bounden by the narrow, cold, black walls of their safes and vaults, or by the short spare of this generation.


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But to the selfish, sordid, shrunken, soulless croaker, the miserable creature who is at best a chronic growler, the fiend who is known the wide world over as a "calamity howler," who is always prophesying hard times and who scents danger from afar as the war horse scents the battle, who sees nothing but drouth and famine in the glorious sunshine, malaria in the blessed dew, overflows in the generous rains, cyclones in the breezes, tornadoes in the summer cloud, political ruin in the free ballot, robbery of the people in the tax to support schools, curtailment of personal rights in the suppression of vice, useless extravagance in public improvements, and a consummate liar in every member of the St. Ananias club, to whose mean, contemptible natures the accumulation of secu- rities, the clipping of coupons and the computation of interest appeal more strongly than the onward march of empire or the rhythmic step of human prog- ress-they are here as elsewhere, those barren souls who come in for the lion's share of spoils they never help to win, those vultures who know where the weary and wounded have lain down to die -- our salute is not for them, and success, of whatever measure, is due to no encouragement or effort of theirs.


Respectfully submitted.


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NOTE .- Special attention is called to the advertisements in this book. They represent the enterprising business and professional men in the city, whose names will be found in this style of type, and deserve your patronage.


THE KANSAS MUTUAL LIFE.


T. P. DAVIS, Prest. W. M. WELLCOME, Vice-Prest. JOHN E. MOON, Secretary. W. B. KINGSLEY, Assistant Sec'y. C. G. BLAKELY, Actuary. R. T. HERRICK, Counsel. S. E. SHELDON, M. D., Medical Director


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Topeka Historically.


BY JOSEPH G. WATERS.


The United States will be thronged with many and illustrious strangers this year, among whom will be the Prince of Wales, and probably the cholera. The whole world has been invited. These visitors are upon extended tours, and to all of them, excepting the latter personage, here is the greeting that the Capital City extends to them:


TOPEKA HAS NEARLY FIFTY THOUSAND PEOPLE; NO HOVELS, NO PAL- ACES, NO MILLIONAIRES, NO MENDICANTS. ITS POPULATION IS HOUSED IN ITS OWN HOMES. IT HAS WIDE STREETS, FINE RESIDENCES, MANY CREDIT- ABLE PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND INSTITUTIONS, AND IT IS THE CLEANEST, BRIGHTEST, PRETTIEST, DECENTEST, MOST REFINED AND ELEGANT CITY ON THE FACE OF THE GLOBE. . ITS EXCELLENCE IS IN EVERY DIRECTION, AND EXTENDS TO EVERY . PHASE OF LIFE THAT TENDS TO MAKE LIFE COMFORT- ABLE AND HOME ENJOY ABLE.


It has less of all those things which pertain to city life and lessen its charms than any other city anywhere. If cities could be entered at the World's Fair, the newly-elected Mayor would bring home the blue ribbon from which de- pended the aluminium medal. This city offers advantages to any man who has money and aches to find the proper place to invest it. Its best society wears the regulation scissor-tails, low-cut vests, gloves, and many of them are provided with manicure sets. It is a close second to Paradise, as the safest and best place to raise the family. Although other things have been raised here. And fre- quently.


If the reader is looking for a man, or from any other cause is uneasy and restless, and cannot give a half-hour's time to this history, lay the book down. It is not for him. We want people to read this who are not disturbed by an over due note, who are are not perturbed by the approach of the first of the month, and who are not on the tenter-hooks awaiting appointment from Wash- ington. We want them to have a sail of open sea for just one half-hour. Only these are invited. No diagram of explanation appears at the back of this book to give the score of the hidden meanings, which it is intended only your intel- ligence should master. Read this as you read Browning, or recite Brower Peacock.


In history, Topeka is illustrious. In its early days it was wholly destroyed by fire ; "every last thing" was destroyed-not a building or board was left. Every home, all the household effects, all its stores, shops, and the bills of sales


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and the chattel mortgages thereon, were either burned up or down, as the direc- tion of the conflagration warranted. All that was left were tail- holds and equities in real estate, the United States Government, and their wives' relations back East, and what honor they had accumulated after coming West.


The city of Topeka was the very center of hostilities in the final struggle : between Freedom and Slavery. Connecticut and Massachusetts shied their castors into the ring, and Missouri and Arkansas at once appropriated them to their personal adornment. Then came the influx of Bibles and Sharps rifles from the East, and whisky and fire-eaters from the South. They intrenched themselves : one shot from behind his chosen text for the day, at his foe behind a demijohn or keg. There could be no compromise ; a colporteur has nothing in common with a drinker of Bourbon. It is strife and war a l'outrance in an armed dialogue between the nasal Yankee twang and the broad Southern dia- lect. There was sheol to pay at once in Kansas ; the furnaces were located in Topeka, and most of the stoking was done here. Men from the East were seized in transitu in Missouri and the life stamped out of them, for theif faulty pronunciation of just a little monosyllable like cow. The very entrails were disengaged from the anatomy of a lone Missourian who thoughtlessly responded, "Gawd-aw-mity, no, sah !" The people North and South mixed in the fuss. The Missourian for a while was on top, but the Eastern immigrant contrived to put his thumb in the Missourian's mouth for his better protection. More Bibles ; more rifles. A Pro-Slavery constitution was adopted. The laws of Missouri were brought over here in a wheelbarrow and adopted by a bogus Legislature. This was at Lecompton, the lone widow of the Kaw, who sits in her weeds to- day in all the pristine horror of a first grief. That town is now suburban to Topeka. The two town-sites overlap-the effect of a hastily-prepared plat during the late boom of disastrous memory and unpaid purchase-money notes. During this struggle the Free-State Legislature, in session in this city, was in- vaded by a command of United States troops and commanded to disperse, and they disbanded. The outcome of all this was the Great Rebellion. That war would have been delayed a quarter of a century, had not occurred a concatena- tion of the following events: If Henry Ward Beecher had been a lawyer; if General John Ritchie had never come West; if John Brown had been strangled by membranons croup when a child ; if there had then been no com- mercial value in a nigger, and if back of the nigger there had not been built an aristocracy and caste as exclusive as the certain unnamed club of this city who part their hair in the middle.


Thus on what trifles are verged the destinies of peoples, so to speak. The War of Rebellion was caused by the heroic action of the people of Topeka. Ex- treme follows extreme. Missouri and Topeka are now such close friends that she furnishes us all our whisky, and when it becomes enlightened enough we will ava- lanche it with New Versions, Heresy trials, Jonathan Edwards, and Y. M. C. A.'s,


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W. C. T. U.'s, C. K. & W.'s, and A. T. & S. F.'s -all institutions domiciled in Topeka. The most casual reader will note an improvement in the diction of this history over all others. Five parts of the new Century Dictionary have been received by a distinguished citizen and placed at our disposal. His name and business card as a butcher, appear on page 1800 of this Directory, and we solicit for him the patronage of our people. How long that war raged ! What untold sacri- `Anyhow, the procession was headed by Topeka, followed by Kansas, the band vehicle, and then the other States, in their adastraperaspera.


, Massachusetts may be the cradle of liberty, but Kansas is up for all the of- fices made habitable by the success of Freedom, and Topeka has what no other city has got, two United States Senators, of uncertain tenure and politics, and one Congressman, whose pay, be it said to his glory, is no more than that al- lowed by law. They are all of them in good health.


In the border troubles, which were the real preface to the book of the Re- bellion, the city of Topeka took an active hand. The town was fortified and predatory expeditions were made upon adjacent and rival towns. Osawkee, that lies at the junction and confluence of every ravine and creek in Jefferson county, was pillaged by our people. Tecumseh, just five miles east, once the county seat, and which has the envious distinction of having had the only decent court- house ever built in the county, the present one being a travesty on the architect- ure of a Dutch toy cathedral, the abode of bats, that has more widely differing bad odors and unmitigated stinks than any building outside of a lazar-house, was sacked. The plunder obtained, it is charged by the despoiled people of these burgs, became the foundation of the big fortunes of our old residenters.


Over thirty years have elapsed, and everything has changed since then but Shunganunga creek. You can't call it a sewer ; it is not navigable ; proprietors along its banks have no riparian rights ; it has not been the scene of midnight murder, but it is the garden of Hesperides for dead cats, and just as soon as the cholera gets through visiting its intimate friends and near relatives in the bot- toms of Kansas City, it is coming right up the thread of that stream with a brood of infantile coma bacilli along with it. The Augean stables were in an antiseptic condition compared to the Shunganunga.


. There shall be in this history, if we control the thought, language and proof - reader, not a word said about from which one of the wells the Water Works Company takes its supply ; nor whether it be meat or drink ; nor what the propinquity of the Potwin and Insane Asylum sewers has to do with its solidity as a solid or its fluidity as a fluid. No two citizens will disagree, that if it is really meat, it should be inspected and tagged, under the ordinance. Doctor Jones, our new Mayor, says that this year it has got to be pure water. He further asserts, that the electric lights furnished by the city have got to quit (blinking at the time you need them most and as you near the mouth of an alley at midnight.




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