Polk Topeka, Kansas, city directory, 1890-1891, Part 2

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Publication date: 1890
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For nearly a quarter of a century it has been the aim of the publisher to make this work a worthy exponent of the best and most enterprising city in the State; and how well he has succeeded in this endeavor, an intelligent people are here to judge for themselves. The features which the experience of years has shown to be of value have been retained, and vigilance has been redoubled to secure every item of information which the public have a right to expect.

The present volume is therefore offered, with the confident assurance that it is not alone the best reference book of this city ever published, but that it is unexcelled in excellence, completeness and accuracy, by any city in the United States. A casual glance through its contents must impress every intelligent person with the magnitude of the enterprise, and the labor and expense required to collect, compile and publish such a work.

It will be found to contain, in addition to the bare record of names arranged in alphabetical order, a classified business and professional directory, a list of the taxpayers in the county, compiled from the official records, a complete post-office directory of the State, and a compendium of information referring to municipal, county, State and National history and statistics.

If the Directory has aided in the prosperity of Topeka in the past, the praise is due to the enterprising business men who have made its publication possible by their liberal advertising support. For the present issue the pub- lisher is under renewed obligations to his patrons, who, he trusts, will receive a more substantial benefit for their enterprise, and for the future the promise is given that the Topeka City Directory will always keep pace with the rapid progress of the city.

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TOPEKA IN ALL TENSES.

CHARLES S. GLEED.

PREVIOUS introductory chapters of the justly celebrated Radges' Directory of the City of Topeka have been models of hilarious literature. They have been so excellent in that line that the time has naturally come when no man is funny enough to follow successfully in the funny procession. If the writer of this were to try it, being nothing if not serious, readers might admire his nerve but not his discretion. So this brief chapter will be a solemn one, giving some idea of Topeka as she is and as she will be, and incidentally clearing the way for a new series of brilliant chapters such as have been written in the past.

Topeka was of lowly birth. No bells were rung when she came into being, and no silver spoon was found in her mewling infant mouth. No god-parents vouched for her future, and no heritage of wealth or blood fell upon her. She came unheralded and unsung. The careless prairie breezes saw nothing in her to stop their wanderings, and the eager, blinking summer stars saw nothing new after she had been even weeks in existence. The Catfish Aristocracy in the Kaw river may have been interested or perhaps disturbed by rumors of unheard- of trouble on the shallow banks which for centuries uncounted had been the friendly limits of their lateral migrations. The bumptious June bug and the penetrating woodpecker by day; the cogitating owl and the designing coyote by night, may have discovered trifling signs of an invasion of their ancient domain. But beyond this there was no stir, no joy, no sorrow, no emotion when the new town fell like a fluttering leaf from the sky of civilization and lost itself in the tall grass of the Kansas prairies. The Lawrence real estate ring could not make room for Colonel Holliday and others, so they came further into the wilderness and started a town-lot mill of their own. Hard trials and great tribulations fol- lowed them and camped also on their chosen town site. The whooping cough, the croup, the measles and the mumps of urban infancy all came along in due time. Struggles to secure the capital; wild imaginings and undreamed-of reali- zations of pontoon bridges, blacksmith shops and hotels; the rise and fall of newspapers born too soon and not soon enough dead; the rending spasms of political contention; the bloody days of border warfare; the machinations of hos- tile red men and still more hostile white men; the griefs of newly-founded in- dustries; the fading away of bridge works and rolling mills and banks and other things even less substantial; the failure of crops and the success of drouth and grasshoppers; the projection of railway lines-all these things came in due time, in Indian file or many abreast, and put gray hairs in raven heads and dark

THE UNITED STATES SAVINGS BANK Refers to its Customers and Record in Inviting Business from the Citizens of Topeka. See Page 208.

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lines in fair faces and-a city where no city had been. Ten, twenty, thirty, forty thousand-so the people increased, until at last fifty thousand souls and more conspire to break up the primeval monotony, the illicit whiskey merchant, the taxpayer and other objectionable features. In other words, Topeka is now here, fifty or sixty thousand strong, the prosperous, handsome, happy, progressive metropolis of Kansas with her million and a half of people and her millions of accumulated wealth. She is here and here to stay, and when she reaches an- other quarter of a century in age she will also have reached a quarter of a million in population. This must be so, for no man in Topeka dares to deny it.

Topeka is not an ordinary city. She was a precocious child, and she has a remarkable maturity. She made her streets as wide as Boston common, and now they are nearly as beautiful. She began with a vaulting ambition and she still vaults. She began by claiming all the Government land in sight and she still wants the earth. She began belligerently and she still shakes her gory locks at all her hated rivals. She was born hungry and she still cries, Twist like, for more. She is hard to describe except by glittering generalities or by close com- parisons, showing wherein she is like and unlike other cities. Thus: Her streets are broad and horizontal as in Washington; not narrow and perpendicular as in Kansas City. Her pavements are, like the Washington pavements, worth their weight in gold, though they will not be paid for at that rate as was the case in Washington under Boss Shepard's rule. Her park system she has always with her by the sides of all the streets; not out of reach as in Philadelphia, St. Louis, and San Francisco. Her sewers are under ground instead of above ground as in New Orleans. Her people love peace if they have to fight for it-unlike the peace lovers of Philadelphia who cry peace, peace, when the mosquitos from Jersey will give them none. Her people are fond of their homes, unlike the migratory multitudes of New York, who to-day are and to-morrow are cast into seaside hotels where is weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. She is not a dead-level town like Wichita except as to the heads of her citizens. She is a city of churches like Brooklyn, and when Brooklynites mockingly sug- gests that Topeka has no navy yard she points with pride to her brick yards and to that bottomless shaft of night known as the coal hole. She is a railway center like Indianapolis and a flour-grinding town like Minneapolis, being sec- ond only to that city in this respect. She puts out cars and engines from the great Santa Fe shops as at Pullman, Dayton, St. Charles, Schenectady, Detroit and Taunton. She has as much patriotism as Boston but she gives her patriots more room and less rum. With a prohibitory law absolutely supreme and with sidewalks twenty feet wide, no Topeka patriot ever has difficulty in finding his way home nights. Like Chicago she has the world's fair, but they neither chew gum nor smoke cigarettes. Her young men may be reckless about the ten commandments generally like the boys of Oshkosh, Kalamazoo and Hobo- ken, but they are never guilty of being dudes, and they do not get so low as to

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patronize the Louisiana lottery. She is not so short of water as Denver, nor has she so much as Galveston, San Diego, the Puget Sound cities and Duluth. Her history is not snarled up with that of George Francis Train as is Omaha's, nor has she ever had such blooming idiots as those who jump from Brooklyn bridge and swim Niagara in a barrel. And, speaking of barrels, her city councilmen in most corrupt days have never gone so far as the New York aldermen or the Albany boodlers. She is unlike any other city in the world in not having an editor whose opinions may be purchased for money. But her lawyers will not surrender theirs for anything else. Her preachers are never charged (as the New York World charges Talmage) with being "a fraud or worse." Her physicians know a thing or two about their business and are conscientious in the pursuit of it, unlike certain Leavenworth physicians who prescribe whisky q. s. for snake-bite prior to the bite, and for all other symptoms of fatty degeneration of the desire to obey the law. Her teachers are indefatigable in their efforts to teach the young idea how to shoot, but not in the way it is taught in Louisville and other Kentucky towns, where to shoot is god-like, to miss is vile. She is the seat of government, but unlike most such seats the government does not seem to sit on her. She manufactures flour, sugar, cotton cloth, artificial limbs, iron cast- ings, farm implements, false teeth, wagons and carriages, starch, candidates for office, steam engines, cars, notaries public, blank books, tents, confectionery, legal opinions, railroad passes, legal blanks and happy families- which cannot be said of the Texas towns whose chief products are corn, cotton and-cane. Her street railway lines are strangely unlike those of Eastern cities, in that they run to every man's door, have cars enough to do the business without making passengers sit in each other's laps or stand on each other's toes, move at a high rate of speed and employ electricity as a motive power. Her banks are unlike a certain bank in Providence the cashier of which hangs a sign over his desk, "Money loaned to all except those who need it." Her board of trade is a good one, though it does not invade the sanctity of the fireside, run the Sunday schools, authorize mar- riage and decree divorce, fix the price of homes and exercise censorship over public prints as in Wichita. Her merchants are honest, industrious and prosper- ous; but if they had half the audacity ( otherwise known as cheek ) of the Kansas City merchants, they would shut Kansas City out of the Kansas trade. Most of the Kansas railroads live in Kansas and would be glad to be compelled by the force of commissioners and other circumstances to favor Kansas jobbers. Her schools teach as much as Boston schools and her churches are as liberal. Her men are brave without whiskey, her women are beautiful and good even if they do vote regularly, and her children have redder cheeks and brighter eyes than the children of Nova Scotia. Good society is abundant, and no four hun- dred have it in trust for all the rest as in New York. In short, if there is any ideal city in the union Topeka is that city, and she hereby "admits it herself." But it should not be supposed that Topeka is either perfect or thinks she is.

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She needs much and knows it. She needs people to manufacture a thousand sorts of articles now made elsewhere. She needs insurance companies to do the business for five millions of people. She needs an improvement of the magnifi- cent water power with which nature has provided her. She needs ten miles of new pavements and thirty miles of new electric railway equipment. She needs more wholesale merchants, more river bridges, more court-house room, more water service, more railway shops, more machine shops, more clubs, more li- braries-at least more books-more churches, more advertising, more parks, more drives, more deceased croakers and kickers, more self confidence and more courage. She needs a better appreciation of the fact that she can't be both a village and a city. She needs to understand a little better than she now does that enemies within are always more dangerous than enemies without. She needs a downward exodus of her few but able-bodied dead men who do nothing but dis- organize, depreciate and discourage. With all these added to her, (or sub- tracted, as the case may be,) she will be far more than the present beautiful and lovable Topeka; she will be the ideal Topeka.

This ideal Topeka-all pride, complacency and boasting aside-is a hun- dred times better than the present Topeka, and is sure to come as the natural result of that which now is. The picture of this coming Topeka is indeed a bright one -such a picture as is often painted for Kansas eyes on the summer sky at sunset -a picture full of warmth and light and beauty, in which appear all the fine forms, tints and proportions which conspire for glory. Material pros- perity appears everywhere in fullest measure. The artistic spirit of sweet, pel- lucid Greece and the sturdy vigor of the rugged North are here married in the most perfect forms of architecture. Every structure is a work of art-which means that the people of that ideal time could hardly recognize the present city. Beauty is omnipresent. The streets are undulating ribbons of asphaltum, brick and granite, clean swept and bright, with rich, deep borders of the bluest grass and the finest trees. Under these trees appear long arcades having well-defined walls, with verdure richly clad. Parks and lawns give space for exquisite flow- ers, and joyous children with their pets and playthings are scattered over nature's carpet. Sweet smells and sweet sounds fill the air, and no unsightly thing ap- pears. Even the railway tracks and stations, grain elevators, mills, factories, warehouses, and all such commercial establishments are of their kind perfect- therefore beautiful. Stone arch bridges span the streams, and the dredged and dammed river bears on its wide bosom a graceful fleet of little ships. And better yet than things material in this picture are the people and their institutions. A quarter of a million inhabitants do not crowd each other. Schools and churches, courts and chronicles, fraternities and charities, libraries and gymnasiums-all the fair fruits of civilization are present in full numbers and strength. Health is everywhere, temperance, industry and true piety belong to all, peace and pros- perity go hand in hand, and "every day is better than the last."

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STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE. [ COPYRIGHT, 1890, BY SAM. RADGES. ]

THE houses throughout the city are numbered in accordance with what is known as the Philadelphia or decimal system, the base or dividing line for streets running north and south being Kansas avenue, the principal business thoroughfare, and First avenue for all streets running east and west.

Under this system, one hundred numbers are set apart for the houses be- tween every two streets in the city-except Huntoon and King streets, which run parallel with the numerically-named streets. Commencing at First avenue with 100, numbers increase, with the odd figures on the west side, to 135, where Second street is reached; here 200 commences, and so on, increasing one hun- dred to the block, to the city limits. North of First avenue the numbers also commence at 100; at Crane street, 200, and on the north bank of the Kansas river at 500, allowing the intervening two hundred for the bend in the river in the eastern portion of the city, where there are streets north of Crane street, south of the river. At Kansas avenue, all streets running at right angles with it are divided east and west, the even numbers being on the north side of the streets. Commencing at 100 on the first twenty-five feet of ground fronting south, regardless as to the frontage of the building located thereon, the numbers increase two for each twenty-five feet of space in the block, 122 being reached at the intersection of the next street. Two hundred then commences on the opposite corner, and increases in like manner for the next block, and so on, in- creasing one hundred for each block, Topeka avenue being reached at 500 on the west, and the same number on the east side of the city at Jefferson street.

The simplicity of this system enables every person to readily locate any address, and it at the same time furnishes an idea of the distance to the locality. If the desired number is 320, on any street running east or west, it is on the third block from Kansas avenue, No. 720 on the seventh block, and so on; the hundreds designating the number of streets distant from Kansas avenue, and the tens and units the exact house in the block.

A. A (Curtis ) St., 2 blocks north of First avenue; runs east from Kansas ave- nue to Madison street, and west to Tyler street.

Adams St., 5 blocks east of Kansas ave- nue; runs south from the river to city limits.

Alkire St., runs north and south through Western Land and Loan Co.'s add. Antioch Ave., runs north and south through Deer Park add.

Arch St., Stilson & Bartholomew's add., 14 blocks west of Kansas ave- nue; runs north and south from Tenth avenue to King street.

THE UNITED STATES SAVINGS BANK offers special facilities to all persons desirous of making Savings Deposits, in connection with a General Banking Business. See Page 208.

T. E. BOWMAN & CO.

116 West Sixth St., REAL ESTATE LOANS. NO ACCEPTED APPLICATION EVER HAS TO WAIT A DAY FOR MONEY.

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Ash St., Bradford Miller's add., II blocks east of Kansas avenue; runs north and south from Chase street to Seward ave.

Ashland Ave., Potwin Place, runs east and west between Greenwood and Elmwood avenues.

Ashmond Ave., runs east and west through Cottage Grove add.

Atwood Ave., 37 blocks west of Kan- sas avenue; runs north and south from Euclid avenue to Shununga- nunga creek.

Auter Ave., runs north and south through Morris's add.

B (Railroad) St., 3 blocks north of First avenue; runs east to Madison street and west to city limits.

Beechwood Ave., runs east and west through Cottage Grove.

Bellevue Ave., runs north and south through Arlington Heights.

Belmont Ave., runs east and west through Oakland add.

Blaine St., runs north and south through West End add.

Bolles Ave., 15 blocks west of Kansas avenue; runs north and south from Euclid avenue to city limits south.

Boswell St., 18 blocks west of Kansas avenue; runs north and south from Huntoon to Twenty-eighth street. Branner St., 10 blocks east of Kansas avenue; runs north and south from Seward avenue to Fourth street, (R. R. lumber yards,) and from Sixth to Eighth avenue.

Brigham Ave., runs north and south through Brigham's add.

Brooks Ave., 19 blocks west of Kansas avenue; runs north and south be- tween Tenth avenue and Twelfth st. Buchanan St., 11 blocks west of Kan- sas avenue; runs north and south from Fourth to Huntoon street.

Burr St., runs north and south through Western Land and Loan Co.'s add. Byron St., Rural Homes add., runs east and west, extension of Sixteenth street.

C (Norris) St., 4 blocks north of First avenue; runs east to Madison street, and west to city limits.

California Ave., runs north and south through Highland Park.

Canary Ave., runs east and west through Highland Park.

Carnahan Ave., runs north and south through Irving Place.

Center Ave., runs east and west through Oakland add.

Center St., Mapleton's add., about , 14 blocks south of Kansas river; runs I block from Sac-and-Fox street.

Central Ave., I block west of Kansas avenue; runs north from intersection with Kansas avenue, at Gordon (E) street, to city limits.

Chandler St., 11 blocks east of Kansas avenue; runs north and south from First to Tenth avenue.

Chase Ave., Bradford Miller's add., runs northeast from State street.

Cherokee St., runs east and west through Elm Grove add.

Chester Ave., runs north and south through Morris's add.

Chestnut St., Metsker's add., 8 blocks east of Kansas avenue; runs north and south from Seventh street to Tenth avenue.

Chesnut St., College Hill add., runs east and west, I block north of Eu- clid avenue.

Chicasaw St., runs east and west through Elm Grove add.

Circle Ave., runs east and west through Highland Park and Arlington Heights.

Circle St., Auburndale, as indicated by name, north from Drive.

THE UNITED STATES SAVINGS BANK GIVES LIVE, ACTIVE SERVICE AND SOLICITS YOUR BUSINESS. SEE PAGE 208.

IT. E. BOWMAN & CO., REAL ESTATE LUAN BROKERS. . . . NO ACCEPTED APPLICATION HAS EVER HAD TO WAIT A DAY FOR MONEY. .

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Clay St., 10 blocks west of Kansas av- enue; runs north and south from Third to Thirteenth street.

Clay St. N., 10 blocks west of Kansas avenue; runs north from U. P. R. R. track to H (Grant ) street.

Claynold St., 39 blocks west of Kan- sas avenue; runs north and south from Tenth avenue to Huntoon . street.

Cochran St., runs north and south through Berlin Heights, south of Shunganunga creek.

Colden Ave., runs north and south through East Hill add.

College Ave., 17 blocks west of Kan- sas avenue; runs north and south from Twelfth street to Seventeenth street.

Collins Ave., runs north and south through College Hill add.

Colorado Ave., runs north and south through Highland Park.

Conklin St., runs east and west through Sanborn's add., south of Rock Island R. R. track.

Cook Ave., runs north and south through East Hill add.

Cottage Grove Ave., runs north and south through Cottage Grove add.

Crane St., I block north of First ave- nue; runs east from Kansas avenue to city limits, and west between Kan- sas avenue and Polk street.

Cross St., runs east and west through Sam Cross's add., west of Auburn- dale.

D (Laurent) St., 5 blocks north of First avenue; runs east and west to city limits.

Davies St., runs north and south thro' Western Land and Loan Co.'s add. Davison St., runs north and south thro' Western Land and Loan Co.'s add. -3

Dillon St., 15 blocks west of Kansas avenue; runs north and south from Huntoon to Thirteenth street.

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Polk Topeka, Kansas, city directory, 1890-1891, Part 2

Author: Publication date: 1890 Publisher: Polk Number of Pages: 660

Author:
Publication date: 1890
Publisher: Polk
Number of Pages: 660