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The coal hole, around which the memories of the older inhabitants still cluster, has ceased to be a fact or news item. It is no longer. In more ways than one. Canted by the Charleston earthquake, the scene of blow-ups, ex- plosions, divorce and disaster, on which has been expended $70,000 when the contract-price was $11,000, it is now in our archives as history.
It has been a short thirty-seven years from the turning-over of the virgin sward to the turning-over of Jim Legate in this city last winter by the Senate committee. What wonderful changes in that time! The city is abreast of the times in every respect. The capitol building, an imposing structure, is almost complete. The Legislature at its extra session, which will be held in May, 1893, will undoubtedly appropriate enough to complete it. Here sits the Supreme Court every month in the year, with 1,500 cases constantly before it to be con- sidered and decided. The United States Circuit and District courts sit here. We have two local courts of record, the District Court and the Circuit Court. Two hundred lawyers ! The fiddlers have got to be thick below to outnumber them.
Here are the principal offices and shops of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company, which operates 10,000 miles of railroad. It is our big thing. There are seven hundred clerks in its general offices, and twenty-five hundred men in its shops.
West of town are the Insane Asylum and the State Reform School. The cities of Potwin and Oakland join us ; the first is the bed-chamber of many quality persons, who do business in the city, make their money here, and have started this new town for one of two reasons : they have been disappointed in getting office in the city, or wanted to move further west where their water- works could be on speaking terms with the Asylum sewers, or they wanted an opportunity to walk a mile and a half to town. We notice, with some gan- grene, that the liveried coachman, with crape on his hat, blue coat and brass but- tons, has taken up his abode there. Oakland is at the east end of the street-cars, and during the late internecine strife raised a company of militia to defend the Dunsmore House. How history repeats itself ! 'In this city, over thirty-seven. years ago, a bogus legislature passed bogus laws. Topeka was then denounced and attempted to be sat upon. This took place at Lecompton, but as it is now in the town-site, the poetic license is not abused. Last winter a similar scene was enacted here. The armies met here last winter ; the cavalryman's horse was not tethered to an altar-rail, but we saw baby-carriages wheeled by in close ; proximity to the bristling lines of fight at the foot of the State House steps., Ministers prayed to the same God when the hostile houses were in session, and . their benedictions had not got safely out of the State House grounds before they opposed each other as armed foes ; one, under an Adjutant General who was all ! Gatling, discipline and brass braid, and the other with a stovepipe hat and flar-) ing-mouthed musket, in the ranks of the opposing sergeants-at-arms. It makes
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heroes to live in war-times. This tragic encounter will have its effect on the . coming population. It is said that the preponderance of boy babies in France always occurs at the inception of their wars with Germany.
We forgot Washburn College, that has about five hundred students; it is one of the very best anywhere; many of its graduates have achieved distinguished honors, the result of good, honest work here.
The College of the Sisters of Bethany, the loving work of the lamented Bishop Vail, has about seven hundred young ladies in attendance. They come from everywhere, and it is a seminary where the greatest care is taken and splen- did results obtained.
We have miles of broad streets, well paved and all of them parked. The finest and best equipped line of electric railway in the world ; but persons going east on Eighth avenue have to ride on a cemetery car, and its schedule is so fashioned and such long intervals between trains, that a corpse has to be em- balmed if it gets to the eastern terminus in good shape. The ancient custom of this people entitled them to six rides for a quarter. The new management requires five cents in cash for each ride. Potwin people think our line will dis- figure its streets and it will not let it come into the city. Anyhow it is a splen- did line, well managed, and the proprietors will see in time the unwisdom of anything else but quick service and the old rate. A man has got to be educated to understand the utility of a street railway, and once educated he thereafter rides and grumbles as he has a right to do.
We never intend to forget our usual mention of the Free City Library. It is maintained by a city tax. It is housed in the neatest, tastiest library building anywhere in the West. Its hall is almost an education by itself. There are more good pictures, statues and works of art in it than the assessment rolls of the State of Arkansas will show between any two centennials for the next thou- sand years. The library must now have 25,000 books. It is cleanliness, culture and civilization to every child that frequents it. It is a phenomenal affair for a city of our size. And from the stump up it is due to the incessant toil, care, energy, benefactions and public spirit of Edward Wilder, who has made it what it is. If we survive him for fifty years, he shall have these recurring remarks. And we hope we will survive him for that purpose.
We have, as you have already observed, a system of private water-works ; a city electric plant with which 250 arc lights are maintained at street junctions. We have two private electric light plants.
And a royal system of public schools ; great big school-houses by the score, and we are about building a $100,000 high school.
There are more people in its limits now than at any time before.
There are four daily newspapers and about forty other publications. We pay out on postage of our newspapers about $7,000 in a year.
Topeka will remain the capital forever. She will deserve it. Here is the
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· only place, outside of a good fat office, that a man never gets homesick. Our people are generous, public-spirited, and just splendid all-around folks. One year of citizenship here is a fair apology for an otherwise short life.
Its virtues are ten thousand ; its excellences a round million. There is not a saloon in the city.
Men living elsewhere, who stand no show to obtain office, can come here with reasonable expectation of getting one. Not a citizen but what will sign his petition. The law requires six months' residence in the State and thirty days in the ward before one can hold office.
Women vote at our city elections, and as a common courtesy to them the men dress up and accompany them to the polls.
Under a recent law, a poor man can run for office ; corrupt expenditures of money are made crimes, and a man with the least gumption will be too wise to risk a term in the penitentiary by negotiating with a voter corrupt enough to sell his vote and blow on him afterwards.
All the best shows come to this city, and we are a theater-loving people. Sometimes it is a serious question of financial ability, however. Corbett and Jackson were both of them entertained by our citizens. Johnnie Scheck was here before the first settlers, and has been coming ever since.
This is the home of William Sells' circus and Abe Fulford's horse show and dog quadruped curriculum.
We have two opera houses, and our people fill them.
The business of Topeka is better than it has been for five years, and is growing better.
We invite everybody to come ; you will not get tired of staying. If your past record is not exactly what you want it, or what it ought to be, we can have your name changed, your acts legalized, and your disabilities removed by the Legislature.
In Kansas we have the best laws on earth. Wives are equal with their husbands, and heir to half his property. There is no such miserable thing as dower in our laws. The wife is protected in her separate business and prop- erty. A homestead of 160 acres in extent, in the country, or an acre in town, is absolutely exempt, regardless of value. No deed or mortgage is good upon the homestead, unless by joint consent of both husband and wife. Schools are free as air; churches are on every corner. Our people may be ninety per cent. of them what you call cranks, and it may be difficult for you to find anyone who is sure he belongs to the other ten per cent., yet in all that it takes to make an empire we have it. We think, experiment, and sometimes have to back out and grease. Kansas has been the battle-ground, and always will be, between precedent and theory. She gets wrong, and rights herself.
In no State in the Union are there such stringent railroad laws for the benefit of the citizen. A man is killed on one of them, and his wife can recover $10,000
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if any employe is in the wrong, and this whether he is employe or passenger. In nearly every other State she gets nothing if the dead man was an employe, and only $3,000 to $5,000 if a passenger. The railroads are compelled to fence; are liable for all stock killed or property burned, and must pay attorneys' fees to the other side.
The Apostle Paul could not devise a more vicious law against trusts, which if executed could break the back of any trust that dare come into the State.
Divorces are easy, and our courts always stand in with the woman and give her the babies and all the property in sight, and a man whose wife is pursuing him with a divorce suit here will sigh for a furnace heated seven times hotter than it usually is, in which to cool off.
All the musical instruments of a family are exempt, and furniture, bed- clothes, library and tools. It has got to be a rich man who has as much as the law exempts.
Women can vote at municipal and school elections. They can be mayor, or belong to the school board.
The husband cannot mortgage the household plunder, the family horse, or anything exempt, unless the wife consents; and such is the trust and confidence reposed by the wife in her husband in Kansas, that she would see him further in the infernal regions than a pigeon could fly in six weeks before she would do such a thing. Exemptions exempt in Kansas.
We have free Normal Schools, a free Agricultural College, and a free Uni- versity.
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No soldier can ever get into the poor-house. If he needs help, he is given it at his own home. Each county is required by law to give him decent burial.
Nor can a man will more than half his property away from his wife. As well as God's, you can see that this is a woman's country.
We have Arbor Day, Decoration Day for 120,000 old soldiers ; we have Grant, Longfellow, Bryant and Whittier days, and the Browning Club of Bos- ton would be a kindergarten for pupils in our grammar grades.
In all the tide of time there never was such a glorious State as Kansas. She leads, and cares not whether the world counts it a funeral procession, and refuses to fall in, or a marching column of victory. She leads, and was born to have all others follow. And, dear reader, we invite your especial attention and 'avor to the kernel in the nut, the magnificent city of Topeka, its capital, and the host delightful city on the face of the earth.
Only the names of advertisers are inserted in this type. Other business and rofessional men have merely been added to fill up the Directory, at the expense f the former.
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Street and Avenue Guide. [ COPYRIGHT, 1893, 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.
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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 throug' Western Land and Loan Co.'s add. Antioch Ave., runs north and south through Deer Park add.
Arch St., Stilson & Bartholomew' add., 14 blocks west of Kansas ave nue; runs north and south fron Tenth avenue to King street.
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Asbury St., University Place.
Ash St., Bradford Miller's add., II blocks east of Kansas avenue ; runs north and south from Chase street to Seward ave.
Ames St., University Place.
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 Shunganun- ga creek.
Auter Ave., runs north and south through Morris's add.
B.
.B ( Railroad ) St., 3 blocks north of First avenue ; runs east to Madison street and west to city limits.
Baker St., University Place.
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.
Bosworth Ave., runs north and south through College Hill addition.
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.
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.
Chestnut St., runs north and south through College Hill, west of Rural Homes.
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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.
Clark St., University Place.
Clay St., 10 blocks west of Kansas av- enue; runs north and south from Third to Thirteenth street.
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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.
Cleveland St., runs east and west through Armstrong's add.
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.
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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.
Dillon St., 15 blocks west of Kansas avenue; runs north and south from Huntoon to Thirteenth street.
Division St., runs east and west thro' Norton's add.
Doane St., runs east and west through Newman Park.
Douglass St., Beal's add., about 13 blocks south of First avenue; runs east from Sac-and-Fox street one block:
Duke St., Hartsock's add., 5 blocks south of Kansas river, north of Wil- low avenue.
Duane St., Hartsock's add., 4 blocks south of Kansas river, runs east and west.
Duane ( Washburn ) Ave., 22 blocks west of Kansas avenue; runs north and south from Huntoon street to Fourteenth street.
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E (Gordon) St., 6 blocks north of First avenue; runs east and west to city limits.
Eagle Ave., runs east and west through Highland Park.
Eastern Ave., 23 blocks east of Kansas avenue; runs north and south, north of Sixth avenue.
Edison St., Nichols's add., runs north and south south of Twenty - first street.
Eighth Ave., 7 blocks south of First . avenue; runs east and west to city limits.
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Eighteenth St., 17 blocks south of First avenue; runs east and west from Monroe street to Topeka avenue and from Union to Bolles avenue.
Eleventh St., 10 blocks south of First avenue ; runs east and west between Jefferson street and Western avenue.
Elmwood Ave., runs east and west through Cottage Grove.
Elmwood Ave., Potwin Place, 17 blocks west of Kansas avenue ; runs north and south from Spruce avenue to Willow avenue ( Fifth street).
Elm St., Bradford Miller's add., 10 blocks east of Kansas avenue ; runs north and south from Chase avenue to Seward avenue.
Emmet St., runs north and south through Heery's add.
Ennis St., 15 blocks west of Kansas avenue ; runs north and south from Piercy avenue to Seventeenth street.
Evelyn St., Holman's add., N. T., runs west from Kansas avenue, north of Garfield (K ) street.
Euclid Ave. (Seventeenth street ), runs east and west to city limits.
Eugene St., runs east and west through Sam. Cross's add., west of Auburn- dale.
Evelyn St., runs east and west through Holman's add.
Exeter St., Auburndale, runs east and west north of Belt Railroad.
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F (Park) St., 7 blocks north of First avenue ; runs west from Central av- enue to Topeka avenue.
Fairchild St., 7 blocks north of First avenue ; runs east from Kansas ave- nue, north of E street.
Fairview St., 24 blocks east of Kansas avenue, north of Sixth street ; runs north and south.
Falcon Ave., runs east and west through Highland Park.
Fifteenth St., 14 blocks south of First avenue ; runs from Kansas avenue to Jefferson street and in Throop's add.
Fifth St., 4 blocks south of First ave- nue; runs east and west to city limits except between Railroad and Chandler streets (A. T. & S. F. R. R. lumber yard).
Fillmore St., 9 blocks west of Kansas avenue ; runs north and south from Third to Twenty-sixth street.
Fillmore St. N., 9 blocks west of Kan- sas avenue ; runs north from U. P. R. R. tracks to H (Grant) street.
First Ave., 2 blocks south of Kansas river ; runs east and west to city lim- its. (Base line of the city between north and south.)
Florence St., Knox's subdivision, 45 blocks west of Kansas avenue ; runs north and south between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets.
Forest Ave., runs north and south through Morris's add.
Foster Ave., Cedar Lawn add.
Foucht Ave., runs north and south through Boynton's add.
Fourteenth St., 13 blocks south of First avenue ; runs east and west from Jefferson· street to Western av- enue and from Clay to Lane street.
Fourth St., 3 blocks south of First avenue ; runs east and west to city limits.
Franklin Ave., 30 blocks west of Kan- sas avenue ; runs north and south from Tenth avenue to Shunganunga creek.
Franklin St., runs north and south through West View and Grand View additions.
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G ( Morse) St., 8 blocks north of First avenue; runs west to city limits, from Central avenue.
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Garfield St., 40 blocks west of Kansas avenue ; runs north and south through Seabrook's add.
Garfield St., (east), runs from Kansas avenue, east south of Garfield Park.
Garland Ave., runs north and south through Morris's add.
Gavitt Ave., 34 blocks west of Kansas avenue; runs north and south from Twenty-first street to Shunganunga creek.
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