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The State Capital, the State Government, the Legislature, the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, the Railroad Court of Visitation, the State Re- form School, the Insane Asylum, are located here.
We have here the biggest Pension Agency in the world.
The Federal Courts sit here.
We have the biggest railroad shops of the biggest railroad, located here ; and they make everything from a rivet to a locomotive.
The Santa Fe General Offices are here; and employ in one building seven hundred men.
We have 67 churches, and every letter in the alphabet is represented in their creeds.
PLASTER YOUR HOUSE WITH ACME CEMENT W. I. MILLER, SOLE AGENT, 213 EAST SIXTH STREET ..
You will find security for your idle money -in investments offered by T.E. Bowman & Co.
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We have five thousand men engaged in manufactures.
We have a wholesale grocery trade of nigh ten millions of dollars.
We have the only city that pays its way without getting into debt, and the only one in America that has solved the problem of city government and re- duced taxation. Our debt is in process of speedy and ultimate extinction.
We have 25 miles of spacious, paved streets.
We have the streets parked for over one hundred miles.
We have in use six thousand bicycles, and Topeka owns more vehicles, car- riages, roadsters and the like than any other city in North America.
Topeka is the one common point of all our railroads. Everybody in the State comes here, and keeps coming.
This city riots in talent, of every kind and description: authors, artists, actors, and singers.
We have the finest hotels.
We have 200 lawyers and 200 doctors.
And we open the door of the new century and bid the whole world welcome. If mankind will just leave their burglar tools and counterfeiting kits at home, they are invited to come. The flag is on its journey around the world. A hun- dred brave Topeka boys are on board. The fires of freedom are being lighted on all the island headlands. The minister resident at Guam has written a friend here to come there and start a saloon. He loves Topeka too well to give it up for a government canteen.
Topeka bathes itself in the sacrificial flame. The patriotic soul, thrilled with the spring fever of expansion, is heard in his heart to say :
"A city or nation has the right to expand, And take in suburbs and archipelagoes. The man who opposes must understand, His head will come off and to hellhegoes." -- Ironquill.
The auditorium is the same as built : it will be a school of oratory ; it will be the politicians' bake-oven, where some of them will be roasted, and others done
W. I. MILLER, DEALER IN .... LUMBER,
213 EAST SIXTH STREET.
PHONE 204.
T. E. BOWMAN & CO., Columbian ... Building.
Real Estate Loans.
FIRST-CLASS MORTGAGES ALWAYS ON HAND.
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to a dark brown. The English language will then be subjected to severe tests ; and grammar and rhetoric will stalk down the aisles, and worms in many an old chestnut will be killed by the laughter of new generations. Above the door of this institution should be inscribed some cheery word to welcome the fellow who is big with a committed speech ; some assuring sentence, some kind expression that has a tonic in it, like "Say anything you want to,-you cannot turn our stomach."
The city is divided by the Kansas river, and a stone bridge 900 feet long spans it, and it is said to be the finest bridge west of St. Louis. The roads in the vicinity of Topeka are perfect for ten months in the year, and so is the weather. The city in the summer-time is embowered in shade. It is entitled to rank as one of the beautiful cities of the United States. It is in everything a go-ahead place. To the man with money, to the family, to the people who want to enjoy life for all that can be squeezed out of it, Topeka offers every attraction. There are a hundred things to invite the new-comer. He finds an absence of the loafer element. He is given the entree for all he thinks he is worth. In amusement, recreation, enjoyment, we have every attractive feature of a bigger city, without its squalor or ugly sights. If a Grand Duke, General or President is out swinging around the circle, we get him. If there is an artist or actor worthy of being seen or listened to, he comes to Topeka.
The College of the Sisters of Bethany is the finest institution west of the .
Mississippi.
We want everybody to come here except the lawyer and the doctor. Minis- ters are especially invited, if they can bring a new variety of creed. There is no green spot on the earth where they will make more of a stranger who brings his money with him, than we, do here. We give him the first chance to invest, -and he usually takes it, and becomes anchored in our port.
We desire to point to the enterprise and business of the Charles Wolf Pack- ing Company as illustrating what can be done here. Charley Wolf was but a common butcher. He took it into his head that he could extend and build up his business. He has. ' He was as honest and capable as he was enterprising. His goods are everywhere. The good name of Topeka is on each parcel; and if the Lord will only spare him, he will cover all the city north of Fourth street with his packing-houses, and fill all the homes west of the Missouri with the scent of country-cured hams, which, until he resurrected it, had become al- mnost a lost art.
Parkhurst, Davis & Co., are wholesale grocers. They started against odds. They had to fight trans-Missouri rates, and all the combinations that aggregated
Lowest Prices on Building Material.
W. I. MILLER,
213 East Sixth Street.
T. E. BOWMAN & CO. COLUMBIAN BUILDING. REAL ESTATE LOANS. Twenty years successful loaning in Eastern Kansas. To borrowers we offer prompt money, lowest rates, and every possible accommodation.
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and solidified trade in St. Joseph and Kansas City could bring against them. They are king bees in the trade just now. They play second fiddle to none.
These are but two of many other examples of prosperous firms doing business in this city.
Another firm, the W. A. L. Thompson Hardware Company, was started here by Mr. Thompson. He began here within the memory of lots of us, as a clerk. He kept at his business, and it has grown to what would be considered a big business in St. Louis. His goods go all over the West.
In all these cases it was persistence, coupled with ability.
The city of Topeka ranks among the first ten cities of the United States in its output of flour. The world-wide traveler may climb the glacier heights, traverse deserts, sail remotest seas, visit tropics or arctics, may camp on the Wet- watersrand, tramp to Senegambia,-anywhere, everywhere, and never be out of reach of pancakes made of Topeka flour. Wherever he may go, he but fol- lows the course of his own flapjack.
The printing business is transacted in Topeka on as large a scale as it is done in Chicago. The houses here can duplicate, in price and quality, work done anywhere. The Hall Lithographing Company does a magnificent business all over the West. Geo. W. Crane & Co. are doing the same, and in the line of furnishing school text-books, are more than a thorn in the side of the Book Trust; and the battle they are waging with that trust ought to demand of every Christian a few closing sentences to his evening prayer, invoking the good Lord for success in the fight against a book concern that proposes to swallow our schools in its maw.
Mr. Radges, in the continued publication of this Directory, which has been a splendid work of art from the first, is entitled to be rated as a representative, public-spirited citizen. If the city has at any time wanted him for any public work, it has ever found him on the skirmish-line.
Then hail, with me, all good citizens, the coming century ! Sometime in the next hundred years Topeka will be such a city as the Tiber never saw. It will be a greater than Rome. It will be an empire, where home is crowned, and the people in their mightiness are king.
And so we are for expansion in everything that goes for the general good. As we trace the flag on its journey over the breast of wide seas, as we hear of the glory of our Topeka boys, Montgomery, Vance, Ramsey, and a hundred others it would do me good to name, now in the everglades of Luzon, it is in- fectious. Topeka is part of the Nation. And as my contract with the proprie-
Buy your Sash, Doors and Mouldings of W. J. MILLER.
213 EAST SIXTH STREET.
Lowest Rates
ON REAL ESTATE .. LOANS ..
T. E. Bowman & Co.
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tor of this Directory includes verse as well as prose, this history ends as I started,-for expansion, for progress, for imperialism, with this humble apos- trophe to Liberty, as she steps on the gang-plank of our battleship; as the guns thunder that she is on board; as the great monster lifts anchor ; as the funnels become volcanoes, and she starts on her voyage. For Liberty, Topeka and the Nation are all in one boat.
O Liberty, shrined in thy vesture of steel, Steam out to the sea where the billows are blue : Drive duty through danger as waves 'neath the keel Are hit by the prow and then scourged by the screw !
The fogs lie to land and the reefs near to shore, Where breakers prevail, and dumb shallows we dread ;
But out to the open, the flag to the fore, The sea at thy feet and the sky overhead !
The ocean is free, if in wrath or in glee ; No hook in its jaws and no hand on its mane ; And there lies the pathway untraveled for thee,- Cease hugging thy cable or grinding thy chain !
No harm shall befall the proud ship on its breast, Nor legions aboard, where the flag is unfurled, Who voyage with thee that foul wrongs be redressed, And freedom be given a nethermost world.
Then, pilot, stand firm at thy place at the wheel; The winds, they may whistle through cordage and sail,
But on to the sea, proud apostle of steel,- Thy life is a charmed one from tempest and gale !
Unbound like the sea to no human control, The Nation should feel all the impulse of fate ; Then out to the sea, and from line to the pole, . The world is thy quest and its people thy State !
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For statistical data pertaining to the city, special attention is called to pages commencing with 46.
A complete Directory of the tax-payers in Shawnee county will be found following the Business Directory, and on the last pages of the book is a list of the postoffices in Kansas.
F you are going to shingle your house, figure with
W. I. MILLER, 213 East Sixth Street
Security
the First Consideration. You find it in Investments made through
C. E. Bowman & Co.
Street and Avenue Guide. [ COPYRIGHT 1899, BY SAM. RADGES.]
THE houses throughout the city are numbered in accordance with what is known as the Phila- delphia 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 between 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 build- ing 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, increasing 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.
Ada St., runs north and south through Birchall add.
Adams St., 5 blocks east of Kansas ave- nue; runs south from the river to city limits.
Anthony St., runs, north and south through west side subdvision in south half sec. 33, twp. 11, range 15.
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. -3
Arlington St., runs east and west through supplement to Arlington Heights.
Arter Ave., north and south through Morris's add.
Ash St., Bradford Miller's add., 11 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.
Atlantic Ave., runs east and west through Oakland add.
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Atwood Ave., 37 blocks west of Kan- sas avenue; runs north and south from Euclid avenue to Shunganun- : ga creek.
Avenue A, runs north and south through Longview Park and Bos- ton Heights.
B.
Beacon St., runs west of Kansas ave- nue to Topeka avenue, south of Shunganunga creek.
Beechwood Ave., runs east and west through Cottage Grove.
Bellevue Ave., runs north and south through Arlington Heights.
Bellview Ave., runs north and south through Bellview addition in south- west quarter sec. 4, twp. 12, range 16. Belmont Ave., runs east and west through Oakland add.
Berwick St., runs north and south north of Laurel street, Auburndale. Beverly St., 3 blocks north of Garfield street; west of Tyler street.
Birchall St., runs east and west through Birchall add.
Blaine Ave., runs north and south through Central avenue add.
Blaine St., runs north and south through West End add.
Blanton St., runs north and south through Linn's addition in south half sec. 33, twp. 11, range 15./
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.
Bowery St., runs east and west through Central avenue add.
Bradbury St., in Bradbury's addition, 3 blocks west of Kansas avenue, south of Shunganunga creek.
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.
Broad Ave., north side Central avenue addition.
Brooklyn Ave., runs east and west on south line Berlin Heights.
Brooks Ave., 19 blocks west of Kansas avenue; runs north and south be- tween Tenth avenue and Twelfth street.
Bruce St., runs east and west on south line of Beal's add.
Buchanan St., Holmes's addition north of North Topeka.
Buchanan St., runs north and south through Linndale addition north of North Topeka.
Buchanan St., II blocks west of Kan- sas avenue; runs north and south from Fourth to Huntoon street.
Burlingame Ave., on west line of Quinton Heights.
Burr St., runs north and south through Western Land and Lot Co.'s add.
Byron St., Rural Homes add., runs east and west, extension of Sixteenth . street.
Avenue B, runs north and south through Long View Park and Bos- ton Heights.
C.
California Ave., runs north and south through Highland Park.
Campbell Court, I block west of Arch street, north of Tenth street, West Park add.
Canary `Ave., runs east and west through Highland Park.
Carnahan Ave., runs north and south through Irving Place.
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213 EAST SIXTH.
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Carney St., runs north and south through west side subdivision, south half section 33, township II, range 15.
Cass St., runs north and south through Linwood Heights.
Catherine St., runs east and west through Wilder's addition, North Topeka.
Center Ave., runs east and west through Oakland add.
Center St., Mapleton's addition, 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 street, to city limits.
Central Ave., runs north and south through Hardt's and Jerome Park additions.
Chandler St., 11 blocks east of Kansas avenue; runs north and south from First to Tenth avenue.
Charles St., Ist street west of A. T. & S. F. Ry. from Eighth avenue to Ninth street.
Charles St., on east line of Alexander's addition, in northeast quarter of section 4, township 12, range 16.
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 J. W. Morris's add.
Chestnut St., Metsker's 3d addition, 8 blocks east of Kansas avenue; runs north and south from Seventh street to Tenth avenue.
Chestnut St., runs east and west through College Hill, west of Rural Homes.
Chickasaw 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.
Circle St., runs east and west in Au- burndale.
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 Grant street.
Clay St., in Holmes's addition, north of North Topeka.
Claynold St., 39 blocks west of Kansas avenue; runs north and south from Tenth avenue to Huntoon street.
Clayton St., runs north and south through South Brentwood; continu- ation of Foucht street, Boynton's addition.
Cleveland St., runs east and west through Armstrong's add.
Cleveland St., north of Garfield street and west of Tyler street.
Cochran St., runs north and south through Berlin Heights, south of Shunganunga creek.
Cofran St., runs north and south through Linwood Heights.
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 Sam. Cross's add., south of Rock Island Ry. track.
Cook Ave., runs north and south through East Hill add.
Corwin St., runs east and west in Pierce's add.
LUMBER ORDERS DELIVERED PROMPTLY. 213 East 6th Street.
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Cory St., runs north and south through Sam. Cross's addition, west of Auburndale.
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.
Crawford St., runs north and south through west side subdivision, in south half of section 33, township II, range 15.
Crittenden St., runs north and south in Hagan's add.
Cross St., runs east and west through Sam Cross's add., west of Auburn- dale.
Curtis St., 2 blocks north of First ave- nue; runs east from Kansas avenue to Madison street, and west to Tyler street.
Curtis St., runs north and south through Linwood Heights.
Avenue C, runs north and south through Longview Park and Boston Heights.
D.
Dana St., runs east and west in Pierce's add.
Davies St., runs north and south through Western Land and Lot Co.'s add.
Davison St., runs north and south through Western Land and Lot Co.'s add.
Denver St., runs east and west through west side subdivision, in south half of section 33, township 11, range 15.
Dillon St., 15 blocks west of Kansas avenue; runs 2 blocks south from Huntoon street.
Division St., runs east and west through Norton's second add.
Division St., runs north and south on east side of Veale's add.
Doane St., runs east and west through Newman Park.
Dora Court, in Crauel's subdivision of lots 13, 14 and 15, in Frazier's sub- division.
Douglass St., Beal's add., about 13 blocks south of First avenue; runs east from Sac-and-Fox street one block.
Douthitt Ave., south of Huntoon's ad- dition, west of Topeka avenue in Douthitt Place.
Douthitt St., west of Fillmore street on north line of Ott & Tewksbury's add.
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.
Dudley Ave., on west line plat A, Dudley Park, in northwest quarter of section 5, township 12, range 16.
Duke St., Hartsock's add., 5 blocks south of Kansas river, north of Wil- low avenue.
E.
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.
Eighth St., runs east and west through Cross's add., north of North Topeka.
Eighteenth St., 17 blocks south of First avenue; runs east and west from Monroe street to Topeka avenue and from Union to Bolles avenue.
Do not fail to figure Lumber Bills with
W. I. MILLER, 213 East 6th St.
T. E. BOWMAN & CO.
Columbian Building. REAL ESTATE LOANS. No accepted application ever has to wait a day for money.
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Eleventh St., 10 blocks south of First avenue; runs east and west between Jefferson street and Western avenue. Elizabeth St., runs north and south through Hardt's and Jerome Park additions.
Elliott St., runs north and south through Catalpa Grove in northeast quarter of section 33, township II, range 15.
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.
Elm St., south of College Hill add. and the same as Euclid avenue, also known as Sixteenth and Seven- teenth street.
Emma Ave., runs north and south through Burson Place add., on south- west quarter of section 35, town- ship II, range 15.
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. Esther St., runs north and south in Parke Place add., in south west quar- ter of section 35, twp. 11, range 15. Euclid Ave. (Seventeenth street ), runs east and west to city limits.
Evans St., runs south side of Glendale, southwest of Auburndale.
Evelyn St., Holman's add., North To- peka, runs west from Kansas avenue, north of Garfield street.
Eugene St., runs east and west through Sam. Cross's add., west of Auburn- dale.
Exeter St., Auburndale, runs east and west, north of Belt Railroad.
F.
Fairchild St., 7 blocks north of First avenue; runs east from Kansas ave- nue, north of Gordon street.
Fairview St., 24 blocks east of Kansas avenue, north of Sixth avenue; 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. Ry. lumber yard).
Fifth St., runs east and west through Linndale add., north of No. Topeka.
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 Grant street.
Finney St., runs east and west through Jackson street add.
First Ave., 2 blocks south of Kansas river; runs east and west to city limits. (Base line of the city be- tween north and south.)
Florence St., Knox's subdivision, 45 blocks west of Kansas avenue; runs north and south between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets.
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