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out it was not the horses' fault. If, of all the twenty-five that were cremated, not one had the ability, vitality or desire to go out of a barn door to preserve life, it is not to be wondered at in the peaceful and dull routine of their daily lives, they felt inclined to stop at the corners and hear Climinson discuss Price Raid Serip, as he did, wonderfully and well. Poor things; they are dead now, and reparation comes too late to do them any good. But all this is merely a prelude; there was just one straw that broke the camel's back and perforce required us to repudiate the claims of this city. It is the hardest matter for us with all our combined erudition, to build a wall in Topoka that will stand; the price of the lots go up and stay there, but the walls placed thereon commence to tumble the very moment they ascertain the scaffolding is taken down, and some of them continue it so often that it beconies as monotonous as the precipitation of the mule through the chimney of the miner's cabin related by M. Twain. We can completely undermine a wall, as they did at the Windsor House, give it a new foundation, then plaster up the twenty or thirty old windows and doors, and cut the same out some where else in the wall and not have a crack in it anywhere; but when it comes to building an entire new one, our art fails us. If it were not that Kansas City had some trouble in the same direction it would accuse us of doing this purposely, to give an air of business to the berg. So, good by, Lotus Clubs and all other organizations that presume on a lofty plane of thought and knowledge. No use of our buying any more Cyclopedias and learnedly discussing the life of Alexander at the first social tea party of the winter, and, as the season pro- gresses, and the numbers keep coming, at last ending with Xerxes on the eve of a wet and backward spring. We have been given away by our own conduct. Oscar Wilde may be read, but it is futile nevertheless to make a silk purse out of a souseer.
"We have fifty thousand souls in the town if we have a single hoof, which is a very gratifying increase for the last year." Such will be the language used in starting the history of Topeka for the tenth edition of this biennial directory, counting this the sixth. As it is, we have over twenty thous- and people, and are in a condition to be no longer envious of any other town in the State. And the beauty of it is, we have not attempted to spread ourselves in obtaining more by either advertisement from abroad, or increased personal endeavor at home. Not a man has come to Topeka, the last year, by reason of having bonds voted to aid him in some private enterprise, which probably, Kansas City may say, is
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an encouraging decrease from former statistics. We have the best town in the State.
II.
We are helping Atchison to obtain the grain and stock trade that now goes to the mouth of the Kaw. We are build- ing a railroad to Leavenworth. Henry King and George Peck are both stated lecturers of the University at Lawrence. To- peka sends Ryan to Congress, and they send from Washington to obtain our City Attorney for Commissioner of the General Land Office. It speaks well for the City Government. "A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country." At the present term of our court, there appears strung along in a row on the docket, sixty-six divorce cases, or a number approximating that amount, and with all that, within the memory of any of our inhabitants, there is no such a thing as a full grown, well developed scandal, and this, we believe, can be urged as an additional attraction for this city by those seeking new homes in the far west. Topeka is the best town west of the Missouri.
III.
We have eight daily papers, and we might add in the words of the auctioneer endeavoring to sell a watch, "eight holes is punched for jewels and thar's room for more." Alto- gether in the city, of dailies, weeklies and monthlies, we publish about thirty. In the above estimate we count the Whim - Wham. We have more poets within a radius of five miles of the State House, in point of numbers, than there were in the whole world at any one time during the last cen- tury, and had we time we might give a specimen verse from each. Eh? We always allude to this showing with a sort of local pride whenever we hear a Kansas City man boasting of the capacity of the hog packing houses down there. There are people in this city who have writ for the New York papers, and one, we believe, who edited King's Ague Cure Almanac; but he is not doing much at it now. There is a limit however, to our peculiarities; not one of our editors ever interviewed the James boys, and none of our citizens ever wrote the life of the Younger brothers as they have done down at the mouth. We have managed to hold the biggest fair ever held in the West without having the amphitheatre burn down, or a band of highwaymen ride off with the pre- miums for the best horsemanship without ever contesting for the prize. Just think of it; one hundred and ten lawyers in the city of Topeka, however! And weep! for the communi-
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ty! We might add right here, before we are sure to forget, that the peace officers have at last run in the ring guilty of the numerous burglaries and thefts perpetrated in the city. The band turns out to be a negro girl, some fourteen years old, and she is now held to await identification and complicity with her many and flagrant crimes. By the time this history gets cold, we will have water works in the city, which is the last city feature lacking with us. The prohibitory law is a success; as it ought to be, for this is the home of our prohibi- tory Governor. There is not a single, solitary place in the town where you can get anything to drink. And Topeka is the best city west of the Mississippi.
IV.
For a series of years Topeka has been on the jump. We build a thousand houses a year. You cannot get half enough carpenters masons or laborers, and the boom,-I am com- pelled to use the word-has hardly begun. There are several important railway lines in process of completion to Topeka; one from Ottawa, one from Salina, one from Leavenworth, one from Fort Scott, and several others not now in our minds. The road now building from Leavenworth will be built by spring. It will be operated by some road that now has its termini at Leavenworth and Kansas City. It will have the leanage on all the other castern roads terminating at those points. They will also build to this city. Kansas City will be stranded. A railroad can destroy as a railroad has made her. Topeka will be her successor. The evidence is all that way. We are preparing for it. Manufactories are coming here. We will have wholesale houses, with the ubiquitous drummer stopping over Sunday away from home. We have now a solitary Chinaman, but we will have more. Our own people have organized a Stock Yards Company, and some- body will soon come along and furnish them the money to run it. We have a starch factory, distillery, and a couple of breweries; we will have more. Topeka is just getting to understand the situation. A State with a million of people ought to have a city somewhere in its borders with at least fifty thousand people. In everything that makes a prosperous community we have it here. We are subject to no disease whatever; there is none indigenous to this locality, and even old age comes so slowly that a man is about seventy before he settles down to his gait. We have got the best people that ever settled in a community; level headed, hospitable, and not afraid of taxes. We have schools that are our pride, and
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you don't know hardly what that means, until you string them out in a row like this:
This is Washburn College. This is the Theological Institute. This is Bethany College.
This is the Catholic School.
This is Jackson School.
This is Lincoln School.
This is Harrison School.
This is Clay School.
66
This is Quincy School.
66 This is Douglas School.
This is Lane School.
66 This is Adams School.
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This is Polk School.
66 This is Sumner School.
This is Madison School.
This is Parkdale School.
66 This is the School in Klein's Addition.
This is Tennessee Town School.
This is Pond's Commercial College.
This is Miss Senour's Kindergarten School.
We have thirty saloons where they sell other drinks, and lemonade in its season. We have not got a good cross-walk in the whole city, and will not have until our Street Com- missioner is educated to understand the difference between horizontal and perpendicular. We mean the old Street Com- missioner, who is not now in office. (We feel better after this explanation.) We have extensive powers as a city of the first class, and have both the ability and desire to give you, if you will come and live with us, any sort of a municipal franchise you may most hanker after. F. P. Baker will soon light the city with electricity, and it is said that he obtains his friction to run it with, from the new daily papers that have recently been started here. We'd like to compare it with our gas when it gets a head on. Topeka is the best town in America.
V.
Twenty thousand heads of families living in other parts of the State and in the habit of making periodical trips to Topeka, buy their dry goods in this city. We have a first- class Opera House, and we are educating the manager so that he gives us the best character of entertainments. Emma Le- land and Humpty Dumpty have both been here and it has not been open six months. Sells Brothers, proprietors of a first-
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class circus or two, or more, have selected Topeka as the place of investment for their surplus wealth, and they have put over a hundred thousand dollars in real estate here. This speaks for itself. They have been through your town, and your's, and your's,-we don't care where you live,-and they say by their acts, this has the boss elevation of mercury. We have two hundred, more or less, mining companies, whose aggre- gate capital is, at least, $100,000,000; and each one has its general offices here. They have mines of iron, tin, lead, cop- per, silver and gold, in every mining distriet and in every territory. They all issue prospectuses, and all have stock for sale. They are responsible, and have valuable properties. Topeka is the head center of mining operations in the West. We have one hundred thousand volumes in the Public Library of this city, counting, of course, pamphlets and agricultural reports. The Topeka Library is now engaged in building a $25,000 edifice. The main building of the State Capitol has been commenced, which will cost $3,000,000 when completed. The United States Postoffice is building, and if the present rate of speed is indulged in, it will cost a $100,000 every Con- gress to keep up the ordinary wear and tear; but so long as they appropriate, we are not particular about its completion. We have the only genuine State Fair held in the State; all others are adulterated with alum, and all short weight. We had fifty brass bands parading our street in a bunch at the last fair and will have a hundred at the next. We are the best town (of our size) in the Western Hemisphere.
VI.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company is pre-eminently a Kansas railroad. It has three thousand miles of railroad already built, and has a force of men larger than the United States army still building. It runs into Missouri, all over Kansas, through Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, and into Old Mexico and California. Its headquarters for everything is in Topeka, and it is the Mecca toward which or from where, all its employes journey. Its machine shops are here, and it has commenced an enlargement of them at a cost of not less than $250,000. It will then manufacture and build here, everything from a nut to a complete locomotive. The pay-roll for Topeka is now over $1,200,000 per year, and will continue to increase for all time. The company stands in with the city and State in every public enterprise. The big coal interests of the State center here, and to put it in plain print, look at the following bill of fare Topeka sets for you : The $1,200,000 expenditures of the Santa Fe.
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The increase in the machine shops. The two trans-continental lines. The public schools and colleges.
The churches of every denomination. The Insane Asylum improvements.
The State Reform School improvements.
The daily newspapers of every huc.
The weekly and monthly periodicals.
The electric light of F. P. Baker.
The $3,000,000 expenditure on the State Capitol. The United States Postoffice.
The 1,000 houses built here yearly.
The Rolling Mills of two railways about to be built. The Distillery. The Breweries.
The thirty saloons (other drinks only.)
The starch factory.
The Gas Works.
The Water Works.
The Fire Department.
The Topeka Public Library.
The State Library.
The Legislature meets here.
The Supreme Court meets here.
The United States Circuit Court meets here.
The United States District Court meets here.
The State Conventions meet herc.
Republicans,
Democrats,
Greenbackers,
Farmers,
Odd Fellows,
Masons, Knights of Pythias,
A. O. U. W., Good Templars, Medical Societies.
Ten times as many visitors as any other town in the State. Healthiest place you ever knew.
The best roads you ever traveled. (In good weather.)
Good water, good society and plenty of money. The best town of our size on the planet.
VII.
This chapter, we may say, will be continued.
APPENDIX.
Our gifted historian has concluded his work, but his histo- ry is not complete without handing down to posterity the usual amount of official statistics to substantiate some of the claims made in the preceeding pages, and we add the follow- ing as an appendix:
This Directory, at its birth, will cause the death of its pre- decessor; but before the latter is buried out of sight, or the former received into favor, it is both becoming and interesting to refresh the recollection and historically note the marvelous growth this city has had in the past few years. And, like prudent merchants and tradesmen, who balance their books and estimate their profits and losses, we have spread the ofli- cial records before us and copy the following truc status of the city to show its rapid progress, and prosperity.
The United States census in 1870 made the population of Topeka less than 6,000; in 1880 the same authority made it over 15,000, and to-day it is not less than 21,000, an increase of fully 5,000 in about eighteen months.
The official vote of the city cast at the November elections from 1862 to 1881 shows an increase much larger than what we claim above. On the very lowest basis on which approxi- mations are usually made of the inhabitants of a city from the number of votes polled at such elections, using the same standard that Chicago, Kansas City, and other cities use, Topeka has to-day a population of over Twenty-five Thousand, but our claims to a " Metropolis" are young and we are conse- quently yet modest; but the time is not far off when we shall challenge our neighbor at Kawsmouth to show cause, why we are not entitled to the bakery.
OFFICIAL VOTE OF THE CITY OF TOPEKA CAST AT THE GENERAL ELECTIONS HELD IN NOVEMBER OF
EACH YEAR FROM 1862 TO 1881.
November, 1862.
164 | November, 1872
1,848
November, 1863.
174
November, 1873.
1,850
November,
1864
197
November, 1874. 1,420
November, 1>65.
261
November, 1875. 1,149
November, 1866
444
November, 1876 .. 1,754
November, 1867.
November, 1877. 1,081
November, 1868
786
November, 1878 1,867
November, 1869
783
November, 1879.
1,440
November, 1870
1,413
November, 1>80.
3,095
November, 1871.
1,473 | November, 1881, approximated. 4,075
The number of votes registered before the Presidential election in 1880 was 3,807.
OFFICIAL VALUATION OF ALL TAXABLE PROPERTY IN TOPEKA SINCE 1870.
Personal.
Total.
Personal.
Total.
1870
.$ 360,354.00
$2,056,106.00
1876
$771,817.00
$2,596,728.00
1871
946,354.00
2,631,950.00
1877.
686,863.00
2,575,956.00
1872.
1,210,544.00
3,034,048,00
1878. 699.069.00
2,425,485.77
18733 ..
1,091,160,00
2,881,094.00
1879. .487,356.00
2,338,295.00
1874.
₹71,883.00
2,486,602.00
1880
489,602.00
3,004,639.26
1875.
775,914.00
2,468,413.00
1881
608,230.00
3,410,434.82
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In June of the present year there were 6,176 improved lots in the city, and 3,300 unimproved, and the average value of lots was assessed at $282.54. The value of personal property listed by the assessor was $608,230, and the total valuation of all property in the city is placed at $3,410,434.82. The above figures are based on a valuation of about 40 per cent. of the real value as provided by law.
For the year ending October 14, 1880, one thousand build- ing permits were issued, the estimated cost therefor being $667,207. Of this number 672 were for residences, 36 for shops and manufactories, 95 business and warehouses, 12 hotels and public buildings, churches and schools, and 185 other buildings. During this time a very large number of buildings were completed which were contracted for and in process of erection before the permit law took effect.
We might record more voluminous authorities to corrobor- ate our claim to the "Metropolis" of Kansas, but it is now generally conceded by all fair minded people that Topeka has a just right to be proud of her rapid and almost wonder- ful growth, of her magnificent and substantial business houses, her pleasant and luxurious homes, her model colleges and schools, her numerous elegant and costly churches, her magni- ficent public buildings, and her beautiful wide streets. With an intelligent population imbued with that spirit of enterprise and progress attested by the above facts, it is no over-estima- tion to predict that within a few years the entire country west of the Mississippi River will rejoice and refer with just pride to this city as one of the grandest evidences of western thrift and business enterprise.
Now that you have read the History of Topeka, look at the A. T. & S. F. R. R. Advertise- ment, and the balance of the book.
ONE PRICE. MONEY REFUNDED.
GREENWALD & CO., THE
LARGEST CLOTHING HOUSE IN KANSAS. 151 KAS. AVE., TOPEKA, KAS. A GUARANTEE. NO MISREPRESENTATIONS.
WHAT EVERY MAN AND WOMAN NEEDS. A CERTIFICATE OF MEMBERSHIP IN THE
WESTERN MUTUAL AID SOCIETY !
IT PRESENTS THE FOLLOWING ADVANTAGES TO ITS MEMBERS :
Two Thousand Dollars to his Family in case of his Death. One Thousand Dollars to the Member Personally, at the end of Ten Years. Five Dollars Sick Benefit per week, in case of Sickness or Disability. In case of Sickness or Poverty, Certificate is kept in full force.
SCHEDULE OF FEES, DUES AND ASSESSMENTS. ADMISSION FEE, ALL AGES, $12; ANNUAL DUES, $5. BENEFIT ASSESSMENTS.
18 to 30 years of age, $1.00.
41 to 50 years of age, $1.60.
Over 61 years of age. $3.50.
31 to 40 years of age, $1.20.
51 to 60 years of age, $2.30.
All these ages are inclusive.
These assessments will be reduced as soon as the membership will warrant such action.
J. O. MAÑANA, President.
P. M. CASSADY, Treasurer.
W. H. WARD, Med. Director.
P. H. BRISTOW, Vice President.
FRANK RICKER, Secretary.
WM. E. MILLER, Counselor.
F. J. CRESSEY, Manager.
SOME OF THE DIRECTORS ARE-
HON. BUREN R. SHERMAN.
W. E. MILLER.
GEN. JAMES B. WEAVER.
.W. H. WARD, M. D.
P. H. BRISTOW.
COL. W. S. DUNGAN.
A FEW FIRST-CLASS AGENTS WANTED.
For full particulars, address
NADAL & NADAL, Gen'l Agt's, 185 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas.
REFERENCES: Hon. John Martin, Biship Vail, and Hon. Geo. R. Wendling.
HOWEL JONES,
Auditor, Shawnee Co.
J. D. MCFARLAND,
City Attorney.
Jones & HtcFarland,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW, OFFICE: TOPEKA STATE BANK BUILDING.
TOPEKA, KANSAS.
PRACTICE IN ALL THE STATE AND FEDERAL COURTS.
RADGES' TOPEKA CITY DIRECTORY 1882.
Names inserted in BLACK LETTERS are those of the advertising patrons of this work.
No abbreviations are used in this work except those that every intelligent person will readily understand.
A complete postoffice directory of the State, ward boundries, street and avenue guide, and official register, will be found on the preceeding pages; and a business directory of the city, arranged by trades and professions, following the alphabetical arrangement of names.
A.
Able, Frank, engineer, res. 170 Sixth avenue cast. Abrams, J. D., res. 156 Monroe street.
A. C. Society, H. P. Dillon, President, 251 Kansas avenue. Ackley, H., blacksmith, res. 149 Chandler street. Adair, Hill, stock dealer, res. 417 Sixth avenue cast. Adams, Miss A., clerk, res. 177 Van Buren street. Adams, Dr. A. B., physician, res. 169 Quincy street. Adams, Benj., (col'd), laborer, res. 21 Madison street north. Adams, C. H., clerk, res. 81 Monroe street, North Topeka. Adams Express Company, (H. C. Hodges, agent), 206. Kansas avenue.
Adams, Edwin, (col'd), laborer, res. 136 Kansas avenue.
Adams, Frank, (col'd), laborer, res. 209 Jefferson street.
Adams, Mrs. F. J., (widow), res. 154 Jefferson street. Adams, Mrs. Daniel M., (widow), res. Adams House, N. T. Adams, Gilbert. clerk, bds. 141 Topeka avenue.
Adams, F. G., Sec'y State Historical Society, res. West street near Sixth avenue.
Adams, Henry, stone cutter, res. 49 Kansas avenue.
Adams House, (Washburn & Ruggles, prop'rs), cor. Kansas avenue and Railroad strect.
Adams, John, laborer, res. 77 First avenue cast.
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Adams, John, printer, res. 199 Hancock street.
Adams, James, carpenter, res. 232 Jackson street.
Adams, J. D., carpenter, res. - Van Buren street.
Adams, John Q., marble cutter, res. 85 Second street east.
Adams, Mrs. L. R., physician, res. 160 Quincy street.
Adams, P. II., stock dealer, rooms 231 Harrison street.
Adams, R., printer, res. 354 Polk street.
Adams, W. II., carpenter, res. 64 Madison street.
Addie, James, blacksmith, res. 15 Quincy street north.
Addy, Dr. R., physician, res. 44 Tenth avenue west.
Adkins, Samuel, (col'd), carpenter, res. 506 Van Buren street. Admire, W. W., printer, res. 233 Jackson street.
Agnew, J. K. V., Asst. Div. Supt. A. T. & S. F. R. R., res. 95 Quincy street.
Aiken, H., & Co., (H. & M. Aiken), milliners, 86 Kansas avenue, North Topeka.
Aiken, Miss M., (H. Aiken & Co.), res. 86 Kansas avenue, North Topeka.
Aikman, A., stonemason, res. 166 Tenth avenue west.
Akcroyd, Edward B., laborer, res. 47 Laurent street, N. T.
Alcorn, -, laborer, res. 169 Topeka avenue.
Alden, D. R., photographic villa 287 Topeka avenue, res. same.
Alden, Hiram, clerk, res. 287 Topeka avenue.
Aldrich, John, engineer, bds. Dutton House.
Alexander, A. H., cabinet maker, res. 101 Quincy street.
Alexander, Charles, fireman, res. 90 Adams street.
Alexander, E. S., (Russell & Alexander), bds. Fifth Avenue Hotel.
Alexander, George, (col'd), painter, res. 423 Buchanan street.
Alexander, W. D., attorney at law, res. 206 Jefferson street. Algier, Fred S., carpenter, res. 205 Jackson street.
Alleanme, Albert, confectionery 99 Adams street, res. same. Allen, A., (col'd), laborer, res. 348 Madison street.
Allen, Albert, teamster, res. 189 Curtis street.
Allen, A. M., brakeman, res. 207 Eighth avenue east.
Allen, E., clerk, res. 97 Quincy street.
Allen, Frank, clerk, res. 97 Quincy street.
Allen, Frank, hostler, rooms Fifth street near Kansas avenue. Allen, G. H., switchman, bds. Santa Fe House.
Allen, H., clerk, res. 239 Clay street.
Allen, H. M., clerk, res. 149 Tyler street.
Allen, H. S., carpenter, res. 154 Filmore street.
Allen, J., (col'd), cook, res. 53 Jackson street.
Allen, Joseph, laborer, res. 341 Jefferson street.
Allen, Kenneth, engineer, res. 228 Monroe street.
J. R. HALLOWELL, (U. S. Attorney,)
awyer,
TOPEKA, KANSAS.
OFFICE:
273 KANSAS AVENUE.
S. B. BRETT, BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER 3
Newspapers and Periodicals, Dealer in BLANK BOOKS. Foreign and Domestic Stationery, Scrap Books, Autograph Books, Albums, Mabie, Todd & Bards Gold Pens and Fancy Goods.
214 GOLD TOPEKA, Kansas Ave. PENS. KANSAS®
CHARLES NYMAN, MANUFACTURER OF FINE
havana Domestic Ligarg,
AND DEALER IN SMOKING, CHEWING AND SNUFF TOBACCOS, Cor. Kansas Ave., and Curtis St., NORTH TOPEKA, KANSAS
OLIVER H. BAKER
WATCHMAKER
(Formerly with the ELGIN NATIONAL WATCH,Co.)
185 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kansas. THE LARGEST AND BEST SUPPLY OF SPECTACLES IN THE CITY.
A. M. FULLER, DEALER . IN Agricultural Implements
SEEDS, ETC. NOTHING BUT FIRST-CLASS GOODS KEPT. Call and see me. 80 Kanşaş Ave., Topeka, Kanşaş.
MUZZY & TUTTLE,
DEALERS IN STAPLE & FANCY GROCERIES Fruits, Vegetables, Etc., Etc. 106 KANSAS AVENUE, TOPEKA, KANSAS.
H. S. CLARK,
Attorney at Law and Notary Public.
185 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas.
Collections a Specialty
THE TOPEKA STEAM LAUNDRY
Does First-Class Work on Short Notice. OFFICE 149 KANSAS AVENUE. HARDT & MCMILLAN,
The only Exclusive Hat, Cap and Gents' Fur- nishing Goods Dealers in Topeka.
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Allen, Mrs. L. A., (widow), dressmaker, res. cor. Monroe and Laurent streets.
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