Wichita Commercial Bulletin from Wichita, Kansas • 2

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by HAMMOCK I HUUNISKI. F. I. HULANISKI, C. L.

HAMMOCK, Editor. Bu.lnest Manager, Entered at Wichita Postoffice as second class matter, sujsemiTiox One year, istagi paid )tl 00 Advertising RuteH made known on application. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1 888. i Gust Lund, flrugglHt and pharmacist, corner of Cental avenue und Main street, 1ms been hero liree years. He carries a full line of diigs, medicines ami drug-gists sundries Prescriptions carefully compounded If a registered pharmacist, day or night.

Mr. Lund came from Eu-ropu twenty yinrs ago, and has been In the drug busliess ever since. J. F. Dorse) of Heven were found on a keen jimp.

mid so busy tlmt Interviews were oi of the question. Ilusiuess is certainly god there. Mr. Dorsey keeps as fine an exclusive grocery as any city can lioast of, und enjoys a very extensive trade. This eitubllshmont is at 238 North Main street, ud they keep in stock positively evcryfhiig in the way of staple and fancy groeerbs, fruits, cigars, confectionery, produce, tc.

Mr. 1). started this store last New Yea's, ami has by his untiring efforts built ti; a trade which does him ereilit. The Boston Store, 107 East Dniglns av enun, contained such a jam of (w.ijlm Lading, and clerks unpacking new fall goods, that a reporter couldnt get near enough to anybody connected with the establishment to interview him. This is one of tlie largest dry goods houses in Wichita, and their trade 1h simply immense at all times.

J. II. Moore, tlie big, good-natured ton-serial artist, by tlie side of the Hotel Goodyear, is where several hundred of our citizens get slicked up, and he lias an op. portunlty to hear a great ileal of conversation about trade and traffic, and lie says people dont grumble half as much now as they did two months ago. Mr.

Moore came here from the Southern Hotel in St. Louis, a year and a half ago, and us a barber there are no Hies upon him at all, if lie does have to use a little soup to razor living. thing the market affords. The Clair Dining Hall has been in operation in Wichita two years, and moved into Its present luxurious (juarters last June, from over on Topeka avenue. The finest class of trade in the city Is enjoyed by this most popular caterer.

J. R. SNIVELY, one of the proprietors of this magnificent block, occupies an ofllce on the second floor und Is engaged in the real estate business. lie lias the deserved reputation of being restless and sleepless," and accomplishes a vast amount of business in the course of a week, lie has all kinds of property for salo and exchange, loans money, pays taxes for non residents, rents buildings, makes collections, etc. It.

Snively is one of the wideawake men of Wichita. MERCKIt ft WIIEELEH, real estate dealers, occupy rooms 111 and 14 of the Sniyely Walter half of the ATCHISON, TOREK A ft SANTA FK. Texas Express 8:30 in 7 :66 Express 8:26 a 7:00 a in Freight-Aocnnnnodutlon :00 in 2:10 in Calllnrniu mill Colni'mln Ex. 4:00 ill 10:00 a in North anil Eastward. Houth and Honthwust.

W. 1). Murdoch, Freight und luss. Act. A MISSOURI PACIFIC FT.

HOOTT ROUTE. EXPRESS. ARRIVES FROM. Kansas City, St. Louis nnd Ht.

lands, Fort Scott and Eastern 3:00 in Conway springs, Anthony und 10:40 a in Conway Springs, Anthony und Kiowa. ..7:46 in EXPRESS. -DEPARTS FOR. Ht. Louis, Fort 8cott nod Eastern 11 :40 a III Kansas City, St.

Louis und Eastern 8:00 pm Conway Springs, Anlhony and 3:10 pm Conwuy Springs, Anthony and .7 :30 a WICIIITA AND COLORADO DIVISION. EXPRESS. ARRIVES FROM. llutehlusnu, Sterling, Ceneseo, nnd Puehlo 11:10 am Hutchinson, Sterling and Ceneseo 7 :55 EXPRESS. DEPARTS FOR.

Hutchinson, Sterling and Ceneseo 7:20 a Hutchinson, Sterling and Ceneseo Mail 6:06 iii E. E. Bleckley, Pass, and Ticket Agt. 127 N. Alain.

C. K. A N. ROCK ISLAND ROUTE. NORTH AND EAST.

Kansas City. St. Louis and Chicago through Alail and Express Dally Arrives Departs Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago, night Express Daily: Arrives Departs 9:30 pm Accommodat lou Dally except Sunday Arrives Departs 11:00 am going south. Kansas City, St.

Louis and Chicago Express-Daily: Arrives Departs 6:70 um Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago through Alail and Express Dally: Arrives Departs Freight Accommodation Dally except Sunday: Departs 2:10 m. City ticket office, 200 E. Douglas avenue Passenger station vomer Mead and Douglas avenue. C.

A. RUTUKKKOitD, Ticket Agt. FOR SALE OR TRADE, Ten 25-barrel Wind Mill Tanks. For particulars inquire at Hotel Goodyear. P.

A. ROHRBAUGH, A.TO.-CmisriE aw, Wtfnft-VTrVwrA Blocks 137 North Market Street, WICHITA, KANS. Attorney for Western Collection Bureau. Kansas Abstract Agency Rooms 1, 2, 3 and 4, Smith-Skinner Block, 137 North Market Street, WICHITA, KANS. Abstracts made for lands in any county in the state of Kansas.

THE SMITH-SKINNER AND SNIVELY WALTER BLOCK, AND ITS OCCUPANTS. We present on this page a picture of the Smith-Skinner and Sidvely Walter block, located on North Market street, between Douglas avenue and First street, Wichita, Kansas. It Is a line four-story building, with grey stone front of 100 feet, with a depth of 120 feet, ami is one among the best lighted and ventilated buildings in the city. Among the many lines of business eon. ducted in the building we give a brief notice of a few.

Five large front rooms on the second Moor of the Smith-Skinner block are occupied as he ollices of 15. Wallace, .1. I. Wheeler and I. A.

ltohrbuugh, a firm of energetic young men thoroughly experienced in their separate lines. They ure engaged on three classes of work on a combination or agency plan. TIIK WESTERN COLLECTION BUREAU." Mr. .1. 15.

Wallace, a practical and experienced collector, is the manager of tlds bureau, which lias attorneys in ull parts of the I'nited States and the Canadas, and does a general foreign and domestic collection business. This is the only institution of this kind west of Kansas City.or south of Omaha. KANSAS ABSTRACT AGENCY. Mr. J.

P. Wheeler, a practical abstractor and real estate man, has charge of this department as manager. It makes abstracts for any lands in the several counties of the state, and furnishes diagrams and ull kinds of information relating to such lands, collects interest, forecloses mortgages, and attends to all kinds of business for loan companies. They pay taxes, purchase and sell bonds and all kinds of county and municipal securities, and look after this line of business for non-residents. Mr.

Wheeler is also manager of the J. P. Wheeler Co. real estate exchange. In this depart ment is done a general real estate business.

They buy, sell and exchange real estate, merchandise, and all kinds of personal property. Their connections throughout the state and the east give them advantages that are not possessed by others for the proper conduct of the business in bringing dealers together. This combination plan is the only one of the kind in Ihe United States. Mr. J.

A. Kohrbuugh is a lawyer of sixteen years practice, and does a general law business, and attends to the legal business of all the institutions they control. There is nothing connected with the collection of a debt, mercantile reporting, or in handling lands, personal property, loans, bonds, or taxes, that they are not fully equiped to perform, having regular abstractors and attorneys in every county in the state1 of Kansas. The corner store-room on the north is occupied by the ST. oi ls PROGRESSIVE FANCY GROCERY CO.

Which is one of the finest retail grocery houses in the city, and although comparatively a new firm here they have already built up a very large and lucretive trade. Their store rooms are filled with the very choicest of staple and fancy groceries, all arranged in different departments and plainly showing that knowledge and experience have been used in their selection and arrangement. This firm buy and sell strictly for cash, and consequently are enabled to make a scale of prices highly beneficial to their customers. They were thirty-one years in this business in St. Louis, and know all about everything pertaining to a first-class grocery house.

One special feature about this institution is the neatness and minute correctness which strikes the beholder immediately on entering, and the self-evident fact that none but the very best and choicest grades of goods are handled by them. There is everything one can think of or ask for, a description of which would be impossible, but which must be seen to be iinder-stood and appreciated. A visit to this establishment will pay any person who buys groceries. THE CLAIR DINING IIALI, occupies the north room down stairs of the Smith-Skinner block, and is an institution which commends itself to all. Mr.

John Leibrand, the proprietor, feeds on an average 350 hungry mortals every day, and in a manner to suit the most fastidious. This hall is 120 feet deep, and is fitted and furnished in sumptuous style, while the tables contain positively every i J. R. McKEE, ZDIEUNTTIST Rooms 1 and 2 Gandolfo Block, WICHITA, KANS. Office hours 8 to 12 a.

m. and 1 to 6 p. m. I make a specialty In putting out mercantile orchards on the 5 and 7 year 6 per cent, plan also trade for good equities and clear property not barred out. CLATE L.

STONER, Commercial Nursery, WICHITA, KANS. ltoom 5, 114 N. Alain St. CRAVEN WORK, Live Stock Commission Merchants, ROOM 7, STOCK YARDS EXCHANGE BUILDING. Do a Strictly Commission Business.

block, and do a general real estate and exchange business, buy and sell merchandise, etc. This is well known nnd popular firm and do a very extensive business in their line. MARTIN ft ECKSTEIN, attorneys at law, have two fine offices in this block and enjoy a large and lucrative practice. This is one of the prominent law' firms of the city, und are now handling some of the heaviest cases in tlie district court. The Garfield University, of which W.

15. llendrix is president and II. M. Mun is assistant secretary, has its business office here. The Oklahoma Secret Service detective agency have rooms on the third floor, and there are various lawyers, notaries and other professional men too numerous to mention, but who all help in making the Smith Skinner and Snively-Walter structure one of the busiest and most important business blocks in Wichita.

AROUND AMONG THE MERCHANTS. Interviews With Business Men of All Kinds On Various Subjects. J. P. Allen, 108 East Douglas avenue, is one of the old pioneer druggists of Wichita, having established here in 1870.

He said on the whole business in his line is better this year than any other but one since lie came here. Van Werdens Pharmacy, 328 N. Main street, was started last May, and the Doctor says his trade is just splendid now better than in the spring, and is picking up every day. lie came from Quincy, but now banks heavy on Wichita. In the millinery line, Mrs.

E. Klcntz, 153 North Main street, said times had been dull, but were getting better as cool weather approached; that the ladies had to have hats and bonnets, anyhow, and she had just got on her fall styles, and had stocked heavy, in anticipation of a big trade. Rogers," the photographer, 106 East Douglas avenue, who not only runs one of the largest galleries in Wichita, but has branch houses in Wellington, Kingman, El Dorado, Garden City and Kiowa, says the photograph business has enjoyed quite a boom this year. lie is the president of the Kansas Photographers association. People sit around here in our reading-room, smoke good cigars nnd roll ten-pins all day, and half the night, said Clayton Rhodes, and if they were hard up they wouldnt.

We think there is always more smoke than Are about such things. This firm keep a very popular resort, at 240 North Main street. II. W. Kendall, undertaker, 113 East -said.

jwoiiIp went, cunning after each other so frequently now-a-dnys that even the undertaking business was enjoying a boom. Prof. K. is president of the Kansas University of Embalming, and has just returned from tlie meeting which was held at Topeka last week. In tlie photograh business, Mr.

Rawlins, tlie well-known photographer, 106 North Main street, was interviewed. He reported times brightening considerably the last two weeks. Mr. Rawlins says the cut in prices on cabinets is not due to the money market, but is a Cheap John arrange, ment that has no merit. He has neither cut his prices nor turned out any such work.

The Drs. Munsell, of the eye, ear aud surgical institute, 250 North Main street, thought times were brightening, because collections were getting better. They have been in practice here six years, and are confident of a great future for our city. At this institute a person can get sawed up into small pieces and put together again, for a reasonable amount. Some of the surgical operations performed there are perfectly wonderful.

People who are broken or bended are mended and straightened, and all sorts of eyes and ears are daily fixed up as they ought to be. If the writer wants his eyes taken out and renovated, and the green in them removed, he knows right where to go. Drs. Fordice Vaunuys, 251 North Main street, were found to be of the opinion that this fall would mark an era iuthe prosperity of Wichita equal to any yet experienced. This firm of physicians are among the solid professional men of that class, who make no big display but continue in the even tenor of their way.

They have been in practice here over two years, in medicine and surgery, and are in a position to know considerable about tlie beating of the public pulse, hence the interview with them was both interesting and valuable. Attracted as much by the Irish dude with a green patch over his eye as by a desire to know how the cigar and R.tick-et business was flourishing, the establishment of W. II. Baker 146 N. Main street, was explored.

Yes, sir, said Mr. Baker, men will smoke and buy railroad tickets, whether the boom is on or off, but during the last three weeks higher priced goods have been In greater demand thnn last month, and money appears to be more plentiful. We have been iu business here two years, and are well satisfied with our trade, both in the past and at present. If we owned Wichita we wouldnt trade it for all tlie other cities in the state put together. J.

A. Talwadge the China Palace, 23uNirlTr3ram street, declared Mtiift they had really noticed no depreciation in the line of their business whatever. They have been here two years, and handle everything in the way of cliinaware, silverware, hanging-lamps, patent-burners, and carry the largest line of this class of goods in the state. Their art room is a wonder to behold, containing elegant bronzes, beautiful statuary and everything in this line, and well wortli going to see. A more exhaustive description of this firm and their wares will appear in the Bulletin later on.

C. il. De ore dealers in staple and fancy groceries, No. 254 North Main street, were found to he in a very pleasant frame of mind over the business outlook, and all hands were so busy waiting on a small army of customers that kept pouring in and out that it was difficult to catch anybody there at leisure long enough to be interviewed. This firm have been in business in this city for a year and a half, and have been very successful.

They have everything in their line, and aim to please. They say the retail grocery trade at present is very good, and on the increase right along. Bruggemun, the artistic tailor and authority on styles," 214 North Main street, was also interviewed. This house makes fine dress and wedding suits a specialty, and said the fall crop of weddings had already set in, and that the harvest would be more bushels to the acre this season thnn ever before during the two years and a half they have been in the merchant tailoring business in Wichita. Mr Brug-geman said money was not laying around quite as thick as two years ago, but that business was just as brisk, as they had put prices down to suit the times.

The Wichita Dental Institute, rooms 2, 4 and 6, Myers-IIeiserman bloek.on North Main street, Drs. Creditor Buckwalter, proprietors, lias been established two years, and is now enjoying a lucrative and wide-spead business. The several apartments are furnished in elegant style, with parlors and reception room, aud fitted up with all the improved and modern tools, machinery aud conveniences for performing successfully every task pertaining to dental science. Dr. Creditor is from Indiana, and Dr.

Buckwalter from Oldo, the latter being an honorable graduate from tlie Ohio College of Dental Surgery. Dr. Creditor has had twenty years of actual dental practice. This firm muke no pretentions which they do not substantiate, and consequently while holding old patrons are constantly attracting new ones. H.

FRANCK, MERCHANT TAILOR, IMPORTER OF WOOLENS. No. 119 East Douglas Avenue. WICIIITA, KANSAS. Occidental Hotel, A.

N. DEMING, Proprietor. Street Cars Pass the Poor Every Five Minutes, FREE BUS TO AND PROM ALL TRAINS. Rates, 2.00 per day. Cor.

2d Main St. WICHITA, KAN..