THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN City Life
Neighborhoods trace path of city growth
By SANDY HERD
Staff Writer
Neighborhoods in Lawrence are as varied as their inhabitants. Old houses, look-alike duplexes, sprawling apartment complexes, crumbling shacks and spanking-new splitlevels offer Lawrence residents a huge variety of living atmospheres.
The Oread neighborhood is one that most KU students are familiar with because it is close to campus. Roughly, this area runs from Massachusetts to Missouri streets.
Within this area is a mixture of fraternity and sorority houses, duplexes, single-family homes and many homes that have been converted to apartment homes.
"The diversity is the main thing we说," Jonelle Graber, 1321 Ohio St., says. "It's not all houses and not all apartments, and not all age variation in the people who live here."
RESIDENTS SAY it is not uncommon in this neighborhood to see a beautiful three-story house next to a three-story wreck. Generally, the homeowners maintain their property better than landlords whose houses are split into apartments.
"Anyone driving down the street can just tell who tells their property and who doesn't."
Graber said that the biggest neighborhood problem was the number of dogs.
"Giant dogs are all turned loose at night to the trash cans and the trash is all over
everywhere. Lots of people just don't take care of their pets." she said.
Near the Oread neighborhood, in University Place, exists the same mixture of well-kept homes, deteriorating houses and relatively new rental property.
UNIVERSITY PLACE, running from 17th to 19th streets and from Louisiana to the street shares problem with the Ocean in Palm Bay. Park there because so many students park there.
"These are mostly middle class homes that are, for the most part, kept up by the homeowners," Monte Flannery, 170 Illinois district, stated. The material property is generally not kept up as well.
Also near the KU campus is the West Hills area, which is bounded by West Campus Road, University Drive, Sunset Drive, Sigma Nu Place and Emery Road.
Most of the homes in this fully developed residential area are about 50 years old, although a few homes have been built more recently.
West Hills has some fraternity and sorority houses, but no other multiple-unit housing, although apartment complexes are located nearby.
OLD WEST LAWRENCE covers the area between Sixth, Ninth, Kentucky and Michigan streets. The homes there are old but most are very well kept.
"Part of the neighborhood was part of the original town site of Lawrence," Karen
See NEIGHBORHOODS page six
Co-on clouds
Staff Photo by ALAN ZLOTK1
The Cooperative Farm Chemicals Association plant is the first glimpse of Lawrence for many travelers. The plant can be seen from K-10 or from Interstate 70 approaching from
the east. Though it gives the impression to many that Lawrence is an industrial city, the plant is one of the few industrial complexes in the area.
Cellist recalls city, KU changes
BY MARGARET SCHEIRMAN
Life in Lawrence and at the University of Kansas has undergone many changes in the past. In 1982, a student
Antique, used furniture allows inexpensive living
Staff Writer
By MARGARET SCHEIRMAN
Moving into an unfurnished house or apartment for the first time can be unsettling when a student realizes he has no place to eat. sit, or store his books.
Kansas' wide open spaces look out of place indoors.
However, with a little ingenuity and persistence, there are many ways the world can be made.
Probably the best sources in Lawrence for used furniture are garage or yard sales and secondhand stores.
Such sales often contain some of the best bargains in town because the owners have no stores to maintain, and low overhead costs to pass on to the buyer.
By checking the classified advertisements in the local newspapers, a student is sure to see sales of all kinds, including moving sales, estate sales and auctions.
OF COURSE, many sales offer white
elephants, but if a buyer knows exactly what he wants, it only takes five minutes to survey most sales to determine if a sale is worthwhile.
Other than sales, used furniture stores are the most accessible source of old furniture and secondhand goods.
Antique furniture stores are excellent places to find nice looking dressers, trunks, and other furniture worth keeping for a future home.
They also may have the most used expensive furniture, the valuable antiques.
Open on Saturdays and Sundays, Quinntrill's is made up of at about three dozen
families.
Quantuil's Flea Market, 811 New Hampshire St., the well-known, carries
High-backed double beds, glass-door book shelves and china cabinets, end tables and desk chairs.
BEING CAREFUL WITH THE WORK IN HIS ITEMS
PRICES CAN BE high, usually more than
Another antique flea market is Bizarre Bazaar, Pennsylvania St.
Bizarre Bazaar is also open only on Saturday and Sundays, and is made up of
$200 for the larger pieces of furniture. But don't be afraid to make an offer.
However, the building is plain and most of the furniture doesn't seem as choice as that at Othello.
Nancy Hadley, of Bizarre Bazar, said, "We have quite a lot of used furniture, but basically antiques. We are interested in less expensive but nice things that students can afford."
primarily just reflections of the development of society in general, according to Raymond Stuhl, professor emeritus of performance.
Big G' Antiques, 444 Locus, is a charming, well-keep store. Smaller than the flea markets, it is open Thursday through Saturday.
Also in North Lawrence and dealing almost entirely in antiques is Euregan City,
See FURNITURE page nine
Stuhl, 72, taught cell and chamber music at KU from 1835 to 1977. when he retired.
It has been said that he has produced more successful cellists than any other teacher in the United States, and that most of them studied under his instruction at KU.
Recalling his early years here, in the 1930s and 1940s, he says, "f fundamentally, the environment of the entire society, a puzzle of which KU is just one of the pieces, is simply less profound. I think that in those days, students' hard work, tried to be hardworking."
"KU was the center of education that it is today. The general environment was much more personable, much more small-town, and much less friendliness, but more friendly, but not less well-educated."
"THE EDUCATION was absolutely top-notch. There were not so many advanced degrees, but the education people had was as solid as a rock.
' the education was profoundly more serious on the part of the average student." Stahl says that the University community was more close-knit then it is today.
This was not just because the enrollment was a small fraction of what it is today, but also because most of the students and faculty came from smaller communities.
"Every community in the state has grown," he says. *"Those communities which were only 8,000 or 10,000 people in 1935 are now 50,000."
same kind of informality and cordiality that they had known in their small towns, he
As a result, people brought with them the
LAWRENCE ITSELF was a small town. Stuhl says, "Lawrence when I came here was a town of about 12,000. It was an extremely friendly town. Like many towns of that size, and certainly in 1835, everyone you as you walked down the sidewalk.
“You'd walk down the street, say Tennesse Street or Kentucky Street between Tenth and Fourteenth streets, and you'd find people with Steinway pianos, people who had great backgrounds and connections with the Old World.
"It really was the Athens of the Midwest at that time."
Big houses that are now mostly apartment houses in what is called Old Caledon Lawrence
"Along the eastern part of the campus, on Louisiana Street, I think every house
WHEN HE CAME TO KU, he says, the only formatters were Corbin, Baddler, Miller and others.
"Most of the students lived just in two basic places: they lived with families, or they lived in sorority and fraternity houses," he said.
"The fraternity and sorority system was really quite well-developed in those days, and housing there, in proportion to the size of the University, was much larger than
today, and I think, within the financial reaches of many more people.
"The number of students living in those houses was enormous."
He says that many students were used to walking to school under difficult clr-
"The amount of walking to classes from the other side of Massachusetts Street on winter days was, I think, five times that of today. Many students lived over on Rhode Island Street and in that area, and thought it would be nice to up campus once or twice a day," he says.
HE TELLS A Story about a "very talented student" of his. Rita Gonzalez.
There were no music locker in Strong Hall, where the music department was, and the band was.
"She walked with her cells in its case, which must have been a 28-point load, in which the capsule is fully intact."
"She said there were days when the wind literally threw her across the street, because the only alternative was to let go of the cello as it was being blown."
Before coming to KU, Stuhl played in the Kansas City Philharmonic.
He also taught cello at the Kansas City Conservatory, and in Leavenworth, Atchison, Pittsburg, Fort Scott, Iola and Chanute.
He says he had a total of about 80 students in those places, and he drove to 300-500 buildings.
"I COVERED such a vast territory each week. I had pretty much of a monopoly—not that it was competitive, because nobody else wanted to work that hard.
See MUSICIAN page nine
Lawrence's history recalls turmoils of the Civil War
By SHIRLEY SHOUP Staff Writer
When Lawrence was founded in 1854, the settlers didn't agree on a name. They called their new home Wakarua, Yankee Town and New Boston.
The name Wakaraus was suggested because of the name of a nearby river, Yankee Town and New Boston were suggested as a tribute to the first settlers, who came from Massachusetts.
They finally decided to name the town Lawrence to honor the man who had influenced and financed much of the immigration to Lawrence. Amos A. Lawrence.
When the Kansas-Nebraska Act opened the Kansas frontier in 1854, it wasn't just the adventure or the promise of land that prompted many pioneers to leave comfortable surroundings in the East and head for Kansas.
The issue of slavery was hot and those for and against it wanted to claim the new territory for their aide. To make the people in the territory decide.
THE SOUTH interpreted this as a victory, assuming that the state would buy a Missouri estate. Kansas would be.
However, they did not take into account Yankee inezuity.
Back in Worcester, Mass., El Thayer said, "Let us settle Kansas with people who will make it free by their own voice and vote."
This led to the formation of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, which encouraged and aided the emigration to Kansas. Amos A. Lawrence was one of the influential company supporters.
The first group of settlers left Boston on July 17, 1854, and arrived in Kansas City, Mo., July 27. They traveled at first by train and steamer until they reached Kansas City and from there they used oxen and wagons.
With the issue of slavery growing larger, the abolitionists thought the company provided an opportunity to do something to stop the spread of slavery.
After a few days on the hill, the group moved their tents down to the river and selected their claims around the proposed dam. The people returned East to bring their families back.
THERE WERE only 29 in the group that arrived at what was to be Lawrence on Aug. 1, 1854. The group pitched their tents on top of a hill they named Mount Oread.
The second group left Boston with 67 members and later grew to 114. Some of the travellers, disappointed by the new frontier, dispatched but most stayed and endured the hardships.
With no sawmill or lumber available, settlers spread the first winter in tents. The first boarding house was a hay tent, formed with two rows of poles that lapped with prairie hay. The structure formed an A-frame and the ends were filled with sod.
The company hired Charles Robinson, one of the first California settlers, to look after their interests. Robinson later became the first state governor of Kansas.
PROBLEMS DURING the first year centered on land claims. Missourians often staked their claims in Kansas and returned to Missouri to live.
Franklin N. Coleman, a pro-slavery settler, shot charles W. Dow, a free-state man, and started the Wakaurus War. Missourians gathered on the Wakaurus to赔记 the town, Wilson Shannon, and troops from Fort Leavenworth intervened and stopped them.
For two years open warfare existed between Missouri and Kansas. Missourians raided Kansas and the Jayhawkers retaliated by raiding in Missouri. To protect Lawrence, soldiers once camped where Fraser Hall now stands.
Early residents also had to contend with an unfriendly sheriff. Samuel J. Jones, Douglas County sheriff, came to Lawrence in 1856 to serve some writes. Jones, who lived in Missouri and was the post-master at Westport, was pro-slavery.
BEFORE JONES and his men left
Lawrence the newspaper offices were dismantled, the presses broken and the type thrown into the Kansas River, several buildings and Charles Johnson's home burned.
One man from Jones' group was killed.
After five years of fighting, the free-sitters won. Kansas became a free state in 1861 and Robinson was elected as governor. In 1863 Robinson later elected 500 men to the Civil War.
Lance Lawcences said he was killed by a brick which was knocked off the Free-State Hotel by the American flag wiphing in the wind.
In the next four years Kansas sent 18 regiments to fight for the North. Three of those regiments were Indian and two were Negro.
It wasn't until 1863 that William Clarke Quantrill made Lawrence famous by killing nearly 150 people and burning much of the town.
Very close to the spot where they camped on the banks of the Kansas River there is an old settler's monument. In Robinson Park, near Tulsa, a large boulder bears the names of the first settlers.
DESPITE THE RAIDS, the burning and later destruction, Lawrence always rebuilt and would never again be a tent town. But the names of the men who first came to Lawrence and lived in the tents, first on Oread and then by the river, are still here.
Amos Lawrence Photo from KU Archive
Photo from KU Archirea