The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-08-23
THE CITY OF SEDALIA.
A Fl0urishin0 Missouri Town
Which is Big with Hopes
Of the Future.


Correspondence Chicago Times
Setialia, Mo-, August lO-Among tn.
cities which suddenly grew into prosper
Gus existence, Setialia is probably the mos,
attractive and interesting city in centra,
or western Missouri. 1t is but little
known in the northwest outside of Mis-
souri,, Iowa and southern Illinois. The
city Is situated in the midst of q beautiful
prairie and farming country, in nearly the
center Of the state, about 1873 miles from
81. Louis and ninety-s;x. miles from Kan
>:ss City. 1t was laid out in 1850. and for
ten years grew but little. In 1870 it con
tanned scarcely 5000 souls. To-day ~.
dalia can make showing oil nearly Is
600 inhabitants.
About the first thing that attracts the
attention Of the newcomer is the peculiar
ncatnes> and neYnes> oi the place This
is due to the Tact that Its people are enter
prising, and, like the ScOtchman. beiiev.
that the streets Of Jerusalem were KEEP,
clean by every man 'keepin' his ain door
clean. Where there is evinced M dis
position TO do this the parties are promptly
served with notice To- clean up bv SAM
tary officers. Everything is done to rem
der the atmosphere of the place pure and
wholesome and, this being the case, to-
gether with the pure air and equatorial
breezes, there is no healthier place found
between Colorado and Long Branch and
certainly no more desirable place of resi-
dence.
Sedaiia is accessible by railroad from
five different points Of the compass. Their.
is ut present some talk of erecting a union
depot here. Jay Gould controls eyerv-
thing pertaining to railroad matters in tn.
city. Mr.. Gould visited Sesialia recently
and was driven through it's beautiful
streets, and no doubt was highly please.
with the appearance Of things. He Ger
rainly saw that it would b. to his profis
and advantage to control all lines entering
the city, and keep back all competition.
Some time ago the Sedalia people saw an
opportunity to make connection with the
Chicago 4 Alton road, by building line
to Marshall, about thirty-three miles due
north OF here. The line was SURVEYED anu
everything under way Jay Gould was
evidently informed of the fact, for moi
over week since he purchased the whole
thing, including the Warsaw road.
Right here it should be remarked thai
it would be to the Chicago railroad and
business mems interests to fight the Gould
monopoly and secure the full trade OF
these two western cities. BY extending lines
Of railroad to them, and competing with
tiOulds lines. IL seems to your CORES
pOndent that the course planned out by
the railroad king is to mOnOpolize, rs far
rs possible, the railroad interests of west
ern cities; then to go on with his southern
harbOr ut Galveston, Texas, which will BE-
the shipping point Of the great vest; and
lastly, to lend his aid in making Captain
Eads' ship railway a success, which will
cut of an immense amount OF
commerce and western trade from CHICAGO
and New York. The people OF Sedaiia
should look to their interests bv securing
with Chicago As speedily as
possible.
There is an immense amount of retail
and wholesale business transacted in Soda
liza 1t is q noticeable fact that the ma
jOrity-I might say two-thirds-of the
business men Of the city are young men,
They are young men of energy and busi-
ness talent, and many of them have estab-
lished large trade. On al sides you see
business houses in the process Of erection.
and noticeable feature Of the buildings is
that they are quite low. This is owing to
the fact that while lots are cheap the
owners prefer to build over area, and when
real estate goes up they will then 60 in for
,olidity.
Sedalia being the county seat of Pettis
county, there is small Jail here, but NO
.ourt house, for our citizens are awaiting
he day when this city shall become the
,apital Of Missouri, when it will build q
court house and capitol worthy Of the
name, and which VIII Be an honor to the
tate. The city deserves to have the cap
tal, and about the only thing which keeps
Sedalia from becoming the capital il its
water supply. At present the water works
Ire situated ON small creek, known a.
Flat creek, about three miles from town,
md from whence very little supply is OBJ
ained-so little that il often gives out.
must soon be done to improve
his, or it will prove q serious drawback
% the city's future prosperity. The city,
With its beautiful residences. its level,
vide and macadami1ed streets, and its sit
nation on a beautiful prairie decked with
ome of the richest and choicest farms in
he vest, in country filled with sulphur,
warm and mineral springs, is one Of the
,ealthiest and most charming cities of the
western world. In the day when it shall
'ecome the capital Of great state, when
I shall Outshine every rival, then il will
loudly have ven the title it 80 richly de-
erves-"The Queen City Of the Prairies."
Death of Mrs. Whelan.
Mrs. Catherine Whelan, wife Of Officer
Nike Whelan, died at the family residence
N Thirteenth street few minutes before
even o'clock this morning. One week ago
o-day she was taken with malarial fever.
md gradually grew worse until Tuesday,
vhen it was thought change for the bet
er was perceptible. 1t was Of short dura-
ion, however, for on yesterday the family
MUSICIAN gave her up, but she fingered
until this morning. and passed quietly