The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-03-18
HOT SPRINGS LETTER.
The Mayor Sent to Jail for Con
tempt Of Court-Great In
fux of Visitors.
Correspondence of the BazOo.


HoT SPRINGS, March Is.
Mr.. EDITOR The world renowned Hot
Spring is hot place. This morning we
had the mayor before the city register Tor
violating an ordinance OF the city. he
was tried, convicted and fined and then he
tried to whip the city attorney i'll the
presence of the court. The attorney got
the best of the fight and the register sent
the mayor to Jail for contempt OF court.
He now languishes in durance vile with
a sore head also. It's hard lot for the
mayor, but he is the last OF the gambling
fraternity by whom he was elected. The
citizens committee have run the whole
oulf over to Little Rock. Ii nearly de-
populated the city, most Of the early SET
tiers being required To leave, and II mas
nearly ruined business. Indeed very
large and flourishing branch OF business is
nearly stopped and many hard working
employees thrown out of labor, but II has
rather helped the hotels and bath
ing establishments. There never
was such au influx of visitors as now Ho-
| tells and boarding houses, and their number
| is legion, are Overrun, and fresh arrivals
| are sleeping on cots and stair-steps. They
come here from everywhere-from Maine
| to CalifC rnia-but young men largely pre-
dominate. Large, fine looking fellows,
without a care ON their minds Or trouble on
their conscieDces, drink meekiy oil hot
water and are par boiled once every day.
This patience is remarkable Tor youAg peo-
pie.
Occasionally we see an old man limping
with rheumatism or paralysis, and great
many ladies. The water and baths are
said TO be very fine for some diseases pecu-
liar To their sex.
The remarkable thing to me here is the
hotels. They are bull. four or five stories
high, one addition after another. until the
rear climbs way up the sides of the noun
tain and the front embraces half dozen
streets, and all "chuck" full Of people pay
ing from SIS to S25 a week, and all think
ing they are happy.
Nv hotel has a mansard roof in which
we sleep and We swing out two inch rope
every night, but it is about six stories to the
streets and about six balconies and p riches
intervene, and we sleep very securely, hav-
ing perfect faith in the rope. The princi-
pal business here is, of course, bathlng-l
mean outside of keeping hotels and board
ing houses. a few people employ them
selves in keeping saloons and few prac-
tice medicine but the population follow
bathing principally. They commence al
: o'clock a. In., and close promptly at .
io'c,ock. The keepers Of the bath houses
and the employees reap large profits, but II
is all at the expense of the ba,her. When
not engaged in bathing they eat and walk
and then eat again, and the eating time
never comes too often. The hot water and
the doing nothing creates grand appetite,
The first day our party arrived We
climbed the highest mountain. The view
WAS splendid, but one trip was entirely sat
isiying.
Quite delegation Of Sedalia people are
here. Col. Jaynes, J. II. Doyle, j. II. Me
Connell and son, Rev. A. W. Nesbet and
his father, from Galloway county, john
Montgomery, DIR. j. ). Rogers, Mrs. ParkeS
Nick Hail, and many others.
The weather is warm and pleasant, the
bright suIShiny days are maSlng the buds
Oyea out and the flowers bloom, but II
don't stir any farmers. There are more IN
this part of Arkansas, except those who
| haul In wood and sell specimens" cry stalls,
etc The people get tEeIr provisions o.
, every sort, except game, from Kansas City
Game is abundant and we found deer, tur-
| key, ducks, quail, woodcock and jacksnipe
Ii in the market. Fish are scarce. | can
only account for this by the price the
livery stables charge for a hack or q
trip to rivers This probably deters all
amateurs from fishing often. Still We gel
good fare a. tbs hotels. The guests would
not come if they were not we'll fed.
Altogether Hot Springs is a very pleas
ant place and II you should have stroke
of paralysis, I'd take pleasure in recon-
mending YOU to my doctor and my land
lord. NJ.
PRNT0N RRIEFS