The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-22

It's Approach TO Completion, its
Finish, Its Magnificent Views,
Etc.


Finish, Its MAGNIFICENT Views,
In the press OF other matters only q few.
comparatively, have kept p .rticular note of
the progress of the court house toward com.
pletion. Every one who b IS occasion 10
pass it gives It's beautiful Corinthian coll
umns and its graceful carving o glance OF
admiration. To the stranger We remark
psrenthically concerning its substantial
and beautiful features and we say sour"
court house with a certain Infection as If
we had right and title in il, and should
the stranger visitor say anything disparss-
ing, we would at once take up the cudgels,
but all this gives but
| FAINT COMPREHENSION
of What the building really is, although as
yet unfinished.
Entering from the east by o short flight
of low, broad, easy steps the wide entrance
is pas ed and the main corridor stretches
away in an unbrokeu line. This corridor
is about ten or twelve feet wide and Is
handsomely and substantially paved in
mos iics of black and white marble.
At either side OF this corridor are lofty
rooms suitable for Office purposes, msgni6-
Gently lighted with double plate glass win
dows, faced with mouldings and cornices
of yellow pine aud maple, in natural
grains and bordered with black walnut.
Sever Il of the largest of these rooms are
| foored with the mosaics with the exception
of the rallied in spaces where the desks, etc.
will stand, and are fitted up with marble
ned mantles and CRATES for early autumn
and spring use 10 addition to steam regis
tiers.
| To this connection it is we'll to say the
heaiing apparatus is particularly we'll
planned throughout the building and no
person whose duties may cali him Or her to
The court house will be compelled to go
home bearing as souvenir, either chill
or fir 81 bite.
There are several Substantial fire proof
vaults with huge iron doors on this floor also
which will be used for the most valusble
archives, ETC., and a number of convenient
little wash rooms costly fitted up with sta
tionary marble bowls and convenient water
cosrts.
On the second floor which is mounted by
a flight of corrugated iron steps and land
ing OF the same durable material, are the
IMMENSE COURT ROOMS
where no doubt many q criminal, in COM
ing years, will stand before the tribunal
of Justice and hear the dread sentence Of
| the law.
Opening out of this room are the Jury
rooms and as all are finished in yellow pine
and fitted with the same lofty windows,
heavy Castings and wholesome little CRATES
noticed below the stairs, the effect is very
| fine.
OF course after saunterIng through these
rooms and 81 tncing from the wide windows
to note how the familiar buildings and
streets appear, the ambitious visitor is de-
arious of going to the top OF the beautiful
rotunda which occupies the entire center of
she building and In graduated white circles
re .ches from the main floor up-up until
its great golden ball seems to pierce and
mirgle with the foam like clouds which
lazily swing below the tender blue of the
| sky.
The journey upwards, as Upward JOUR-
neys usually do, necessitates an am punt OF
climbing That, 10 the fat man or WON IN
particularly, means effort of the most posi-
tive degr. and when 1t last the spaces ara
reached where it is srdenily hoped "that
clock" with its moon-faced disls is TO Re
fitted, il takes considerable blowing before
being able to overcome the slight dizziness.
occasione1 by the exertion and the lofty
altitude combined.
THE MAGNIFICENT VIEW,
however. we'll repays the exertion and it
does not take many minutes to ascertain
that Sedalia, lying like q gem in Its frame
of emerald prairie, is "a besutifukto look
upon as any city In the laadS
10 the north there Is q .gradusl upland
rise that beyond the city as far as the eye
can reach, is covered with grsin and swing
ing ribbons and tassels of corn here and
there interspersed with pasture lands, gay
with the frinses OF golden rod and harmo-
NOUS with the modest blue of the corr
flower.
To the south the grand site for the future
capital presents itself. To the east are the
hedges and clamps of trees which are so
nearly sssimilsted that it is hard TO tell
where the one leaves off and the other be-
gins. To the west are the fair grounds and
beyond the rich farming lands and to the
south the prairie even, beautiful and
stretching away in pillows Of unbroken
beauty.
The city itself has remarkable growth
of shade trees, the streets being thickly set
In rows and all of these sre seen to good adj
vantage VIXEN looking directly down upon
them from The court house dome. They
are evenly placed too, and it is q comfort
ing thought while gazing down on their
outrageous growth, that where once was q
barren and desolste prairie, now wide.
streets, comfortable homes and the necessa-
ry protection from the hot SUN, given by
the trees, is the rule and Not the exception.
The view of the city and its immediate
country is not all that even the unsided eye
can distinguish from the high vantage
ground of the dome, either. The KNOBS"
from which the pretty village of Knobuostec
takes its name, are clearly defined aud il ia
said that, when the atmosphere is particu-
iarly transparent
THE MISSOURI RIVER,
al least forty miles away, is very easily dis
cerned. With the aid OF powerful field