The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-04-20
SEDALIA'S SUCCESS.
The Future of the Queen City
Never Looked Brighter
Than Now.
Return of the Committee Sent to
st. Louis to Interview
Col. HOXie.
Assurances Received That Soda.
liza is Appreciated and Will
Not be Forgotten.


day to 60 to st. Louis and have a
general talk with Col. Hoxie, vice
president of the Gould system, in ref
erence to Sedalia's future railroad
prospects, returned yesterday. All
of the members of the committee are
highly pleased with the result of their
visit, and loud in their praise of their
cordial reception at the hands of the
great railroad official.
In brief interview with one of the
members Of the committee yesterday
a BAzoo reporter was informed that
while nothing was said directly of
future improvements, yet the inter-
view was most satisfactory. Said he:
"Of course We did not request that the
entire general headquarters of the
Gould system should be removed to
Sedalia at once, nor did we make any
demands or requests, but presented, to
the best of our ability, the claims and
advantages of our city"
Col. Hoxie, as: he has on several
previous occasions expressed his
VERY KIND FEELINGS FOR sEDALIA,
intimating in very warm terms his
qualification at the conduct of this
city during the strike, and his warm
thanks for The ready and ample pro-
lection afforded railroad property
here. He evidently, and no doubt
very correctly, places great deal Of
Importance upon the spirit manifest
ed by the citizens of a locality in such
times as this, and seemed to desire
some guarantee or expression that
should he place a largely increased
force Of employees here, they and the
railroad property would have the
same generous protection thus far
accorded. Divining Col. Hoxie's
idea, even before it was fairly express
ed, Mayor Stevens and Major Gentry
fastened to inform him that the COM
mittee felt its ability as representative
citizens, to
GUARANTEE AMPLE PROTECTION
for every employe and for
every dollars worth of property
which the railroad company saw fit to
place in Sedalia. This assurance
seemed to be very gratifying to Col.
Hoxie, and the committee was assured
that Sedalia would not be forgotten,
as she had done more for the company
than any other town on the Gould
system, St. Louis and Kansas City
not excepted. He compared the
situation of affairs here with Parsons
and De Soto, and did not attempt to
conceal his impotence at the lawless
condition in which those cities per-
mitted themselves to be placed.
Col. H0xie talked very cheerfully
of the business prospects of the COM
pany, saying that they were never
brighter. Under the protection of the
military, freight is now being received
from East st. Louis all
right. Traffic is unimpeded the
entire length of the Pacific, and it was
estimated that at noon yesterday the
blockade of freight was lifted, every
car in transit to reach its destination,
and the road left open.
The committee was not little sur
prised to learn that the business of
the road, shown from the official re-
ports, for the first week IN April is
fully as good as for the corresponding
week last year.
As to the strike, Col. Hoxie thinks
it is virtually ended. He said that
an impression had gone abroad that
the company would refuse to take
back any of the strikers. This, he
said, is mistake. A large number of
the
STRIKERS WILL BE TAKEN BACK.
Many good men have been led into
this strike from ignorance, and from
undue influence exerted over them by |
INSCRIPTIONS leaders who have no
higher object than personal aggran-
dizement and cheap notoriety. Many
Of this class of strikers are valued and
faithful employees, having been in the
service of the company for years.
They have acquired little homes, and
the company has never for an instant
contemplated driving them away
from these by refusing to give them
employment. Yes, all of these will
be taken back, but they must be re-
as free men, not as the
blind tools of any man or set
If men. Those among the
strikers of the Martin Irons
:ype those who have been agitators
md leaders of mobs and guilty of
vert acts of violence and destruction,
viii not &c taken back on any terms.
Mr.. Daily, of the visiting commit
ee, with whom the reporter had the