The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-03-05
SEDALIA'S NEEDS.
From q Business Standpoint
Good Streets and Good
Houses.

Editor BAzoo-First. we need
good streets, second We need good
tenant houses. The writer of this
simply echoes the sentiment of large
majority OF the new corners in our
midst, and fully realizes that previous
to this time there were good ami sutti-
Client reasons for not DuliInG good
tenant houses, whereas, to-day hity
firsl-ciass houses of this kind couia
fini tenaays Ii Sedaiia desnes to
grow, one of the very first things that
property owners should do, Is 10 90 TO
work and improve what Ih-y have,
and then build L c:ass of z .Od houses
with modern improvements, so that
sc can present that which goes 80 far
toward building up our city AMI max
ing what 1t should be-a place where
men ami women would be enabled to
reap the benefit they are eaiiiied to.
No house should be built to-day
that does not provide for comfort and
cleanliness in shape of both rUOms ami
similar cOnveniences. This alone
would help our city's grow III wondt =
fully. In regard TO slreet-: Gro, d
streets are great saving rn any COM
muniIY and nothing a ci-j Can do
adds more % her prosperity or ad-
vanlsges than this Que thing. To
strangers in search Of new homes and
points ia which TO establish u 6u- ness.
nothing presents u more inviting op-
pearance Unen well paved streets. n
city that wishes 20 advance, must
place itself il identicaily the slime
position us a life Insurance company.
IL must secure new members to keep
it up. Tue Old members die and new
ones must take their pieces. 80, 1t Is
with a city. Make our city inviting
make il so that we can prove &
strangers WHO are looking around fol-
:. location, Iaat we have something
more than mud and oid-time houses
to slow them. Do not seek alone g.
keep thuse who are compelled to dwell
with us, but reach out anC max ~
riiJrI 20 secure those wlO have lac
particular preference ana "ho will
come here To dwell because We csn
eve them that which the smaller
towns caDuOt atford or offer.
Ask any man to-day Iii Sedaiia Ii
he wouli have us 90 back TO gas and
oil lamps for lightiag our streets, aud
ms answer will be, certainly not.
And as it is in this, so it is with ali
modern Improvements. In few
months we viii be breaking or unG
| for a government building which viii
bring Oullters and masGns 10 Oul
midst, and we should see to It that
they are properly provided Tor. To-
isv .heIe is Lot a hotel or bOdrdIns
house in the city that is not packed t
It's fullest capacity, aud | venture tt
say that il would be almOs: impossible
to house fifty families or q convention
Of three or four hundred men withOu
calling or the citizens 10 open their
dwellings.
These are solid facts that Cannot b.
disputed. Sedalia must go forwart
and move in time to take care o.
those who enter her precincts; and re
member that golden opportunities do
not come often in our lives, and 1t il
only when they are taken at theil
flo d tide that they lead on to pros
perity.
Now let us set aside all narrow
prejudices and make good, square
fight for Sedalia aud never call a hal
until VIC have good streets, goOC
houses, electric lights all over the city
to shine ON such streets and houses
carry our sewer system all over th'
city, keep on improving our schools
and. in short make Sedalia what sh'
ought to be and will be if We do no
90 to sleep-the lest, largest and mos
energetic interior city in the State o
Missouri. d. M. L.