offices were pretty evenly divided between Union-Democrats and Republicans up to 1872.

For the first four years the register was simply the clerk of the council and up to about 1872 the mayor was also the police magistrate.

In 1865 the office of marshal and collector was one office, and the holder of it was appointed by the mayor with the concurrence of the council.

In 1867 the office of city treasurer was created.

In 1870 the office of city collector became separate from that of marshal.

In 1873 all the city offices became elective and the register became the police magistrate as well as the clerk of the council.

From the year 1872 up to the present time the city has been pretty evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, both in the city council and in the other city offices. During the past four or five years, or since the origin of the Greenback-Labor party, an occasional alderman has been elected on that ticket. Once in a while there has been a short-lived "Liberal" or "Independent" movement; and on one or two occasions the Prohibitionists, without ever nominating a ticket, have made convulsive efforts to elect some special candidate.

Every year the parties are becoming more evenly divided, and at the present time the voters are chiefly Republicans and Democrats.

One of the best means of understanding the general nature of a city government outside of the body of laws themselves, is the character of some of the special laws on specific subjects.

An ordinance on the books of the city forbids the opening of saloons on Sunday. When a man desires to get a license to run a saloon, among other things which he has to do is to have his petition to the county court signed by a majority of all the property holders, residents and those doing business in the said block.

Another important point regarding the nature of a city government, and one that shows at once the character of a town, the extent of its business, the means by which it raises its revenues, and the portion of revenue paid by certain classes, outside of the regular personal and real estate tax, are the laws concerning special licenses.

There can be no better means of giving the reader a clear idea of the whole subject of special license provisions than by the following digest of facts and figures. The statement below is from the city books and has been prepared with much care. It shows what branches of business pay a special license, how many there are of each, how much each pay,

and the sum total:

Amount of license..

MUNICIPAL STATISTICS-1881.

Total number of merchant's licenses issued...

Revenue from same per annum....

Revenue per annum from merchant's advalorem tax.....

Number of hotels....

Amount of licenses.

Number of livery stables...

Number licensed wagons, drays and carriages.

168

$ 1,814.20

$ 3,987.06

8

$ 369.00

7

$ 120.00

43

Revenue from shows and peddlers in 1881....

Total city revenue from merchants and special licenses

$ 120.00

10

$ 200.00

13

$ 73.00

$ 431.50

$11,732.76

$ 3,383.35

252.00

100.00

327.30

200.00

120.00

120.00

50.00

367.00

117.90

Butcher shops....
Wood and coal yards.
Pawnbrokers ...

Shows and exhibitions.

Peddlers and hawkers..

All the officers of the city are elected to hold office for one year. The Mayor nominates the candidates for the position of Water Commissioner, City Fire Engineer, City Weigher, members of the Board of Health, and members of the police force. These nominees must be confirmed by a majority of the votes of the board of aldermen.

The police force at present, consists of one detective, seven white officers and one colored officer, and they are under the command of the city marshal. The force for 1882 is as follows: Robt. J. Shy, Marshal; Alfred Smith, Special Officer and Detective; Philip Kelly, Joel A. Gossage Chas. Wentzelman, Matthew Meyers, Chas. Barnett, Jas. Gossage George Pfeiffer, and G. W. Hogan, colored.

The salaries of those who serve the city are as follows: Mayor, $500 per annum; Collector, $900; Recorder, $1,200; Marshal, $800; Water Commissioner, $300: Assessor, $300; Attorney, $600; Treasurer, $300; Alderman, $200; Policeman, $55 per month; City Engineer, $25.

The City Hall is a spacious building situated on the City Square, on the southwest corner of Second and Osage. The main building is of brick, two stories high, sixty-eight feet long, thirty-five feet wide; has lofty ceilings and large windows. It was erected in the year 1877, and cost about $15,000. This building contains the council rooms, the offices of city officers, the caliboose, the police headquarters, the steam fire engine room. In the rear of the main building is the market house. It is seventyfive feet long, thirty-five feet wide, and contains room for ten butcher's stalls.

THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.

The fire company contains ten men who are paid $150 per annum. The chief, $200. It is under command of chief, who has full control. The department has a fine steam fire engine, which cost about $7,000; a set of patent extension ladders which can be made to reach to the top of the highest house in the city, and a fine two-horse hose wagon and one thousand and five hundred feet of the best hose. The department has four horses, which cost $200 each. A driver is employed to care for the horses, and the engine is in charge of a competent engineer.

The Water Commissioner is appointed by the Mayor, with the concurrence of the city council. He collects the water rates and has a general supervision of the works under the direction of the committee on water works.

The Water Works Engineer is also nominated by the Mayor, and must be confirmed by the council. He has full charge of the machinery at the water works, and is under the supervision of the water works com'mittee.

EAST SEDALIA.

Perhaps there is no part of the city more deserving of special mention than East Sedalia. In it are situated the Missouri Pacific and K. & T. Railroad shops and car factories, the railroad hospital and freight depots, Brunkhorst's large saw mill and hard wood lumber yard, D. C. Paullin's lumber yard, and a number of stores and meat markets. It has two churches and two public schools, and about 3,000 inhabitants, mostly railroad men. It is situated on high and beautiful prairie land, and is one of the healthiest and most pleasant parts of the city.

Its growth first began in 1866, on the property of Parson E. T. Brown, of imperishable memory. Mr. Brown was assigned to Missouri by the association, and came to Sedalia in 1865, soon after the close of the war, for the purpose of building up and establishing the interests of the Baptist Church. Being a man of means, he purchased the forty acres upon which the main portion of East Sedalia now stands, making of it a farm. An earnest and philanthropic man by nature, and an active minister of twenty-five years' experience, he was not long in discovering that a most promising and much-neglected field for successful labor was to be found among the brave and hardy western railroad men, if some means could be found by which to collect and centralize them in some permanent location, and that Sedalia was a town likely to offer the most favorable point, for such a purpose, in the State. The idea, once conceived, with him became an immediate and pressing duty, and with all the earnest and unostentatious zeal which was the most striking characteristic of his nature, he entered upon its fulfillment. For this purpose he subdivided his property into lots, and induced railroad men to purchase by selling upon the most favorable terms, and advancing money in many instances to build them residences.

In this manner he consumed all his available means, over $15,000, before realizing one dollar, and found himself reduced to the same straits as the humblest of his patrons. However, the object had been attained, the location was established, and nothing remained to be done but the building of a church. But whence were the means to be obtained? Fortunately for Mr. Brown, he was possessed of a wife as noble, as generous, and as self-sacrificing as himself, who had effectively seconded his efforts. thus far, and who now displayed that superior tact in an emergency so peculiar to her sex. Though raised in ease and affluence, labor bore for her no horrors, and with womanly devotion she called to her aid its magic power. Opening her fine residence as a boarding house, she soon aided her husband in obtaining sufficient means to erect the Baptist Church, at a cost of about $3,000, and Mr. Brown assumed its pastorate in 1875, which he continued with wonderful success for three years, without any

compensation whatever.
not to be familiar to all.
but not until his dream had become an accomplished fact, he left to his
wife and son Bryson, the little that remained to be done, the settlement of
his estate and sales of the remaining property, which at present consists
of some forty lots, in various parts of the corporation, which their circum-
stances make them willing and anxious to dispose of.

His sudden death is a matter of too recent date
Stricken down in the midst of his usefulness,

During the present year the Union Depot of the various lines centering, and likely to center, in Sedalia will be built in East Sedalia. Also the large new machine and car shops of the Pacific combination.

CHAPTER VI.-PUBLIC ENTERPRISES.

The Gas Works-Water Works-Street Railway-Telephone Exchange-Sicher's Park— Opera House-City Cemetery-R. R. General Hospital-Library Association and Free Reading Room-Working Woman's Home-Wool Grower's Association.

THE GAS WORKS.

The Sedalia Gas Works is the most important enterprise in the city after the machine shops and the water works. In 1867 the people began to talk of the need of gas in Sedalia. After the usual amount of preliminary agitation, in the summer of 1868 the Missouri Gas Works Building Co., of St. Louis, was granted the right to construct and operate gas works in Sedalia for the period of thirty years.

The first works were erected on their present site, and were completed so that the city was first lighted by gas Jan. 23, 1868. The gas was made chiefly of kerosene for the first three years and a half.

In 1872 there was a general reorganization and a new board of directors chosen by the stockholders. By this time a large amount of the stock was controlled by Sedalia parties. John F. Antes was chosen President of the new board, and James C. Thompson, Secretary. It was determined to make gas out of coal. The necessary changes were made in the machinery and new stock issued to the amount of $28,000.

The works continued under the second management until about 1879. By this time the town had increased beyond their capacity.

In 1879 the works were sold to Louis C. Nelson, of St. Louis, and associates in Sedalia, who afterwards bought it. The Sedalia owners were J. C. Thompson and John Montgomery, Jr. The new management began an almost complete rebuilding of the works piece by piece. In 1880-81, a complete new set of retorts and a handsome fire proof building was erected, a new brick coal house, a new reservoir, a brick office, the yard was graded and a new brick and stone wall put around it. works are now an ornament to the city and fully up to all demands. In 1881-82 the new gasometer was completed.

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