Show LIFE IN MONTANA The Comforts of a 1 First I Class Rai road Hotel THE BOSS CITY OF AMERICA Improvements in ButteDramatic Notes A Ride Through Deer Lodge Valley Etc BUTTE M T Nov 9th 1884 Editors Herald Expecting in a few days to bid goodbye good-bye to Montana and leave behind tin scenes and associations of the past yeai and a half I felt that i could nut do to in justice to myself without first revi iting this city Accordingly I took tIll evening train at Helena Wednesday and started on my journey On account of the U P schedule time what otherwise other-wise would be a pleasant and picturesque pictur-esque ride the distance from Helena tll Garrison junction is dreary and monotonous monot-onous But it is bliss to what follows A MODERN RAILROAD HOTEL The train arrives at Garrison at midnight mid-night andpassengers have to wait six hours fur the Utah Northern and the only thing they can do to escape the cold comfort of a fireless station ito i-to hire a fireless room in what the proprietor pro-prietor has the cheek to call a firstclabs hotel I presume he does so in thi wise The place must be classed as H hotel and being the only one the choice must be firat and so it is called a firs class hotel It there is a point on tin road at which the traveling public has to endure such insufferable and agoniz ing accommodations Fate favor mi never to find it After registering a gruff smileless clerk his phyiog nomical expression and contour showing signs of ancestral relationship according to the Darwin theory takes your dollar without the slightest compunction of the inner monitor then with a most economical piece of tallow candle ushers you into an apartment rude enough shock an aristocratic ancestor ances-tor of the race from which the great scientist maintained we descended des-cended In this partitioned space it would be a violation of the dictionary to call it a room when there is scarcely room sufficient to turnaround turn-around in itis a tin wa h dish three pints of water in a handleless pitcher the corner piece of a bar of common washing soap and a ragged unhemmed piece of toweling all elevated upon an upended dry goods box a broken mirror mir-ror hung askew and the illustrated side of a Police Gazette for a splasher constitute con-stitute the toilet paraphernalia for whoever of either sex has the misfortune to pass a night at this place As for the bed the least said of it the betterfor the bed j there was so little of it that nothing could hardly be remarked unless un-less in tact that it was very hard and not strikingly conspicuous for cleanliness cleanli-ness With good eyesight and by aid of the aforesaid economical glim diligent search would discover one tenpennj nail upon which to hang hat wraps and whatever else the occupant may wear not desirable to sleep in No blinds are up at the window but on the walls area are-a cartoon from Puck an opera bouffe lithograph and a picture of Barrett as Richelieu Apartments of this style and elegance I heard the clerk say were reserved especially for iadv guests When shown where I should sleep I believed him but pitied the ladies M > room lacked many of the embellishments embellish-ments just mentioned To cap the climax of the whole thing there is fre quentlya tumultuous noise from retiring time till 5 oclock in the morning at which hour guests are aroused to get ready for the outgoing U rL N train These are facts and it is useless for travelers to complain They must grin I and bear it The concern is n monopoly with which the rail way companies stand in at least in a neutral sense or else why dont they see to it that their patrons are decently entertained at such I a place I hope you will mark and mail a copy of this issue to the Garrison Hotel that the managers may know some one has publicly declared against the indignities inflicted upon those who are obliged to put up at it After confinement in such an establishment estab-lishment for six hours what a glad sound to hear all aboard and the shrill toot of the little narrow gauge engine The grey rays of day dawn breaking through the floating clouds seem never so welcome as after a night of discomfiture boon after the train enters the Deer Lodge Valley The sun rose majestically over the eastern hills now faded to eeper hues Here an artist would find less difficulty in selecting a spot to sketch than endeavoring en-deavoring to imitate the shadows and shades and colorings made by the changing seasons and the shining sun DEER LODGE VALLEY The Deer Lodge Valley is a beautiful and fertile region thousands of acres oft of-t being cultivated by the farmer and ranchman Through it runs the main fork of the Columbia River In a sag of the mountains to the southwest is the famous mining camp of Anaconda Though unable to see the town by the great hovering cloud of smoke the traveler can locale tEe scene of activity and estimate on a general principle what is being done in that region In less than an hour after the tra n makes its exit from the Deer Lodge valley Butte with its piles of unearthed un-earthed ore and rock its mammoth mills and hoisting works is dimly visible visi-ble through the rising fog of smoke which has enveloped it during the chilly hours of the night Compared with other towns in the Territory Butte is all life and business and according ac-cording to the genial Bob Grix who has just returned from the east is the BOSS cirr or AMERICA Mr Grix says that in a business point of view Butte is far ahead of any place hc visited while east more money is firms nave I less business q pent here Ju tocomplain in fact they dont for they are all doing a complain do of the thrift trade Evidences good ind prosperous time lire measured byr p p r in circulation he amount of money in It e wont um take an observer long t l discover Butte there is an amount cover that in rounds of it the going before now nearly here I was Since ncc d half ago but little has a year and a of buidmg but tb Seen in the way been done d bushjcss interests have been enlarged f and increased Stores and shops of all kinds are more numerous and all of them have the appearance of doing a lair business In the way of building the most important and noticeable is the NEW OPERA HOUSE When the building is finished it will hi one of the finest in Montana and will stand as a lasting proof of what fat 1 men have in a place like Butte The structure is of brick md will be tini he t with iron front Its general arrangement arrange-ment is of the most approved plans both in its eating capacity and for the productions of the art and profession for which it is being built DRAMATIC ITEMS The financial part of the dram tic business has ben from fair to good during dur-ing the past summer The attnt tion > have been of a much beter class than heretofore In this particular tin Montana public are imleb ed to th energy no perseverance of Wanagei Maguire who has arranged so that nothing no-thing will appear under his contract but New York attractions In a few days Maguire starts for New York to make arrangements for a tirstclas STOCK COMPANY to play his circuit during the winter win-ter when there are no foreign companies to show The choice of leading lady is to be Mrs F M Bate who is well known to the old time theatregoer in Salt Luhe or the charming artist Miss Lillian spencer 1 lie members of tin company will all come from the east with one exception and that i in the person of a popular and hand some Salt Laker Harry Taylor byname by-name It may be expected that Ma guires stock company will plav an engagement en-gagement at the Walker some time during dur-ing the present season MISS FANNIE PALMER During the last two months the accomplished ac-complished and popular journali t artist and dramatic reader Miss Fannie Palmer has been recreating in Montana Mon-tana Her visit was made for pleasure sketching and for the collecting of matter mat-ter for romance and newspaper articles She returns to New York greatiy recur per ited by the healthrestoring climate of Montana and charmed by its picturesque pictur-esque and grand scenery It is more than likely that during the coming year Miss Palmer will contribute to the current cur-rent literature a series of her fascinating sketches illustrated by her own pencil pertaining to what she saw and heard m the great Northwest A B T |