The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-09-12
From the Daily of Tuesday.
SOMETHING ROTTEN IN DEN
MARK.
The Tribulations Of Mr.. Wizards
invited Guests at the
Last Spike Core
monies.
A Hungry Crowd Stranded Upon
the Shoals of Northern
Pacific Hospitality.


Pacific Hospitality.
The people of Butte are not par
ticularly ELUSIVE, but their public
spirit and hossitslity to the stranger
within their gates is as comPrehen.
sive IS the broad domain within the
borders of our magnificent Territory,
and as free as the waters gurgling in
the rocky beds of our crystal noun
tain streams. Such an event as the
completion of the Northern Pacific
Railroad was we'll calculated to
arouse their public-spirited enthusi-
asm, as was the recent visit of its
President to our city an occasion to
call forth the hospitable welcome of
which President Willard was made
the recipient on that occasion, when
he and his party yer wined, dined,
feted and banqueted, and our promi-
nent citizens wed with each other in
making his visit q pleasant and prof
liable one. When the last spike was
to be driven, Butte, in enthusiastic
recognition of the Importance of the
event, sent a delegation of nearly
two hundred of her business men to
do honor to the occasion, and twenty
five gentlemen went as the invited
guests of President Willard. The
great majority, who did not enjoy
the honor of an Invitation,
furnished their own transportation
and Jared we'll enough, but those
who were regarded a. the favored
few learned at Independence Greek
that there was a marked difference
between a distinguished guest"
and merely an ''invited guest" The
lordlings and sprigs of nobility who
enjoyed the former distinction were
provided with special accommoda-
tions or the grand stand, and sever
al of the latter class, who naturally
supposed that the invited guest
would not he Disseminated against
in the disposal of courlesies on the
grounds, and who undertook to c-
cupy vacant seats on the grand
stand, were rudely thrust aside with
the informal on that the seats were
IT served for MI. Wizards guests; by
which was evidently meant the two
three hundred of European nobil-
who already decorated the grand
stand and to whom most Of the
speakers addressed their remarks,
turning their backs upon two or
three thousand free Americans who
patiently stood upon weary feet in
the back ground. These little pecu-
in the arrangement Of the |
cerem mics, however, might have
been owe looked, for an American
c3tizen can afford to laugh at snob-
berry, but a hungry American is a
lighting American, aud when the
ceremonies we're concluded and the
distinguished guests'' repaired to
he sumptuous dining cars to enjoy
IN elaborate banquet, where choice
viands and rich pasty were washed
Town their distinguished tnroats
with the rarest vintage of their ma
i've lands, there "a a delegation of !
invited guests" who began to get
very hot in the collar and their choler
vas in no wise abated by the clinklng
# glasses and the sounds of revelry
within" as they impatiently s;rece
Jack and forth by the west bound
cars. But few of the delega-
ion had broken fast since eleven
'clOck in the forenoon and, as the
ceremonies did not close until 6 p. m.
heir anxiety to reach some place
where a square meal might be pre-
ured may be well understood and as
wore on until ten, eleven,
welve and n o'clock in the morn
ng, with the clinking of glasses still
'reaking the quiet of the midnight
ir, but no signs of the departure of
he train, the exasperati N of the
Iungry delegation may be better i'm
gined than described. Finally, it is
aid, when one or two Montana off,
ials had been surfeited with the rev.
lries of the banquet and signifed
heir readiness to depart, the train
ulled out at half past one o'clock
unday morning: It is scarcely credi-
lie that the east bound train with
To or three hundred passengers, on
ne verge of starvation, was held at
Independence Greek those seven or
lght mortal hours, in order to per-
lit one or two gentlemen to take part
l the banquet with the ''distin-
guests' who were bound {
est; but the circumstances were :
lch as to force such an impression
pom the minds Of intelligent gentle .
len of the Butte delegation. Shcnld |
lvestigation prove any Montana Off
al guilty Of this fragrant snobbery, {
is position before the Montana pub +:
c will not be All enviable one
The Deer Lodge and Butte passen-
ers were landed at the mouth of Lit
e Blackfoot at about 2 a. M, and
ut for the courtesy of Superin end
ut St. Clair, Of the U. & n. r. r.,
ould have passed the night kicking
,eir heels on the platform aud adj
firing the dreary prospect at that
lteresting station. Hon. Samuel
FORD was among the fortunate ones
10 left the grounds by team and
Lade connection with the Utah e. t
orthern train. Upon his arrival at
utte he t~elegraphed to Superintend- !;
1t St. Clair, advising him of the I'M
%predicament in which $
Butte delegation had been left, 4
I'd that gentlemanly official imme-
ately gave orders for the 1890 p m. 7
ain to he held at Little BIackfoot !,
It'll theyarrived from Independence q
reek. The train brought them to n
eer Lodge at 3 a. NJ, where they i
ere unable to secure lodgings, and :,
ere Obliged to wait until $50 a. m. :,
fore breakfast could be served, q
hen they broke their fast for the b
1t time since IL O'Clock the previous
The IL o'clock sunday ~
orning tarin brought them t. Butte :
ID it is safe to say that if they ever II
on another similar excursion they d
i'll be SO we'll provided against the a
wages of hunger that they will be f.
Of the hospitality of =
cir host.