The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1883-12-22
LIVINGSTON VISITORS.
Some Reference to the More Prominent II
the Thousands Who Have Visited Our
Town During the Year.

Town During the Year.
| During the year now drawing toward
its close thousands of strangers have WIS.,
tied Livingston, either in the course of
Journeys to the National Park or other
point Of attraction in this region, or es-
pecially for the purpose of seeing our
| town or ransacting business within Its
borders. Among these thousands have
been some of the most distinguished men
of this and other lands, and remembering
/ the glittering array it may be interesting
to our readers to have the names grouped
together the better to remember or pre-
serve them, for certainly the past season
in this regard alone has been remarkable
one for Livingston. In the course of the
daily publication of the ENTERPRISE, we
have endeaVored to note in its columns
the presence of all known visitors whose
! names were worthy of the record. and by
consulting our files we are enabled to
make up the list.
On the 9Th of June, G. Hilton Scribner,
formerly state secretary of New York,
his son, Gen. F. Jacobs, a congressman
from the same state, Messrs. Spaulding
and Sibley, also of New York, and Thos.
Ewell, a son of Gen. Ewell of Ohio, re-
turned from a trip to the Park and spent
several days in town. About the same
date party of Minnesota gentlemen
headed by DR.. Gates of Winona, returned
from the Park. These two parties were
the earliest tourists to the great pleasure
land, and Notwithstanding they had gone
into the Park as early as the first of June,
reported as enthusiastically as any that
followed them.
On the 10Th Of the same month, Sena-
tor John Sherman of Ohio, accompanied
by Major G. F. Carpenter, M. Hammond
and Henry c. Hedges. distinguished gen.
tlemcn of the same state, were here in the
course of trip over the Northern Pacific
from Duluth to Helena.
Livingston Stone and g. B. Williams,
Jr., of the U. S. Fish Commission, were
in town during about two weeks in the
latter part of June, and afterward visited
the Park
June 23rd, special car bearing party
of officials from president DOWN of the
St. Paul 81 Duluth railroad. with their
families and friends, stopped at Livings-
ton in the course of a western excursion,
and few days later, e. V. Smalley, his
torian, and F. Jay Haynes, photographer
of the Northern Pacific, were here on
their return from . trip across the CONT
pent, to collect material for the history of
the road, since published.
On the goth arrived Professor Comp
tons party ol tourists, consisting of about
ten ladies and gentlemen, mostly of New
York and Philadelphia.
On the first day of July Gen. w. T.
Sherman, then general of the United States
army. Judge Morrison Waite, the chief
justice of the supreme court, Gen. Terry,
and Colonels Forsythc, Tidball and Dodge,
stopped here on their way to the National
Park.
On the Fourth of July, Senator Ed
munds, president ofthe senate and .ex-officio
vice president of the United States, ac-
companied by his wife and daughter and
Lieut.. Arthur, of the navy, and Miss
Arthur, nephew and neice of the presi-
dent, arrived here on their way eastward.
The ladies of the party went on to St.
Paul while the gentlemen joined Gen.
Shcrman's party in a tour of the Park.
During the two weeks following there
were great number Of tourist arrivals,
but none Of especial note until the goth,
when A. j. Hatch, and G.. II. Chattcrton,
two of the directors of the Park Improve
ment company, arrived to arrange for the
opening of the Mammoth Hotel.
On the 23rd, among those in town were
Judge Eugene Carey, Carter Harrisons
unsuccessful opponent for the mayoralty
Of Chicago. George Crooke Of the same
city. Judge Eaton of St. Louis, and son,
Col. w. X. Sherman and son of Chicago.
NJ. w. Green, an Ohio railroad president,
VIM. Dashler, bank president of Colum-
bus, Gen. VIM. Cox Of the same city, and