St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-22


| to make a dog sick. Occasionally. dur
| ing the progress of TOPICAL song, u
blear-eyed dove will project her head
| and uncovered bust outside the window
| of the 'cage'' and yell to some person
| i'm the ''parquet" below to come up and
| Join her. If the recipient of this lnvi-
| .tatiOn be well known to the audience
an avalanche of good-natured Josh
| ing" will follow the man, should he re-
| Spond to the charms of the siren
from above. Everything is so refresh
ingly tremendously about the Comlque
| that the reckless abandon of the place
| often induces the tenderfoot to swell
| the bar receipts by way OF tribute
to the dabolical ingenuity of the pro-
| prietor. BY a strange consistency that
| quarter of the camp inhabited by the
courteSans is named Mercury street.
An adjoining thor0ughfare, also de-
voted to these fallen women, is called
Galena avenue. On both sides OF
long block on the latter street are one
| story brick shantieS whose front win
dowS are flush with the sidewalk, and
behind which the sirens shamelesSly
disport themselves or further attract
the attention of pedestrians by boldly
tapping on the window pane. Dante'S
description of hadeS is as nothing COM
gionS.
VICE IN ITS HORRID FORMS.
Opium joints, both Chinese and
white, flourish in Butte, and are fire.
quented by both sexes and all rationale
| ties; they differ but little from the dens
in large Eastern cities, which have been
so often described, except that the
former are a trife dirtier, perhaps, and
the patrons more degraded, if such
condition be possible. In Chinatown
the joss houses and gambling hells are
packed closely together. the latter be-
ing especially we'll patrOniZed. All
Cinnamon are arrant gamblers, their
favOrite game corresponding closely
to the English odd-and-even snap. A
long mat is stretched over trestle
board, at one end of which squatS the
croupier, who burles pile OF
Chinese coins under bowl. On his
right is the proprietor, who handles
the cash and rakes in the bets.
Unlike faro. the players don't buck
the bank. but merely bet against each
other, the house simply collecting COM
mission at the end of every deal. In
this way the proprietor has sure thing,
and runs no risk of any one "breaking
the bank"
One of the worst features of slum life
| in Butte is the employment of so many
young girls IN the hurdy-gurdy houses
| and saloons. These women, scarcely
out of their teens, earn their living by
receiving a commission of 20 cents on
| the dollar on all liquor sold through
| their influence. Hundreds of women
exist in just this way, some of whom
are not necessarily depraved. although
the majority are of easy viz
| tue. Here is double incentive
| to drink. The women whose daily bread
depends upon the daily amount of liquor
sold; the men who are tempted to Squall..
| der their cash by the artful wileS of
| these feminine Testers. And yet this is
| the nineteenth century. Vice in all its
various forms exists at Butte, and every
| device for Turing the gold from the
| pockets of the miners is practiced. Fe-
| male OrcheStras dispense music while
| walters dispense beer, and the entrance
fee of % cents is good for that amount
| at the bar; III this way no deadheads
| can occupy choice seats to the eXclu-
| sion of paying customers. Reading
rooms and temperance halls are
unknown IN Butte, where the
spend quiet evening without
cost to his pocket. 1t remains for some
| philanthropic copper king to found an
institution of this kind and dedicate it
| forever to the use of the miners. He
| who is first to make this innovation will
| be entitled to the thanks of his fellow
| men. and many an anxious mother back
| in her Eastern home will remember him
| in her prayers and rise up to call him
| blessed, for when this era sets in it
means the death blow to gambling and
drinking. and other kindred evils, and
the evolution of tough mining camp
into respectable. order-lOving, law
abiding city.
HELENA, QUEEN CITY OF MONTANA.
| Helena, the capital of the new state
of Montana. is handsomely built city
| of about $4,000 inhabitants. Its bank
| deposits show it to be the richest city of
its size in the United States. and the
wonderfully fine public buildings and
| the business blocks help to verify this
statement. Originally located as a
| placer guIch, it was named Last Chance,
and in the lower part OF the town the
piles of small stones washed clean OF all
| sand, together with old machinery long
since abandoned, mutually tell the
story of the mad rush for gold. After
the placer diggings mad been thoroughly
worked the ground was sold to Specu-
lator for 5000. This shrewed individual
hung OIL to his cheap real estate
and as the city expanded par
celled it out in lots until he
| cleaned up almost as much as did the
| former owners, who little Imagined
| they had left so much Surface" gold
behind. On the edge of the gulch, and
in some cases right beside tall brick
buildings may be seen several adobe
| shanties which several years ago were
dignified by the name of business
blocks. These paragraphs of the past
| VII Alvy TO nf no mil
growth of the queen city Of Montana.
TO the transient visitor the lack of de-
cent hoStelries is great annoyance.
Despite her progression in every other
| respect, Helena has not hotel worthy
the name, and in order to get a we'll
cooked meal served in Christian man
ner one must go three miles from town
to the magnificent Broadwater palace to
be accommodated. A motor line con-
| veyS one to the grounds. which at night
| are illumined by electric lights inclosed
in colored globes that lend a fairy
| like aspect to the place. An i'm
mense bath house, covering 200 by 800
| feet, stands twenty rods from the hotel,
the water supply of which is piped from
! hot spring mile above. The build
| ing is of Moorish architecture and of
| handsome proportions, the interior be-
ing finished in hard wood. The bath
house, ground and hotel are a monu-
ment to the enterprise and liberality of
Col. Broadwater, the millionaire pro-
| prietOr. The Montana club is one of
the institutions of Helena, and is an or
ganization of which any Eastern city
three times the size of Helena might
well be proud. Unlike the Silver Bow
| club at Butte, gambling in any form is
strictly prohibited. aud, what is more to
the purpose, the rule is rigidly OBJ
served. Several hundred of the
leading merchants, bankers and
young business men of the city are
on the membership list admission to the
club, imparting a certain social stand
ing to the applicant. The rooms are
handsomely furnished, the reading and
writing room being especially well
equipped. Next year the club expects
to occupy its own building, plans hav-
ing already been submitted for the con-
sideration and action of the members.
Helena is fast outgrowing the tough"