The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-08
BUTTE'S TOWN TOPICS.
Efficient Detective Service One OF
the Towns Noeds-Taik About
the Union Formed BY
the Women.

For the Sunday standard.
BUTTE. June ~ missed making my
fortune the past two weeks" said q we'll
known Butte man last night. eyes, sir,
and what makes IL worse, ! had the for
tune all planned. and II l bad only car
ried IL on according to my original
scheme IL would have been all right. Ny
plan was TO buy . lot in the avine ON
East Park street, where the water iiows
down from the st. Lawrence mine. I
meant 70 constructs series OF eight-foot
that 10 coming down the hill daily in q
torrent. I would have placed In the
boxes all the filings and leavinRs
l could get from the foOndries. I
would let the water fow through
these boxes. When the water was all ont
ETC., and 4 would be copper-valuabse
copper. Yes, sir, my fortune wss in that
scheme and the onlysthing 10 prevent was
that ! couldn't get the money just then 20
buy the lot. ] could have bought o lot on
either side OF 3 ravine ort500 and would
in the ravine. The chance TO make my
fortune is gone forever"
A commercial traveller who was In Butte
this week has made q hobby of meteorol-
ogy. He has studied the science for years
and he said the other day: "You are
likely to have a good deal of rain on this
side OF the mi this summer. The rain
here depends on the Pacific coast, and
the quantity Of snow and rain west of
here the past few months is a pretty good
indication that there will be more rain i'm
this locality than there has been for
two or three years. The amount of
snow that fell between Silver Bow
n Salt Lake the past winter was almost
unprecedented. That means well for
rain this summer. Helena is not 80 apt to
be favored. In fact, The east and west
sides depend on entirely different sources
trict which IL fed from Hudson Bay,
while Butte Is in b Pacific region.
There may be n cool deal of rain in Butte
and very little in Helena at The same
time.n
The formation of a womans' protective
union, ut first thought, struck almost
everybody OIL the funny bone. The idea
OF a union of servant girls, chambermaids
and dressmakers was so unique and COM
ical that the new union has been the sub
iect Of endless jokes. Still everybody who
CONSIDERS the matter seriously for a
moment will from the bottom of his heart
wish the new union "God speed" II is
an effort to uphold respectable female
labor in Butte; to lessen the monetary
differences in this city between a life Of
honor and a life of shame. The
girls who act as mattresses at the dozen
or fifteen beer halls i'm Butte earn no
week less than $40 or $50. They are paid
a regular salary of from $l2 to $40, and i'm
addition are allowed q percentage on
their sales, the percentage often amount
the temptation of a large salary and easy
work, il 10 not surprising that SO many
servant girls INT Mattresses i'm Butte for
sake the life of responsibility and jump at
the big wages offered I'm q position which
is sure TO end in shame. There are girls
selling beer at the Comique whose friends
In the east believe them TO be earning
wages in honest livelihood i'm this city.
The girls are all urged by the much
greater wages. and foolishly imagine they
can work in a bee hall and still maintain
heir responsibility.
The new union is a step toward making
IL possible for a woman i'm Butte TO earn
fair wag in n respectable occupation.
The union provides that its members
shall not work for less than 81 per day or
ri per week. The Comique girls make
four or five times that sum-. The differ
enc of S1s or so per week the member of
the union pays for maintaining respecta.
bility. If the union has slightly raised
make no obiections. they will wiiliuoIv
nav sometime TO helm Butte girls remain
respectable. OF all the unions organized
riment OF none has there been such
urgent need. and none will he watched
with greater Interest or moro feryent
wishes for its s,,ccess.
In the worst parts of East Galena street
90. 49, -, uns 80" ."
nave oeen see" PASSING 'ro"i LOOT 70
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