The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-18
THIS is ASTONISHING"
That's What Professor Hinchsll EX-
claimed When BE Saw Butte.
A Party of Eastern People Who Are
Gazing Upon h Wonderful
Sights OF the Greatest
Camp on Earth.
BY the Standards Special Wire.

BY the STANDARD 3 Speclai wire.
BUTTE, July 17.-An excursion OF 20
people. including some OF the foremost
editors in the country, reached the city at
5 o'clock this afternoon yn the Montana
Central. The party il styled the Rocky
Mountain club and was made M In St.
Paul, where its members were gathered
by the National Educational convention.
Nearly all Of the members are teachers,
most celebrated of whom is h eminent
~geologist, DIR. Alexander winchell, Of
Ann Arbor university.
The officers OF the club are Frank A.
Rush of Detroit. president: Paris
Gibson, Great Falls, Mont. vice.
president; William A. McAndrew,
Chicago, secretary and treasurer; conn
mittee on western excursions. Irwin
Shepard, principal state normal school,
Winona, MINI.
The excursion remained in Helena last
night and came over to Butte to-day, the
train drawing up at the Montana Central
railroad depot at 5 o'clock. Most of the
party remained at the cars for supper,
! while Professor Winchell, with about %,
vent to the McDermott hotel.
After supper the excursion spread itself
generally over the town. Dignified col
lege professors, pretty schoolmarms n
lively college boys alike went i'm for n full
| enjoyment of Butte's wonders. Two cable
cars were filled with n part OF the excur-
sionists who were conveyed up the hill to
Walkerville. Arrived there, there was
not much of anything to do but To come
back again, but the party left the cars and
strolled back at leisure over he hills.
A party of about 10 caught sight of
Butte's big butte and were seized with a
desire to climb TO its summit. They started
but most of them fell by the wayside or
got lost i'm the intricacies Of Missoula
4 nIleh An hour lnfar hnWnvar the farms
of half q dozen could be dimly seen stand
ing ON top of the butte. Some of them
were ladies, and the feat proclaimed the
partys' enterprise.
Meanwhile DIR. Winchell fingered on the
summit between Centerville n Walker
vile. The doctor had his geolog-
ical hammer with him and pro-
ceeded 10 break off several pounds of
Centerville rock and stow them away in
his pockets. The geologist showed much
interest in the formation OF Butte.
Proceeding dow the hill into the city,
the party passed the Main street stores
and DIR. Winchell repeatedly expressed
his surprise.
'.This is astonishing. perfectly astonish-
ing" said the professor. ~ had pic
tured to myself a vast, rude mining camp.
l had no conception of anything like this.
Why, this far surpasses in interest any
thing we have yet seen. The place is
marvellous. The most striking is hat the
wealth is right here i'm plain sight from
the city. IL does not depend for its re-
sources on he country around. i had ex-
pccted to see rude cabins, with nothing
whatever of city life. But looking in the
stores and at the works OF enterprise on
every hand, / can see that when the Am
erican emigrates,, he always takes civil
ization with him."
The doctor and his friends stopped for
a few minute Mt the Silver Bow club, met
a few friends of the club, and the cabine,
of Inineral specimens was examined with
interest. Subsequently as a matter OF
curious interest a brief tour was taken of
some of the gambling places, Chinatown
and the bad lands. The ladies of the
party evinced a strong desire to see Butte
by gas light, but Il. II. Langley declined
70 have any but males i'm the party. The
lords of creation were then given n real.
istic view of life in a far western city,
while the ladies of h party were driven
to their sleeping cars.
Tomorrow the party will be shown the
Alice and Parrot mines and the Parrot
smelter. AT o'clock tomorrow after.
noon thet will proceed on their journey,
A few win go to the Yellowstone Park,
but the majority will go South and east.
ward through Colorado. On the trip ia.
party is gathering information regarding
the points of interest, and the history oi
the excursion with illustrations will be
published, Mrs. c. A. Miner, Miss Alic,
NJ. Heath and Miss Mary Clark having
that work In charge.