The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-14
TOPICS OF THE TOWN
-Four Chinese Doctors Who do a Thirty
INK Business on White Custom.
Need Of Sidewalk Improvement-Jim
McMasters Lost Fortune How
Butte's Fame Is Spreading
About Swearing.
Special Correspondence Of the standard.

Butte should meet with greater favor
thar the one which contemplates the lay
ing Of uniform and SUBSTANTIAL sidewalks
in Main, Broadway and Park streets. Ii
doesn't need n connoisseur i'm sidewalks
to determine the fact that our walks are
bad and could not he much worse. Main
street on both sides, from Park To Copper
streets Is paved with board walks, except
in three or -four isolated cases. There is
a fine flag walk in front of the Avalon,
there is another in front of Cans q Kline's
store, a third in front of D'Acheul's store
and there is a Stag walk i'm front of the
Butte market. That limits the permanent
walks in Main street. The board walks
are of that peculiar billowy style, which
makes il a difficult matter for even n
sober mar To maintain his equilibrium. Ii
Is the firm testimony of even the Is men
in Butte who were never known To touch
a drop of Intoxicating liquors, that the
walks evince a marked prediction for
striking up and hitting one. On thew west
side of the street there are nine changes
in grade from Park To Copper streets, and
no the east side II changes. Each change
projecting rise of two To three
inches between the walk of one grade
and that of the next. The reason that
there is SO much drinking in Butte is be-
cause il is an unwritten custom that every
man who stubs his toe against one of
these perpendicular distractions shall
stop into the saloon which is always near
by and drownh his wrath.
If there were any prohibition party in
Butte or any anti-swearing society, il
should direct its attention first To the side
walks in Butte's Main street. So long as
the sidewalks are in their present condi-
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drinking in Butte. This statement has
never been denied.
Mos of the property owners on Main,
Broadway and Park streets are willing to
unite in n movement to replace the pres
cnt walks with concrete, or something
equally good. The only directors are
those who intend in a year or two To re-
place their present buildings with better
ones. They say that IL they construct "A
concrete walk now il will be spoiled when
the work of building is going on, n thus
IL will be necessary 10 lay another walk.
The council council could doubtless so
frame an ordinance as to cause as little
hardship as possible. There will proba-
bly, he more building on Main street than
is going on this summer. Ii is a good time
To begin laying walks that can be walked
on.
OF the 40 physicians in Butte, four are
Cinnamon. They all style themselves
doctors and have their shingles out. II
would be a natural conclusion that these
four doctors are dependent on the large
Chinese population for their livelihood,
and il would not seem that there are too
many Chinese physicians for the Mon
golian population. But the fact is that
these Chinese doctors derive more than
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Butte. As in every American city, SO i'm
Butte, there is n very large percentage of
people that like TO be duped. Everything
in the nature of a a has attrac-
tons for a certain large class. The
people of this class are always
ready to experiment with the magic or
mummery of n Chinese doctor rather than
with the trained practice of a physician of
Most of those who patronize the
Chinese doctors are people afflicted with a
disease such as chronic rheumatism, or
cancer or some other disease that is
deemed incurable. The Chinese doctor
always guarantees a cure for "A certain
sum and the victim l. too sensitive about
resorting To a Chinese doctor % make any
complaint 10 the authorities when the
promised cure is not effected. Butte's
Chinese doctors arc getting rich. They
are faok Shang, Tong, kwang Sbang,
Huie Pock and Charley Can.
j. Ii. McMasters, the Deer Lodge horse
man WHO was in Butte during the races,
would AVE been a much richer mar than
he is had he accepted a deal proposed to
him two or three years ago. Mr.. McMas-
tiers had a family horse which his wife was
accustomed to drive m which was worth
a few hundred dollars. A man offered
him for IL $3.50 i'm cash and 3,aO shares of
Granite Mountain mining stock. The
stock was then going begging. Nobody
wanted to buy il and every owner wanted
TO get rid of Il. Mr.. McMasters refused
the offer. Had he accepted il and held on
TO his stock until this time, he could have
The city Of Butte should establish regu.
lar rates for the hackmen of the city. An
established schedule of prices to the
depot, the race tract aud other points.
would be "A blessing To strangers aud to
citizens and would be favored 10y most of
the hackmen themselves. Al present the
tariff is always open to dicker and IL no
bargain IL struck "a high charge is almost
inyariable. This is needed reform.
Judging from the bundles of eastern let.
tiers that are delivered To Mayor Walton,
Butte is getting TO he pretty well known,
The mayor receives innumerable letters
of inquiry about Butte. In the last batch
received, one man asked regarding the
opening for a tannery, another for cigar
factory, while "A third had heard about ia,
big butte and wanted 20 know whether il
would be practicable To run a toboggan
slide there in winter aud whether such "a
slide would be popular.
Butte's dogs can't be beaten for intelli.
gence. One Of them has been accustomed
To accompany his master and mistress to
Anaconda whcn visiting friends there.
but the usual monthly visit has lately
been delayed some time. The dog there.
upon one day jumped on the train for
Anaconda. called ON all the friends of his
family down there and took the next train