The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-03-03
H WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
THE GRUB AT HELENA.
d MARCH 8. 1898.

Many and peculiar nave been the com
plants made against Helena from time
to time, but the latest one by the gos
siper of the Anaconda Standard takes
the whole biscuit factory, ~metaphorical
speaking.
This veracious scribe says in all SER
iousness that at the beginning of the
legislative session the restaurants and
other public eating places at the tempo
rary capital fed their guests on the fat
of the land, and in other respects treated
them like lords. But a change has come
over the spirit of the caterers dreams.
AS the session wanes, and he sees no GUS
toners coming forward to take the
places Of the great army of sages who
have been making laws for 10, these
sixty days, he begins to curtail the sup
ply of Montana beef to the square foot Of
hash. and serves his potatoes with their
jackets IN.
Note how this heretical Anaconda
pessimist puts it: The people of
Helena are very open and doubtless very
sincere in their professions OF regret at
the approaching departure Of several
hundred guests. There seems also to be
one final grand effort to make all the
money possible out of the visitors while
here. There is a very marked d%eteriora-
ton in the quality of the food furnished
at the restaurants. Earlier in the SEES
sion. and in fact until d week or two ago,
it was possible occasionally to get a good
meal in Helena. This is no longer posi-
bic. You can call for the same dishes
and you can pay the same prices, but
the food is not SO carefully prepared or
of so good quality"
This Is a scorcher for the Queen City
of the Rockies aud whether there be
any truth in this strange charge or not
it is evident that there was something
the matter with either the food or drink
given to this scribe. 1t would be inter
esting 70 speculate on this point, but
this is not the time Of speculation. Facts
are what we need in this case. Are the
facts at hand to prove the scribe's alloga-
ton: Here. so to speak, is food for
though. though it seems the scribe
finds none to eat. Two distinct charges
seem 10 be made against the purveyors
of the capital. The first is that they are
trying TO make money out of the wise
men assembled there: and the second,
that they are cutting down the "rations
Of these brainy men.
ON this last count there is no question
that an action would lie for cruelty to
animals. The brain of the great legisla-
tor Of this commonwealth is entitled to
all the stimulus of a first rate larder.
The bushes should be beaten, the ranges |
ransacked, the domestic and exotic mar |
kets explored, to supply these public
benefactors with the choicest in the land, |
and if Helena has failed in this, her I
crime is tco great for any punishment
now known to the statute books.
As to the money part of the business,
point. Coder probably ran away with
he money that Mr.. Blank forced upon
him, without paying for his board. Coder
being, from all accounts, a good deal Of a I
hog, this loss would fall heavily on the t
caterers. and they might reasonably try to
make It up by stinting their other board
ers during the closing days Of the session. t
We would advise the speaker to adj Y
dress the house for an hour or 80 on the fl
possible effects Of the present meager a
diet at the capital ca the cholera plague l
Of the approaching warm season. :