The Anaconda standard., 1895-03-25
ROUNDER HEARD FROM
The Eltqlsnt Clersymln is Seeing The
Signs Of NsW York.
He CALLS ON PARKHURST
He Is Also Initiated in a New Game
al the Y. M. c. A. Rooms
Hard Work Disposlng
of His Bonds. ~

.ls1
BUTTE, March "a The many thousand
who have heard the Rev. j. RouuJc
preach and have loved and admired hin
Tor ms rough honesty and sound orthodo,
teachings, will be pleased to read the fol
lowing letter from their beloved dominic
There had been some apprehension fo,
MS safety and there were some who. weak
IN the faith, feared that he might have
fallen by tho wayside and yielded to the
! numerous temptations that constantly
present themselves IN the licked East
ou,, happily, the only harm that has be-
iaIien hihl' according 10 private informa-
lol- Is that he has suffered an attack of
! Indigestion brought Oh by a too liberal
ieast OF shad, crabs and shrImps. ,.
ne dominic writes of his experience in
New York as follows:
10 me EtttOr ~ the STANDARD:
through the columns of your valuable
paper, 1 would like 10 say few worIs TO
the members OF my flock TO let them
Know that / am still alive in this land OF
the goldbugs. The "Rounders" which /
came east to sell do not seem to be re-
ceIVcd with very great favor on Wall
street. The only block of stock 1 have
as yet been able to dispose of was taken
by wan Thornton. ! think | will have TO
make a trip 10 Washington TO get Grover
oIeveland's endorsement on the stock. If
IL Will sell
New York is quite a city. but il il a little
DIT OUT OF the world. | haven't seen n sill
YER dollar since L have been in tho city.
Ihey give you dirty, nasty, ragged, DIS
ease breeding one and two dollar bills.
had the pleasure to-day for the first
time In my life, of meeting a genuine
'Montana blizzard" While in the Rock
les have often read eastern dispatches
ABOUT me iierce Montana blizzard which |
hau arrived IN the east and never having /
struck any such thing in Montana, [ felt |
much curiosity as to what it was like We |
are having II now. %
1 wish 10 say right here to any OF my
wen meaning friends back home that ( |
am not under any circumstances a can
llIate Tor the Office of mayor of Butte.
nave accepted position as manager of |
John l.. sullivan Tor next season instead.
II IS just as exciting and some safer .
nave not been invited as yet to occtpy
my OF the New York pulpits. | called on
~ farhhurst yesterday and offered to
'reach Tor hltn next Sunday. l told him
Who was. He hadn't even heard of me.
te seemed disposed, however, to let me
'ccupy his pulpit one heat. but first asked |
ne what denomination | belonged to- |
W hen told him didn't know he began
look frightened. | told him | was
raVehng about trying to raise funds TO
una church with a steeple on il, and /
Nplalned my "Roundern bonding scheme
ie appeared to he deeply interested, but
Xcuscd himself for a moment and went |
40 tue ADJOINING room. i heard hmm
'lephonlnG TO his friend, SuperintcndeTIt | I
'yrnes, that there was n lunatic at his |
ouse. lie believed hun harmless, but il
!ade him nervous and he wished Byrnes I
ouid come right up and take him away. ~ .
lucb as desired TO see Superintendent .
yrhes decided to leave before Byrnes
rrlvaG. N :
hnd all the clergymen here are Slow
embracing my scneme. They all want .
KNOW wnether my congregation is &
ithohc, Episcopalian, Methodist, Bap-
81 or Presbyterian, and when | tell them I
at don't know, that we have no creed
avn up as yet, but simply have con- Q
uIei TO worship God and do as much J q
ou as we can III our own way, they look a
'on me as insane and think my congre-1 a
tlon must be composed of Iunatics. -
)ne OF them seem disposed to helm that D
nd OF church. They don't want 10 b
Up us along unless their own private de. a
trademark is stamped OF &
r church. y
Nevertheless, if one Is TO Judge by tho D
lght OF the church steeples. New York .
a mighty good city. If the Christianity "A
as much better than ours as the steenles
higher than tho Rounder tabernacle.
are not IN II with them. / have how
er, become convinced that there are q
ne people in New York city who naed =
ormlng.
inc of the favorite amusements i'm this
Vn is TO stand at the corner of Broad q
and 23rd streets about IL d. m. and n
tch the chips that pass in the night.
was introduced to a new game yester- 2
:. i had just come out of DIR. Park
rst s and my ministerial aspect appar- .
ly attracted two men who we're staud- q
near by. One of them seemed to know a
but couldn't recollect my name, III =
him who was and we had a very
lsant talk together. They told me q
no things | never heard of before. q
ey were deeply interested in my scheme a
building a church in Butte and prom =
10 pray Tor my success every night.
; OF them suggested that we 20 TO Tho .
VI. I. "A. rooms. which we did, ALTHOUGH .
dn't sec any y. NJ. {. \. sign on the -
r There We found new game. Yoa a
Bibles AT n mark on table and fha
who gets the Bible nearest the mark
$ the Bible. OF course il costs some
e TO 60 IN. They told me that tho Y. q
A. of New York had inaururated a
philanthropy in order to stock poor
rchcs with Bibles. In case churches
led money rather than Bibles the as
alton OF which they seemed to be ron q
natives would put up cash on tho a
e instead of Bibles. ! offered TO 90 =