The Anaconda standard., 1895-12-16
In A MOVING PALACE
The Butte Eleven Will Travel Along
the Coast in Style.
ONE OF THE FINEST OF CARS
This Morning the Roys VIII Start
for California The "Minne-
waska" VIII Be Their Home
GOSSIP of the Games.


The special hotel car Minnewaska or
the Northern Pacific. which will be the
home OF the Butte football team for
the next three or four weeks. Is more
than a palace on wheels; 1t Is home
ON wheels, and a wonderfully comfor-
table one at that. The car came In on
Saturday night and was visited yes
terday by a great many friends OF the
team. who desired to see what their
accommodations would be on their trip.
The Minnewaska was built expressly
for the use of parties of excursionists
who could afford to pay for all of the
iuxuries that can be secured In railroad
travel. and in it's construction more at
tention was paid to the comfort and
convenience of its prospective occu-
pants than to the item of expense. IL
Is perfect in every detail and no foot
ball team In the world has ever trav-
eled more luxuriously than the smoke
eaters will on their trip along the
coast.
THE car is well named q hotel car.
for II contains about all Of the conve.
niences of the modern hotel. IL Is oo
feet long and Is divided into three
compartments, kitchen, sleeping apart
ment and observation room. Tue
kitchen is in the front end and Is
marvel of neatness, cleanliness ana
compactness. Not an inch of space is
wasted, and yet there Is no crowding'
even with more than 20 people to pro
vide for. Next to the kitchen are the
berths for the cook and porter ana the
toilet rooms, and back of them are the
pullman berths. There are IL double
berths, affording accommodations ior
IS men without crowding.
In the rear is the observation room,
which is Is feet long, and from wnicn
a grand view can be obtained, as IL
will always be at the rear OF the tram.
The room is filled with big leatner
chairs and easy chairs OF all descrip-
tions. and II also contains writing
desk and table, and a comfortable
lounge. which opens out into lower
berth at night. An upper berth OF un-
usual width drops down from above II,
and a section that will accommodate
four people is complete; There ,, VIII pe
% in the party, including the supsu-
tutes and newspaper correspondents,
and they can all be nicely taken care
Of
The car is furnished handsomely.
both inside and out, and there are none
of its interior arrangements that coulo
be improved upon. All of the members
of the party who will call ii home for
the next three weeks or more are PROUD
of IL. and they feel a sense of gratitude
for the Northern Pacific and its local
agents who secured the car for them.
The team viii leave at $3.50 TINS
morning and will go straight through
TO San Francisco, arriving there Thurs
day forenoon. The car will be left al
Oakland, and the players will sleep IN
IL every night Their present Intention
is to have breakfast and dinner In the
car, getting their lunches in San fran,
cisco. The Olympic Athletic club VIII
An ~
Francisco.
The San Francisco Chronicle has the
following interesting football gossip
about Stanford and Berkeley, in which
IL is explained why the latter does mol
beat the former:
students at the University of Cali
fornia are wondering why IL was thar
the blue and gold did not wave tri-
umphantiy over the cardinal in the
football game held at Central park ias'
Thanksgiving day. Every one at Berke-
lev was quite confident that his favor
lite would win, and went to the game
with a stout heart But, somehow
Camps interference was too much foi
the kickers across the bay, and they
had TO content themselves with a tie
and a very hard-earned one at that
Many have -speculated on the causes
that made the result what IL was. some
alleging that a wet day favored tht
Stanford men and others that one oi
Berkeley's best half-backs was un'
Justly ruled off the field, but when the
question was put to Professor Edward
Bull Clapp, who is very deeply inter
ested in all athletic sport, especially
football, he assigned quite different
reasons. The enthusiasm of Professor
Clapp lent much to the result OF the
game as IL was, and he felt quite cut VI
to think that the university men wert
not victors.
.when asked the question. why
doesn't California beat StanfordT he
had this this to say:
"'Now that the football season is
over, and we have finished congratu-
lating our players on the magnificent
pluck with which they played a long
uphill game. and avoided what seem
ed an Inevitable defeat by a splendid
rally at the end, IL does seem a good
time TO sum up the lessons of the
season. BY a prodigious effort we
pulled ourselves out of the hole. The
next question is. How did we get into
the hole?
There are about 1000 students a
Palo Alto. of whom perhaps 675 art
men. The University of California hai
at present about 1000 students. o
whom at least 1850 belong to the foot
ball sex. Man for man. our studenti
are certainly as muscular and feet q
foot as our rivals. as Is shown by GU
annual contests In general athletics
Why should not 1900 defeat SIS? To b
sure. Stanford has dormitories an,
Stanford has Walter Camp: but Penn
sylvania has neither and yet she ha
attained in five years a football posi-
ton second only to that {
Yale and perhaps Princeton. He
Yale coach. Woodruff. is in no way til
superior of McClung or Gill or Butter
worth. We have had this yea
the best coach in America, e>
cept Camp; man VINO coul
inspire enthusiasm as perhaps n
other living player could do. The fs ul
must lie I'm ourselves, II anywhere.
is idle 10 talk OF luck. There are fiuke
enough I'm any football game TO civ
victory to the IL that is able enoug
10 take advantage of them. And Q
for injured or disqualified players.