The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-13
HELENA GETS IT ALL
Even Wharton's Pet Scheme Is Cred
tied to the Other Side. icS
HOW HE CARRIES BICYCLES
IL IL a Novel and Convenient Ar.
rangement. But the New York
"WorId" Looks at 1t Througha
Back Number Pamphlet.

Early last summer Manager Wharton Of
the Butte Street Railway company had q
photograph taken of one OF his trolley
cars showing a number OF bicycles sus-
pended by hooks from the sides of the
car 1t was a simple device of his own
for the accommodation OF picyc1lsts VINO
desired to take the car to the nat below
thas city. This device attracted a good deal
OF attention. The photograph. with a de-
scription, appeared in several of the street
railway magazines and lately was ac-
corded a place Of honor in the Scientific
American. la ~
Last sundays New York World. which
arrived yesterday reproduces the photo
praph with the heading above It: How
to Garry Bicycles on Trolley Car" In
its description, however, the World IN
stead OF crediting Butte with this moved
and effective device, credits II all 70
He ma, Mont. Butte has got rather used
to this sort of thing in years past. but
now that the capital fight Is over and
Helena is firmly and trrevocably estab-
aished as the permanent capital OF Mon
nana, 1t would seem as though Butte
might have little credit once in
while The natural supposition In that
the editors of the World in preparing the
article for publication, came to the con-
clusaon that IL must certainly be a mis-
take that such a device should be In ex-
lstence in Butte. Consulting the Helena
for the capital pamphlets. the various
pamphlets and advertisements sent out
by the Helena board of trade and the
geography which is used in the public
schools of Montana, they found that
Helena was the only city in Montana
that amounted to anything and that
Butte was only a suburb of Helena 1t
was reasonable to suppose that Butte
had no electric street car line, or IL 1t
had, 1t was merely a branch line from
Helena The geography used in the pub
lie schools of Montana declares that Hell
ena is the largest, wealthiest and most
important city of Montana. and the edi-
tors of the World of course. had no
reason to believe that the children in
Montama's public schools are taught
pack of lies. -
1t is understood that the Butte chamber
of CONNER ce will be got together next
Tuesday night and boycott the New York
World. Those people of Butte who voted
the capital to Helena are generous per
hans to a fault, but they cannot give
Helena everything, and the least Helena
| can do is to publish a disclaimer. giving
Butte credit for the cycle carrying cars.
Butte ought to have a little something.
| The supposition that the World gives
Helena this prominence in preferencest ITO
Butte, on account of the pending contest
| in congress between the two cities for
| a public building, is scarcely to be credit
ed 1t is rather to be supposed that
| Helena in consideration of past favors,
| will withdraw its candidacy and VIII
boost in every way possible for Butte.
| The Worlds article is as follows: ne
| "Wheelmen in large cities have often
| experienced the Inconvenience, of trana-
porting their bicycles from one part of
| the town to another when the inter-
| vening roadways are unfit to ride on.
| In New York, which is provided with
comparatively few good streets for bicy-
| cling purposes, this inconvenience has
been especially felt. Many wheelmen, in
/ preference to riding over rough pave
ments, will walk their machines for con-
| siderable distances, or consign them. to
the tender mercies of an expressmap, =,
I'm the picture you will observe at q
| glance how this difficulty is overcome in
Helena, Mont. Helena is somewhat fur
| Their west than New York. but In this re-
spect of providing for the convenience
and comforts of her wheelmen she seems
to be much more civilized. The car in
the Illustration is one of several of its
| kind on a trolly road which, II is need
less to say is we'll patronized. The plan
for carrying bicycles is very simple 4
number of hooks are arranged along
either side and on the roof From each
of these hooks a wheel may be suspended
Additional hooks, to be attached to the
front and rear platform ratings, are pro-
vided in the case of a rush.
THE party aboard the car is a section
of a bicycle club off for a spin. In order
ito reach the starting point on theiI
wheels they would have been obliged tc
ride over two miles of corrugated pave
ment. BY means of the car they have
been enabled to avoid this annoyance
and also to enjoy quite a jolly trolley
party.
"A scheme of this sort might be adopt.
ed I'm New York city with nroft