The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-26
READY FOR BINDING
The City Directory Will Be Completed
by April 10.
1T CONTAINS 6,o13 NAMES
Besides These There Is Informal
tion of Every Kind Found i'm a
First-CIass Book of the Kind
MANY Single Men.

The city directory pages have all been
printed and by Monday II will be placed
in the hands of the binders, who expect
TO have the book ready for delivery on or
about April 10.
An actual count of the names contained
in the directory shows the total to be
e.9l3. exclusive of the names of firms and
corporations. By using the multiple which
is used in Butte by r. l.. Polk & Co. in
estimating population this will give to
Anaconda and vicinity a population of Is
5d l.. ]. Pierce. who mas gathered the
material for the book, thinks that even
this low multiple is too large for city
which contains so many single men, and
he has adopted a multiple of ia, which
is the lowest used in any city in the
United States where a directory is issued,
and thus estimates the population to be
1907. which is certainly very conserva-
tive.
From the result of his Investigations
about the city in looking up citizens he
has reached the conclusion that there are
nearly $500 bachelors and widowers I'm
Anaconda, men who are living in board
ing houses or cabins. He estimates on the
other hand, that there are about 1900
women unmarried who are eligible to be-
come partners in matrimonial establish
ments.
MT. IleTce mas Deen engaged IN cOmpl-
ing directories for more than nine years
and his opinions may therefore be taken
as those of an expert and as very fair
authority
II the Anaconda bachelor was not such
a sly, elusive animal il might be quite
proper to call the attention of the Ian
gushing maidens of New England to the
great number of unattached males running
at large in this city. The presence of the
2.CCO beauteous maidens and a fair proper
ton of experienced widows, however, evil
dences that the bachelors are in that
state of single cussedness owing purely to
their own choice and natural depravity,
or. as they choose to style 1t, their skill
in lodging the arrows of Cupid But this
is not ALL for many there be who are hit
and still are unable to find that balm of
love-lorn hearts which exists in welded
bliss owing TO the scarcity of houses, and
many are waiting anxiously for the better
weather, when houses can be erected for
them.
When the 1000 are all mated then Il will
be time enough, so the ladies say, to send
word TO Massachusetts, and as this does
not seem likely TO occur this summer. a
scheme is suggested by the coming wo- |
man that all bachelors at the close of |
this. the last leap year of the century |
shall be taxed a poll tax. The bulk of |
taxation. as every one knows, is borne by
the married men. and that this expense
may be equalized the women who are
making their voices heard in politics |
want the bachelors duly assessed. and II |
is supposed If they fail to pay, sold for |
delinquent taxes
This Is not. however, embodied in the /
directory. The book is to contain more {
than 400 pages and will be larger than the 1
last Butte directory. Besides the names |
1t will have complete list of all societies
and church organizations, with officers.
etc. and all public officials and institu-
tons, a map of the city, a street guide
ana Illustrations Of the principal build
ings. historical sketch prepared by LII
orarian Davies is the introduction and
considered in every way It will be a very
creditable and interesting publication.