The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-13

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deserved all that they got. The alder
men were willing to admit that not all
wheelmen are included In the charges
that were made last night. but they
say. t~ruthfully. that they cannot dis
criminate in the matter and that all
wheelmen must now come out with
bells n lamps. The bells must he
rung at crossings and whenever there
Is any danger of a collision. This VIII
keep a rider in the city busy ringing his
bell most of the time, and IL Is likely
that there will be more horses scared
by the bell ringing than there have
been by the silent wheels. But the law
goes, and woe to the rider OF a wheel
that is not equipped as IL ought to be.
1t Is nuts for the dealers I'm cycle sup
plies and they have been doing a land
office business all day to-day. The
whole stampede was occasioned by an
accident that befell w. Il. Bancroft. the
woodsaw man. just before the council
meeting last night. He was crossing
Higgins avenue, enjoying his pipe IN the
consciousness of a day well spent ana
was meditating upon the ~degeneracy OF
the Spanish nation, when two riders
dashed up toward him He thought that
the man would hurt him the most if he
hit him, so he edged the iamon
frame. He knew by experience that 1t
was useless to try TO dodge them both.
He had tried IL before. He succeeded
in keeping out of the way of the man.
but. the drop-frame machine didnt DO
a thing to him. IL caught him back OF
the knees the first crack out of the box
and upset his equilibrium. 1t drove all
thoughts of suffering Cuba from his
mind and rolled him i'm the dust. The
front wheel of the machine gave him a
playful poke in the short ribs. and the
hind wheel hit him "a lick In the back as
IL sped away from him. The wheel was
not at all disturbed. As Ban said when
telling his troubles, THE
thing just slid OF n went on" But
Ban had a pull with the aldermen. and
he pulled IL. The result was that when
the matter came up the chief OF police
was instructed to arrest all riders VINO
do not have bells and lamps and to see
to IL that the ordinance is strictly en-
forced.
That was a starter. The aldermen
got well warmed up on this tonic and
when Il was disposed of they thirsted
for more. They soon found 1t, and II
the wheelmen had been roasted well
and thoroughly the men who drive over
the sidewalks got IL still harder and
more thoroughly. The council got so
hot over this matter that the CHIEF OF
police was instructed to employ "A de-
tective to catch the miscreants VINO are
running the sidewalks by driving over
them with wagons and buggies. The
walk at the south end of the big bridge
was mentioned as one of the places
where the damage is most serious,
one alderman said that the new walk
on Pine street is already being broken
up by the fellows who are in too much
of "A hurry to go around. The roast
that these fellows got was fully de-
served. The are o bigger nuisance
than the wheelmen Will ever be, n
they do more damage. The chief OF po-
lice has added this nuisance to the list
of his troubles. and the must
and shall be protected. even III we nave
to hire a spotter. while the city COW
roams free and devastates lawns and
destroys trees. This cuts no ice. The
sidewalks must be preserved. TO -
with the trees and lawns.
Then came the bill board nuisance.
That was one that was not so easy TO
get at. The council ordered all boards
to be removed three feet from the side
walks. so hat the paste VIII not spat-
ter on the walks, and then the boards
are to be cut down to the height of five
feet. OF course IL makes no difference
that the boards are on private land and
are owned by private persons. A man
has no right to decide for himself what
he will nave on his land. Jack go the
bill boards and down go the tops of
them. Their shade furnishes a pleas
ant resting place in hot weather FOR
Indians n other loafers, and this
nuisance must be abated In some way.
The ordinance committee was instruct
ed to prepare an ordinance that Will
compel this action, and when the COM
mittee tackles she job ii Will begin to
realize what II has undertaken. But
the unsightly bill boards must be dis
posed of in some way. We are deter
mined to improve the appearance of
the city i'm some way, and as mi as we
are going to allow the COWS to eat the
trees and cut up the lawns we will take
a., A,,t 90, tha hin InnrlG ANa WILL do
this anyway.
The fire department boys are happy.
They did not get just what they asked
for in the way of financial support, but
they did get an allowance of $25 a
month to help pay their running ex-
penses. That is something. The talk
about "a cheap n economical depart
ment is not as loud as 1t was a year
ago. The men who did all the talking
are beginning to realize that Ii is not
possible to get something FOR nothing.
A good department cannot be main
tanned without money.
In the meantime Chief of Police An
gevine wears a long face. Every time
he hears the whirr of a bicycle or sees
a row or hears a wagon running on
plank he jumps sideways. He has
more time now. however. to attend to
these little matters than he did, for
Captain Smith has left town. The cap
tain got 10 be n good deal Oh u nuisance
himself. While the public has sympa-
thy for his misfortune the belief is gem
| eral that he takes advantage of his
condition TO impose upon the people
whom he meets. Some very nasty stor-
les have come 20 the ears of the au-
thorities recently regarding his actions.
and the chief of police told him that Il
would he better for him and decidedly
better for the town II he would go West
for a time. Yesterday morning he
went. Before he stepped upon the
| train he espied the chief of police on the
station platform. and shouted to him in
tina only Smith voice: II want you TO
understand. Angevine. hat you are not
running me out of town. I am going
because | want to-"
Butte To Hamilton vim Anaconda.
Missoula. April la.-Nothing definite