The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-05
SCENE WILL Be SHIFTED
Tomorrow Is the Closing Day of
the Butte Meeting.
TO OPEN HERE THURSDAY
Every Indication OF q Most Successful
Carnival OF Sport at the Inn
proved Track in This City.
Shipping Horses.

The race meeting in Butte will close
tomorrow and the mex scene in the
great turf drama will be laid at the
beautiful track in this city, where the
second division Of the circuit will open
next Thursday. AS an initial feature
to a meeting which promises to be most
successful the first days programme
will contain the $1,000 Daily stakes.
Agent Talbot Of the B., A. & p. has
been busy for the past few days ar
ranging for the shipment of the sew
eral stables from the Butte track to
Anaconda. A few horses will be
brought down Tomorrow, but the most
Of them will be shipped Sunday, and
by the first of the week all of the racers
will be comfortably stalled in their
new quarters here. AS the change will
not affect them in the least, the horses
will be in good condition for racing as
o as they arrive, and the intervening
days win be devoted to rkout and
a general Introduction to new sur
roundings and environs. The trainers
and jockeys will De given a much de-
sired opportunity to revel in alfalfa,
blue grass and pure drinking water,
which are abundant at the track here.
Anaconda has very literally contrib
uted to the success of the Butte meet
ing and a great deal of money from
this city has found its way to the pool
rooms and to business channels of the
city. The b., A. & p. has handled the
crowds for five weeks without the
slightest accident or even inconvenience
to it's patrons. The only complaint
heard by the Iacegoers was an occa-
sfonal protest directed to the Great
Northern when its trains from Helena
a rrtyoA LATE fhrtc ottcino a tadintts IA
lay in the start from Butte at night on
the return trip. The race train to Butte
was finely equipped and admirably con
Quoted, fast time was made and the
trip rendered as enjoyable as it was
possible to make it by strict attention
10 all details connected with it.
While not officially announced, ii is
probable that Butte will be given the
same schedule as that now in opera
ton from his city. 1t is believed that
the race train will leave Butte at 1870
p. m. and returning leave this city at
9 o'clock. The one advantage Butte
patrons will have which is not a regu-
lar thing with the Anacondans who at
END the Butte races, they will leave
this city promptly at the hour adver-
tised, as the train is made up here and
there will be no cause to delay the start
from either this city or Butte.
During last fall n this summer
Manager Upton has improved the
track to a great extent by filling and
otherwise grading until it is now up to
the highest standard of excellence. Be
sides this, other improvements have
been made to the general equipment.
The center field has been converted into
a beautiful expanse of waving alfalfa
and the surrounding country never
looked prettier in its dress Of green
adorned with cottonwoods and rose
n all the artistic trimmings
with which nature is so lavish in these
parts.
The street car company has put its
in first-class condition. n as is
generally known, the facilities for
handling large crowds are
In a word, there is nothing
will stand in the way of the most
successful race meeting ever held in
the city. August in Montana is noted
for its excellent weather, and when
the weather is favorable, race-goer
usually u out to enjoy the sport to
be had at the track.
1t is expected that a larger crowd
usual will go up to Butte to-mor-
row to witness the races of the closing
day in that city. The attraction of the
day will be the West Side Handicap, in
which Han dor, Senator Bland, Scot
fish C~hieftain. Ostler Joe and other
grand ones will start.