The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-18
NEW ATHLETIC CLUB
Not to Be Devoted Exclusively
to Sports.
IS HAS A BRIGHT FUTURE
Articles OF Incorporation Have Been Pre-
psred-It win Either Rent or Build
Suitable Club House.
The Social Side.

Amateur sports in Butte will receive
a big lift from h new Athletic club
recently organized by the young men
Of the city. Heretofore amateur ath-
ietics have not prospered as devotees
to the sport could wish, owing chiefly
to the fact that there has beer no prop
eriy organized club to promote them.
There have been athletic clubs started
but they were not constituted on a basis
calculated to make them enduring, and
as a consequence amateur sport has
suffered. The new club is not to be de-
voted exclusively to athletics, but that
VIII be on Of Its principal purposes,
and as the prospects ahead Of the new
club are very encouraging, 1t should
not De long before as good field days
may be held in Butte as in any other
city, as there Is no dearth of material
Tor good athletes. and with a first
class club house and gymnasium and
a club organized on a substantial foun-
dation to promote 1t. there is no rea-
son why amateur sports should not
prosper in future as much in other
lines as in football.
The executive committee or board of
trustees elected at the meeting of the
promoters of the club last Tuesday
hoe aItIClcS VI lHCOI-
poration which will be filed within a
day or W and the club will hen be
an established institution. The articles
provide that the name of the por
ton shall be The Butte Athletic Club"
the object of which shall be to conduct
an athletic and social club and club
mousse, to engage in musical, literary
and scientific pursuits, to buy, lease
and sell real estate and personal prop
erty and to engage in any other pur-
suits incidental to the of the
corporation.
1t is the intention of the club to
either lease a building suitable for the
purpose. or If one cannot be found. to
erect a club house and fit up first-class
quarters for the club. There will be a
gymnasium complete in every particu-
lar. n club rooms for the members.
These will be handsomely furnished
and fitted up, as it Is the intention to
make its social side one of the principal
features of the organization. There
will be regular smokers for the men,
bers and special nights set apart for
social functions. in which society will
be invited to participate. Aside from
these functions for the benefit of the
ladies, IL has been proposed, and the
idea will doubtless be adopted, to set
aside at least two days in the week
in which the gymnasium will be turned
over to the ladies during the forenoon.
At present these are only plans con-
templated. but from the determination
of the members thus far enrolled to
carry out all the plans, and from the
encouragement the undertaking has re-
ceived there is good reason to believe
all the plans will eliminate success
fully.
The trustees were instructed at the
bylaws for the government of the club,
to be submitted to the next meeting,
and the members of the board are go
ing about the work in a systematic
manner which promises good results
They have written to all the best ath-
letic clubs in the country for copies Of
their constitution and bylaws. These
will all be compared and the best feat
ures of each culled and embodied in the
o d which Is to govern the club. AS
o o as this report is ready another
meeting will be held. the constitution
and bylaws adopted and the officers
and the club will then be ready
to go ahead and establish it's club
house. An instructor in athletics is
also a contemplated feature when the
club house Is a reality. n the enthu-
look for the club to turn out
some of the best amateur athletes in
the country.
The list of charter members enrolled
SO far is as follows:
T. b. Moore. Howard Rockefeller. VIII
lam Brownfeld. Horace ]. Craft. T. q.
A. j. Medin, r.. L. Bradley. ]. L.
Zeal. H.. w. Turner. William e. Dufresne.
e. Donovan, CIV. Hurley. John
w. b. Welch. NJ. w. Bacon. ]. f.
Liebe, J. E. Dawson, H.. o. Richards, c.
B. Hoskins, z. B. Thayer. Fred M. Fer
-ell. Rod NJ. Davidson. w. ]. Johnson, A.
Shristie. c. w. Blair. John Barbor, +.
". Harvey. J.. H.. Burton. l.. s. Wild, c.
}. Goss. l.. Mattingly. E.. A. Brooke. G.. A.
rhevugny. r. II. Paxson. C.. L. Miller.
George Dygert. M. Eisenberg, ]. o. Hod-
,ens. J. J. Holland. c. H.. Campbell. c. II.
Ring. ]. N. Londoner. John Henshaw. +.
Harrington. NJ. l.. Todd. p. J.. Brophy
". NJ. Twohy, H.. Macdonald. william NJ.
Davidson. Lee Cohn. Ignace Cohn.
'harles II. Lane. J. s. Button. Archibald
Tray. NJ. p. Lavelle. F. NJ. Hall. ]. z.
1. Heilbronner. w. A. Smith, John +.
rink. w. A. Lawer. !. A. Heilbronner.
Davis. c. A. st. Clair. ]. E. Moran, I
E. wilkins. F. Grefg. William
;immell. II. f.. Holp. l.. o. Evans, II. G.
richards. f. II. Renisch, Charles p.
;reene. J. A. Prichard, A.. H. Yoder, ].
Slemons. William G. Wilson, IT., p. u. /,
arr. E. f. Gallogly. c. p. Foote. F. II.
10y. +. N. HARDWOOD. Jess Holmes, B. H.. /.
'ook. John Lewis. j. II. H~eilbronner, e. .
Davidson. Francis Brooks, w. II. :
';chols, 4. A. Hardcastle. W.. X. Quarles, !
Davis. J. Galbraith. John NJ. Dix !
n. p. 8. Cyr. Henry Cayley. Donald Il. ,
lilies, w. H. Davey. w. M. Harrison. 8. .
Fair, r. H. McRae, f. A. Hoyser, :
ohn N. Kirk. J.. T.. Sidley. A. p. Henning-
en-, NJ. b. Brownlee, Donald Campbell. J
iuy Stapleton. c.. l.. Hagenburger. NJ. !
J.. F.. A. Lang. w. G. Gardenhire. Z. T. {
olby. w. II. Wilson. DIR. ]. 8. Hammond,
!. Well, 8. 8. Solveson. Mark Drumm.