The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-29
CHANGES N TIME CARDS
GREAT NORTHERN FLYER
The Copper CITY Limited TO b With
drawn Unt11 Spring No Other
Changes for the Present on
thu Northsrn Pacific.

: The Northern Pacific has practi-
caly decided not to put on a new
train or change Its passenger schedule
dtring the winter season. but IL bust
ness will Justify II. an extra passenger
tain will be put on in the spring to
run at least between st. Paul and
Butte. From the present its service
, all that is needed. its time between
Chicago and Butte being within an
hour or two as fast as tina of the
Great Northern under the latter's new
schedule. which will go into effect on
the 3rd Of January.
The Copper City limited. between
Butte and Hamilton, will be d~iscontin-
ued after next Saturday, but will be
resumed In the spring as soon as BUSH
ness opens again. 1t has been kept
on longer tina business really justified.
but the Nortehrn Pacaic desired to ac-
commodate h people during the holi-
days.
The oficial time table figures of the
new schedule which will go into eff
the Great Northern was received by
General Agent J. Z. Dawson yester-
day. Some very important changes
in the passenger service will be made.
the most notable being h addition of
the new through train from St. Paul
TO be known as 1.-The Great Northern
Flyer" n the abandonment of the
local train between Helena and Great
Falls. There will be no morning train
out OF Anaconda or Butte on the Great
Northern. the first train to leave Ana
conda being at 2:05 in the afternoon,
n IT VIII only go as far as Helena, SO
that passengers for Great Falls and the
east will not leave Anaconda until
7:2o in the evening and Butte at $50,
arriving in Great Falls at 3 o'clock the
next morning. and at Havre at 1880. The
local time table, complete. will be as
follows:
No. 23-Leave Havre 11:1o a.. m. ar
rive Great Falls 3:25 p. m: leave Great
Falls $40 p. m, arrive Helena 7:05
p. m, leave Helena 7:15 d. m, arrive
Butte 1880 p. M, arrive Anaconda
IL 40 p. m.
No. leave Helena 900 a. m, ar
rive Butte 1925 p. m. arrive Anaconda
No. 2-Leave Anaconda 2:O5 D. m,
leave Butte $40 p. m. arrive Helena
6:15 p. m.
No. 24-Leave Anaconda 1920 d. m.
leave Butte $50 p. m, arrive Helena
11:25 p. M. leave Helena I1:35 d. m,
arrive Great Falls 800 q. m, leave
Great Falls 3;f5 a. m. arrive Havre
1880 a. m.
The Flyer will leave ct. Paul at
$40 a. m, carrying the fast mail which
VIII arrive in that city from the East
at $3.50 a. M, and will have a sleeper
TO Butte and Anaconda. The time
from st. Paul to Seattle will be ss
hours and 30 minutes The schedule
In addition to %obviating a layover in
81. PAUL. from the east provides for ear
Her arrivals at principal distinctions
as follows: Helena by eight hours and
80 mute Butte by nine hours. Ana
conda nine hours. Spokane eight hours
and 30 minutes. Seattle ten hours. The
arrival time at Portland has not vet
been definitely settled.
East bound. the Flyer will leave
seattle at 4:OO p. m, making the run
TO 81. a in 43 hours. The new sche-
dule provides for a daylight trip west
bound through the Cascades and over
the Switchback.
Trains from Duluth will leave at
1:15 a. m. making connections with
the Flyer at Grand Forks. In ad-
dition to the Flyer an evening train
viii leave st. Paul daily at s O'Clock.
running through to Havre. This train
VIII reach Havre at 1880 a. m. and
passengers to points west will be
picked up by the Flyer" This train
in Intended to accommodate passengers
DESTROYS OF laying over in st. Paul or
reaching that point after the departure
OF the Flyer" or on night trains.
East bound this train will leave Hayre
at noon, reaching st. Paul at 7:30 in the
morning.
The west bound Flyer will make
connections at Spokane with the Spo-
kane Falls and Northern, making a
z4-hour earslier arrival in the Kootenai.