The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-21
ANACONDA news.
THE new CITY DIRECTORY
Complete Encyclopedias of In
formation About Anaconda.
SOME FACTS 1T CONTAINS
Figures as to This City's Present Popula-
ton - Interesting Data Regarding
Business and Commercial Affairs.
City, County and State Officers.

The Anaconda city directory for 1898
Is out. and IL is more complete than
ever. The directory this year was got
ten out by r. L. Polk & Co. who have
been in the city directory business for
25 years. and they have succeeded in
getting together a remarkable lot of in
formation concerning Anaconda, her
people. business interests. and, in short,
Everything thai goes to max up a
complete directory. The present is the
FIRST ever issued by the Polk people II
Anaconda, but hereafter this city will
doubtless be on their regular list.
In the Introductory pages Messrs.
Polk & Co. devote considerable space
to the contents of the book, n also
a few hints that may guide one In MS
search for nformation. A significant
paragraph is one which finds a place in
sthe Introductory. 1t relates To Ana
sconda's population and is given here IN
full:
This directory contains 7.267 names.
Deducting 1.229 for business firms. etc.
and using 2l9 as a multiple. the figure
which is generally believed to repre-
sent the number of women and chill
dren not included in directories. a pop
aulation of 15.095 is indicated for Ana
sconda and its suburbs"
This city has never been given 10
Boosting with respect TO its population.
1t has always been content TO have Tor
inhabitants the people who are here ana
leave the worrying about population
10 other towns. 1t is a most gratifying
piece of information, however. TO learn
from disinterested parties. whose fig
ures are as nearly correct as can be
had. that this city has reached the
splendid total of inhabitants indicated
above.
The first pages of the new directory
are devoted to facts concerning the
city. Among the information contained
is a directory of the city government,
together with the standing committees
of the council. the makeup of the fire
and police departments, and a list II
the members and location of the fire
alarm boxes. Next comes the county
s~oficial directory. its officers. board Of
commissioners. board of health and
rmake-up of the district court. Then
follows a list of the state officers and
state institutions. together with their
boards of control. A list of United
States officers in Montana is also given.
Reverting again to Anaconda, the di-
.rectory gives the asylums and nospi-
stals: bands and orchestras: banks;
name and location of prominent build
-3ngs, blocks. halls. etc. loca.on of Gem
eteries and the like. A complete
church directory is also given, includ-
ing the locations of the churches, names
of the pastors and hours of regular
service. A brief description of the ath-
letic and social clubs follow and the
public and private schools and colleges
are enumerated in detail.
Express companies, Libraries. mill
tary organizations. newspapers and
railroad directory are taken up i'm sue
cession, and the postoffice is described
in full. giving it's personnel of en-
ployes, hours for arrival and departure
of mails and othere valuable Informal
ton concerning Uncle Sans stamp
store. Several pages are devoted to a
directory of the secret and other lodges
of the city. which is apparently COM
plete in every way. The location Of
the theaters and amusement halls; the
telegraph. telephone and other compan-
les of like nature are also given.
An interesting feature is the descrip-
tion of the streets of the city. Accord
ing to the directory, there are 20 streets
in Anaconda. and they are all de-
scribed as to location and point #
origin and termination. There are
names of streets in the directory that
IS per cent of the people have never
had any idea hat Anaconda pos
sessed.
Besides the list of names arranged
alphabetically usually found in direc-
tories. there Is a supplement business
directory which will no doubt prove to
be of considerable value. Altogether
the book is a complete directory in
every way.