The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-30
NOT UP TO THE RECORD
Outing of Wallace Hilarity Club
Not an Unqualified Success.
HOW IT ALL HAPPENED
Conditions Have Changed and the Fond
Dream Is Standardization Tags
Were Taken Aiong-Hard
Luck Experiences.


Missoula. June 2s.-The preliminary
outing of the Wallace Hilarity club this
spring was not the unqualified success
that its members have been accustomed
line. The Hilarity club i'm former years
hal established a reputation of catching
more fish. camping with greater ease
and fewer accidents, eating more and
drinking less than any similar %organiza-
ton in the West. Its members have
prided themselves upon being the best
i'm the market and they have never lost
an opportunity of letting the world
know that the Hilarity club is the
crackerjack of its class. Their pride in
their organization was pardonable. for
they had the documents TO prove all that
they claimed for II. They had afidavits
that would do credit to a populist cleo
ton contest 10 prove that their ishing
was successful n the ~affidavits were
all signed by men who had been the
guests of the club and had partaken
of Its hospitality. They knew what the
habits OF the members were in camp
and they told all in the affidavits. No
body ever went TO the camp of the Hi
iarity club who did not have a good
time. II is true that at times Jerome
talked so u that he disturbed the
afternoon nap of those who wanted to
sleep and there were times when Joe
Bradley ate so much that there was not
much left for the visitor unless he hap
pened to be an uncommonly good rus
tier, but these were minor Incidents that
disappeared i'm the retrospect in which
the visitors INDUCED before they made
the ~affidavits. This retrospect is a pc
culiar drink. connection or beverage,
that Is mixed in camp by George Stew
ard and Jerome Jacobs. IL is refreshing
and invigorating but. while "a man is
unler its influence. he is In a hypnotic
state and that is how the club secured
some OF its affidavits regarding the fish
that DIR. Genoway and J. c.. Boyd
nave caught I'm past years.
But the conditions have changed. The
o dream is DER. The club took "A
little skirmish out into the hills last
week and. merely to get into condition
for the big trip this fall, they practiced
camping and fishing a little. There
were four of the club members in the
party-George Steward. DR.. Genoway, j.
G.. Boyd and Jerome Jacobs. That was
the list that was furnished TO the life
and accident Insurance agents in the
Occur d'Alenes before the party started
anu tdtn man WAS lufnFneu WIN "a
metal Identification tag. that would en-
able his friends to collect his insurance
In case he failed to show up. Ii is not
fair to say how many day these four
were whipping the streams. That would
make il seem too bad. The fishing rec
ord of each. however. as furnished To
the Standard by one who knows, is as
follows: George Steward. l very smalD;
DIR. Genoway, 2 1.-THE doctor really caught
hif one hIl Iarnpaa ga Va him ono nf his
So that the doctor would be able to beat
out Steward), j. c.. Boyd. 3 Ton of
them a squawisho Jerome Jacobs, a
tJerome really had five, but he gave
one To the doctorD.
1t was fortunate that the Identified
ton tags had been securely fastened To
the clothing of each of the party, FOR il
it had not peer for the tags not one of
the members would have known him
self when the time came TO start for
home. They were all so battered and
worn that IL Is not To be wondered at
that they We're mixed as TO identity.
Their experiences would make a recon-
centrado ashamed Of himself to think
that he had ever thought that he knew
what trouble was. Job would take his
boils all over again rather han go
through what this club did ON this trip.
What was the cause of the hard luck
and who was the hoodoo is not yet
known over here. although 1t may be in
Wallace. The Standards special does
not go into details. but Il states very
positively that the griefs and the woes
OF the trip would furnish material for a
tale that would make Jonah's little ex-
perience seem tame. IL Is true, none of
the club fell into the belly of a whale,
but IL was only because there was no
whale there. II there had been one
within reach DIR. Genoway would GER
tainfy have found himself being
strained through the sleeves that the gem
tie whale uses 10 winnow his food with.
Ii was the doctor who concentrat ted
upon himself the major portion OF the
agony OF the hard luck experiences Of
the Hilarityites lie was thrown from
his horse On the way to camp. he put
the butter in a place where il melted
and soaked into the ground. leaving
nothing but "A grease spot To show
where IL had once been in all of its
strength and vigor: he lost his fiy book
and had to borrow flies of his friends;
he fell into the creek and got caught
under water in some drift wood. while
his friends were cutting him out the
axe slipped and made a cash in his leg;
he caught cold and lost his appetite:
then he lost his fishing rod and then his
comrades locked him into the tent, lest
he lose his mind.
OF course. there We're others of the
party who had their little troubles, but
the history of the trip. as related to the
Standard, is a story Of n continual
round Of hard luck for the doctor. Stew
ard broke his rod landing his one lone
fish, but il was uch a big one that he
did not mind the loss Of the pole. Boyd
was nearly eaten up by mosquitoes
his face will grow back to its former
shape in two or three weeks. IL he is
careful. Jacobs was sent out after the
horses and shouted Whoa" so loud and
long at them that he can hardly speak
and may never recover his voice.
These were mere Incidents. however.
They all went TO help make up the
grand total Of woe. The full particu-
lars of the trip will be watched for with
interest by the Missoula friends OF the
Hilarityites. who will hope that none of
the injuries received will prove perma-
uenf-