The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-20
Hnmomg the Club Womem.

garten in the cotton factory district.
which the members conduct them
selves.
The social and domestic science de-
partment of the Woman 5 CLUB OF Butte
mas taken its first step toward practi-
cal work in the. community. ON Feb.
8 Mrs. A. G. Merrill read before that
club an interesting paper on The ideal
CITY, which furnished the inspiration.
After describing the beauties and COM
forts of the ideal city she pointed out
the part women may take in helping
to make such a city. From her paper
we quote as follows:
There are two or three other things
that we must not neglect-notably, the
alleys of our ideal city. What a boon
1t would be to housekeepers as we'll as
to teamsters if every block We're ac-
cessible through interseeting alleys,
Well cared for, and, above all well
lighted at night. This, of course.
would be one of the prominent features
of our ideal city. and, still further to
advance the work of the care-takers of
the city, the lots are so arranged that
each one has an entrance of its own,
either to the alley or the side street.
Thus, it is not difficult to dispose of the
garbage in the proper way-not by
throwing it over the fence into the al
ley, nor by streWing it over ones own
yard, nor yet by deCora ting our neigh
Dors premises with IL. In New York,
where the methods seem to be very well
thought out, the ashes are separated
from the other rubbish and taken away
in closed cans. In the crematory they
burn such garbage as has no value.
while the rest is sorted in order to save
the waste paper. bottles. metals and
rags. This, il is said. is the source of
some revenue to the city. There. how
ever, they have what we are sadly in
need ola scaVenger service under the
control of the city. While Butte is
painfully lacking in beauty and the
amenities of city life, yet we have some
things for which TO be thankful for. IL
1t We're not for the sulphur smoke
against which we all declaim so loudly.
there can be no doubt that the death
rate would be appalling. How could IL
be otherwise, with our streets. alleys
and backwards in the condition that
characteriZes most of them? On the
other hand, is it not asking a great
deal of our health officer to look after
all this when we do not ourselves CO.
operate with him. Let us hope that
the smoke messiahs' will not succeed
until we have accomplished something
toward improved sanitation. or we
shall find ourselves steering from
Scylla into Charybdis. There is one
nuisance that is almost as uncomfortable
to the housewife as the sulphur smoke,
and that is the black. dirty. soot-rain-
ing smoke that pouTs out of some of
the large chimneys in the heart OF
town-for instance, that Of the Owsley
block. the hotels the pump station.
Now, why such places could not be
compelled to use smoke consumers. is
a mystery yet to be explained. Events
have proven that the Womans club
wherever il may he. can overcome
great obstacles. and ] am looking for
ward To the time when we shall take
up these questions in all seriousness
and not merely 10 pass away the time
In TIE WomaH.s club e Denver the
members Of the reform departman mt
originated the City Improvement sa-
eiety. which aims to make a clean. or
Derby and altogether beautiful city 81
Denver. They arranged course OF
! lectures 10 further this oGucatiye work
They assisted the science and eduCa-
ton departments in obtaining the state
/ library commission law for the iaEis-
| lature and a eurfew ordinance from
the city council In closing. Mrs