The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-12-18
CHRISTMAST|DE IN NEW YORK.
It Furnishes Themes for This Racy Letter, in Which ].
M. Quinn Favors the Standards Readers With Timely
Talk About Men and Things in the Big City.

TO seek for strange and novel feat
ufes OF the holiday season in a great
city. is simply seeking for something
new and move in human nature. The
national metropolis is wonderful and
inspiring in its magnitude. its evidences
Of wealth. its towering palaces and
miles of hurrying humanity. but the
holiday season is practically the same
here as in the smaller cities of the
country.
Is the spectacle grander? Yes. Is 1t
more brilliant? Yes.
In outward display. this is the real
exhibition. OF which miniatures can be
found In every state in the union But
the spirit OF the season is the same.
AS a spectacle. New York is without
q rival on the continent. Nowhere else
can you see so many beautiful displays.
In no other city are there SO many
miles Of flaming show windows. No
other city equals ID i'm artistic and fas-
chatting emporiums. None can boast
of so bewildering an array of sky
piercing structures. In all hat Is
metropolitan New York is supreme.
Yet underlying all of the display n
permeating the vast throng. are the
same human emotions which give to
the Christmas season the same con-
trasts of hope and fear. pleasure and
pain. In every land under the starry
sky.
Tn most interested and the most in
teresting people in New York during
the holidays are the visitors. For
weeks the city has entertained thous-
ands from the towns and cities of the
nation at large. The hotel corridors
Aax~a n-AaAntAl N a1nf1nGan Mo 1fr nc a
of the West and South. Merchants
purchasing stocks. travellers reveling In
the sights and selecting gifts for rela-
lives and friends, have added to the
variety OF characters which make up
the restless tide of humanity that
moves ceaselessly through the veins
and arteries OF the municipal giant. Civ
ing IT life. activity, vigor strength.
New York In as emphatically nation
al as IL is cosmopolitan. 1t is a great
sea of commerce. fed from the rivers
n rivuiets which flow in from the
valleys n the mountains of distant
states. Every in the year ev-
cry state I'm the union is represented
on it's streets and in its hotels. During
the holiday season the squads of pa
triotic guests are swelled to a mighty
army OF expectant. uovelty-loving,
money-spending men and women.
What are the special attractions?
They are many.
The Horse Show, with many horses
In the ring and a generous s%prinkling
of donkeys In the seats, has come and
gone. The Snake Show, with its miles
of spotted. striped, squirming. writing
terrors to tipplers, held attention for a
few brief days during the opening of
the season. The unprecedented snow
storm, which blockaded the city and
filled Central park with gliding sleighs
n jlngling bells. Is still spoken of as
one OF the memorable vents. The pre-
liminarles having been properly oh
served. society has turned it's atten-
lion to the Metropolitan opera house.
where the worlds greatest singers are
thrilling vast audiences.
The visitor has an endless variety of
entertainment from which To select. If
he enjoys cyclones set TO music he may
go to the Metropolitan and hear the
Wagnerian tempest at its best. If he
has read The Christian" he will spend
on evening with Glory Quayle and John
Storm In the Garden. He may revel in
the artistically eccentric by applaud
Ing the abnormal proboscis of Cyrano
de Bergerac. or. II he admire the nude
In art. he may witness the disrobing act
at the Manhattan or the Dewey. With
these n numerous other perform.
ances. not forgetting Roster & BlaT,