The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-02
It WAS A JOLLY DINNER
Butte Traffic Club Entertained
5.. at the Montana,
REPAST WAS SUMPTUOUS
Railroad Men Made Everythin in Sight
Disappointment teen OF Them Came
Down From Butte to Hold One
OF Their Informal Meetings.

q Seventeen members of the Butte Rail-
yesterday afternoon on the $40 train ant
last evening partook of an informal din
ner at the Montana hotel.
1t was one of the clubs frequent "pleas-
ant affairs and to say that it was thor
oughly pleasing is putting it mildly. Alter
a short business session the members
were conducted to the private dining
room, where Manager George w. Rey-
nolds had arranged to have served a.
'Eumptuous dinner. Covers had been laid
for the following gentlemen:
Dr. F. M. Brewer, Chicago: J. E. Liebe,
Northern Pacific; Phil Daniels. Chicago,
burlington & Quincy; D. X. Torrey,
butte Anaconda & Pacific; A. ]. PAIRING
ton, Oregon Short Line c. Clifford, Union
Pac1tic; c. A. Davidson, Rio Grande
western: H. F. Collins, Anaconda Street
railway; T. w. Brewer, Butte Traffic as
ISOLATION; James Sloan. Butte Traffic as
ISOLATION: ]. e. Dawson, Great Northern;
2. M. Seymour Chicago Great Western;
r. X. Cohn, Oregon Railway & Nayiga-
ton company: c. A. st. Clair, Oregon
Railway & Navigation company; w. H.
Merrlman, Northern Pacific; w. c. Nc.
"A
Burlington & Missouri; NJ. Talbot. Butte,
Anaconda & Pacific, and representatives
of the press.
!, Marcus Talbot presided at the banquet
as POSTMASTER. He was in his happiest
mood and gave out the toasts with a quiet
hnmor that won the applause of the
feasters
The menu card was the climax of orig
inality in-the printers art. Never before
has card of such beauty and unique fea-
lures been prepared for a banquet, The
tasty little paper consists of a large card
cream-white in its tinting. Thereon is
photographed a B., A. & P, train lust
emerging from Silver Bow canyon. the
perpendicular rocks on either side ris-
ing high in the air, giving the depicted
scene most rugged appearance In the
upper left corner is monogram in
which the letters "B. r. T. c. are inter-
laced In highly artistic manner. The
monogram is in red, set out in bold re-
lief against the delicate tint of the card
In the lower righ-hand corner are the
words, The Montana, Anaconda, Mon
tana.'
Just at the point where the engine
seems to be coming out of the canyon is
a space transversely across the card
Thereon is engraved a copy of the re-
celpt form of the Butte Railway Traffic
club. The printed words on the form are:
anaconda station, Nov. l. 1899. Received
of the Butte Railway Traffic club the
following described property in good or
der Below is written the good things
that We're served at the banquet
over this space, and overlapping it,
fastened to the original cards bv two
clasps at the top is copy in exact fac
smile OF bill of lading, such as is used
by the club. The opening words are DE
livered by George W. Reynolds, the fol-
lowing described packages in apparent
good ORDER etc. The menu then fol-
lows.
The uppermost card is intended as a bill
of lading by Mine Host Reynolds of the
delicacies to the club, and the receipt nm
derneath is an acknowledgment by the
guests that they have received the arti.
Giles
Inc various courses are written in the
characteristic handwriting of railroad
office man, or the "telegrapher's fist. The
penmanship is beautiful. It is the work
of w. w. Wheaton of the Standard office,
and marks Mr. Wheaton as skilled artis.
with a pen.
The menus We're printed by the Stand
ards job department, assisted by the art
department. They are certainly hand
s SSIa., ana UNDUE and every guest at last
nights banquet carried one away as a
souvenir of happy occasion.
The good things of which the guests
partook are as follows:
Blue Points. Gallery,
Essence of Game. Bread Sticks, Sherry,
Steamed Live Lobster. chilli sauce.
L9.tuce' french Dressing. Sauterne.
BAKED Sweet Potatoes, cranberry jelly.
MargauX. B. r. T. C. Punch
Breast Canvas Back Duck
asparagus. Raspberry jam
Pommery Sec
Fresh Shrimp, mayonnaise.
Iutti Frutti Ice Cream. Assorted Cake.
roasted Crackers. Roquefort Cheese.
Coffee. Copnac
After the cigars had been passed
around vote of thanks was rendered to
Manager G. w. Reynolds of the Montana,
aiter which short speeches were delivered
ny Major Dawson, G. W. Reynolds, P.
N. Seymour, c. o. Davidson W. c. Nc
Brlde, Peter Towey Con ST. Clair. DR.. F..
NJ Brewer. H. F. Collins. Phil Daniels
"a Sloan, Edward Liebe and D. K.
Immediately after the dinner severa,