The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-16

Yes, stranger. I'm here for the first
tlme-goin on two weeks-an' I've seen
Things l aint never dreamed of before.
There's good things an bad things here,
especially the bad things, which is as
much like Owgean stables as anything
you can fetch up fer inspection any
where's
"Yes?"
Yes, you bet" responded the noun
tanner, with true western familiarity.
But takin this town on her lighter
side, New York has the most curious
lot o people Teller can imagine. Moth
in ait all collects a crowd here. And
burned if they don't cape like lot of
hayseeds. For instance? Well, l seen
a man washing windows this mornin'
on the seventh story of one o. them
big buildin's. First a man stops, then
another, an pretty soon If you amt got
a crowd of so or hundred people gaz-
in skywards like lot o. jays Now,
you wouldn't find a Butte man dom
that, nor Chicagy man, an I've heard
that you eastern people look upon us
real westerners as hayseeds that blows
the gas out and Chicagy men as wa
hoos But that's easy. Here, crowds
chase to a fire just as if a fire was
rare, and some of EN- seem to go crazy
with excitement.
Il never did see such place for
crowds to turn up all of a sudden as
If they sprang out o. the sidewalk
Why, the other night a constable ar
rested man up on Sixth avenue. 1t
was O'Clock in the mornin' and there
didn't seem to be many people around
Just then. / saw a commotion, an l
give you my word before / could fet
two blocks the must "a been hundre
or more people around An what's
more, most of 'em followed to the lCck-
up jest as if a man amt arrested every
five minutes here in this town. Did
go? OF course. I'm a stranger an a
hayseed, 'cordin' to all idees. but you
New York people sees everything an
still you goes crazy over nothin'!
Now here's another curious tfirg
Man was wheelin' baby carriage over
there in the park-woman by his side-
wife o course. Purity soon nut got I'M
screwed an off comes the wheel kid
goes out an begins to yell. What's the
result? Two hundred people in two
minutes. Constable comes and jumT s
in to find out what's the matter. Just
a wheel off an the kid yellin' to split.
He says, Here, get along yous, an
then begins to push. The business bein'
near the street a wagon driver steps
his team an gets off to see what it's all
about Another driver stops an an
other an then the streets b ockei
BaDy sun yellln. Nam mustered. Dad
with his head down divin through the
crowd lookin' for that pesky nut. an
the dickens to pay-everybody askia'
what's the matter. Oh, yes, / was
lookin' to see what's up, too. I'm a
hayseed. An then there was dozen
or more givin' dad advice how to wheel
home an keep the wheel on without
the nut.
Human natur, you say? Not alto
gether, stranger. It's New York ma
tuTe. People out West don't seem to
be so doggone curious over nothin'.
But you people here is a strange COM
bination of hayseedness and up-to-
date-what you call it-fin de sickel-
deviltry. Out West we read of the in
difrunce of New York people, but just
let man go through these here
streets with an odd sort of dress, an I
swear he's got a regiment of boys an
fool men trailin' at his heels. Amt it
so? Sure"
The mountaineer from Montana thea
lapsed into silence for a moment and
said:
Say. this lis the greatest procession
of women on earth. / never see so many
good lookin' ones an bad lookn' ones
an long an short. fat an slim. black
haired an yaller-haired ones an yal-
Ter hair is outrageous, there being none