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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-19
CHANCELLOR WGILL BETTER.

Chancellor McGill Is steadily improving. and ex
nects to res Inc holding court next month. He ex
meets TO sit In Jersey City on January and II
Trenton on January y.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-19

A DvBRTIsEMENTs and subscriptions for The Tribune
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"a door north Of Sistft. until o'clock M advertise
received the following branch Offices at regular
once until o'clock D. viz "a sth-AVe q =
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and i4thst i42 Columbus near West Ooth-st; 100
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tu-st between 7h ard 9Th 100 East f1th-s 1883
A-sve. 10th nth l.02e 3D. ave. near
eis at: I70e Ist-svs. s9h-si $50 Sd-sve. near
<istst b5< 3d-sye 2i0 Bleecksr ct; 1873 Bieecker-s
svS &-sys; go East 7sth-st: 1927 3dsve; 26e2 3D.
AVE-; si any American District Telegraph ONCE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-19
PETITIONS IN BANKRUPTCY.

petition in involuntary bankruptcy was nieu
Yesterday against Isaac We'll. proprietor OF the
Iouvre department store Thrd-ave. and One-hun-
dred-and- forty-ffth-st
Charlea A. Baldwin OF No. 80 Cortlandt-st' mas
filed a petition IN bankruptcy. with liabilities OF
s3 ls2 and no assets. He was formerly STOCK
broker al No 40 Wall-st.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-19
LOCAL BUSINESS COMPLICATIONS.

Deputy Sheriff Murray has received executions
,seregating about SO 900 against Bernard Traynor,
iealer in drygoods al Amsterdam-ave; and Sky
second St and keeper is in the store. but business
has gone on usual
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-19
MAULIFFE'S POOLROOM CLOSED.
pARAPHERNALIA SEIZED BY THE POLICE. BUT
40 ARRESTS MADE.

poolroom run by Jack McAulire the pugilist
at Nos 3H and 323 Washington-st. was closed yes
terday afternoon BY Detective Mccormick and Act
ing Detective Kelcher. OF the Adams-st. station.
McAulife opened for business about p. n. yester-
day. and hour later, when the returns from the
New-Orleans races being received. the de-
tectves made their seizure Of the place The racing
cards bulletins and other paraphernaa Of pool
room were secured by the detectives and taken TO
Police Property Clerk Blatchford. No arrests were
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-19
SUPREME COURT SALE.
Nos. 30 & 81 w. 44th St,

NEAR FIFTH AVE,
To be sold at auction by WILLIAM KENNELLY'
Auctioneer.
TUESDAY, DEC. 10, At IL NOON,
At the York Resl-Estae ssesroom III broadway'
This is perhaps choicest piece OF vacant property In
select neehborhood Excsvsted and ready for mme-
eiste building specially adapted for CLUB apartment
house. institution.
Parties wishing 70 purchase previous sale or desiring
any information address J.. r. Everett Esq Attorney
for owners. Warren St Tel. 1882 cortlando' or A.
stern. 81 Nassau ST.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-19

Execution for si79.19O was issued to the Sheriff
Yesterday against the Jocuistata Mining Company,
on the Judgment which he obtained against the
company on october 81.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-19

The caucus of the Republican Senators vii
not be held until January. propapiy OH III
evening before the opening Of the session
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-03
"lknow of no better field than Butte for
q first ciass hotel"

will notice the clans in the markets
you will see many of them with their
mouths open. They are gasping for
water just as a bird or an animal
would gasp for BREATH
How do you manage always to have
on hand such a plentiful supply CT
game of all kinds?"
II have cold storage plant of my
own arrangement replied Mr.. Reyn-
olds. I'm it we carry six months
supply of venison, elk, moose. Rocky
mountain sheep. grouse, reed birds,
snipe, teal, mallard and canvas-back
ducks, turkeys, spring chickens, frogs
legs, shad roe, Holsters, crabs, etc. This
permits us to serve a variety such as
can be found in few inland towns. Mr..
c. A. Brant, manager of the Union
League club of Chicago, was my guest
here recently and told me he fooled
the other stewards In Chica gos badly by
serving up shad roe in the winter time.
I asked him how long he had been do
ing that, and he told me that he started
a year ago. I had been doing this for
four years, and when I showed him
my plant he remarked that he had
many things to learn yet"
Mr.. Reynolds had one of the hardest
tasks of his experience before him a
year ago when the democratic, silver
republican and populist state conven-
lions were all held in Anaconda at the
same time. Nearly all of the delegates
stopped at the Montana hotel, and for
three days the average number fed was
500 at g. meal. MIR. Reynolds served
his full-course dinners in the perfect
style that is his wont, and no matter
how great the rush, all were properly
handled. served in finest style and at
no time was a dish asked for missing.
Mr. Reynolds made nice turn at that
time on some of the other hotel men
who We're present, among them being
L. A, Walker of the Helena hotel,
Hugh I Wilson of the Butte hotel and
| E. w. Stetson OF the McDermott. These
| three gentlemen, knowing the diff
Guilty of meeting such a rush with the
facilities at hand for taking care OF
only 100 or $50 guests, concluded to wait
until the dining room was nearly clear
| and then tax the resources of the house
by ordering everything on the bill of
| fare. They were accordingly the last
to enter the dining room; they ordered
everything mentioned on the menu card
and they colnplimented Mr.. Reyonlds
by saying that they not only received
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place they pleased I would have mail
chutes on every floor.
Il have heard many say continued
Mr.. Reynolds, that a first-class hotel
cannot be made to pay in Butte. If
Mr.. Finlen's friends in Butte who are
interested in a first-class hotel in that
city can induce him to build one, there
is not the shadow of a doubt in my
mind that it will prove a profitable in
vestment, as well as being a pride to
the city. If an up-to-date 150-room
hotel is able to make little money in
Anaconda, a city with $4,000 popula-
ton, certainly cannot see why a house
Of the same capacity would not pay
handsomely In city of five times its
population with no competition. I wish
to say that with the material at hand
it is my judgment that Mr.. Wilson has
done splendldly. 1t is hard to make a
frst-class hotel when you haven't a
modern house with the latest improve
ments."
What would be the plan of the new
hotel?'
Il know of no house anywhere that
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took the hotel under conditions which
were most discouraging, but he has
achieved one Of the most brilliant sue
cesses in hotel annals. Not since theft
month of his connection with the hotel
has he had an overdraft at the bank.
Each year since that time he has paid
to the proprietors profit ranging from
s., coo to $4,000, and in addition he has
each year expended from $1,000 to s10,-
900 in improvements and repairs. This
result is most remarkable considering
the size of the hotel, the comparative
smallness Of the town in which it is
located, the fact that 40 employees are
on the hotels regular staff, the fact
that nothing but the best is served, and
that the cost of goods and of service
is higher in Montana than almost any
Where else.
1t has been the aim of Mr.. Reynolds
to run as good a house as could be
found anywhere in any country. Every
guest and every traveller who stops
at the Montana will vouch for his sue
cess. In the first place everything
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-03
n Strange @isooverY.
Written for the Standard.

Written for the Standard.
/ had been served with o bad egg at
breakfast and had left the table very
much out of temper in spite of the alb
iect apologies of my landlady, who
tried to appease my wrath by telling
me that she had certainly believed the
egg was fresh, as she always bought
the best the market afforded; however,
I refused to be Modified and retired to
my laboratory in disgust, where, In MT
of absent mindedness, I wrote out the
chemical formula for the reaction TAX
ing place in decaying egg.
This occupation gradually drew my
attention to the simplicity of the COM
pounds forming the egg and ! did not
see why it might not be possible to
manufacture very satisfactory sub
stttute, one which would not suffer from
the effects of age, inasmuch as the
component parts could be kept in sepa-
rate vessels and only mixed when
needed.
This rather whimsical idea took COM
plete possession of me and in a few
! minutes I had test tubes and crucibles
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-03
CIV REYNOLDS TALKS ABOUT RUNNING HOTELS
The Most Successful Hotel Manager Entire Gives Some Secrets About Hi
Proession-He Thinks Butte the Best Field He Knows
For First Glass Hotel.

! The subject of the sketch presented
politician Unlike WE. Sanders and
Thomas H. Carter, he has never served
the people in the senate of the United
States, and, unlike j. H. Mccarthy, he
has never been mayor of a city. He
is not in politics, and probably few peo
pie know what the political faith of
George W. Reynolds, manager of the
famous Montana hotel in Anaconda,
may really be.
But had Mr.. Reynolds ever seen fit tc
turn his peculiar gifts in the direction
of politics instead of catering to the
public and managing "a. hotel, what a
sublime success he would have achiev-
ed. Senator Tom Carter is generally
credited with being Montana's shrewd-
est politician. but Mr.. Reynolds, with
a minimum part of the skill and di-
plomacy which he has manifested
in handling people and subduing condi-
lions, should have achieved a pinnacle
. of fame in the political world which
would have left Carter way, back in
the stretch.
There are some things which, in COM
bipaaon, make a good politician. There
are, more things required in the make
up Of a successful hotel manager. Cir
curistances may make a poor politician
and a man of indifferent ability sue
cessful in the political field. But a
man has to be good hotel man to run
q hotel successfully. There is no chance
to run bluff in that field. A few
timely bluffs, a well considered cam
paign lie. a gold brick or two, often
serve to pull a politician out of the
hole. But the guests of a first-class
hosiery will not be contented with a
service Of gold bricks, campaign lies
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stories on account of there being less
smoke and less noise. These floors have
really the most desirable rooms in the
house. In the New York hotels the
highest-priced rooms are on the fourth
fifth and sixth floors.
"And I would serve a table d'hote
dinner every evening from 5 to 8
o'clock at a fixed price. I would also
serve meals a la carte to those who do
not desire a full dinner. I would give
the permanent guests Of the hotel a
discount on the regular prices. I think
this would practically cover both the
American and European plans The OBJ
ject in serving a table d'hote dinner
is to give families full home dinner
with soups, relishes, vegetables, ETC.,
such as they do not get in the restau-
rants
what would be the name Of the new
hotel?"
LAS it would be in all respects ex-
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cept the location an entirely new hotel,
I would suggest that the name be
changed. That matter, however, would
be for Mr.. Finlen to determine.
think the name Flnlen' would be a
good name for the new hotel"
With Mr.. Reynolds as host, a num-
Der of notable banquets have been
served at the Montana the past few
years. One which will be long remem-
bered is that which was given on st.
Patrick's eve of the year 1885, in honor
of Hon. John T. Finerty of Chicago.
Without question the banquet was one
of the most delightful affairs Of the
kind ever given in Montana. The tables
in the spacious dining room were ar
ranged in the form of the letter IF,
out of compliment to the guest of the
evening. The repast was simply the
best thai money and the market could
provide Mr. Reynolds succeeded adj
mirably in making the feast one of the
most tempting and enjoyable ever pro-
vided in the mountains.
1t would be difficult to rival in any
city the banquet given under Mr.. Rey-
nolds supervision, by the Standard, to
the members of the Montana Press asso-
citation and other friends in September
| last. In every sense the banquet was
a success. About 200 guests were served
! in a style that could not be surpassed.
Three tables were arranged the full
length of the dining room, while palms,
masses of roses and cut flowers Of all
kinds turned the great dining room in
TO a veritable bower of beauty. Down
the long tables frequent bouquets &of
sweet peas, dainty tea roses and carna-
lions made attractive bits of color
against the white drapery and spark
ling cut glass. Overhead streamers Of
, national colors led from chandelier to
| chandelier. Beside each plate was a
| daintily designed menu card, the cover
being cream color. on which, in bronze,
was the design of a Cupid splitting a
huge turkey on pen, with the inscrip-
| ton: "A banquet given to the Montana
| Press association by the Anaconda
Standard, at the Montana, September
6, 1899" Within this cover, long and
odd in shape, caught with bow of pale
| green ribbon, was the menu itself,
printed on heavy linen paper.
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{
offer to manage the hotel in Butter"
Il hope not. Mr.. Finlen, of course,
understands that Mr. Daily has the first
call on my services. I would make no
change without Mr.. Days consent.
am perfectly satisfied, however that I
would be able to run both establish
ments to the complete satisfaction Of
both Mr.. Daily and Mr.. Firlen.''
What is your idea. as to the best
plan for running the hotel, should Mr.
Finlen erect it?''
81 would favor making it a Euro
pean house, with restaurant, cafe and
grill room. While grill room is cafe,
a cafe is not a grill room. I would also
have eight or 10 private dining rooms
suitable for the accommodation of
from two to 40 people each. I would
have two up-to-date electric elevators
and have telephones in all the rooms
so that guests could talk from their
own rooms by long distance to any
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broken ice The ice as it melts passes
through the Sack and through the corn
meal and other ingredients, making
pretty good feeding material for the
oysters. They begin to improve i'm
mediately. We fatten them up until
they are as good and wholesome as
though just taken from the oyster beds.
The object of placing them with the
bowl, instead of the fiat side, down, is
that by this means the oysters can
take in what food they want without
losing what is already in
But oysters are not the only delicacy
Of the sea shore which Mr. Reynolds
serves daily on his famous table in the
Rocky mountains. CLANS, deep-sea
crabs, Holsters and shrimps are in as
palatable a condition as though they
were served on the coast.
1--WE treat the CLAIMS just the same
as we do the oysters" said Mr.. Reyn-
olds, except that we put in no ice.
Ice will kill them. We have to keep
a wet sack on them all of the time on
account of the dry atmosphere. If you
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about the house is attractive, every
thing is kept clean and pleasant. The
menu would not only be satisfactory,
but would receive high commentator
served at the most pretentious hotels
of the East or at the most fashionable
summer resorts. On special occasions,
such as banquets or select dinners for
clubs and parties, Mr.. Reynolds has
scored a succession of triumphs, and in
no case has such an occasion been
marred by the suggestion of a failure
in the slightest particular. Mr.. Rey-
nolds' theory has been that for such oc-
casions no edible is too choice, and lie
would get it IL it was to be had in
America
Blue points are a long way from
home among the copper mines of Mon
tana. That fact was recognized by an
oysterman who stopped at the Montana
a few days ago. When the blue points
were brought in on the half shell, the
traveller said:
ooh! no! You can't fool me. This
is too far from the coast to have good
oysterst'
The oysters were taken back. Pres
emily the waiter reappeared with
fresh plate of oysters, unopened, to-
gether with an oyster-knife. The
travelling man opened his eyes and then
he opened the oysters. He is not
through singing the praises of the Mon
tana cuisine yet.
How do you take care of your oys-
tiers Mr.. Reynclds?" a reporter asked
OF that gentleman.
That's very easy matter replied
Mr.. Reynolds. 7 can keep the oysters
alive and in good condition all winter
if necessary. When the oysters arrive
We carefully repack them with the
| bowl or deep shell down. Then we give
them bath, covering them with water,
| salt, cracker meal and bread crumbs.
| We put ice on top of the water and let
! the oysters remain in the bath "a hours
| The ice keeps the water fresh. After
| that We cover the top Of the barrel with
| a heavy gunny sack soaked in water,
| and put cracker meal and bread crumbs
| in the lining, together with little salt,
Then we take half barrel with holes
bored in the bottom and half fill it with
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won't do with the help, bluffs will not
satisfy the proprietors.
1t is not alone owing to the fact of
it's splendid appointments and the lib
crafty and progressiveness of it's own
ers that the Montana hotel in Anaconda
is famed from one END OF the country
to the other, and placed in the top rank
Of Americas obstetrics; those condi-
tons existed from the moment the cor
nerstone of the structure was laid.
Complete success was achieved when
Mr.. Reynolds became manager Of the
hotel, for he brought to a splendid no.
tel what it had not had before-the eX
ecutive ability and the ripe experience
to bring about what the owners of the
hotel had in view when they decided
that Montana should have a hotel
which should be noted through all the
West for the excellence of its APP
pointments and its service
Mr.. Reynolds has always been sue
cessful as manager of elephants. He
has had 80 years of experience as a
caterer and hotel man, beginning with
Chicago. He was manager or proprie-
tor of many of the most famous houses
in the middle West and in the South
for a quarter of century, acquiring q
reputation as one who could make a
hotel pay if it was in the cards, and one
who never failed to make his guests
happy and contented. His success has
been the marvel of the hotel world. He
has often been asked how he succeeded
in making some certain establishment
pay, but he never could answer the
question himself. He simply did make
1t pay and that was all there was Il
it,
It was on the recommendation of Mr.
Frank Rice, editor of the Hotel Re
porter of Chicago, that Mr.. Reynold:
assumed the management of the Mon
tana hotel. Mr. Donohue had consult
ed MIR. Rice and had told him that ht
must have a hotel manager at once
and as good a one as could be obtained
man who could not only run hote
equal to the best, but could make il
pay. MIR. Rice told him that Mr.. Reyn-
olds was the one man he wanted. So
on February "A, 1894, Mr.. Reynolds
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Is nicer than the Montana hotel. In
my management of nearly six years
1 have been unable to see where the
plans Of that hotel could be improved
upon if had to build a complete build
ing myself + would remodel the Nc
Dermott in such a way as to make it
as near as possible like the Montana.
I would, however, have the building
in the shape of the letter u like the
Montana, only 1 would have the u
in the rear.
My object in having the hotel of five
stories is because many families would
prefer rooning on the fourth and fifth
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plans for remOdeling the building, sub
ject, of course, to Mr.. Finlen's ap-
prevail If he concludes to make the
house what I am sure Butte will sup
port, it is likely that Mr. Finlen and
myself will then come to some agree
ment by which I will be placed in
charge of the hotel. If we do not come
to such an agreement, why. in any
event, Butte will have an up-to-date
hotel, which a good hotel man should
have little trouble in handling to the
satisfaction of the public and to the
profit of the owners"
will you leave the Montana in case
Mr.. Finlen makes you a satisfactory
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-18
SAID THE BEEF WAS GOOD
HOWEVER, 1T SHOULD BE
MIXED WITH VEGETABLES.
Witness at Court of Inquiry Testifes
That Canned Roast Meat Is More
Nutritious Than the Fresh Beef.

Washington, April 17.-After devoting
the forenoon to a practical examina-
ton OF the beef supplied to the army
in cans, the Wade court of inquiry re-
called Professor Atwater at 2 o'clock
and he held the witness stand during
the greater part of the afternoon. He
expressed the opinion that pound for
pound, the canned roast beef was of
greater nutritive value than fresh beef,
but suggested that unmixed with vege-
tables it would not prove so acceptable
q ration.
Colonel Weston of the commissary
department was also recalled during
the afternoon and examined with refer
ence to the supplies furnished the
troops in the field at Santiago.
There was examined a miscellaneous
collection of canned roast beef which
had been accumulated at the Wash
ington barracks from various points
in Cuba and Porto Rico The $50 cans
inspected represented nearly all of the
various brands in use during the island
campaigns. Among other brands was
the white labelled red can about which
there has been much conflicting testi-
mony. All of the cans of this brand
that We're opened were found to be
good.
MeIlDSTS Ol TIE COulI SlL4piCb q
number of cans and said unofficially
that they had frequently seen the time
when they would have been glad to
get anything as good while on an
Indian campaign in the west. OF the
$50 cans, six were found to be defec-
tive from either rust, nailholes or
rough handling. They were opened
and found spoiled. Only one 'swelled''
can was found.
Professor Atwater. replying to a ques-
ton from Colonel Davis, said that the
ordinary chemical analysis does not
reveal the presence of any materials
which might be Objectionable. Veal,
with a little fat added, might not be dis
tinguished from beef. or for. that mat
ter, mutton, pork, horsefesh or dog
flesh might be so cooked as to not be
distinguished from beef. He said the
principal articles extracted and lost in
parboiling beef for canning We're the
meat bases and the mineral salt. but
that the meat bases were not tissue
builders and therefore not essential.