The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-21
AN EDUCATIONAL TOUR
The Burlington Excursion Has
Arrived in Butte.
PLEASED WITH THE CITY
Were Given q Smoker at the Traffic
Association Club Rooms-Will VISIT
the Mines and Then Go to
~ Anaconda,

The passenger men Of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad, who are
making their annual educational tour
through the West, arrived in Butte at
. about 5:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon
over the Great Northern from Helena
and will remain in the city until this
afternoon, when they will visit Ana
conda. There are "a passenger men in
tne party. headed by General Passen-
ger Agent P. 8. Eustis, as follows:
Division Passenger Agents w. j.
eO'Meara, Boston; j. NJ Bechtel, Bur
lington; w. M. Shaw. Cincinnati; W.
J. Davenport, Council Bluffs; H. e.
Heller. Philadelphia; Travelling Passen-
ger Agents II. r. Houghton, Boston;
E. P. Wyne, Chicago; A. s. Crawford,
Galesburg, ILL.,; A. L. Eidemiller St.
Paul; E. L. Wright, Peoria; c. D. Hag-
erman. Pittsburg; T. L. Birkett, Pc
oria; w. D. Cornell, Philadelphia: A.
D. Spur, Chicago; f. H. Ellis, Chi
cago: H. S. Jones, Omaha; Passenger
Agents E: A. Abbott, Chicago; W. J.
St. Louis; T.. Valentine, ST. Paul; J.
r.. McElroy. Minneapolis; J. r. Grif-
fits, Chicago; F. e. Bell, Chicago.
The party left Chicago in their
handsome car, Glover" last Friday
evening at $3.50 o'clock and the follow
ing day was spent in st. Paul and
Minneapolis. They left st. Paul at
1875 in the evening over the Great
Northern and arrived in Helena at
10I5 yesterday morning, and left for
Butte at 1855 The members of the
Butte Traffic association, who had ar
ranged to entertain the tourists while
in the city, met them at the depot and
nj fn ia fvsf RI
the McDermott hotel for dinner and
afterward to the Silver Bow club, but
on the way up town some one diSar-
ranged the plans, and while number
OF railroad men went to the McDermott
to receive the visitors. others took them
direct to the club. After short time
pleasantly spent at the club rooms the
party was taken to the hotel for dim
ner. Following that the visitors took
in tire town, and at II o'clock, as the
guests of the Butte Traffic association,
participated in a very enjoy able affair
termed a smoker" at the McDermott
Many of the visiting passenger men
after that took in the town some more,
and from what they saw of It they all
agreed that the town was worth TAX
ing in.
G. T. Ross of Great Falls, superin-
tendent of the Montana Central, ac-
companied the tourists from Helena on
MS private car, ana n. .. sesuf OF
Billings, H F. Ruger of Helena and
G. H Gould of Miles City, all Bur-
lington agents. also. Joined the party.
This forenoon the railroad men will
VISIT some of the mines and shelters
Of Butte and at IDS this afternoon will
go to Anaconda and inspect the smell
tiers there, leaving that city over the
Northern Pacific tomorrow evening
and going direct to Billings, and from
there to Edgemont, Hot Springs, Dead
WOOD Spearfish, Lead City, Lincoln
and Omaha. From the latter place
they will make a daylight run on the
Burlington's Denver fast train over the
new track to Chicago
THE objects of the trip" said Gen
eral Passenger Agent Eustis to re-
porter for the Standard, ARE that our
passenger men may see the different
prominent points in the West, meet our
general agents and prominent people
and LEGAL ticket agents; note where
the depots are, the distances to hotels,
posted that when they talk to passen-
gers they can talk not of what they
read, but of what they saw. We have
made these trips once or twice every
year since 1890 We never know
where our road will go to in time, and
we are engaged in business of passen-
gers and freight all over the East and
West. We have such big road that
1t is necessary to go out and person
ally study It,"
In answer to a question regarding
some of the great improvements made
on the Burlington during the past year
Mr.. Eustis said:
During the last year great deal
OF money was spent in reducing grades.
removing curves and building a second
track. Some of this work was done
in Nebraska, but chiefly in Iowa and
Illinois, and we could not improve cur
equipment materially because we al
ways had the best there was. But ex-
perience has taught the wisdom of re-
ducing the grades and curves so that
the tracks may be as level and straight
as possible, A road that has to make
the time we have to with our fast pas
senger and freight trains has to have
motive equipment and road way of the
very best"
Mr. Eustis was asked as to his knowl-
edge of the Burlington's intentions to