The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-31

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to the Beach. see Pains fireworks, hear
Sousa's band and enjoy Frank Daniels
and his company. Then you get a
| broiled live lobster and go to bed where
| you can hear the waves rolling UP en-
the beach. It's all right. They may
tie it, but they can't beat it. Then in
the morning you put down bluefish,
read the morning papers and .'et
around Then you take a bite Of
lunch-a few oysters or pompano or
half spring chicken or maybe broil-
| ed live lobster. Then you take it easy
| over to Sheepshead and have an early
| talk with Ferguson or Upton or Billy
Randall or Hennessy, the old Montana
| jockey, and size up the bunch. Then
| you go up to the betting ring and lose
| your money. If a man can give you
| good tips in Montana don't size it UP
that he knows it all in New York. At
| that they are all good fellows.
But that betting! Talk about ny
pocrisy! Why should man pretend
! to be good when he isn't? Why should
a city pretend that it is too good to
permit gambling and yet allow it on
the wholesale? 1 am not moralist.
don't have time. Time is too valuable
for me to spend time in that game. II
you are gambling, why try to hide 1t?
If you permit betting on horse races,
why try to make out that you don't?
Why not own up and be good fellow?
Then you will be respected and make
nearly as much money. AS moral
city. New York is dead, hard failure.
How did you make out on the
s.ock?"
Stocks give me no worry. You can
notice that / am not looking at the pa
pers to see whether they are up or
down. l am not worrying about stocks.
They said that I had bought string
of race horses, but didn't bring back
any in my grip. At the same time l
didn't go hungry while I was in New
| York. My broker is taking care of my
| interests and whether the stocks go up
or down, it doesn't phase me-
When Jerry Flanagan landed in Ana
conda a few days ago, his grip was the
! subject of much comment on the part
! of those who saw it in the porter's
quarters before it was sent up to Jc~-
rvs ROOM 1t was plastered all over
| with foreign labels. There was Cher
| bourg'' and Hamburg and Paris. "
The labels didn't mean that Jerry had
| been across the water. They simply
meant that, as is his invarable way, he
made himself a good fellow with the
head baggageman in New York depot
as he does with everybody else. He has
a way of making more friends in less
time than any other man East or West
| The baggageman stuck on the labels
until Jerry scarcely knew whether II
was his grip or somebody's else's.
But the trunk was worse sale
Jerry. You ought to see that; you'o
think I had been around the world
But maybe you think the tags on the
grip count nothing. When you go into
the Pullman with your grip all plas
tered over with them foreign labels
Mr.. Niger gives you all he's got an'
all he can get. He thinks you are some
body, and he loses no time. At tina
| got cheated on the grip. ! paid III
for it at Twenty-third street. and MAJ
it sent to the Hoffman. Then l walked
down town to meet Haldorn and Franz
Mcguire. At Third street I saw tn
same grip offered for $14.9S"
How about the railroad business
Do you think you'll ever go back?'
How can l help it? The best thin
on earth is travelling in private ca
and visiting the big towns, where Their
is something to see. But next to That
the railroad business. l couldn't leav
ii if i would, and l wouldn't if | coulc
There is something so fascinating abou
the railroad business that l would b
lost at anything else. If | am out
, it a month or so, / long to get bac
: | in again. | am lost at anything els
And then. what makes it so niue
pleasanter, ] have always been treate
: so well by the Great Northern peopl
If mans half white with the Ores
/ Northern railroad, it is the best raj