The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-29

donated by some patriotic citizen, and
to whom he had expressed his thanks
warmly. If the bills are paid Mr.. Man
tie does not know how he is to get back
the thanks with which he had, as he
supposed, already paid for the service.
Then, the question is whether the re-
ceipts will be sufficient to pay all the
bills. Some more money will have to
be raised somewhere, and it is a prob
lem where it is to be obtained The
badge sale was a failure. Not nearly
as much was realized from the badges
as the committee had a right to ex-
pect.
Not a small proportion of Mr.. Man
ties daily visitors are those who want
to tell him how it happened. Mr.. Man
tie between times is trying to asccr-
tain who is to blame for the lateness
Of the trains. Railroad officials and
others have been UP before him to ex-
plain how they were not to blame, and
to show how someone else was to blame
This consumes time, of course, but it is
pleasant, and the chairman endures it
all in the patient hope that he will
eventually be able to find out how it
all happened and who is really and tru-
ly to blame. The only responsible party
who has not been up to explain is Mr..
Wharton, the official weather prophet.
He has not had the temerity to even Of
fer an excuse.
It should be said for the chairman of
the committee that with all the trials
and tribulations which have been his,
he never lost his temper from the day
he accepted the duties Of chairman to
the present time. 1t is said that on two
occasions he lost his natural color and
seemed to be getting trif1e annoyed.
Once was when the price of a hall was
some one tried to explain that the rail-
lads were not to blame for the partial
failure of the demonstration.
On these occasions it is said of Mr.
Mantle that he slightly Redeemed and
stroked his chin. But he retained his
equanimity. as he did through all the
trying duties and perplexities of his po-
sition. At least if he ever did lose his
temper. during this trying period, he
did so in the quiet of his private cham
Der, secluded from all the world. If,
after particularly annoying and vex-
atious day, he may in the solitude of his
private room have found relief in the
indulgence of few sundry gnashings
of teeth and tearings Of hair, who can
blame him?
In many important respects, the less
said about the reception of the soldiers,
last Monday, the better. It is fact
that, in regard to several OF it's NEST
essential features it was Notifying
failure. Wherein it involved the large
Butte public and, as well, the visiting
public, that is emphatically the case.
More than that, the suggestion, in
quasi official way, that the blame for
the failure lay with the railroad com
panies, served. of itself, to start up
good deal of talk that has been running
through the week in Butte, with the
result that it is not quite clear that the
fault can, in fact be laid on the rail-
track of the schedules Of the trains that
brought the soldiers over the Short Line
was the Standard. It's record shows that
the first section reached Dillon at 6:0T
o'clock Monday morning. That section
tarried at Dillon one hour and 90 min
utes. Dillon gave the soldiers a splen-
did welcome. The Beaverhead COM
and. naturally enough. the delay was
prolonged. In fact, it would have best
suited many of the men in this com
pany to have ended their journey then
and there.
But, of course, all the members of the