The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-24
HAVE SNAP AND GINGER
Butte the Widest Awake City
on the Map.
THERE'S ONLY ONE BUTTE
Commercial Travellers Ara o One Opin-
ion in the Matter-It Is just the
Place for the Capital of the
United States.

There is no other city on the face
of the earth that can boast of the snap
and ginger that characterizes the peo-
pie of Butte, the most vide awake city
on the map, not excepting one. There
are other hot cities, busy cities and rich
cities, but there is only one Butte"
This much for a starter in CONVEX
eler led in which a Standard reporter
figured as the second and silent party
yesterday afternoon in the writing
room of the McDermott hotel.
Il have visited about every city of
Importance in the United States dur
ing my career as drummer. l know
them all, upper and lower crust. l al
ways heave sigh of genuine gratitude
when l see my route clear to Butte.
| visit this city twice a year, early in
the spring and in the fall, and stay
about a week on each trip. | usually
remain here a day or two after my
work is finished, just to get out and
mix up with the people, to get hold of
new ideas, make new acquqaintances,
see the town and reform my very good
impression of it.
New York is of course a bigger city
in metropolitan way but l can't say
in cosmopolitan way, than Butte is.
There is more to Seq there Indeed
there is too much there. New York is
like some of it's immense Sunday news
papers. You pick up the paper, and
the first thing that strikes you is its
magnitude its variety Of color and
matter, the enormity Of the expense
incurred in getting it up. But when
you start out to read it. you find that
there is more reading matter in it than
you can stow away in the time allotted
to q busy man. The same with New
York itself. Once start out to see New
York. you might as well lay off for a
couple of weeks and see all of it, for
you can't do it and attend to business,
too. It's too bulky.
Chicago is different-it is strikingly
Western in character, but you must
come to Butte to find the real. genuine
1S-karat Western air. Why. every day
l meet men here who used to live in
the East, men who were SO thoroughly
effete as TO give one the impression that
they were incurable. But after they
had lived here for a few months they
lost all that oppressiveness which
formed halo about their very being
down East-they acquired that agree
able cordially so conspicuous among
tllS GLASSES mere. loullt IL my size CS-
actly.
II am not the only man on the road
favorably impressed with this city. |
have been told by others things that
had occurred to me as being about right
regarding this city. I was in Galveston
last December. and one evening crowd
of us happened to congregate in a cafe.
The talk drifted to the good towns,
which in our parlance indicates places
where orders are RAPIDLY secured. Some
one suggested that we take ballot for
capital of the United States. We did
so, with the result that Galveston got
one vote and Butte ten. 1t was later
found that the coored porter of the
cafe had slipped in vote for Calves
ton.
II was in Salt Lake two weeks age
and a merchant won't tell his name
told me that he wished he could so III
to Butte with me. He said that as sOOr
as he could arrange his affairs he in
tended to go to Butte and engage ir
business. He was here last month fol-
the first time and he went back home q
confirmed Buttcite.
Coming up from Salt Lake CHANGED
to make the acquaintance of passen
ger whose destination was Butte. FL