The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-08
Re TURN OF A PROD|CAL
Pleasant for His Family, but
Hard on His Creditors.
POLITICAL Mr.. BRAYTON
He Shakes the Dust of Anaconda From
His Feet to Go Home and Taste
the Fatted Calf-His
Career.

"A. NJ. Brayton, the pOetlCal Mr.
Brayton, college graduate and East
Park avenue versifier, who was COM
PEELED by untoward circumstances to
sell clothes for a living instead of &C.
voting his life to literature, has gone.
The Silver hotel at 800 East Park ave-
nue. where, for the two and one-hal If
months he lived here Brayton resided,
knows him no more, and the proprie-
tress, Mrs. K. NJ. McGregor, is wonder
ing if she will ever receive the money
Brayton owes her.
In the expressive, if ungrammatical,
language of the street, Brayton has
flew de COOP He is supposed to be
at the home of his mother in La Crosse,
Wis, dining upon dressed veal and do
ing the returned prodigal act. From
there he has written to some of his
creditors that he will pay them. They
hope he will.
Brayton is about &c years of age, well
appearing. bright and charming COM
panion. He is a graduate Of the law
department of the University Of Wis
consin, having been there at the tire
several members of the Anaconda bar
We're drinking from the same fountain
of knowledge. When Brayton came
West to seek his fortune several months
ago he dropped off the train at Butte,
liked the place and remained until, &C
cording to the story he frankly told
here, his, baggage was Gin soak for IN
paid board bills
He came to Anaconda, fell in with
some of his old college friends who
agreed to do what they could for him
and he decided to remain. One Of these
college friends stood good for a week S
board al the Silver hotel and the neces-
d 1NJ,p
Mrs. McGregor ever received on his ac-
count.
Il understood his friend to say he
would guarantee his board and did rot
hear him limit the time to one week.
said Mrs. McGregor yesterday, when
asked in regard to the matter. II
thought the guarantee was for an in
probably and I have no hard feelings
against the gentleman who made The
guarantee.
I. To keep the wolf from the door Bray
ton took the agency of the Great North
ern Wooden Mills company of Chicago,
a company which does a custom tailor
ing business. Brayton did not over
exert himself in the business, but man
aged to sell a number of suits and over
coats. He would receive a deposit on
each order. usually of about 20 per cent
of the price of the goods. Then the
goods WOulu De shipped 10 MIN, Dlllcu
C. o. D. for the full price and he was
to get them out of the express office
and receive a settlement from the GUS
toner.
But Mr.. Brayton went away sudden
ly last month, bidding no one farewell
and saying nothing TO his customers
regarding their deposits. When their
goods came these customers found them
billed to Brayton with the full amount
of the charge to be paid before they
could be taken out. Some of the Gus
toners wrote to the tailoring company
asking to be allowed to take the
clothes out for the amount still due on
them. This the company would not do
1t was all or nothing-and the goods
went back to Chicago.
Among Brayton's fellow guests at the
Silver hotel was Mr.. Sewall Mr.. Sewal
wanted new overcoat. Brayton took
his order for one to cost SIS, and, need
ing an overcoat himself, took Mr.. Bray
tons old oVercoat in lieu of S.. This
overcoat eloped with Mr. Brayton and
MIR. Sewall has received on overcoat to
take it's place. He still has confidence
in Mr.. Brayton and believes some time
the young man from La Crosse will
make 1t good.
1t is reported another guest at the
Silver house lost fancy vest on some
such a trade
When Brayton went away be carried
no baggage and it is believed, very lit
tie money what he had secured here
having been placed in circulation by
Mr.. Brayton here and in Butte His
mother, who is reported to be wealthy,
sent to a former resident of La Crosse
now residing here a ticket from Ana
conda to La Crosse, with instructions to
put the young man on a train and send
him home.
Brayton impressed those who knew
him as being an exceptionally clever
young fellow who lacked business abil-
ity and preferred a good time and plea
SAINT company to the cares of a COM
mercial or professional existence. He
had literary ambitions, but not literary
industry. Now and then for the amuse-
ment of his friends he would write
verses of rather good quality, grinding
them out without apparent effort, and
occasionally he would make an attempt
at a serious poem. The Sky Line of a
Great City" was the subject of one,
while, like all Versifiers, he indited an
ode ITO a Rose" Among the many
stories he told his friends was one that
he was writing an article on the Clark
episode in Montana politics for an East
ern magazine.
Brayton'S appearance was neat at all
times. He usually Wore a business suit
of small striped material with top
coat and Fedora hat His moustache