The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-01
RECORD FOR QUICK WORK
Is Held by Yardmaster Harry
Atherton's Force.
WAS LOST IN MISSOULA
Proof That the City Is Growing-The
Young Man Refuses to Be Inter-
viewed - Missoula's Roses
Late This Summer.

pulled into Missoula. These trains
were a little late in getting here and
there was necessity for all the rush
that could be rushed in getting them
unlOaded. Mr.. Atherton had his men
we'll organized and it required only
one hour and 40 minutes to unload the
IS cars that comprised the three trains
of the circus. That was good, but when
the loading came Monday night after
the performance, the record of which
the Missoula yard force is justly proud
was established. The facilities afforded
by the local yards are not OF the best
for quick work. but the switchmen and
the engineers were alert and active,
and when the last car was loaded and
ready to pull out, the manager of the
show said: That is just two hours
better than the loading has been done
in any town in the West The circus
people were much pleased with the
manner in which their cars were hand
led, and they had cause to be. The
work was the neatest and uickest that
could be seen. Had the facilities of
the yards been equal to those of some
other places on the line the Missoula
record would have been even better
than it is at present but it is, as it Is,
something to be proud of.
Mssoula is getting to be a big city.
When a man gets lost going home from
a circus and has not taken anything
TO drink that was stronger than the
lemonade sold at the show, then it
must be admitted by enVious rivals
that this town is improving. That Is
just what occurred to well-knoWn
young man after the show Monday
night. He had taken two handsome
young ladies to the evening perform
ance, and when the show was over he
,F he y,-irl
entrance to the big tent was on
Spruce street, and, instead of turning
toward Higgins avenue, the young man
walked the other way. Without MOTTO
ing where he was going, he wandered
on and on, wondering why he dldn
strike Higgins avenue. Finally the
wanderers approached the Sisters hos
pital The young man had seen the
building scores of times, but he came
toward it from the north side and ii
did not look familiar to him, so he
wondered some more. Finally, when 1t
began to rain, he boldly rang the bell
of the hospital and asked the night
porter which was the way to town. he
was told, but the porter looked at him
as if he thought the party crazy. Fol
lowing the instructions of the porter,
the young man-he is called young
nan for the sake of his enthusiastically
reached Higgins avenue, and from
there found his way home without
guide He refuses to be interviewed
upon the subject for publication.
Passengers on the Bitter Root branch
find something to look at in the wreck
of Pat McCarty's wagon load of lum-
Der that is scattered along the track
this side of LOlO. The story of the ac-
cident was published in the Standard
Friday morning. Mr.. McCarty was
driving upon the railway track on ac-
count of the inundation of the wagon
road. He knew that there was no
regular train due at that time and
felt safe in cutting across the wash
out on the track. He did not think OF
the work train that is running over
that part of the line until he saw it
come around a curve just ahead of him.
He jumped and escaped injury, but his
horses were killed and his lumber is
scattered all over a quarter section of
land. He was exceedingly fortunate to
escape as he did
These are mornings when the citizen
who has lately had some relief from the
enforced winter exercise of cutting
wood finds that it is necessary for him
to resume his course of physical train
ing at the push end of a lawn mower.
If he gets up early enough ne mas
that the changed form of exercise is
something of an Improvement upon the
splitting of stove wood, but if he waits
till the sun gets warm he generally
comes to town and finds a man who
will do the work for a consideration.
Missoula's roses have been very tardy
in arriving this season. The chilly
spring that held on so long was not
encouraging to rose culture, but things
are making up for lost time now, and
the roses are beginning to bloom. The
familiar fashioned yellow rose that
grows so abundantly and attractiVely
all over the city is now in the zenith
of its glory, and the immense bushes
with their wealth of gold are especi-
ally handsome this year. The long
waiting has made them more appreci-
ated than usual. The later roses are
just beginning to bloom.
The campus of the State University
is getting into shape. The lawns nave
made an excellent start this month,
and the trees are all thriving in prom
Using fashion. 1t will take but few
seasons to add much to the beauty of
the place and when it does get into
shape there will be no more attractive
spot in the state than this park. The
view from the university grounds this
summer is magnificent. The picture
that the Rattlesuake valley presents
is unsurpassed for beauty anywhere,
and the scene down the valley, toward
the mouth of the Bitter Root, is one
that holds the spectator for long
time.
There is a guard railing around a
basement stairway at the north end
of the YerriCk block that has been for
j long time a favorite roosting place
for lOungers. Fortunately the stairway
is covered with a strong plank plaI-
form, for the screws that hold the rail