Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-19

The crew of the battleship Massachu-
sets feel immensely flattered to think
that their mascot, Billy Terror, has been
accepted by C. Oliver Iselin to mascot the
Columbia, in place OF the yellow cur who
occupied that position on the Defender
four years ago. Billy Terror is a speckled
goat Of large sides, long nose, curling
horns and a fine appearance. He was for
merly on the Monitor Terror, and would
have kept the guns polished with his
tongue, if permitted, SO voracious was his
appetite in youth. Billy Terror Massa-
chusetts, of the Columbia, will afford
much entertainment, for he is a cheerful
goat, never seasick and particularly fond
of clans which he manages to open in a
unique way by throwing them violently
on deck. His habits will be much cleaner
upon the spick and span Columbia, and
his tanners will improve, for his place
as mascot in the trial spins will be along
side Mrs. Iselin or the deck of the yacht.
The Rocking Chair Fleet Of the fam
Gus Larchmont Yacht club of the Hud-
son promises itself a sensation. The
Rocking Chair Fleet" consists Of men,
bers, mostly m~illionaires, who though
they belong to a yacht club, never go
upon the water. All summer long they
sit outside the club house and loll under
the trees, in rocking chairs, and rock the
hours away watching the yachts as they
roll upon the sea. The president of the
club has never been to Europe. and has
not stepped foot in anything larger than
a ferry boat in ten years.
But, on the occasion of the big yacht
race between the Columbia n the
Shamrock, the "Rocking Chair Fleet"
/ promises to go to sea. 1t will gather to a
man upon a yacht and sail out to watch
| the race. Seasick and miserable, but pa
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| sacrifice it's feelings for that great day.
! RELIGION MAD.
New York is running religion mad. God
is preached upon every street corner. Last
Sunday evening at 10 o'clock, a tall, thin
man, with an attenuated female as as
sistant, was holding forth to a crowd in
from of the Metropolitan Life on Madi-
son Square, next door to DR.. Parkhurst's
famous church, now vine obstructed for
the summer with it's pastor in the Alps;
not 20 rods away at the corner of Fifth
avenue and Twenty-third street a man
with an English accent was "toiking OF
the wickedness of the world"-and TAX
ing up a collection afterwards. Fou
blocks up, the street evangelist, Mrs.
Rice, was mounted on a chair harangu-
ing the four corners of Broadway to be
saved while it had a chance Mrs. Rice
takes UP a collection after her evening
meeting averaging not less than So per
night, generally MORE, for, as she openly
declares, ut costs more than So to live,
when there is a family and a husband"
Way up town the gospel tent, with
Moody and Sankey, j. Wilbur Chapman,
and all the great ecc!esiastics Of the
country are taking turns conducting
meetings and making converts.
And these people all do good. From
the man who is assisted by the thin, pip
s,,r ca~.,~ ~ %~ H. ~pao NAo~lr {hnrn ~ va
chances for world betterment. People
who never get into the great cathedral on
Fifth avenue are willing to stop or the
street corner; and when they go away
they are bordering the good advice given
by the speaker on the curb. One Of these
men calls his audience together nightly
Rice gathers hers by the song of her
with the notes Of a tally-ho horn: Mrs.
lusty husband whose voice is fit for opera;
the man on Twenty-eight street, whom
we have not mentioned before, sets his
wife singing Where is my boy tonight:'
and the Fifth venue evangelist waves
his silk hat, and says Mother let us sing,
There's is a land that is fairer than
day." and so the audiences gather O.
nights attracted by the noise if not by
the melody.
LATEST IN AUTOMOBILES.
n sensational street car is running
.aososs Twenty-ninth street, past the
Gilsey house and back, by return route,
through Twenty-eighth street, it being a
single track road. This street car is an
automobile, run with storage battery UNI
derneath and controlled by the familiar
lever. 1t is a converted street ear, look
ing precisely like ten thousand other cars
with which New York City is provided.
The singular thing about it is that it
glides along the tracks without trolley
pole or overhead wire. Underneath there
is no cable slot, showing that it does not
go by sub-surface cable. The car has alb
solutely no machinery except it's own UNI
der construction and with this self-mOtor
it runs. The tracks are there merely as
a guide, as the car could as easily run
without them. The tracks, moreover, keep
the car from jolting, and this is a desid-
eratum. AS it passes along the street you
hear the familiar "Teuf Teuf" which ac-
companies the horseless cabs: otherwise
it has no distinctive popularity.
The advantages of such a car are too
numerous to mention. AS long as the bat
terry is kept charged it can not get out OF
order, for there is no trolley line to break.
and no sub-cable strand to eve A
blockade in the street is also out of the
question as the automobile car can leave
the track and serenely sail arOund the OBJ
struction. This is by all odds the finest
thing yet introduced by way Of rapid
transit, and the Metropolitan Traction
; company is sore enough over the thOus-
ands it spent on that enormous spool of
cable for the Broadway route.
Paris is getting decidedly Jealous oveR
our automobile supremacy, and in a pri-
waite letter NJ. Halle, one of the wealth.
lest automobilists in Paris says: I'VE