The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-02
DRESSED UP FOR EASTER
New York Will Show Itself in the
Finest It Has.
MONTANA'S END HELD UP
This States Contingent Will Do It's
Share in Style - Gotham Gossip
About Dinners. Politics
and the Like
Special Correspondence of the Standard.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
New York, March 2o.-Next Sundays
Easter gayeties in this city will find Mon
tana we'll represented. I expect to see
the Montana contingent putting it's best
foot forward and looking as spick and
fine as any of the rest of them in the
famous brilliant toilet procession that
moves up and down Fifth avenue directly
after the close of morning services in the
churches.
This procession is probably the most
richly dressed and the best display of
tasteful costumes to be seen anywhere in
the world. There's no match for it on
earth-if the weather is fair. I say that,
as I believe, the Montana contingent in
New York. which is unusually large this
season, will present as good an appear-
ance as any of them in this splendid pa
geant and 7 say this not as the mere
tossing of an Easter bouquet, but because
l feel very confident that my prediction
will be made good. Every day during this
season. just before the dinner hour, it has
been the fashion for the Montana men
to visit the Fifth Avenue hotel for COM
parison of notes and for the exchange of
news from home. 1t happens that sever
al of these gentlemen have been active
operators in the stock market. They talk
about 'the industrials," about sugar,
about the paper bag trust. about copper
shares and New York Central, and this
they do with all the nonchalance of vet
eran operators The way they tell it,
they are all winners in these deals-of
course, on that score I guarantee nothing,
I simply tell you what they say. At any
rate, this Montana group is made up of
as many good-appearing, good-lookng.
good-acting, intelligent and presentable
men as you will run up against in any
circle in this great city. That has been,
repeatedly, the comment of New Workers
to whose attention I have called the
members from Montana and I have often
heard it remarked that. as Montana is
represented by its sojourners in this me-
tropolis, where the best judges of men
are, the Rocky Mountain state makes an
admirable presentation.
More Americans killed in the Philip
pines. The number of Montanas sons
sacrificed grows rapidly. The valiant boys
from the West are winning new laurels.
They are commanding the respect and adj
miration of the civilized world. Their
names have already been written on the
roll of the nations heroes. They deserve
every encomium and eulogy bestowed.
And yet it seems pitiable that after the
war with SDainn, at a time when the
dispute with the old monarchy is settled
and the American people are congratu-
lating themselves upon their success in
battling for freedom and humanity, life
and treasure is being expended in a war
against the Notwithstanding people of the
Philippine islands. Sentiment on this
subject is undergoing CONSTANT change.
Il GIBBS and flows. The public mind is
unsettled and no one can predict the re-
suit of a political contest on the sub
iect of expansion. On one point we seem
to be united, and that is that there must
be no surrender on our part. The fight is
or and the American spirit must conquer
American authority must be established
in the islands. Uncle Sam cannot yield
to Agunaldo
The resolutions passed by the demo-
cratic convention in Butte have been the
subject of much interesting discussion,
especially among the Westerners visiting
New York. All accent them as notice
that Clark right to a seat in the senate
will be questioned. They struck straight
from the shoulder.
The most important step in the direction
is that taken by the Metropolitan Street
Railway. company, which offers to build
an underground road. The promoters
agree to begin work within three months
from the granting of the franchise. Con-