The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-29

regiment in the first two sections hadIo
await, either at Silver Bow or justsou-
side of Butte. the arrival Of the thih
section. That section reached Dillon 1t
$3.50 o'clock Monday morning. The Di-
Ion folk kept up their hospitalities ID
each newly arrived section, with the re
suit that the third section halted then
"a minutes. So that there's as good a
one hour lost to Butte, for which thi
Butte managers can blame Dillon, Il
they want to-they aren't at all likely
to do it. %&
The moment of the arrival Of the
first section at the terminal. near
the race track, was 1:10 p. m. The
other sections followed Immediately.
It was difficult to start the line.
some Of the boys fell right into the
arms of kindred or friends They were
under no mans orders; it was. at first,
not possible to get them to break away.
After the arrival at the race track,
there We're other delays, irksome, but,
IN instances, unavoidable. These so
consumed time that it was o'clock. al
most to the minute, when it was possi-
BILE to take up the belated march for
town. That would have sent the SOL
diers under the arch at. say, S o'clock.
The point in the programme was reach
ed where the bad weather, so bitterly
complained of, ought to have expedited
affairs rather than retarded them-it
furnished ample reason why the ora
tory should be peremptorily shut Off.
But the management didn't do thing
to these soldiers, and to the shivering
concourse of people, except to draw the
soldiers up in line and compel them to
listen quite two hours while seven men
pumped speeches at them. Indisputa-
bly,, they could have started for town at
o'clock, at the latest. Undeniably,
they did not start until we'll after 6
o'clock, and the speaking business did
it.
The summing up is about like this:
Dillon held the last section an hour
and in view of the success Of the re-
ception there, it's safe guess that Dill
Ion will cheerfully own up to 1t. The
trains, thrown out of schedule, made
road contributed share to the common
woe. There was hardness in reaching
the lunch tables-the soldiers, their
mothers and their other lovers didn't
fret about that at the time. nor do they
now. The women in charge Of the tables
got into a jolly scramble in seeing who
should have the officers at their table,
or n he t1ya of hat {c CD
the womens affair. Many Of the medals
went somewhere else than on the breasts
Of those for whom they were purchased.
and that is a troublesome piece of bust
ness The weather was bad. but that
should have served to hasten the de-
parture from the park-but it didn't
work that way. Several men. selected
to talk entertainingly, had speeches
which they We're bound to get into the
newspapers-thus the soldiers had to
stand out in the Indictment weather and
be made tired.
Not Dillon or the cars or the dinner
or" the weather or the badges or the
soldiers can be held accountable for the
cardinal and fatal blunder of the day
that cost the two hours between and
6 o'clock-hours which. had they been
used in accordance with common sense.
would have saved the day. One, or. at
the utmost, two three-minute speeches
Of official character. would have met the
situation, and the nlace for the pro-
nouncing of these was the court house
front, at the conclusion of the march.
The non essential wind-jamming, tedi-
Gus and miserably out of place, was tho
straw that broke the patience of the
Butte public last, Monday afternoon.