The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-02
The FINEST IN THE WEST
Is the Just Verdict Regarding the
New Montana Bar.
WAS OPENED YESTERDAY
Cost More Than $1O,OOO-The Decora-
tons Are Beautiful-Famo Gus Painting
Of the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Racs Greatly Admired

The opening of the Montana hotel
bar, which is without a doubt the finest
in the country outside of New York
| city, took place yesterday noon and
was a most elaborate affair. At that
| hour the doors We're opened and the
| large number of guests who were pres
ent Immediately entered what is con-
sidered by everyone who has had the
pleasure of seeing it, the most superb
| bar to be seen in the West.
The fixtures We're furnished by the
Brunswick Bake Collender company of
Chicago, at cost which is in excess of
$4,000 All told, the new bar was fitted
up at a cost of more than $4,000.
Everything that money could buy has
been placed in what can now be called
the new department of the Montana
hotel. The working board under the
counter is of the latest device, and the
most modern refrigerators and ice boxes
are part of the new fixtures and are far
from being the least important.
The stand is in the shape of arches
and is made of antique finished quarter
sawed oak wood. More than 500 glasses
of the Marquette style, furnished by j
V. Collins, are placed on that stand
which is ablaze with more than 80 cleo
trio lights. This presents very strik-
ing appearance and with the flower
decorations makes an exquisitely beau
tiful scene. In the left hand corner is
the cigar stand. where can be found the
choicest of imported and domestic
weeds. The lunch counter is also a fea-
ture of the new place and on it can be
found the choicest of viands and delc-
acies of every description.
The floor is parquat flooring. made
of cherry and maple with Greek Dor
der, heavily oiled and waXed. The base
of the counter is finished in marble. On
the floor, right at the entrance, can be
seen one of the finest pieces of wood
mosaic work Imaginable 1t is a design
of the head of Marcus Days famous
Tammany. 1t is made of mosaic inlaid
wood and as specimen of mosaic art
has seldom been surpassed. 1t is the
handiwork of Newcomb of CHI cago.
In the large barrGOm can be found
wine rooms, pillar settees with lazy
backs and tables and chairs of the
same material as that of the stand.
The annex will be finished in the same
design throughout.
The wall and ceiling decorations have
been done by CrGssman and Sturdy Of
Chicago. This is the same firm which
decorated and frescOed the Northwest
and Northland steamers Of the Great
Northern Railroad company These
are considered to be the finest in the
land. The decorations are very beau
tiful and the 122 electric lights VIII 'ch
have been placed by the Anaconda Flee
trio Light company greatly enhance
their beauty
The admiration of the visitors yester-
day was attracted by the splendid
$4,000 painting of Henry Stull repre-
senting the historical match race be
tween Marcus Days Tammany and c.
Walbaum's Lamplighter, which was
run at the Hudson County Jockey club
on Sept 2S. 1898. The painting repre-
sents the two horses entering the last
furlong of the mile and a quarter and
shows Tammany making his run. In
the picture is a good likeness of Gar
rison, the rider of Tammany, and also
of Taral, Lamplighter's jockey That
famous race was won by Tammany by
four lengths. Time, 2:O61&. Both horses
carried 100 pounds. The painting is
valued at $4,000 and is insured for half
that amount.
Another very admirable painting is a
copy of Rose Bonheur's famous s35 900
painting, The County Fair" which is
now the property of the A. 4. Stewart
estate of New York city
James A. Graham, we'll known
Butte man, has beer Engaged as man
ager of the new barroOm.
The manager of the hotel George w.
Reynolds. is to be congratulated on
having given to Anaconda the finest
bar that can be found west of New
York city. and he was yesterday the
recipient Of everybody's opinion of the
place which was to the effect that The
new bar of the Montana hotel is the
greatest thing that was ever seen"