The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-19
TWAS A DAY OF P|CN|CS
Nearly Everybody Who Could
Get Out of Town Did So.
WASN'T. IT A NICE DAY?
Some People Went to Crystal Springs
and Some to Gregsons'-The Girls
Were Prettily Dressed and the
Young Men Looked Fine.

Yesterday was gala day. 1t was one
of those fair summer days over which
the poet raves and the novelist goes
into ectasies. The sky was cloudless
and smokeess. There was no wind.
The ground was dry. Picnic parties
were numerous. They were everywhere
within a radius of 20 miles of the city.
Lunches were spread under the spread
ing boughs Of the quaking asp and cot
tonwoods The little children toddled
around among the underbrush and 1ell
into the babbling brooks and caused
their parents no end of worry and the
friends of the family much amusement;
for dragging youngsters out of water
on a. picnic day is one of the numbers
on an outdoor amusement programme
that is considered indispensable.
The old family carriage horse laZily
hung his head and didn't once switch
his tail, for the season of flies is not
at hand; therefore the old plug en-
joyed the outing as much as the others
in the party.
AT the break of day yesterday morn
ing dozens of single and double rigs
started out in different directions, some
Basin gulch, others for Nine Mile, more
for Elk park and not a few for Column
bia gardens. The street cars carried
thousands out to the last named resort.
1t has indeed been a long wait, and
now that summer is here the people
are getting all there is to be had out Of
pleasant season.
. Saturday evening and last night
party of 16 men and women enjoyed
l,orSeha ride IN CRYSTAL SpripgS. To
degree the horse is taking the place
of the bike in Butte The wheel is most
in demand in the early spring AS that
season was blank in Butte, much of
the pleasure of the bike was missed.
churches in Butte yesterday was UNI
usually large, Notwithstanding the pre-
diction in some quarters that warm
weather would detract from the size of
the congregations. 1t was the first real
ly bright and warm summer Sunday
of the year, and consequently large
crowds took occasion to attend devo-
lions. The Sunday school rooms were
veritable bowers of sweet young lowell
ness dressed in their airy, attractive
lawns, linens and mulls, decorated with
flowers and ribbons.
There was music in the air yester-
DAY afternoon WneN lIe SDluIiiDld
dens' band played on East Broadway
Here was the large pedestrian of the
bull fight picture house, running at full
speed, grinding out all those latest anG
popular melodies in B fiat. Across The
read was the California orchestra ring
ing out the glad welcome of a newer
day; down the street half a block was
blind man industriously working or
the lively end of a hand organ. Up
CT in ia he
rag time melody of the latest cake
walk, and in a barber shop a few doors
away was a rehearsal of a quartette o,
harmonica experts. Down the stree
still further was the Salvation army
band. This music was a kind of con
Meeting link between the Broadway
noises and those emerging from a mys
terions musical box which is daily max
ing life pleasant for residents of Eas
Park street near Main That is thu
loudest and strangest noise that eve
broke away from an enclosure. Fur
Their east on Park. in an upstairs apart
ment, an amateur mandolin and banj
band was trying to drown all the othe
sounds and that made things lively il
that quarter. Consequently the entir
block bounded by Main, Broadway
Park and Wyoming was hive of mel
ody
There must be some mean men left il
Butte. They do their petty, dirty worl
early on Sunday morning, when the.
should be attending devotions and pray
ing for forgiveness of their sins. The,
certainly ought TO be good on Sundays
even if they are not on other days. Blu
they are not. The honest man is Obliget
to come to the Standard office and reg
lister his kick when, indeed, he wou