The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-07

ing of the day they expected to go to
Anaconda. After going to the trouble
and expense of bringing team to the
city which did not claim to be a high
school team and did not want to be so
considered they are rather chagrined
to see the papers continually speaking
of them as the high school team. and
their chagrin changed to disgust when
they waited all day for the tickets
which We're promised and never came.
1t is probably no more difficult to get a
crowd in Anaconda than in Missoula.
especially since we have no enclosed
ground, and the so-called high school
team might do as others do here, go
down in their pockets for the balance.
But since they do not represent the
high school there is no one to look after
the balance. and without looking after
the balance will be on the wrong side
of the ledger. of course. Anyhow, the
game Thanksgiving, as the university
will meet the agricultural college at
Bozeman on that day.
Arrangements have been completed
whereby the football team Will play
the College of Agriculture and Me-
| chanic Arts at Bozeman on Thanksgiv-
| ing day. The Thanksgiving day game
| these two institutions for several years
| past, and it is hoped this will continue
| SO to be for years to come. The dis
| lance between the two towns is so
great that it is impossible to make ex-
| penses on any day except holiday,
and the games heretofore between the
| two institutions on other days have
been at great loss to the team paying
| the expense of the visitors. Two games
a year between these institutions would
| be very desirable, but unless some
| friends of football put up for a balance
two games are an impossibility. AS the
| THANKSGIVING game was played on the
| university grounds last year the game
! this year will be at Bozeman Two
games were played last year, which
were both won by the university,
though the visitors put up fine game
and contested stubbornly until the call
of time. The game this year will be of
more than usual interest. All arrange
ments have been made and the game
| will certainly occur.
One of the urgent needs for making
the campus look more as though bound
ed by streets is to have the avenue in
| front of the campus widened to its full
extent and to have University avenue
likewise widened. AS it is now the
width of the street in front is, but half
| the width of the street proper, the half
being that which came from the uni
versity. campus, while the other half
has not been marked bv" having the
fence set back. This makes the street
narrow and last winter the snow piled
fence high in drifts. If the street is
widened it will not only add much to
| the looks of the street and campus, but
will also make the snow drifts less
prominent since the fences will be far
Their apart. The attention of the proper
| authorities is called to this important
matter before the SHOWS of winter have
set in.
In this connection it is suggested that
| the bridge across the irrigation ditch be
changed or a new one put in. Most Of
the travel to the university Is across
the vacant common. The bridge across
the ditch is near the northern gate, and
naturally travel is through this gate.
But the wise authorities have so man
aged things that it is impossible to get
on the driveway through this gate and
many of the drivers do not yet know
this. A bridge across the ditch on the
street proper would have the effect of
diverting travel to the front entrance.
Until such a bridge is constructed peo-
pie cannot be blamed for entering the
gate that is unlocked, and through
which they have entered for years.
The question of putting in the middle
board in the walk to the university and
thus make a good road for wheels
should have attention on the part OF
the wheelmen and others interested in
travel to the university. One of the
needs now is a better means of getting
to the university, In the "resent nice
weather it is all right, but in wntes
when the wind is blowing and 1t is
showing or raining the long walk is
quite a task for many. Altogether
there are about so wheels used by the
students and faculty. If each rider
should put in 81 it will more than put
in the extra plank and will thus make
a good road for wheels during the
greater part of the year. Indeed, there
is little of the time that a wheel can
not be used on such a walk. The uni
versity has already put down the walk
as it is for a distance of over a quar-
ter of a mile. which is IN the present
condition all that is needed by foot pas
sengers. The wheelmen' should nush
the matter and have the extra plank
put in.
1t is sincerely hoped that the scheme
of putting a bridge across the Mis-
Rattlesnake will not be abandoned
Such bridge would be a great con-
venience for a large number of students
who now have a long detour to make
in order to cross the river. A humble,
of students from the region of tho Rat
tlesnake near Mount Jumbo would have
their distance more than half short
ened. not to speak of the difficulty Of
crossing the fiat and facing the wind
in bad weather, when with a bridge
they could cut across and have the wind
on the side. The bridge would be a
great advantage to the university, and
all hope it will be built.
p. NJ Reilly & Co.. the grocers.