The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-24
ANACONDA NEWS.
|QU|ET DAY IN ANACONDA
1.-TWO Thousand People Went
i From Here to Meet the Boys.
ALL BUSINESS SUSPENDED
& Trains on the B, A. u T. h. n. IN
~ the Morning Crowded With
4 People Eager to Take Part in
" Butte's Celebration.
ALL BUSINESS SUSPENDED

81 The business portion of Anaconda dld
d not throb with activity yesterday
n nary a throb
N If one had placed a eating gun at
n the court house and pumped GOO balls a
q minute down the city's chief thorough
Il fare he would have nit no one, Saw
n perhaps. a few lonesome men putting
IN decorations or a newspaper man
q Or two who had to stay home % get
q out the paper, on some lohes 'fhe-i'o
Il ing opera people. who mad blown III 10
y sing Wang :,
N Anaconda turned her working Doru-
II Ia SON over to Butte yesterday. Those
Il who did not go to Butte remained rome
II rather than be seen on the street. ~
y seemed that nearly everyone in town
/ wanted to go TO the smoky city 10
Il welcome home the volunteers.
Il Sunday a considerable portion of the
IL population went over 10 get in on me
~ ceIebration early Yesterday morning
L the main body went.
More than 100 return trip tickets
Il TO Butte We're sold at the B., \. II T.
4 depot yesterday. but this does not lnai. ;.
II cate by any means the full strength OF
J the crowd. Many Anaconda people have
4 a penchant for travelling on passes.
II Few passes on the B.. A. & F. were
4 unused yesterday. In addition to the
Il deadheads there must be taken into
4 account the tickets sold on inc
4 train. a complete return OF
which had not been made up
u to last night These will aggregate a
considerable number, for many did not
4 want to remain IN line at the ticket
office but rushed for the cars so that
they might secure seats.
Superintendent McCabe OF the b., A.
II & P. estimates the total crowd that
II went to Butte from Anaconda during
the day al 1000.
i The larger crowds went on the first
Y two trains. The one leaving at I
O'Clock bore crowd whose num Lnn
General Agent Talbot estimates at 'o9.
N There were four cars to compose we
Z train but six more had to be added.
On this train went the Anaconda band,
4 81 pieces strong. Charles Laurenson
4 was in charge as the leader and me
dignified drum major was K. ,. Men
rum chief of the fire department,
M At $40 O'Clock there We're nine coach
es in the train and about 500 people
i were aboard. The II o'clock train had
\ eight coaches and the Ills train SIX.
n The Copper City train came in packed
Il to the doors with an enthusiastic cfo wa
IA from the Bitter Root tanning the
~ three coaches. Three more coaches
III were added here to relieve the conges-
IN tion and to carry the additional crowd
u that got on here.
II After the Copper City had left there
n was uuietneSs for several hours. The
Il afternoon trains carried few belated
"A celebrants but the business was tut
4 little in excess of the regular traffic.
Business houses had upon them an
4 air of Sunday quiet and also some dec
orations. More decorations Will go vi
!, y in
the wind and threatening rain would
4 have bad effect upon them if they
remained in place over night. Store
windows were dressed in patriotic col
\ ors and several with appropriat e
groups and figures. One window con-
& tanned a figure of khaki uniformed sol
I der being greeted by girl with Cars
red hair" while posted on the Win
dow We're the verses, clipped from the
Standard. telling of the ruddy haired
damse who babe farewell to the regi-
ment when il left San Francisco for
< the Philippines.
Down at the city hall the fire depart
ment boys We're doing things to the big
building. On the Cedar street side, over
the entrance to the fire headquarters
were the stands in which will blaze
& forth in a multitude of electric lights
= tonight the inscription: Welcome
Home, Boys" A shield over the dCol
Z bore a picture of the Maine. surround
ed by electric lights. Further north on
the building, in similarly illuminated
, shields, while portraits of Dewey and
& Schley. while on the Main street side
4 was still another shield with a portrait
Of Sampson. All over the building flags
and bunting were draped. and red
N white and blue electric lights were
placed. Three hundred Of these lights
]. will illuminate the walls of the build
N ing tonight.
Other Ella bOrate decorations are to be
N seen all over the city, not only N The
Y business houses but on the residences
as we'll Simple but most imposing
win be the decorations of the Hearst
4 Free library. where the huge stone Pill
lars will be wound With red. white and
blue streamers.
On the bank was notice: Closed in
4 honor of the return of our soldiers.
The drug stores kept open until -: so
{ o'clock when they followed tha exam
pie of the other business houses and
closed their doors.
The county offices We're 0Nen Osi, ial-
! ~, but the office of the clerk an roe
/ ! order was about :he only one thtt nd
any business.
By special permission " ne pas ;uf-
Z fee department the pustatiirc was
closed during the day. al.h ou.;n sncl
closing on holidays less than nati1na
in character is almost unprecedented
. in the history of the United States pos
tai service.
The day, for the most par. wa