The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-24
KNOWS WHAT THEY WANT
Santa Claus Advised of the
Youngsters Wishes.
MAIL WAS INTERCEPTED
Tho Old Fellow Was Busy and Didn't
Get It, So the Standard Tells
just What to Bring
to Butte.

Postmaster Irwin, or his assistant Tom
Flavin, one or the other, has again been
found guilty of intercepting mail and
whichever is responsible had better look
out or he will get the inspector after him.
This time, however, the guilty party has
not been carrying on the business of In
tercepting to the extent Of former occa-
sions, for the little flok of the city seem
to have acquired the idea that Santa
Claus does not get his mail at the Butte
postoffice any more; at least the number
of letters addressed to him at the Butte
Office is unusually small this year and
this is the mail that some one connected
with the Butte postoffice has been way
laying.
From time to time the little mssives
addressed to Santa Claus have come in,
but Santa has not called for his mail and
the letters have been given to the Stand
ard in the hope he may see them before
it is too late. AS this was the motive
for intercepting the mall 1t Is not likely
after all that he will make any trouble
about 1t.
Here are the requests that have been
made of Santa through the Butte post
office this year:
'Dear Santa Clause: Christmas is al
most here. and brother and I are very
anxious to have it come. The presents
you brought last year were lovely and
we thank YOU very much for them.
Brother would like to have q chest OF
tools this Christmas. but mamma thinks
him too small. He would like a coal wag-
on and a sawbuck and saw. too. I would
dearly love to have little watch II it
would not cost too much. and an UNI
brella. I do not want to seem selfish.
want other little children to have things,
too. We, would like to have a tree. but
am afraid we have asked for too much
already. Good by. We hope you with
have nice drive over the ice and snow,
With love. am your friend,
"ALDREDA SMITH"
This author is much younger, as her
composition would seem to indicate. She
says:
Dear Santa Claus: Send me a buggy
and a black board and I want some dish
es and ] want a little basket want
set of chairs. l want little house,
want little doll and little stove and
/ want a. little bird JULIA CONAN"
Helen is the most modest of all. She
says:
''My Dear Santa Claus: Please bring
me whatever you can. I live at 403 West
Granite street.
HELEN NJ. coPENHARvE."
Ernest wants a full house. His simple
request reads:
''Mr. Santa Claus: Please send to Err
nest Dorais little house full of houses"
Gordon has martial spirit. He asks:
Please. Santa. bring me a gun and
soard, tool chest and ship.
GORDON PRITCHARD."
Albert and Edopard Dorais are others
who make very modest requests. Albert's
request is: PLEASE send to Albert pair
OF skates to fit Ne. IS shoes, and also one
air gun" Edouard says please send
to Edouard one drum; also one wagon"
There We're others that reached the Of
flee, but their authors were evidently too
juvenile to make their requests reada-
Bile. Some of the letters came properly
mailed, but others trusted to the gener
osity of the postofiice department ana
dropped their letters in without stamps.
As Santa takes the Standard, he will
doubtless see the requests made of him
and make suitable response. All the let
tiers were written in the childish scrawl of
the tot not yet old enough to have been
robbed of the happy delusion that there is
a real Santa Claus, and this and the fun
ny spelling Of some of them made their
perusal considerably more amusing than
Is their reproduction.