The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-25
new y0RK'S HOT WAVE
A Little Common Sense Makes
1t Comfortable.
MONTANANS IN THE EAST
Enjoying Themselves at the Suburban.
Wally and Jerry in the Thick
of It--A Few Words
on Reform.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
New York, June 20.-Another hot
wave. another season Of sweltering, in
creased ice bills, decreased size of ice
cubes depression on the streets, especi-
ally among the pedestrians, and yet the
city is not so unbearable as some of the
weather cranks would have you be-
lieve.
Up to date but very few days have
been really oppressive and even during
the extremely hot spell little common
sense aided very materially in the
struggle for comfort. The man who
rushes wildly about, not knowing eX-
actly where he is going, who CLIMBS
stairways on the jump, runs madly
after an elevator when another will
pass his floor in a few seconds, goes
peil nell after street car when an
other is at his call, and gulps down
numerous doses of firewater because
the ices of the bar look cool, is certain
to damn the weather. He will swelter
and wilt and suffer and swear and
wonder why the Lord should make such
an awful mess of things on this revolV-
ing sphere. On the other hand, the in
siividual who takes things as they come,
knows where he is going and gets there
without excitement, seeks the shady
side of the street and moves without M
dulging in a foot race with the other
pedestrians, drinks only such bever-
ages as are devoid of the little red de-
wills which raise hades as soon as they
gain admission to the stomach finds
that he is enjoying life and accomplish
6ng infinitely more than his excited
brother.
Of course there will be ample 'oppor-
stunity for the atmosphere to become
practically unbearable during the next
two months. Thus far the conditions
have been far from killing to the sensl-
BILE being, but even the conservative 8
tune may be changed before August
has closed it's furnaces and turned on
the borealic breeze. Last summer was
indeed a record breaker One cannot
forget the SunStrokeS and suicides ana
the dead horses on the streets, and it is
to be hoped that the summer or W Will
be less severe.
At present the evenings are dellghtful
and the New Yorker is enjoying life
The westerner, accustomed to the pfac-
ing mountain air, feels the warmth
more keenly than does the acclimated
FASTENER. but as a rule the Montanans
who come have the ducats with Whlcf
to go to the sea shore and listen to the
sea waves sing their old, eternal song
And the Montanan seems to enjoy
himself better than the average sea slat
deyotee He gets more in the way o.
real pleasure out of the pillows ant
mas a higher appreciation of the glorie
of the voiceful deep.
The two happiest men at the Su
burban We're w. w. Walsworth OF tn
Standard and Jerry Flanagan of Grea
Northern and Havana fame
I met them just before one or the III
teresting preliminary races and the,
were the real thing" acting, as al
Butte men do, as though they were
home anywhere and under almost an.
conditions Both are old New Yorker
and the Suburban was one OF the event
which seemed to remind them of HON
mo matter whether their former Ne'
York home or their present abode II
the West.
The crowd was a little larger thai
that which you have seen at the Butt
track but practically the same /
makeup. AS for the betting, it is no
to be compared, in the sense OF con
venience, with that which adds interes
TO the meetings in Montana The pres
ent New York law is the product q
hypocritical reform. That is to say
while it does not prevent betting,
makes it as inconVenient as possible 70
the hettor. There are no stands or plat
forms, such as you find in Butte c
Anaconda, where the list of horses an
the odds are plainly seen by the crowt
The pool sellers are found in the mids
of an excited group Of spectators
seated on a chair or barrel, hidden fror
view and transacting business in
manner that gives the hurrying sport
a severe pain. You fight your wa
through the crowd to find that you ca
receive no ticket or other evidence of
bet. Your name or the number of you
admission ticket is taken and your be
is recorded in a book which is held ur
steadily on the knee of one of the hit
den 'bookmakers." After the race 70
. return to struggle for an interminabl
time for an opportunity to be identifie
and collect your winnings. If you fol
got to take the name of the man wit
whom you recorded your bet you wi
roam about helplessly until some on
see Mr.. Cavanaugh, a courteous littl
gentleman, near a stationary stand, h
will straighten you out.
Cavanaugh takes your address an
the number of your ticket of admissio
and tells you that in a week or so
will send you a check, provided tn
books show that you really made
winning bet. Then you think of n
unsteady book on the knee of the SUI
rounded man on the barrel and wonde
what the reformerS gain by the Law
Your bet may be lost in the shuttle, bl
the reformers will not get it.
AS for "Wally" and Flanagan,