Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-11
THEY RANG
up The FARES
THE LADY CONDUCTORS OWNED
THE STREET CAR LINE
TODAY.
CHARGED ALL THE
TRAFFIC WOULD BEAR.
The Ladies of the Episcopal Church
Will Assist at the Catholic
Fair.


Charge all the traffic will bear was
never meant for the ears Of the general
public, but it leaked out. nevertheless,
and the ladies of st. Johns guild have
taken advantage of the great railway
magnate's advice with a vin that has
made many an unfortunate mourn. IT
Coils were alive now he wou probably
discharge his whole force and secure
fresh recruits for the Southern Pacific
service among the fair ones Of Butte.
Every car in the local service had d
lady conductor at 8 O. clock this morning,
armed with a bell punch ana y dazzling
smile that took all the bitterness away
when bout 95 cents more than the regu-
lar fare was collected. Tbs first Grew"
vas composed as follows:
Cemetery line, Miss Marthc Fish;
Meaderville, Mrs. D. VI. Newbro, Miss
Kitty Sullivan, Mrs. Joseph Dawstn;
South Butte, Mrs. ~'1aor;se Potter, Miss
Helen Martin, Miss Daisy Dawson: Gen.
~terville, Miss Helen I1!ton. Miss Lowry.
Mrs. w. e. wills IN; South Main, Miss
Helen Pfouts, Miss Emma Biol.
Among those who were listed for this
afternoon, beginning at 3 o'clock, were
Miss Alice Lowry, Miss Furey and Miss
Jean Sullivan for the Centerville line,
and Dean Allen, Miss Folliarl and MIS-.
J. H. Smith for the South Butte line.
Along with the ladies went the regular
conductors of the to see that
things We're conducted according to
Hoyle, but they weren't gust the same
they were conducted strictly in Accord
ance with the policy OF %tlnancicr Eetty
Green. And not u conductor interfered.
1t was fun for Them and they didn't in
tend to let a est ct construction of the
constitution lesson tlltir enjoyment Uf
the occasion either.
One passenger TOOK 4 car to Meader-
vile and gave the venus wh1 rang UP
the fares 25 cents. He got no change and
hadn't the heart to MAKE any kick
| about it. Two hours larer ne returned
and explained to his friends that as rs
| cents, was, all he had, he was forced to
wait at Meaderville and ride in on a
butcher wagon.
A stranger in town, a man not cogniz-
ant of the situation, toook a car for the
railway depot n rendered the d
tor a dollar. He got no change and
made a spirited protest. He even told
his troubles to a policeman and ex-
plotted them at the depot. The Cop
was dumb and everybody else only
laughed. At noon the condu ,!ur proudly
turned her dollar into the Golfers OF the
company.
An hour later Mrs. Mitchell rushed
into Manager Wharton's office and
breathlessly petitloned him to tell the
ladies they must give back change to all
passengers.
We'll have a riot, sure, if you DON'T
she protested.
That's right; we WILL" added two
ladies who accompanied the protestant.
"Oh, 1 guess not" laughed the good
humored
But he went down and told the fair
conductors they must keep the change
only where they personally. knew a pas
senger or where no objection was made.
He saw something himself along about
that time which made him admit that
the ladies knew a thing or two them
selves.
just as Wharton entered a car a gen.
tleman who was acquainted with the
conductor handed her so cents and re-
marked:
ct guess that is all I'll ever see of that
money" .
you're right was the answer, and
the money went into her reticule. No
n came out, either.
"Oh Lord!" groaned a man who witt
messed the performance, I'm up against
it hard. The smallest coin I awe is a
dollar"
He handed her the dollar.
She glanced at the conductor for in
structions. A little optical ~telegraphy
and then the dollar also went into the
r~eticule and the stranger bowed his head
and meekly" submitted to his fate. -
Halt the proceeds of today's earnings
lis that the right word?-go to the
ladies of st. Johns guild. and it is fair
to say that a tidy sum will be retlaxed
to go toward the construction of the new
Episcopal parsonage.
Not a single ''dead-head" boarded 4
car today; the free list was suspended
and policemen and newspapermen had
to hand out their coin as well as did
anybody else.
The Auditorium was crowded again
last evening, and the bazaar is proving
a grand success in every particular. To-
morrow evening the fair will close with
a grand ball.
The annual Catholic bazaar will begin
tonight in Miners Union hall and will
run for the remainder of this week and
for three days next week.
Carpenters started the work of build
ing the booths and fixtures this morning
and all will be in readiness for mirth and
revelry by this evening. AS the ladies
have been engaged in collecting dona-
tions for weeks, the stock of goods to
be sold will be unusually large and of
many varieties.
If there is one principle the ladies of
Butte seem to be welded to, it is recip-
rocity. Since the Catholic ladies have SO
generously assisted the ladies of st,
Johns guild, a number of the active
workers in the Episcopal and other
Protestant churches will now take a
hand and help out in the laudable de-
sign of the Catholic fair, the principal
intention being to raise funds with which
to pay off the debt hanging over the st,
Lawrence parish at Walkerville.