Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-01
AT THE SILVER BOW CLUB.

From the apartments Of the Silver
Bow club came a sound of triumph as
the midnight hour approa ched-a shril-
ling note such as must have pierced
the air at the battle of the Little Big
Horn-the sound of voices raised in uni
son in celebration of the dawn of the
twentieth century. The sachems of the
Silver Bow club We're assembled in their
wigwam, adding to the sum total of
the enjoyment of mankind.
The rooms We're tastefully decorated
and brilliantly lighted; flowers abound
ed everywhere, and their fragrance was
not conquered by the odor of the COM
forting Havana. The tables were spread
with feast fit for such mighty chiefs.
and al the proper time it was proved
that altitude does not affect the gus
tatOry nerve. 1t was an informal occa-
sion, and the jubilee Of the braves was
marred neither by set programme nor
by excessive modesty on the part of any
person present. 1t was a feast of good
things. a flow of sparkling wine and
scintillating wit, and the popping of
corks alternated with the cracking Of
freshly imported jokes and jokes that
were not imported at all.
Ho Me Tonkee. or No Take Water
commonly known to residents of the
municipality as e. L. Witmore. O1tici"
ated as master of ceremonies and in
PRODUCED the speaker of the evening,
Hon. Lee Mantle. In happy vein and
with felicitous phrase Senator Mantle
congra tulate ted the braves, who filled the
clubrooms to overlooking, upon the
suspicious circumstances under which
the new century is ushered in so far as
concerns the state of Montana and the
city of Butte.
1.-THE old century has attained her
Nirvana," declared the speaker, land
has been gathered into the bosom of
the past; like jocund day dancing DER
the mountain top young and smiling
century has taken UP the burden Of
years and bravely started out on the
| path marked by hundred mile stones
I which leads toward the goal of eternity.
1--WE have to congratulate ourselves
| upon tonight at this Janus-faced hour,
which looks back along the dusty high
| ways of time to the beginning of the
nineteenth century and peers ahead
| INFO the future, striving to pierce the
| mist Of time yet unmarked and fathOm
| the mysteries of future years. 1t is at
once a gladstone and solemn time, a
| time that st.rs mems souls.
1--WE have grand state whose wonder
lul m11lttfat resources are III une uISt
stages of their development; we have a
! city that for prosperity cannot be
equaled in Two hemispheres: we have
men and women among us that for tall
emit, enterprise, ability and massiveness
| of soul cannot be eXcelled in any other
rart of the world, and last, but not least,
we must congratulate ourselves upon
| the fact that of the Silver Bow club We
can say 'est ESTE perpetua'-it exists;
let it endure forever
| Hearty cheers and handclapping
marked the peroration of Senator Man.
! ties address.
I'VE own the world" yelled mighty
! chieftain. upon whose ilnpressonabe
nature the eloquence of the speaker had
| produced an effect causing his enthu-
siasm to be vented Through his throat.
| Fourteen men immeda tely rushed for
ward to congratulate him.
| AS the whistles began to blow, long
| lines of firecrackers which had been sus-
! pended from wire stretched between
two telegraph poles in front of the build
! ing We're lighted the noise proving fit
| ting accOmpa niment to the scenes of fe-
licitation prevailing in the club rooms.
Men ruched about pressing hands to-
! gether and extending ngratulations,
| and the pOwwow ended in a love feast.
The frecracker demonstration was con-
cluded with a brilliant pyrotechntcal dis
| piav. -
The banquet followed this noisy and
| joyful scene, and the MERRY clink Of
knives and forks and the popping OF
corks was accompanied by the sweet
notes of an orchestra. After the feast
an instrumental and vocal entertainme
, was conducted under the direction OF
/ George A. Clark.