The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1901-1901, 1901-06-10
Or a Recreation Club Which
Failed to Create
HISTORIC OF THE CRIME
Being an Der True Tale of their Trials
and Tribu1ations at SIS
Per.

TUT SOIuc past weeks the gamer
ings of the sports about the Kalispell
resorts have been marked by confiden-
tial relations. There was something
on, which was going to be so good
that folks would fall over themselves
for the balance of the summer trying
to get in on the second floor having
failed to become tenants of the
ground floor. The scheme was one
which in it's entirety as expressed in
posters and small bills, would leave
nothing desirable unaccounted for.
Upon the face of it the prospectus of
the Kalispell Summer club was seduc-
tive. The first management had
promised some things which were in
discreet, at the least, but there are
worse things sometimes than wine,
women and song" The CLUB" could
have better lost a better man than
the promoter who got himself dislik-
ed and discarded his allegiance. How
ever the movement grew apace and
waxed fat. Two days before the
grand fiasco it was given out that 100
membership cards had been nego-
tiated, which at SIS each presented a
nice little capital for a cooperative
establishment. Between Saturday
night and Sunday morning the man
with the hammer was out and great
was the slaughter.
Stages, hand sleds and bobsleds
were waiting at the bank corner at
$3.50 Sunday morning to transport
the favored members of the X. S. G.
to the steamboat landing. 1t was
thoroughly understood that the glad
hand and the 'perfesh' were not to
be recognized in this affair any more
than a man without a meal ticket,
consequently and because of this The
Bee reporter had ticket without a
corner broken or red line down it's
back. There were others but not ex-
actly as many as the wagon loads
showed for.
Demersville was reached in the
course of half hour and the Klon-
dixie, with Capt. Hodge in charge (the
two best features of the trip by the
way) had up steam and was snorting
for passengers when the roll was
called.
Up the gang plank, ticket in hand
passed the eager club members each
one anxious to get aboard before he
was crowded out, but it was remark
able that there was a piano player
and assistant and second assistant,
pugilists four, trainers, spongers Gall
spongers and mighty few plungers) +,
bartenders, cooks and dishwashers,
and general retinue which must
have been sufficient for the feudal
hall of the Duke of York. The paid
subscribers dwindled down to sixty
eight, upon whom the management
had evidently considered forty-two
subordinates not too many for their
needs, for work and pleasure.
Well, of course those club members
were proud when they took in the
elaborate preparations for their enter
tainment. How much more elated
were they when casually sizing up
the stores of provender, which three
good cooks and true were about to
work up into a dream" of banquet.
There never was such layout. Aspar-
agus by the case, lettuce per cwt.,
radishes, onions, coffee and sugar in
regimental quantities and the bread.
God forgive the man who bought that
car load, there were 376 loaves un-
touched and stacked up like fire wood
in the galley, when the club disband-
ed. But besides all the stuff men.
toned there were sandwiches, made
to order evidently, fer they were like
the sands on the seashore. No man
on that boat will dare look sandwich
in the face again for thirty days at
least. Well dispose of this banquet
proposition here and now and quickly.
The bill of fare was sandwiches and
coffee at 8, coffee and sandwiches at
10, sandwiches and coffee at 12-
sandwiches, sandwiches, sandwiches,
coffee, coffee, coffee ad extremis And
during all this time the asparagus
and the lettuce and the strawberries,
$40 worth, was dormant and is yet as
far as the club members know. There
was also pie.
OF the beer and the whiskey there
was plenty and of the cigars too
much. Seven kegs of beer were
brought back home and only three
cases of plain drunk.
The man who got all that was COM
ing to him was Jack O'Neil, heavy.
weight sergeant-at-arms, whose voice
and handclasp and gentle smile kept
away trouble, although once or twice
his hand clasp was not so gentle as