Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-05

won after hard fight. There were sew
eral other asprantS for the honor Of pre-
siding over the destinies of Americas
most arstocratic city, hut the popularity
Of Mr. Garrettson pulled him through,
and in few weeks he will be inaugur-
ated and assume the cares of office.
Only a few short years ago the family
of this man, who has just achieved such
signal honors, considered his career
dismal failure, contended that he had
hopelessy disgraced the family and
treated him with a GOODNESS which was
not far removed from ostracism. For
Garretson had gone into trade. For the
first time in it's history the proud family
name had been removed from the rec
ords of law, medicine. literature, art. and
mingled in the vulgar marts of barter
and sale. Having no profession and
weary of the insupportable idleness of
his life, the progressive and thoroughly
American scion of one of the oldest fam
lilies had defied his people and taken up
a line of work which he believed would
be profitable and consenial His career
had until that time beel, much the same
as that of hundreds of sons of good fam
! lilies, and whose only interest in life is to
| dress we'll and cut a good figure al the
| exclusive functions of their set. The
| aristocratic descent of young Garrettson
| gave him the entree into the most eX-
| elusive circles. By close blood ties he is
| connected with half a dozen of the very
| best Of American families
| Mr.. Garretson is now 43 years old, and
| is graduate of Dartmouth college, class
| og go 1t was the original intention of
! his family that he should follow in the
| footsteps of his father and become a
| lawyer.
For time the young graduate studied
| assiduously, but the ntricacies of Black
| stone proved uncongenia and law was
| abandoned for finance and he entered the
| shipping huose of Rowland & Aspenwall.
| but once again he had made a mistake in
| the choice of vocation. The work
| 2roved onerous and tiresome ard in a
| short time he threw up his position in
| disgust.
This was the turning point in his ca
| reer. Instead of emulating many of his
| fashionable friends and settling down to
| the lazy useless life of a man about
| town the young aristocrat resolved to-
| pat into Immediate execution a plan
| which had been maturing in his fertile
| restless brain for many months, a. .
| which only the fear of a certain outburst
| OF parental protests had Kept him from
| realizing before.
The proud scion Of long line of aris-
| tocrats had determined to embark il
! llade AS he himself expressed it, Il
| had plenty of blue blood and no money,
| but as / did not care to live on ancient
| history l made up my mind that blue
| blood was all we'll enough in its place,
but that bread and butter and common
sense were more in the natural order of
things.
| When the family learned of Garrett.
sons intention their dismay knew no
! bounds. They appealed to him not to
! sully the traditions of the honored name
! with the smudge of trade. and even Of
| fered to help him financially if he would
! drop his plan.
But the future mayor was made of
| sterner stuff With fine spirit he adj
hered to his resolve, and in 1884 estab-
| lished in Newport, under the very shad-
had so often been a guest. modest lit
| tie grocery store, making Il speciality of
tea and coffee. Relatives and his in1lne-
| date family predicted his certain fail
ure and sure sacrifice of his social posi-
| ten. The fatter contingency did not
| worry the groceraristocrat, hut the
| first did. He had all his modest capital
! invested in the business and he knew
| that failure meant serious financial en-
| barrassment and. worse STILL humilia-
| ton SO he planned and schemed,
| worked night and day ard soon had the
| qualification of seeing his little bust
ness begin to grow