Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-26

bottles, pop you know, wired together,
all the same as opera glasses. After the
first turn the whole Is put those opera
glasses up to their eyes and the effect
was startling. The house of course
caught on and there was lots of fun.
''One man. who posed as an end man,
was about the worst of the lot and they
made an example of him. He was billed
as song and dance man and when he
did his little stunt they hOwled over
him and said he was the only real thing.
They kept him responding to encOreS
until he could not move. The perform
ers We're plainly scared, for Butte had
a reputation in those days Well when
that fellow just could not wiggle, one
OF the ring leaders shouted, let's hang
him. and someone held up a rope and
they all started pel nell for the stage.
He didn't wait for them. He just gave
one yell and levanted. He got out the
back way and never came back. And
they lost performer for he did not re-
join the show down the road And that
is the way whole lot of the fakes now
ought to be treated
Tell US something about the music
ians here in early days?" urged the
crowd.
The musicians eyes twinkled "All
right. Did you ever hear about the
time GEORGE lOuu SeFendueu MS COLI
stituents? No! Well that was a musi-
cal event all right.
Todd was saloon keeper and had
place in a log cabin right where the
Owsley block stands now. Well. he ran
for alderman and was elected by a large
majority and he naturally wanted to
celebrate, no tame, hire-the- band-free-
drinks and -sandwiches celebration. 1t
was in what would now be the third
ward. There was just one brick store
in town, on Main between Park and
Broadway. 1t was owned by Bill Owsley
and the upstairs was used as hall.
The under story was store 1 think.
Butte had a good band in those days
and AL Dusseau was the leader. Todd
went to Dusseau and made him let him
take all the instruments belonging to
the band. Then he carefully selected
a man for each of the instruments, each
man a particular friend. He selected
only men who had no music in their
souls and who could not tell one note
from another.
1.-THE only way to get on the roof from
this hall was by means of a ladder. 81
Marks,a brother of Dave Marks of Hell
ena, was induced to take the ladder away
after Todd had marshalled all his men
upon the roof. Just as soon as the lad
der was removed the band started in
and such a discOrd was never heard be-
fore or since That band in Ringling's
circus which was supposed to be the
worst in the world wouldn't have been
in it. In about two minutes the crowd
began coming and it was not long be-
fore everyone in town not disabled in
seine way was on the scene. No one
knew what it meant and they wanted to,
badly The crowd got so massed to-
gether that Hank Warfield, father of
Carlos Warfeld, who was city marshal
at the time, became alarmed. He de-
manded the reason for the outrage.
Todd just stopped leading long
enough to tell him it was a serenade
and then they started in again worse
than ever. Warfield commanded them
to stop. Everyone in those days carried
a gun, tempers We're mighty uncertain
and a big crowd seldom got together
without someone getting hurt. Finally
he ordered Todd to tell him what he
meant.
why, Hank" explained Todd. "any
one has got a right to have a serenade.
You know it is common here. I'm SER
enading my constituents" And the
crowd just howled.
''Warfield sent for a ladder and having
had all the fun he wanted, Todd came
down quietly followed by his band
Arrested? Well I should say not. Times
were different then and a man could
have a little fun without getting run in.
What has that got to do with the adj
vancement of Butte. Well, a whole lot
If you'll just take a day off and figure
1t out"
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