Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-16
Hotel Gossip

j. r. Donohoe registered at the Butte,
travels for the shoe house of Kellogg.
johnson & Co. of St Paul. Mr.. Donohoe
is a talker. (his Celtic name clearly in
dicates that gifD. and one time at Ana
conda challenged the editor of the Stan /
dard to debate certain matters on polit-
ico-economicS. in which both differed. at
any place a committee might select. eth !
er in the rotunda of the Montana hotel /
the theater or the race track. The de- 1
bate did not come off. All hands took
drink at the Montana bar,
49, 4
Mr.. Donohoe knows every mile of this
western country, he says. and has trav-
eled over it before steam horses and I
painted cars took the place of cayuses
and stage coaches. ,
The man who talks footwear knows
a thing or two about railroads and dis
courses on their benefits or disadvantage
eS to towns which are budding into
booms.
You may set it down as fact which
constantly repeats ITSELF" said Mr.. Dom
oboe. that towns on a trunk road fall
into decay soon after branch of an
ether continental road or some jerk
water system is built through one town
t, reach the main line. For time, the
presence of railroad employees and la
borers engaged in construction work may
give he town with two railroads along
and across it a lively appearance. but
soon trade will be diverted to the other
place. and the good old times of cay
uses and Sally coming to town in a wag-
OF to buy store fiXin's, are gone for
ever"
According to the philosophy of the shoe
man. Butte and Spokane are the only
| two cities in the west which could be
benefited through the entrance of con-
/ tcmplated railroads. One he had in
/ mind was a branch track Of the Great
| Northern from kalispell to the agricul-
! tural section north about IS or so miles
| into what is known as Tobacco plains
| Ii this is built it will not be long before
another will reach it from the coal fields
| across the British line. BY and by. trade
once enjoyed by Montana towns will be
absorbed by greater towns near the
boundary. because of the competition
of the Canadian Pacific. SO that town
or the Great Northern. for example.
which commands a reasonable trade
! from persons living east and west on
the line and almost the entire patronage
OF those without railroad on the north
ana south. enjoys that patronage until a
branch road is built running either north
or south. rms means cutting off half
the business of the former one-road
| t-w--.
Judge Denny was taking it easy in the
lobby of the McDermott about the time
the snow storm made things anything
but pleasant out of doors. Judge Denny
VIII henceforth reside and practice law
IN Butte, and remove his family from
MISSOURI to this city of greater oppo. =
tunltles. He rented an office in thu. Bee
hive block and will be prepared to re-
ceive clients some time next week. H..
The Muscular, announcing his de-
parture. speaks in complimentary terms
OF its erstwhile county attorney AMI fell
low citizen. winding up by saying that
what is Missoula's loss will be Butte
gain.
Sitting beside Judge Denny was p r.
Reynolds, a young man of a mechanical
turn of mind IN the direction of inven-
ton. Mr.. Reynolds has evolved an lea
Which CryStalliZed into concrete p:op-
osition. and it is a simple but ingenious
plan to regulate the atmosphere in
mines, SO as to make hot mines colder
1t is a form of refrigerator but it's work
manship and arrangement of constru ,.
ton will not be published in detail un.f
a patent has been obtained. It's owner
however. has secured a caveat oan iin.
: acceptance of the design in the nd. ;ona
: patent office. Il
> In order to enable one to grasp tbs
: idea of this venti!ato- without usin J The
T.. technicaEties of mechanism, it may he
!, ! lillened unto q stove which may be laker
from one level or stOpe TO another, ',nly
;, this kind of stove is not the hot or.
J: carried away by the burglar in pipt
, dreams. Instead, it is cold stove. 4
is a stove, SO says it's inventor. whic'
will displace the smoke, gas and hea
t about the place where miners are a
V work cool the air and enable them tt
a work right along, instead of going or
G top for fresh air and relief from tbs
suffocati ting heat below.
About a month ago it Is said. the APP
paratus was tested in the Anaconda
mine, to the satisfaction of about go
miners, shift bosses and others.
= -"
The work of remodeling the McDermot
began yesterday, starting in on the tOl
floor. Tearing out halls in orde to Civ,
o more light and ventilation, an putting il
> nsw bath rooms to displace the old, is tn
work of carpenters and plumbers today
d AT THE HOTELS.
- The McDermott-R. X. Holt Great Fall
-. Godfrey Lavell, Spokane; A. J. Fisk
. Ht.era; r. \. Nichols. Great Falls; Mis-
- Lergue. Helena: Thomas F. Casey. Chi
;, cage: J. 3. Fleming, ST. Paul; William
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