The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-22
fred's statue and put up one Of Mr..
Croker there instead.

fred's statue and put up one Of Mr..
Croker there instead.
"Why. there is none of the gentry
around this place who patronize the local
tradesmen as literally as Mr.. Croker.
He gets everything he wants that Is OBJ
tainable in this town. He even gets his
clothes here, and few do that VINO can
afford a London tailor ~e =
This, it must be allowed, represents the
acme of parochial patriotism.
Vantage is clean, quaint, prosperous
little country town. 1t derives Its liveli-
hood mainly from a curious combination
of the race track and the church. Inc
former is represented by the Famous
training quarters over on Letcompe
Downs, and the latter by the most extern
slve Protestant nunnery IN England
where they have upward of 500 sisters.
Around the nunnery have sprung up
several big boarding schools, where the
sisters teach.
The vicar is all powerful in the town.
The tradesman who does not attend MS
devotions regularly is made to feel the
clerical displeasure in no uncertain way.
The environment of the Wantages re-
suits in more church going and more bet
ting than are to be encountered In any
place of Wantages size In England.
The inhabitants hereabout take Mr..
Croker as they find hin-gruff but open
handed. To him the enormities OF Tam
many are as though they were perpe-
trated on another planet. They are sur
prised, in a way, that the BOSS" with
what they believe to be his ambition to
rule. shows no inclination to influence
local politics.
Richard Croker evidently intends to
make Moat house, Letcombe, his per-
manent home. He bought 1t neglected,
unimportant villa where various trainers
had resided. He has now enlarged ana
improved it out of all recognition.
His most recent addition to the struc-
ture of the house is the erection of a
handsome square tower at one end. On
the top of this tower there Is huge
water tank which supplies water to the
bath rooms and other parts of the house,
the pressure being strong enough to
make it effective in case of fire.
But this is not the only provision
against fire. When the new power sta
ton is completed an electric pump. with
which a practically unlimited supply OF
water can be drawn from the lake, Will
be available.
The heating and cooking are also to be
done by electricity. and when the lake is
enlarged the Croker boys are to have a
gate it's waters and coast around it's min
iature artificial islands The launch is
already ordered and will be afioat when
the boss returns next spring.
The electric station is at the end o.
the lake close to the road, and Is an inn
posing looking building of red brick
trimmed with white stone. The turbine
worked by the overflow of the lake Will
1t is estimated, give an electric force
equal to fourteen horsepower This VIII
be utilized not only in lighting heating
and cooking at Moat house, but also In
driving a feed mill for the horses fodder
There is nothing niggardly In the wa!
Mr. Croker goes about perfecting his
domestic arrangements and surround.
ing, Since he has been living at Let
combe he cannot have expended CEN
less than 100000 in wages to laborer:
engaged in carrying out alterations ant
improvements.
This outlay is entirely apart from thu
cost of materials and building and thu
EXPENSES of his house and his racing
establishment. 1t is indeed a mere moth
ing to what has apprenticeship on the
English turf has cost him.
II IL not long since he had the stables
behind the house, where his trottinl
horses, brood mares and foals are kept
remodeled and refitted on the very lates
and most expensive plans. The multi
millionaire Duke of Westminster has no
a more elegant or handsomely appOinte'
act OF boxes for his favOrite hunters a