The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-11-22
ClOCkStOR PUBLIC
EASY FOR BUTTE PEOPLE TO TELL
THE TIME.
TOWERS SHOW PR0GREsSIvEN
Great Timepieces That Beam Down
Upon Capitalist and Toiler Alike
at All Hours of the Day
and Night.

A town without clock towers is
town hard to tell time in, and 1t is,
Also usually a town behind the time.
Butte is in a different municipal class.
more modern, enterprising and up-to-
date.
1t has two clock towers. ana they can
be seen from afar, in the daytime or at
night, by the brilliant light of the sun
or the fainter beams of the moon. or
when there is neither sun nor moon
nor even stars. and the black clouds Of
night shut out the empyrean.
AS Il natural consequence, Butte is an
easy place in which to discover the
watchful The two clock towers it
boasts are on the county courthouse
and the city hall, and both are visible
to the naked eye for a considerable dis
tance and from most any part of the
city.
Like Beacon Light.
The clocks in the towers look toward
the cardinal points of the compass, and
the electrical lights which iilumine
them at night make them loom up to the
observer in any quarter like a beacon
light on a storm bound coast.
The man who has left his chronom-
eter on the piano and needs the time
will find it on these clock faces. in good
order and ready for consumption, and
the beauty of the thing is that the
goods are delivered at once and with
out cost.
To the lover who is Fastening to the
appointed tryst with the girl who has
no equal, the clocks on the courthouse
and the city hall indicate just how soon
his eager eyes will rest upon her be-
loved countenance-providin size has
not gone out for ride or to the theater
with the other fellow.
Most Exact Guides.
To the hapless married man who has
| been out in the wee sma' hours with a
choice company of boon comrades, keep
| ing date with the nocturnal frivol-
| ties, otherwise known as the elephant.
| they are guides that lead to exact con-
illusions respecting the degree Of wrath
with which the lady who awaits his
| return will greet him at the head OF
| the hall stairs.
To many others they are useful In
| many ways, reminding the "-sy man OF
| affairs of engagements to be kept, noti-
| flying the ladies of how soon to expect
! visitors due at set time and hurrying
the sluggish school boy on his way to
| school.
The clock tower on the courthouse
| has the advantage Of the higher site
| occupied by the courthouse, and it Is
more useful to the north side and the
west side of the city than the city hall
tower. But 1t is no more usefu, to the
south side and east side than the lat
ter, and is hardly so useful
Hundreds Of Workers.
West Side residents, hurrying down
to business, cast many an anxious
glance at the courthouse clocks as they
come into the skirts of the business
quarter. Day after day, morning and
night, hundreds of workers keep time by
them as they go to and return from
work.
The same is true Of the city hall
| clocks as respects the business people
who live in the eastern and southern
parts of the town. The latter timepieces
are also very useful to business people
along Broadway and PARK streets in
storekeeper or his clerks have to do Is
to step to the door, and the time OF
day is waiting for them.
The hackman glances at their intel
ligent faces ere he sets sail for the
! train, and the street car conductors and
J drivers look upward as they pass on
T. the cars.
Ever Ready and Willing.
Both clock towers are the ever ready
and willing handmaidens Of the many
artisans and laborers employed in
building dwelling houses and business
blocks all over the city.
When the toll Of the forenoon has
brought appetite to these workers they
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of the clocks, and when the rotating
and never weary hands Of the clocks
point upward together to the figure IL
there is surcease of labor and a re-
course to dinner pals to boarding
houses and to the cottages on the
neighboring streets where dutiful Joan
awaits hungry Darby with white cloth
and square meal
To the thousands of miners and
smeltermen who work in the mines and
|: smelters of the city the clocks in Butte's
two clock towers are Familiarity known
!: by night and day.
Speed Miners to Work.
No matter what shift the miner or
the smeterman may be on, the clocks
keep time for him. They speed him to
work with their eteady-going, ever
busy hands, at o'clock, o'clock and
| II, liSA tim AA'iA'
to bed at the same hours when he re-
turns from his labors.
Day by day, month by month.
year in and year out, the clocks in the
clock towers remain on guard, speeding
the time on it's way, recording the
multifarious doings of men, and mark
Ing the births, marriages and deaths of
/ the people of Butte.
Little thought is given them and few
mark their virtues and their great use
fulness, yet they are ever at their posts
working faithfully. and. although they
| strike occasionally. they never quit
their employ.
! They mark time more steadily than
soldiers, and the tale that they tell
! to those who hearken Is always timely
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