The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-08-27
HARRY IS OF BUTTE
YOUNG MAN CUTS A WIDE
sWARTH IN WASHINGTON.
GETS A VERY FINE SEND OFF
Cunningham's Jokes Catch on at the
Gay Capabilities a Peach"
Says Writer on the
Mirror.
GETS A VERY FINE SEND OFF

Harry Cunningham, we'll known in
Butte, Is cutting a wide swarth in the af-
1ectlon OF the good people of Washington
Harry Is file clerk OF the senate and hail
fellow we'll met with all who come within
the circle of his /ial friend ship. Popu-
lar as Harry he.s been in Butte he ap-
pears to have moved up peg or two in
popular esteem since going back to his
duties IN Washington. Witness the fol-
rowing from the Washington Mirror:
NO better fellow than Harry Cunning
nam ever came down the pike afoot, a
horseback, on skates, or in a night liner.
| ana Harry has travelled them all from
mere to Montana, and even further than
that for he has been everywhere and has
tasted the wines of the climes. / have no
doubt Harry could get into the Metropo-
Titan Club with all his pull and prestige,
cut reel sure he would not affiliate with
the young dudes and centennarians of
that institutions; in fact, the sleepy old
clubhouse would have no charms for this
Donhomme and reconteur, for he is too
full OF life to lose time in that monastery.
so he allies himself with that little club
In Fl, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets known as the Columbia where
meet some Of the best fellows in this
world and men who listens to good
story. and II it's new one (and it better
had be new they make the welkin ring
with merry laughter and a cling of
glasses without fear of offending some
old, equity fossils playing chess in the
next room.
When Harry enters the club, and if the
talent" are present, it is like the APP
proach OF MikadO, and his reign begins
Immediately. Usually the session is
opened up with new story, or an old
one so cleverly recreated that it is as
good as new. Such good elocutionist is
HH/ y that he can modulate it to the dy-
Ing whispers of consumptive woman,
initiate the antics and voice of the cab
driver demanding more pay for the job.
There is no Bowery cop that he can not
impersonate. He even goes into the ami
NAL kingdom, in fact, bellows like bull.
Next to Sam Ireland, Harry puts all
story tellers on the bum. and nothing in
Kilkenny or Cork can touch his Irish dia-
lect.
His audience is usually made up Of
Doc. K. Ward. Dorsey Brown, Charlie
Jonas, Dick Beall, Bob Merritm, Taylor
Cronin, Harry Moses. Mickey Lewis,
Billy Cowles and few others. Imag CINE
that bunch all in a roar of laughter at a
jars the foundation of the old Gait resi-
dence.
Montana has her Senator Clark, Hay
seed Carter, and bribable judge. and her
Harry Cunningham. The latter belongs
to no party or faction. The whole state
lays claim to H. c.. and nothing will ever
rob her of him. Although only filling a
minor Office in the United States sena te,
no banquet is complete without Harry.
and NO senator more welcome, and he is
as we'll known to Montana people as Joe
Blackburn is to the good people of Ken
tucky. l don't want to forget to tell you
that this same Harry is something of an
tceman, too. among the pretty girls of
Washington, Atlantic City. and wherever
he goes for that matter. and just why he
don't lead one of them to the parsonage,
church or justice l can't devine. Who
ever gets him, though. will get a peach,
and mayhap later on few copper mines,
for he lives out where they grow.