The Irish standard., 1903-08-29

st. Johns Hospital. They conduct
and continually add to one of the best
hospitals in the West, and st. Nincents
Academy across the way. is second
to none in all the great West. in fact
it is Il heavenly and healthy place to
educate young ladies in the truly right
way.
And again we are off for Great Falls
via the same G. n. r. r., which whirls
along the glens, creeks. and gulches ut
Il rapid rate Of speed; here at some
point we strike the familiar Missouri
river and to see the end of the train
almost touching the COW catcher at
certain territically sharp curves, one
thinks of his last end every few min
utes, but then the scenery along here
is so wondrously attractive that it
keeps your eyes and your mind con-
tinously otherwise taken up. The per-
pendicular rock cliffs, awful preciDices,
pillars of gigantic stones one set on
another as if by the hands of man
gazing down on that midget of an
engine like lonely sentinels of time,
but of which there is no danger; the
r. r. men tell you that they weigh
thousands of tons. and are we'll tested
by expert civil engineers annually. The
train arrives at Great Falls, and after
spending Il few days here we again
take the Belt Mountain Branch of the
G. n. r. r. to Neihart where we never
We're before and it clearly outshadows
any trip we ever made in any place in
this country for wild and romantic
scenery i'll the extreme hight as
it is about 1000 feet higher up
than Great Falls and is one vast area
of mountain scenery and solid silver
ore mines all around about, and if sill
YER was as it should be valuable as any
other money, Neilart, and all the vast
silver mines of all the West would be
giving employment today to not thous-
ands but hundreds of thousands of
men. Those mines are practically shut
down, only worked here and there and
mostly by poor prospectors. Oh, but
the natural scenery of this lonely place
where the eagle, the magpie, the owl,
and the raven, reign supreme. The
whispering and weird dirge of the great
pines, where health and wealth
abounds. The hundreds of wild fOun-
tains that rush down to this narrow,
winding creek from their home in the
mountains. pure bubbling spring, trout
laden rapid rivulets of natures purest
virginity of God given invigorating
health indeed: here we met the Irish
Standards friends Dave Sweeney. Jno.
Kavnnagh. Dan. Re(lden. Jerry Keeg-
an, Peter Rush and II. Condor who is
moving to Sand Coulee. Back to Belt
the great mountain of coal which is
practically shut down on account of the
Butte and Anaconda mines and smelt-
ers not needing coal Just now. If we
had another Oliver Goldsmith now, he
would find plenty Of material here to
write and picture about. Here is
Judge Burns. U. S. land commissioner
and formerly of Allanlakee. Iowa. and
st. Paul. also Jim Dowlan, who is do
ing we'll here and treated your agent
right royalty. and the good ana holy
Father Hoffman. Ed. McNally, Frank,
Polutnk. Ed. Doherty. John Quincy
Adams. Tim Garrity Ho, Burns. II.
Farnm and Frank Kcrns.
Here we are again ut Great Falls.
where the mighty Missouri flows
bright and clear No big Muddy"
about it: here is a proud growing city.
second largest in Montana with it's fine
streets. green Swnrd boulcvardS. grow
ing trees planted and all watered daily
by myriads of hose in the hands of
city men, finest street sprinllers we
ever saw any place. Columbus hos
pital where Pat. Glennon says it almost
pays to get sick or hurt in order to get
inside of it. The great high school,
tile brand new granite court house.
second to none in the country. the great
smrlterS. employing just fifteen hun
| dred men daily and above all t..e great
Falls. next to niagara the highest in
| the world. being Just 90 feet straight.
as the side of the Minneapolis court
house. The river takes Il dip of 800
feet here in Il distance of Il few miles,
and has five large and small falls, and
Il bubbling spring right up out of moth
| er earth that turns out and wastes
more water daily than the falls of st.
Anthony. an expert mining engineer
has told me this. and Il Minneapolis
| man ut THAT. This is Il great Great
| Northern X. Il. town. so much so it
would he better if there was two or
| three more roads coming in here. the
citizens admit and say this: and as
! have started out mentioning names
| of men and women who subscribe for
the Irish Standard that we meet here
and there. no use in leaving out
Great Falls. where some of the stauncll-
est of our Old and new friends reside
l never met nicer people than Mr.. and
Mrs. John McAlliSter. Ira Myers. T.. J
Regain, II. Il. Brady. J. J. Mcdonnell