The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1903-10-13
INTEREST AROUSED
IN PROPOSED TRIP
YOUNG LADIES WHO WISH TO GO
TO ST. LOUIS AS GUESTS OF
INTER MOUNTAIN.
THEY ARE COMING FORWARD
Candidates Springing Up-Senator Man.
tie and J. B. legoat Talk OF the
Great Excursion.

Montana will send samples Of her treas
ures to the st. Louis exposition not only
her precious ores, but specimens OF her
youth and beauty and sweet womanhood.
Thirty young ladies from all over the great
state will go TO the Worlds fair as guests
of the Inter Mountain.
The announcement made last evening
that it was the purpose OF this paper to
have each county in the state select its
most popular girl TO go to the St. Louis
Exposition at the expense of the Inter
Mountain, was widely talked about to-
day. Many praised the enterprise OF the
paper and others gladly took up the plan
because it would be good for the state.
1t will make the fair talked of and
arouse deep interest in the exposition
that is destined to put the Chicago Worlds
Fair III the shade.
Candidates Sprung Up.
The plan was so big and the expense
and trouble entailed so great that many
wondered how the Inter Mountain could
do it. The Inter Mountain will do it,
however, and in style, too.
As soon as the announcement was read,
young ladies from various parts OF the
state made known their intentions Of be-
coming candidates. Entries were received
from Bozeman, Townsend, Deer Lodge,
Anaconda, Missoula and Butte. The
names OF the young ladies will be pub
lished in Saturdays paper The first
coupon will appear in that issue.
it will be TO the advantage OF the can
didates to announce their entries as soon
as possible. Friends can be apprsed of
their candidacy and may begin TO work for
them at once Those who enter the race
early will get good start, although others
can come in at any time.
There will be three girls selected from
Butte, two from Deer Lodge county and
two from Missoula. In other parts of the
state there will be one from each county
Judging from the number OF entries al
ready recorded the list OF candidates will
be a long one.
According to the rules Of the contest the
voting will begin Monday next. The
coupons must be voted within seven days
after the date of receipt. This is to ia
ciltate the counting OF the ballots which
will be no small task OF itself.
Every county in the state has an Inter
Mountain bureau where the votes may be
cast and the results will be wired to this
Office daily. In this way the contestants
may be apprised OF the achievements of
each other.
When the maids OF honor are elected
the Inter Mountain will do the rest. The
young ladies will assemble in Butte and
go to the exposition together. All ex-
penses will be paid by this paper.
The Pullman berths dinine-car service
en- route and the hotel bins at the expo
he led h, tba I,,tn
Mountain.
When the lucky girls have been chosen
they will be asked to select chaperon,
who will accompany them on their jour
ney. The party will be entertained at the
exposition two weeks.
II don't know of anything that has hap
pened since the legislature voted to have
Montana represented at the St. Louis FIX
position that has caused so much interest
In the Worlds Fair as the Inter
Mountains contest" said ex- Senator Lee
Mantle, president Of the Montana Worlds
Fair commission, this afternoon.
"The generosity and enterprise of the
Inter Mountain should be commended. I
will say for the Montana commission that
we are in hearty accord with the move
ment 1t will not only tend to bring our
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arouse much interest in the fair among
Montana people.
"The plan is an excellent one, too. The
benefit to the young ladies will be a last
ing one. The trip to St. Louis will be
that they will remember all
their lives. 1t will be an education in a
way"
J. B. Leggat, secretary Of the Montana
Worlds Fair commission, was equally as
over the Inter Mountains
plan to send 80 young ladies to the St.
Louis Exposition
II don't know of better plan to get
all the people of the state interested in |
The fair" said he. 1T is big enterprise
On the part OF the Inter Mountain, but |
feel sure that it will be success and the
state will be benefited. The selection of |
hose 80 young women to attend the ex-
position will be almost as big an under
aking as state election. Every county |
Will take an interest in the contest and /
! corresponding interest will be aroused
n the fair"