The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1920-08-19
SOME PERSONAL REG0lLEGTl0NS OF MARCUS DAILY, ONE OF
BU DlDERS OF MONTANA, BY JOHN LINDSAY, Am OLD FRIEND

something to choke off the sound, blu
to no avail. 1t was the first must
box Mr.. DAILY had yer owned, ant
he did not know how to stop it. Al
he stood on the sidewalk in front o
the hotel holding the queer-lookins
instrument which was playing {
street air, he presented something o.
the appearance of an itinerant must
clan, for there was nothing about Mr.
DAILY to suggest the possession of mil.
lions. His efforts to stop annie
were so ludicrous that a crowd sooI
gathered about him, but he didn't
seem to mind the people till a mes
senger boy yelled: "Play somethin'
else" AT these words the music box
switched off to "McGinty," and Mr..
DAILY could stand it no longer. Drop
ping the box down on the sidewalk
he made his way through the crowd
into the hotel and sent one of the
bell boys out for the runaway music.
Mr.. Haggin, who had witnessed the
performance from a window, twitted
Mr.. DAILY so numerically about his
musical attachments that he had to
"set 'em up"
w ICh vi llC WlbACoo obdA4u DOlilC
years back, Mr.. DAILY was asked by
the examining lawyer concerning his
place of residence. The time was
when the old Montana Union railroad
was the connecting link between
Butte and the main line of the North
ern Pacific at Garrison. When the
main line trains were late, as was fire.
quently the case in those days, travel
ers often spent many wearisome
hours awaiting their arrival at that
desolate station. In reply to the ques-
ton asked by the attorney, MI. DAILY
answered that he had a house at Ana
conda e Pacific, the first in history
electrically equipped. Before its con-
struction, the officials of the two big
railways thought they had the thing
foreclosed and that a LEI line was
impracticable; that if another rail
way was contemplated, it would
necessarily use the Montana Union
tracks in the narrow canyon between
the two cities; but the engineering
difficulties were soon surmounted,
and since then the milwaukee" has
added its line of track, making three
roads now passing through the mar
row gorge.
Generous McCaig.
Jimmy McCaig, with an accent as
broad as his Scotch name, was for
long general agent of the Northern
Pacific railay at Butte, and came in
contact with the "old man" in many
ways. Knowing the value of the Ana
conda company's business to the line
he represented, McCaig overlooked no
bets, and when the supply of North
ern Pacific cars ran short at this end
the line, McCaig did not fail to sub
stitute those of such other roads a
might be handy. Complaining about
the lack of business IN an occasion
and that the Union Pacific was get
ting the best of the traffic, Mr..
DAILY remarked that the trouble was
not with the business, but the lack of
equipment. After that McCaig saw
to it there was no reason for COM
plant on that score.
McCaig, to help things out, as a
very handy man with passes and, not
w~ithstanding instructions to the con-
trary, saw to it that a reasonable
number were given out. The con-
ductors on the old Montana Union
always honored his requests; and in
the absence of forms, Jim would fill
out a telegraph blank, n Of which
1 personally used, and it got me
through without question. On one
occasion, passes were much in evil
dence on the train and cash fares and
unusually short. A passenger
was seen tt pay real money for his
fare from Butte to Anaconda, where
Az no1rv rrhn hnnnnnnd IN hn |
the train, remarked that the man
must be a stranger in this part of the
or that he did not know Nc
Caig. Nevertheless, whatsoever the
railway company lost in the way of
passenger fares, it more than made
up in added freights.
Liked a Front.
Mike Carroll, for a long time sup
e~rintendent of the Anaconda mine,
was one of Days especial favorites.
Mike when off shift, dressed in the
of fashion. I remember the
occasion of a visit he made to Ana
he appeared Respondent in
gay APPAREL, wearing a ~checkered suit,
.oud shirt with necktie to match, set
ing off to advantage his rudy COM
and reddish beard. Mr.. DAILY
asked him how he came about the
glad rags and Carroll replied that
hey were a part of the high-grade
of the mines. For a long
ime Mr.. DAILY had under c~onsidera-
ion to whom to give the place he
inally chose Carroll to fill. There
we're many applicants, one of whom
laly considered an able miner, but
hat the candidate would work for {
alone, another who wasn't s
as good a miner, would work for I
himself and the company, and finally i
like Carroll, who, though he may not |
ave possessed the qualifications of t
he other two, Mr.. Daily determined {
would work for the company alone. I
Carroll got the job. S
His Favorite Nephew. G
When Johnny O'Farrell, nephew of r
farcus DAILY died, the old mar was
eart-broken. O'Farrell was boss at I
he Anaconda during Days absence. g
cached him while in the east, and on t
IS receipt, 1 well remember Mr.. DAILY t
aging: 81 have lost a friend, n of e
be few who understood me and my v
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