Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-02
CALL MEETING
ABOUT CRUSADE
TO MINING CITY
ConfIab for This Afternoon on
Rooters' Special to Big
Game.

Now that the championship footpall
tilt between Great Falls and Miles
City is to be played in Butte on De
cember 8, there comes the talk Of spe-
cial trains. This time there is more
than the usual pre-train thunder and
the demand comes from a variety OF
sources, mostly other than the high
school.
A meeting of representatives of va
rious civic and business bodies is called
for 2 o'clock this afternoon in the Com
mercial club rooms for the purpose OF
considering what means can be taken
to insure special transportation for
those who viii plan to make the trip,
and also to get some estimate of the
probable number going. This is being
called by Secretary l.. Z. Jones OF the
Commercial club.
Never More Enthusiasm
Never has there been q football en-
thusiasm equal to the present In the
city. For the last two games, interest
all over the city in the team has been
equal to that at the school. Civic bod
les have been lending full support and
there is expressed everywhere the
hope that. this eleven can deliver the
final wallop and send the Custer aggre-
CATION back from Butte to sad con
temptation of the Powder river in its
uphill meander.
The talk has been principally of a
special train to leave here early Satur-
day morning and return that night from
the Mining city. This has its dlsad-
%vantages. Butte is a long seven-hour
grind from here and the fan would have
to rise early, ride long, watch the
game, grab a rush dinner and then
start on the return leg. which would
wreck another evenings repose. In
addition to the outrages on comfort,
it is necessary to give the railroad the
cash equivalent of 125 fares before
that Organization will supply the train.
This means money and not prospects,
which amounts to the proposition OF
some man Or organization underwriting
the train.
Moreover, it is absurd to think Of the
football team taking such a junket, get
ting up at an %unearthly hour and riding
in smoke-laden coaches for seven NOR
tai hours before going onto the field.
Coach Crouch has said he would not
hear to the team going in this manner.
In fact, the only advantage Of a special
train on Saturday is that it would allow
the fan who cannot get away for more
than the day to attend.
Standard Sleeping Cars
Another solution which the railroad
can offer for the situation appears more
feasible. Standard 10 or l. section
Pullman cars can be attached to the
train leaving here at 2:05 Friday after
noon. For a 10-section car, there is a
basis of % passengers, although more
can be accommodated if there is dou-
bling up in berths. The cars would arrive
in Butte at $50 Friday night, be used
as sleeping accommodations by the
fans for the two nights in Butte, and be
attached to the train leaving Butte
Sunday morning. In case enough ears
were filled. they might run as a special
train. The cost? Not quite as much
as it would take to travel TO Butte
and return by parlor car and get suit
able hotel accommodations for the two
nights. And besides obviating the ne
cessity of bothering about hotels, the
trip is made in comparative comfort and
it is not necessary to rise early Sun
day morning to catch any train, since
the sleepers would merely be hooked
on to the returning train,
Fare and Third Rate
A fare and a third rate is granted
for the game. which makes a round
trip ticket cost but SS.25. The total
cost on the Pullman, in nse three days,
mount to a figure slightly less than
this.
In addition to the fan side of the
argument, this would be an ideal way
for the team to make the trip. Instead
of coming into Butte at a time in the
evening such that it would be midnight
before the boys could be reckoned
asleep, in a hotel, the car containing
the team and coaches could be shut
off from the rest of the train and the
berth occupants dreaming of touch
downs before the lights of the Mining
city twinkled on emerging from the
tunnel. They could sleep undisturbed
until the coaches gave a hit the deck
rnuaiile Saturday mnrninu