The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-10-01
Minister Carries Clipping
Telling of Underground
Butte Banquet in 1910

and Mayor G. P. Nevin occupying the
other end. The menu was as follows:
The Real Thing
Prohibition. cocktails F32O
Bornite cocktails
Hidden Treasure Salads
Parrot Lode Never Sweat
Amalgamated Shrimps
Wedged Sardines, Planked
Shift Bosses Advice
(RoaSts)
Anglesite la Abdul Hamid XIII
Cerussite la Mother-in-Law
Covellie la Meat Trust
Blasted Green Goods
Bleached Malachite
Dynamite Sticks, Merry Widow Drill
Sauce
Sliced Minnie Healy Apples, Lucky
Boy Sauce
Changing Shifts
Pay Day, California Nuggets, Florida
Gold Bricks. Ohio Silver Beans
Good Ore, Copper Glance, Peacock
Copper, Native Copper
Sailed Specimens
Change Cars
Hot Copper Water
Chilean Mill Rolls weight tons)
Short Fuses with Fusees
Turn to your right and take the skip.
follows: Prohibition cocktails, water;
bornite. cocktails. Olympia oyster cock
tails; Murphy, potatoes; Parrot lode,
chicken; Never Sweat, lobster; Angle,
site la Abdul Hamid, turkey; Chal-
copyrite a la Little Mary, lamb;
cerusite la mother-in law, tongue;
covellite a la meat trust ham; blasted
achite, celery; dynamite sticks, aspar-
agllS with dressing. sliced Minnie
Healy apples, sliced tomatoes with
dressing: pay day, dessert; good ore,
cakes; California nuggets, oranges;
Florida. gold bricks. bananas; Ohio
silver beans, grapes; copper glance,
angel food; peacock copper, chocolate;
sailed almonds; hot copper water, cof-
fee; Chilean mill rolls, light rolls;
short fuses, cigars.
At each plate was a Mcintosh Red,
the distinctive Montana apple. The
apples were provided by County Com
missioner George R. Brown, who OBJ
tanned them from the Bitter Root
valley through Charles Dorman and
George Dorman of Missoula.
The menus were incased in minia-
ture United States mail bags. form
ing very curious souvenirs. Other SOU
VenlrS at the plates were copper in
gots( specimens of the ore of the mine
and souvenir picture cards of Butte,
besides the regular seeing Butte SOU
venirS.
The walls of the station and levels
where the banquet was served were
whitewashed and the floors were spot
less. Illuminated with the brilliant
lights the party was most attractive
one. Several flashlight pictures were
taken. While the banquet was in prog
ress miners rolled cars of ore along the
level beside the table, making the scene
realistic one of life underground.
Message by Wireless
A number of kilograms were read
to the party and excited much meri-
ment. All purported to have come "by
wireless to the Original mine station,
~ The kilograms were read by Mayor
NeVln through megaphone. Snaps of
the wireless could be heard back in the
depths of the level, making the re-
ceipts OF the kilograms seem quite
reahstlc to the party. The banquet was
served by w. H. Davey, caterer. and an
able corps of assistants. EVERYTHING
passed OF finely and everybody voted
the affair the biggest success of the
trip to the west.
It was the first banquet served un-
derground since 1887, when a BANQUET
was served at the 3O0-foot level of the
OLD Blue Bird mine near Rocker.
Among the Butte people who helped
entertain the visitors were Mr.. and
MRS. j. r. Wharton, Miss Wharton,
Mayor G: P. Nevin, Managers A. H.
Methey, J. S. Wethey, Superintendents
DR.. and Mrs. T. j. Maury. Mr. and
Mrs; Harry Turner, Eugene Carroll, A.
Heilbronner, DR.. and Mrs. w. =. Rem
lex County Commissioner George R.
Brown, Mrs. Brown and Miss Myrtle
Brown. Charles w. Goodale, j. G. Nash,
Dan Mcmahon, John Gillie, Miss Jea-
nette Glllie, Mrs. A. H. Wethey and
Mrs. Eugene Carroll.