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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1913
Page
19
Butte Montana May 1 191 opportunity to outline municipal aims and finances. Duncan outlines council vacancies, organization needs, and plans for improving departments, costing equipment, and better accounting. He notes net indebtedness and potential tax income, urges swift action on improvements and cost controls. He stresses crime policy, fire safety, water and light services, and modernization of municipal operations.
In a formal communication Mayor Lewis D Duncan commends city officials for two years of faithful service. He highlights a robust municipal law library, improved delinquent tax collection, and cost-effective personal tax collection. He urges fiscal year alignment with the political year and commends subordinate staff for honesty and efficiency.
The Indianapolis news notes that during the last fiscal year international sea post offices operated on fast liners of the American White Star North German Lloyd and Hamburg American lines between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. It records 129 trips from New York and 120 from Europe, moving 47 711 800 ordinary articles and 485 575 registered items, plus 20 496 sacks of newspapers. The department employed 30 clerks with crews averaging two American and two foreign clerks, adjustable to mail volume. About 3 percent of mailed items were registered and United States postal clerks led the sea post offices.
The article notes Copenhagen houses one-fifth of Denmark’s 2,500,000 people, Aarhus holds about 50,000, and the nation is described as rich in wealth distribution and cooperative farming. It highlights Episcopal Lutheranism, limited Catholic influence, and a future threat from Germany seeking access to the ocean.
Alfred Graham Miles aims to establish a sound polo program at the Thousand Islands. A string of fifteen ponies from the 101 Ranch at Bliss Oklahoma arrived for practice, joining five head already in use. E S Burke of Cleveland will contribute more ponies later, ensuring a full squad for a regular season. The ponies were chosen by Miles and C Davies Tainter and drawn by lot by J R Taylor Watertown Miller Montreal Joseph Whitman New York City Logan A Vilas Chicago Lee M Rumsey St Louis Mrs A G Miles New York City I H Vilas Chicago E S Burke George S Hasbrouck New York City and I M Englis Brooklyn.
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