The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-11-18

held on Wednesday evening, Thursday
and Friday, Nov. i6, II and Is, at Fart
bault. He informed the board that A.
w. Gutridge, secretary of the organl-
cation, had stated to him that the con-
ference was contemplating the holding of
its next years session at Mankato Here
is good opportunity for the board TO
do something for the city. About a
hundred people usually attend the con-
ference. 1t is an excellent thing to get
the people interested in such work. All
that the board need do would be to pro-
vide suitable meeting hall and So or
$40 more for incidental expenses. The
people who come to the city pay their
own individual bills. The local citizens
should see that proper Accommodations
are available. The people who attend
the conference at Faribault this year
will choose the next place of meeting.
1t would be well for Mankato to send
some people down to attend the confer
ence there.
On motion of c.. n Andrews, the
board voted an invitation to the con-
ference to hold its next session at Man.
kato, and pledged itself to provide what
ever accommodation would be required
for the purpose.
President Andrews appointed as a
committee to convey the invitation
President Cooper, G.. n. Andrews and w.
E. Young.
The opening session of the conference
at Faribault will be held in the armory,
beginning at 8 o'clock. DR.. Frank H. Nc
Vey of the state university will reply
to the address of welcome. Hon John
T. Schain of Browns Valley, president
of the association, will deliver an adj
dress on "The Tramp"
The Thursday morning session, also
to be held in the armory, will be de-
voted in part to discussion of the rel
alive merits of "The County and Town
ship Systems of Poor Relief" Frank R.
Mcdonald of Minneapolis will handle the
topic, "Workhouse." A discussion of
''Lockups" will be led by d. A. Lindsey
of st. Paul. Mrs. H. A. Towne of Min
neapolis will speak on "The Need of a
Separate Training School for Girls. Mrs.
A. R. Colvin of st. Paul will deliver an
address on 'The Orphan Asylum"
In the afternoon the attendants at the
conference will visit the State Schools
for the Deaf, Blind and Feeble minded.
A session will be held in the hall of the
Feeble minded school. Papers will be
delivered as follows: "The People of
the Feeble minded School, DIR. A. C.
Rogers, Faribault; County General
! Hospitals and County Nurses" DR.. H.
A. Tomlinson, st. Peter, Tuberculosis
What Can Be Done in Dispensaries, "
DIR. George Douglas Head, Minneapolis;
"What Can Be Done in Sanitoria," Dr.
Fl. Longstreet Taylor, st. Paul; "What
Can Be Done in Homes" DR.. II. M.
Bracken, Minneapolis.
Thursday evening; the Armory; "The
Juvenile Court" Timothy D. Hurley, au-
thor of the Uniform Juvenile Court Law,
Chicago; address by Rev. S. G. Smith,
president of the National Conference of
Charities and Correction; reception ten
dered the delegates and visitors by the
Monday club and Travellers club.
Friday morning; the Armory; meet
ing of the county officials section un-
der the presidency of L. p. Case, Chat
field; "The Ideal County Commissioner, -
A. j. Eckstein, New Ulm; session of
conference called; "a Common School
Curriculum Which Would Tend More to
Lessen Pauperism and Crime" E. T.
Towne Faribault; Settlement Work in
Small Cities-The Need" Miss Alice j.
Mott, Faribault; Opportunities for the
Steady Lift" Miss Eleanor Hanson, st.
Paul; "Educationa Aims of the Ameri-
can Political Science Association" VIM.
A. Schaper, Minneapolis; "The Progress
of Order in Charity" Mrs C. E. Faux
ner, Minneapolis.
All persons interested in the work of
charity or correction are invited to be-
come members of this conference. 1t is
a common school for the study of all
questions concerning the relief of the
needy, the treatment of the unfortunate,
the care of the neglected and the correc-
ton of the vicious. A rate of one and
and one third has been granted for the
round trip to this conference from any
part of Minnesota.
Thomas Hughes though it high time
Mankato was making a complaint about
railroad rates. 1t costs 1925 to haul a
ton of coal from Duluth to Mankato.
1t costs $l.OO to haul ton from Du-
luth to St. Paul and SIPS to haul that
same ton from st. Paul on to Mankato.
Such discrimination should not be toll
Grated. The railroads seem to have
kept up the old rates for Mankato,
while reducing the rates to various other
towns, because Mankato did not kick,