The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1904-04-08
TALK TRAIN SCHEDULE
Business Men Take Up Important Mat.
ter at Their Meeting.
Want Cambria and hudson Residents
to Visit This City.
Need Of More Dwellings Is Made kp-
parent to Association.
John Richards Refers to Plan in Vogue
in Alabama Town.
From Thursdays Daily.

From Thursdays Daily.
''Why are so few stops made by the
Northwestern trains daily at Judson and
Cambria?" was the question propounded
at last nights meeting of the Mankato
Business Mems association. The business
men couldn't see why all the trains 60
ing over the route in both directions
each could not stop at these stations.
People coming to Mankato from Judson
and Cambria to shop always remain
over night in the city. They could not
go back the same day. To come to the
city from Judson or Cambria people
must arrive on either the 4:45 afternoon
train or the one that comes at 7:45 in
the evening. They can go back only
on the train that leaves Mankato at 7
O'Clock in the morning. Hence there was
great inconvenience and loss of time
Geo. Pond mentioned in this connec-
ton that there had been talk of chang
ing the Tracy train, which goes out as
No. Is and comes back as No. Ia, over
to the old North Western route across
the river. If the route of this Tracy
train should be thus changed, it would
surely work great harm to Mankato to
the benefit of st. Peter. Travelling men
would come into st. Peter at night and
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they would thus save time under the
changed conditions.
The train question was referred to
the committee on railroads to look into
the matters and ascertain the real stu
alton and see what could be done.
The committee to which was referred
Mr.. Christensen's idea of mass meeting
for street railway project reported that
it was thought by the committee advis-
able to let the matter rest for time.
The report was accepted.
j. B. Richards said some steps should
be taken to cause the erection of more
dwellings in Mankato. Great numbers
of people would make their homes in the
city if they could get some place in
which to live. He cited a scheme that
was in vogue in certain city of Ala
bama, where the building of houses was
encouraged by plan of partial exemp-
ton from taxation. The community
would benefit from the personal property
taxation of the new people brought here
by the erection of the new houses. There
was some discussion of the proposition
but no action was taken
George Pond advised that newspaper
article be written, setting forth the ma
ture and purposes of the association and
the rules whereby it is governed. The
minds of certain country people ought
to be disabused of the notion that the
association is sort of a trust, which
it is not by any means. The matter
was referred to a committee of three.
To another committee was referred the
printing of supply of pamphlets con-
tanning the bylaws of the association.
The business men talked for a time
about the lighting plant that the people
are expecting to see constructed in the
city by the Practical. Gas Construction
Co. of North Chicago. Mr.. Jorgensen
said he firmly believed that the COM
pany meant business. He called to
mind the $4,000 bond the company had
put up to guarantee the construction
of the plant, and the expense the COM
pany had already undergone to prosecute
the enterprise, an expense amounting in
the aggregate to hardly less than 49,
600. A motion was passed instructing
MIR. Jorgensen to write to j. A. Bauer to
see what was being done, and how mat
tiers stood. j. B. Richards remarked
that he had been told by Mr.. Young how
the latter had met Mr.. Bauer in Chi
cago, and how Mr.. Bauer had showed
him the company's manufacturing plant
and pointed out this and that article
that was to 60 to Mankato.
MI hlcIldTuS cdlleu the dUuenClOn OF
the association to the fact that wofn-
an canvasser was still in the city TAX
ing orders for all kinds of dry goods, be-
sides other articles. She had been par
ticularly successful up around the nor
NAL school. 1t was not right. The
woman did not pay cent of taxes to
keep up the city as did the regular mer-
chants. She was making money out of
the community and laughing in her
sleeve at the same time. She had
way of making the women believe that
what she had to show each of them was
something entirely new and unlike what
any of the other ladies had to wear.
The canvasser was likely to 90 into
the field of ready made suits, and there
was no telling where she would stop.
Was there not some way of stopping
her?
Considerable discussion ensued. 1t was
the consensus of opinion that there was
no way of making the woman pay L.
cense as long as she did not sell goods
outright but merely took up orders.
The men of the community should be
reused to antagonize such canvassers
and get their wives to do the same.
Pimples, sores, bad breath, headache,