The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-09-04
New Plant Is to Be in Operation
BY Oct. /; Advantages to
St0ckmen.
German Methods of Teaching to
Be Introduced in Schools
Of Chicago.
Especial to The Free Press.l

Chicago, Sept. 2.-Genuine compe-
tition in the beef trade, with result
ing benifits to cattle raisers, butchers
and consumers, is the sweeping prom
Use of a newly incorporated concern
here which has had the nerve to plan
an independent stockyard for Chicago
right under the nose of the ninety mil
lion dollar ''beef trust" and challenge
it to- a competitive war in prices.
The company is a small one, and Of
fieers of the big packing houses say it
will not succeed. It's plans, however,
call for an expenditure of $l,5OO,OOO
in packinghouses and other structures.
Twenty acres have been purchased at
Thirty ninth street Forty eighth
avenue and work is already under
way According to III. w. Rockwell,
one of the incorporators, active COM
petition will begin Oct. l. Many new
advantages to stockmen are amour
ced. Charges for feeding stock in the
yards will be reduced, and feed may
be purchased elsewhere. The company
owns its own switch track. "The con-
Germ is the outgrowth of the condi-
tions brought about by the Union
Stock Yards company" said Mr.. Rock
well. "The cattle raisers, shippers and
consumers believe that they have good
cause for complaint against the COM
pany's methods, and [ have no doubt
they are right in thinking so. This
concern is to be genuine competitor
for trade, and the prices of meat, con-
sequently, will fall materially The
Usion Stockyards and Transit COM
pany, against which the. present at
tact is directed, is not controlled by
the big packers, but by group of
Boston capitalists, who are also di
rectors in a score of railroads, banks
and trust companies. The last at
tempt to establish independent yards
was when the big PAGERS decided to
move their plants to Tolleston, Indi-
ana. An agreement was then made
with the Union Stockyards and Tran
sit company by which the packers
were to receive certain benefits in re-
turn for remaining at the present
yards for period of fifteen years.
The various national campaign head
quarters-republican,, democratic, pro-
hibi-ion and socialist-are by no
means running full blast yet. The en-
tire floor in the harvester building,
taken by the republican national COM
mittee, is comparatively vacant and
lonesome; and the same is true at
democratic headquarters one block
away, in the Auditorium Annex. The
100000 card index of the voters of
the nation, proposed by Secretary
Hayward, still is being considered at
republican headquarters, and if funds
permit it, will be the most unique
THONG of its kind ever produced. Every
voter of the land, according to the
plan, would be recorded on a card in
vast file. Meanwhile the agents
for office filing caDrnets camp daily
in the reception room waiting. The
democrats have no such problem be-
fore them, the main interest centering
now in the returns from the various
subscriptions papers that are out. At
prohibition headquarters Chairman
Jones is vehementIy "denouncing" and
flooding the country with ''scathing
arraignments" and "bitter criticisms"
issuing from time to time the first
of the predictions" with which the
next three months of campaigning will
be freckled. The national head
quarters are attracting politicians from
the various states from all parts of
the country, and the professions of
callers, particularly at republican
headquarters, is an interesting as
sortment, men of the south following
upon the heels of those evidently of
northern states; men from Main sit
ting side by side in the anterooms
with men from the west.
The memorial to Ira ID. Sankey at
Moody church was unique in many re-
spects and grew more impressive in it's
solemnity as each hymn was sung. the
climax being the singing, without ac-
compartment, of perhaps the best
known of the Sankey hymns:
'We shall know each other better
When the mists have rolled away"
Moody and Sankey gospel hymns
have been sung from one end of this
country to the other for many years
in the big churches of the cities and
in the little white churches of the
frontier, until none has become better
known than Sankey's. Many of the
more familiar ones were sung, includ-
ing Sam l Soldier of the Cross"