The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-24
COME FOR BIG TIME
NEW YORK is FILLING UP WITH
MANY STRANGERS.
They Are There to Participate in the
Population Is Swelled BY Some
$4,000 Recruits; Hartman Missed
BY the M0nied Men; Reptiles Re-
hearsing for the 400"

New York, Sept. 20.-With several
million visitors to the HudsOn-F Fulton
celebration expected within the week,
this city is today straining every re-
source to care for the crowds that
have already begun to besiege the is
land Careful canvass of every bit of
bed and board at the disposal of the
hotel, partment and lodging house men
throughout the town has just been
reported as showing provision for 7OO,-
600 people, over and above the full
quota of accommodate for regular
guests. As three times this number
of special tourists are counted on by
the authorities of the big Fulton fete,
emergency measures are to be taken
to house and feed the crowds that
must otherwise be left in the streets
starving and sleepless. Everything
points to the prospect of human ava
lanche upon this island next week,
the like of which has never been
known even in Gotham.
Schools Are Swelled.
Swelled by some $4,000 young re-
cruits, New York city's army of school
children has been marshaled today,
$4,000 strong. So tremendously has
the town grown ahead of the school
benches that over fifty thousand of
these youngsters are being compelled
this year to share their chances for
education on part time" basis.
Though eight great school houses with
fourteen thousand brand new seats
have been thrown open in an attempt
to meet this juvenile overflow, a sur
vey of the schools shows today that
every square foot of space is packed
with children, crowded to the aslises
and doors. Scores of capacious school
buildings are sadly needed in this
town, where the population leaps by
the hundred thousand each year.
Reptiles Rehearse for Zoo.
Scores of rare reptiles from the ends
of the earth are being organized up at
| the Bronz Zoo this week into a circus
troupe whose performers are totally
unframed or unframed by man. Black
lizards from Madagascar, snakes from
the African jungles, cObras from the
wilds of East India, and even Kanga-
roo Rats from the Sahara Desert are
listed in this show, which the curator
of the menagerie is soon to take on
tn,l nf 10 lpnH
schools, colleges and geological socie-
ties. Each reptile performer has origi-
mated, practiced and perfected itself in
| its own peculiar stunts, which include
| tight rope walking, tumbling, hurdling,
racing and the trapeze feats OF a self
educated Madagascar Lemur. The
hand of human trainer has never
once been raised to teach or prompt
this talented band of acrobats, whose
natural feats are already amazing and
amusing New Workers.
Magnate Is Missed.
Sorely missing the hand of Harri-
man to shape their schemes, the rail-
road magnates of the downtown dis
trict are today in almost constant con-
sultation over ways and means to
carry on the life work of the deceased
magician of transportation. While
some of the vacancies left by the
little railway king on directors boards
have been nominally filled by men
more or less known here in town, the
Wall street world is now waiting for
the true test of time upon the monster
machine of traffic that hartman car
ried alone on his own shoulders. If the
dead magnate could train men as he
could carry tracks to the ends of the
land, some successors may be found
to come somewhere near taking up the
big burden, the railway authorities be-
lieve. Meanwhile a yawning vacancy
is being felt in the spheres where
Hartman reigned supreme.
The Murder Menace.
While fifty stout men from the pol
ice force are standing guard night and
day over each turn in the hidden by
WAYS of Chinatown, the outbreak OF
the most murderous war that was
ever waged by rival tongs is momen-
tariIv expected near the scene of the
recent butchery of Elsie Sigel and
Bow Kun. Fierce feuds have been de-
creed between the oriental villains
of the On Leong Tong and the Hip
Sing Tong, over the hunt for the muir
derers of these two girl victims, and
the police have been informed that
one shot or stab may turn the whole
quarter into a bloody shambles. No
check has yet been devised to curb the
criminal bands of the Chinese under
world and New Workers are almost
ready to demand the determination of