The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-06-25
KODAK As A DETEC.
CAMERA USED TO GET EVIDENCE
AGAINST JOY RIDERS.
Defensive Campaign Inaugurated By
the Authorities of Gotham; Law
Violators to Be Dragged Before the
Courts and Punished; City Han
Clock Stopped; the School for
Scandal; New York News.
Especial tc The Free Press.l


New York, June 2l.-To protect life
and limb against the hundred thou
sand motor cars that whirl over this
island and its suburbs niaht and day,
public authorities and private vigilan-
ties have today inaugurated for the
summer season the strictest defensive
campaign that Gotham has ever known.
Lurking for the joy rider at every turn
of the speedways, scores of specially
trained automobile detectives are now
being posted each night by private or
CARNATIONS formed to preserve human
life against the motor maniac. Squads
of patrolmen, on motorcycles, in dark
ly hooded autos and on foot, have
been detailed to- the single duty of
keeping the summer rush of motor
traffic within the grasp of the authori-
ties. More than a hundred pairs of
eyes are ceaselessly watching each
move of the automobile traffic during
every hour of the night, and newly
perfected camera clocking devices are
secretly swapping their evidence of
Never have New Workers been so
reused to curb the abuses of motor
ing; and before the hot days are over
it is believed that this pressing prob
lem will be much more nearly solved.
City Hall Clock Stopped.
For the first time in decade the
city hall clock stopped twice this week
as Marty" Reese, it's veteran GUS
todian, lay dying over in hospital
on Long Island. For twenty eight
years this faithful old custodian mas
ruled over every nook of the main
municipal building and his friends in
clude every one of the great army of
mayors, aldermen, city officials and
newspaper men who have passed in
and passed out again since the time
of Tweed. AS Deputy Sheriff, MARTY
boasts of his arrest of Tweed in the
old Metropolitan hotel, before he came
finally to take up the care of city hall.
No more interesting character has lived
in recent years to remind the present
politicians of the political past than
Marty" Reese, and the building he
superintendent for the better part of
his life looks today sadly empty and
unkempt. The city hall clock has been
wound up to 90 on without him, and
so his friends must take up the daily
round in spite of the lack of his fam
liar face.
Sweet Morsel of Scandal.
To those who love to devour the
details of divorce proceedings these
days of the Gould case and dozen
other recitals of martial difficulties
are offering rare opportunities. From
over the water spicy stories concerning
another young millionaire are also fur
nishing food for the scandal mongers.
To the cleaner minded and luckily
the greater part of the public, this riot
of scandalous stories is proving more
or less of bore, however. OF the
Gould tale almost everyone is sick and
tired while the adventures of Alfred
Vanderbilt present Il certain sameness
and lack of novelty. The days of ex-
travagant public delight over the I'M
earthing of big bundles of scandal seem
to be almost over even in this light.
minded town.