The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-16
Especial to The gree Press.l

New York, April l2-For the first
time in history the people of this city
are today beginning a real struggle
TO tear off the yoke with which the
motor maniacs nave always harnessed
and driven them. Reused at last by
the death toll that score of child
victims have paid TO the Moloch OF
reckless motOrdom within the last few
months, a vigilance committee is Just
taking up with an iron hand the traffic
ontrages of the incessant joy-riders. In
as stern spirit as ever actuated a
sheritf's posse after outlaws, this body
OF leading New Workers is preparing
10 catch, prosecute and send to prison
any and every man who disregards with
his automobile the law of life in the
thoroughfares of this town. Many a
millionaire is today deep in the black
books of these crusaders, and one fresh
offense from their power cars is
regarded as sufficient warrant for
criminal prosecution. For years the
autos of the speed maniacs here have
strewn the streets with their murder
ed and MANNED while the police seemed
paralyZed. With the better element
of automobiles and all the people ar
rayed today behind this movement,
public safety and sanity appears in
fair way to be restored.
Memorial to Martyr.
Before the flowers fade over the grave
of brave 10 PetrOsinO. some perpetual
memorial to this martyr i'm the city's
service will be reared by the hundreds
Of thousands of people from every
class who are today agitating such a
movement. From the whitest whiskered
magnate of Wall street down to the
most grimy boot black, every inhabi-
tant of this cosmopolitan island is
eager to pay tribute to the lion hearted
detective whose funeral has touched
deeply every heart. No one is ready
to let the lesson of Petrosino's faith
fnlness unto death 90 unrecalled to
future generations, and any plan to
commemorate it by some substantial
monument will enlist all New York In
ITS support. 1t will be many a long
year before New Workers forget the
man whose remains the whole town
has turned out to honor.
Women Are Aroused.
Not since the revelations of the sred
light" crusade have the women of
Gotham been 80 aroused as they are
today over the Payne proposal to tax
by higher tariff every family in the
land for the cotton stockings that
every one must keep buying Mass
meetings. To which thousands of work
ing girls flock, are being conducted by
leading club women on almost every
evening in all parts of the island
While the fathers of the families of
this metropolis are joining labor and
trade organizations in protest against
raising duty to create a trust in this
every day necessity, the housewives are
hnmming their Indignation at thous-
and and one gatherings of their sex. On
the proposition to give to a favored
Jew the power to charge trust prices
10 the poorer women and children of
the land New Workers are speaking
with no uncertain voice.
Spanning Wide Space.
Scores of the human spiders who
have manned the steel skeleton of the
rising Manhattan bridge are TODAY
celebrating the final strokes which have
lust brought the tips of the spans from
either shore to touch together, hun.
dreds OF feet above mdstream OF the
East river. Less than a year ago the
first wire strand was cast from ton
to top OF the huge towers that face
each other only few blocks above the
line OF the veteran Brooklyn bridge.
Day by day the supporting cables were
woven and, beam by beam. their pend.
ant spans of steel advanced from both
sides ont over the water. Today, the
immense metal projections have met
true to the sixteenth of an inch. and been
riveted into one complete arch from
shore to shore. Within the year it is
hoped TO lay open this latest bridge
giant and NAVE one more stretch of
dry land over the face of the river
Famished Fans.
With their brown and hearty band
OF ball players just returned from the
south, New Workers are today on edge
for the opening battle of the LONG
league campaign for the championship
While there has been some food for the
lans Ill the reports of the training
trip which is now ended an army of
rooters are hungry for the sight and
sound of the national sport which has
been denied them through cold cruel
winter. The first crack from the
giants bat will start an eager uproar
all over the town that will not down
till this years championship is won OF
lost for Gotham.