The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-22
PRIZE IS At STAKE
NEW YORK MAYORALTY MAY BE
TAKEN FROM TAMMANY.

Hottest Fight Since the Palmy Days of
Devery Is Now in Progress in the
Metropolis; Big Town Is Being
Campaigned AS 1t Never Was Be-
fore; Barren Bleachers; Stories
From Gotham.
New York, Oct. lS.-By far the
hottest campaign that has convulsed
Gotham since the days of Devery and
the "red light" crusade is just getting
into full swing in this city today. Sell
dom has Tammany hall in all its
stormy history, been driven to defend
itself at bay as savagely as the fight
ing forces of the wigwam are now be-
ginning to repel the solid array of
the anti ammany phalanx. Millions
of dollars and thousands of men are
today actively at work in this death
struggle for the mastery of the rich
est city prize in the world, and the
next fortnight will see the town cam
paigned as it has never been in all the
annals of politics here. Tons of lit
eratue, squade of speakers and whole
acres of posters are already staring
New Workers in the face at every
turn of town, while the nights are fl
IL &c
dates from end to end of the island.
With Hearst in the field and Tammany
fighting for its very life blood, neither
comedy nor tragedy will be lacking in
this record battle for ballots.
Heaps of Holidays.
Struggling to make up for the en-
forced holidays of the past celebration
weeks, the employers of this town are
today sorely vexed over the new
columbus Day" that has crept into
the calendar this week for the first
time in history. EightysiX solid days
of recreation are each year supplied to
the workers here in ordinary holiday,
Sunday and Saturday doses, wage pay
uSNlllt, NHlIt, WIFI Tic Regular
summer vacation of two weeks more,
every employee has always had a
round hundred days of leisure. With
considerably more than a quarter of
the whole year devoted to recreation
already, the men who must close
down for legal holidays are taking
the new day for Columbus celebrations
with a very bad grace. That one
hundred and one days of idleness in
every 365 is too many, is not the YER
dict of the general public, however,
for the wage earners outnumber their
bosses a hundred to one here.
Barren Are the Rleachers.
After spending more than million
dollars to flock by the turnstiles to
The baseball grounds here, people of New
York are today waking to the fact that
the national sport is ended and the
strange pigskin gods of football are
0alling for their following For the
thousands of night workers in the me-
tropolis who scarcely miss dozen
aague games in all the six months
of play, there is coming sad awakening
the fact that the Giants" "Yanks'
nd all their visiting crews of play
elbows are now to be put in cold
torage till the green of the diamond
coaXed out again under next springs
IN. Though neither BAND of the base
I'll battlers from Gotham has won
IS way very near to championship
'onors is the season that is being regret
|ully closed, the popular interest
the great American game has not
~oed one whit. There are classes
ices, creeds and colors by the score
lat divide the people of this metropo-
IS; but on the baseball benches they
and root as one man.
1t is Plaster Puzzle.
About several tons OF plaster, slap
ed into some semblance of statue
ne gay crowds of Longacre square in
he lobster belt are this week gaping
it'll somewhat more interest than
hey usually show over a cabman's
light or a raid. Some one, for some
eason, has somehow placed this thing
f startling size and symmetry in TIC
ortex of the Great White W"y
he public has been left to puzzle on,
tut the answer. Beyond the fact t.
his pyramid of plaster is intended to
epresent woman, with some sort OF
IN allegory about poor, slandered New
York, no one has been able TO !"
he why or wherefore of it's existence
As the greatest joke that Gotham has
enjoyed in generations, the weird plas.
ter pile is proving a huge success
though it is limited that someone may
have intended something serious in fol
sting it upon the public eye.
Squads of Singers.
Like homing swallows, the songbirds
of the grand opera stage are focking
from the incoming steamers this week
% nests nicely lined with the green