The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-15
CRAY DAWN OF MORN
FINDS OLD FATHER KNICK WITH
VERY LARGE HEAD.
After the Celebration He Feels Like
Man Who Would Enjoy Few
Moments All By His Lonesome;
One Correspondent Pronounces the
Recent Blowout an Awful Frost;
Glad the Affair Is Over.

New York, Oct. Odd Father
Knickerbocker. battered and worn.
awoke from his sleep in the grim, gray
morn, and painfully crawled from his
little bed and tenderly felt of his ban.
daged head and pressed his forehead,
aching and dank, and eagerly from the
pitcher drank, and kicked the cat and
swore at his wife, then sailed forth to
the toll and strife, and hanging on to
an "L"-train strap, with his face like
a threatening weather map, called Full
ton and Hudson base born knaves,
said he was glad they were in their
graves and wished he could have seen
them die; and the baleful CLEAN in his
one good eye took in the frippery, torn
and faded, that lined the streets where
hosts had paraded, and where were the
vast and cheering hordes were now
but rows of empty boards; and he
wiped his sweaty, suffering brow and
swOre swear and vowed VOW, and
the whole town echoed his sad re-
frain, "Never again! Oh, never again"
Great Celebration Is Over
The Hudson Fulton celebration is
over, please God, so far as Manhattan
is implicated in the crime. Let the
Trojans have our wooden horse, which
turned out to be a white elephant, and
welcome. Manhattan is very, very tir-
ed, and fain would rest.
Native New Workers, with an ex-
perience confined to the territory be-
tween Brooklyn and Hoboken, found
naive and child-like pleasure in the
magnificent spectacles afforded by the
celebration commission. They cneer-
ed ecstatically at the sight of march
ing citizens of Tammany hall and the
Button Hole Workers union, clad in
all the glory of rented frock coats and
ancient silk hats. They howled them
came into view, and relapsed into
fearsome awe as real mjuns tfamped
stolidly past. The spectators reaped
a financial harvest from the sale of
grand stand seats, and the police had
a pleasant time, thank you, in thump-
ing, pushing and otherwise maltreat-
ing inoffensive spectators who did not
have five or ten dollars to pay for
seat. The crowds retaliated by mob
bing distinguished visitors and tear
ing off their clothes for souvenirs, ac-
cording to the pleasant custom OBJ
tanning among New Workers when out
for a holiday of innocent fun.
The Naval Parades.
The naval parades afforded other
gorgeous spectacles. Nothing more
imposing could be imagined when the
magnificent pageant of motor boats,
ferry boats, Coney Island steamers and
excursion craft which sailed majestic
ally up the Hudson and turned around
and sailed right back again. 1t is
true that the same craft could be
seen any day of the week, but that
is another story. The celebration was
valuable in affording an opportunity
for the owners of the vessels to charge
five or six dollars for ride worth
twenty five cents.
Celebration Was a Frost.
All in all, it must be admitted that
the celbration was direct frost of
the most frigid variety. Those who
have witnessed a Mardi Gras festival
in New Orleans, a floral parade in
California, Yelled Prophet pageant
in st. Louis or fete any European
city cannot avoid making comparisons
which are odious to New Workers. The
metropolis is totally lacking in the
spirit which is necessary to carrying
out successfully a great celebration
project.
The celebration will fromally "peter
out tonight with Examinations and
bonfires along the Hudson between New
York and Troy