The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-09
LENT TO END CA|LY
BILLIONS OF PRETTY LILIES ARE
BUDDING FOR EASTER.
Beautiful Flowers Fresh From Ber-
muda Reach New York; Gigantic
Bridge is Completed; the Trials
and TribulationS of Hughes; Start
ling Sounds at Night; the Fight
Fans Appear Eager for a Fray.
Alderman Gary
ESPECIAL to The Free Press.l


New York April With billions
of Easter lilies budding behind d
brstling array of palm branches in
stores and stalls all over town, Co
than is today preparing for as gay al
ending of lent rs ever opened the
season of blossoms and bonnets here
Half dozen huge hulls have just
been warped to the water front loaded
from stem to stern with tons OF fra
grant Easter flowers fresh from Ber-
muda. Thousands of dollars worth
of the precious plants are each houl
being potted and borne away TO the
ends of the island. Banked to the
roof of every florist shop in the city
their opening blossoms are being sought
BIZ eager crowds of holiday shoppers
who are paying high for these first
tokens of the opening season. With
the lavish orders which the fashion
able milliners are reporting today
these signs show such Il spirit of hope
fulness for the future as has not
been observed here in years. The
busiest as well as brightest summer
season in long while is being al
ready anticipated i'll this metropolis.
Burdening the Bridges.
Twenty million dollars worth OF
steel and stone is today just begin
ming to bear across East river the
human load for which eight years
have been spent i'll fitting it. Now that
the last rivet has been put in the
giant cantelever skeleton of the
Greensboro bridge and the first foot
been set across its huge expanse, New
York is becoming proud of the task
which has taxed its purse and pa
thence through several administrations
Third of the great mid air links that
now actively bind the boroughs over
the water. this latest bridge structure
is today just beginning to draw of
some proportion of the rush hour tide
that GIBBS away to the suburbs from
the offices of this island at shutdown
A constant procession of automobiles
has already begun to monopolize its
gangways, on air line routes from
upper Fifth avenue to the speedways
and swell estates of Long Island. AL
together the opening of this new out
let is only serving to show the press
ing need of many more.
Higgins to Hughes.
While Hughes is struggling to break
the bonds of the bosses up at Albany
vateran political observers in this city
are today recalling the last visits and
talks of the late Governor Higgins here
which plainly foreshadowed the pres
ent trend of events. No man i'll the
public life of the state ever came
closer to those who enjoyed his com
pany at the old Albemarle Hotel than
did Higgins, whose visitations were a
frequent feature of Amen Corner So
ciety. During the last months of his
term the domination of the men who
hold conventions, committees and pri-
mary nominations in the hollow of
their hand was plainly overburdening
and irking this brave, gentle man. The
power of the primary welding bosses
was often the subject of discussion
when the Amen brethren visited the
chief state executive at his break fast
table across the way, and no one
failed to note the wearied way in
which Hughes predecessor contemplated
his fight against these odds to gain
some expression for the will of the
people. That the wrestling of the
bosses grip from the primary polls
would inevitably come about, was
agreed at the time; and now many oil
the former visitors at the Albemarle
believe this day is at hand.
Startling Sounds at Night.