The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-15
GULLS HAVE A GUESS.
THEY ARE OUT-WINGED BY THE
MODERN MADE AIRSHIPS.
Wilbur Wright's Recent Circle Around
the Statue of Liberty Has Started
the Business Men of New York
on an Investment Bent; Courts
Are Clogged; the Moving Day;
Gotham Gossip.

New York, Oct. ll.-Backed by mil
lions of dollars and thousands of hard
headed business men, the art of avia-
ton mas for the first time in history
begun to be put on a practical COM
mercial basis in this city today Struck
by the sight of Wilbur Wright out
speeding the gulls in his historic fight
along the Hudson river, the public
here has developed passion for sky
ward joy riding which it is promised
will soon be turned into market for
practicable autos OF the air. Already
.cores of wealthy sportsmen are be-
ginning the construction of air ships
with which they intend to brush up
and down the aerial speedway beside
he Palisades, while veteran promoters
ar organizing capital for the manu-
facture of aeroplanes for the multi
tude. Only a fortnight ago such plans
would have been laughed to scorn by
the very people, who after watching
Wright work, are today converted to
firm belief in the present day con-
quest of the air.
Courts Are Clogged.
With $4,000 weary litigants linger-
ing about their doors and 400 de-
PENDANTS imprisoned for months to
await their pleasure, the civil and
criminal courts of this town have to-
day begun to grind away at their
clogged calendars after three whole
months of vacation. While the wronged
parties in over $4,000 civil cases have
grown Old and even died with no re-
dress and unconvicted men and women
have lenguished in the Tombs prison
through the hot summer, complaisant
judges, jaunty clerks and sleek attend
ants have junketed at leisure upon
extended vacation tours. If the laws
delays permit one half of the victims
of this stagnant summer in court to
have hearing before the next hot
spell, the wheels of justice will have
revolved much more rapidly than is
usual. Today the cry of the outraged
petitioners before the bench is rising
to high heaven and incidentally to the
ears of the political powers from whom
some relief is being vaguely promised
Travellers Hurrying Home.
At the record rate of eight thou
sand souls n day the great grey
hounds OF the ocean are this week
returning to this port the last of the
ri-4o h.
way of summer vacation. Never be-
fore has Gotham seen such crowds
pour back from the docks of the
liners, and seldom has this autumn
influx of European trippers made off
for homes throughout the country as
as it is distributing it
self today. Apparently the returning
vOyagers have no time to daily in the
metropolis; for their trains are speed
ing them west, north, and south with
in few hours of their disembark-
ment. Altogether, New Workers are
concluding that each one of this pas
sing army of fellow countrymen has
work to do at home, and observers
thSS see III lllS a.
ton of the sure return of buster, bet
ter times.
Following the floats of the Hudson
Fulton carnival, great caravan OF
moving wagons is today winding its
way from the old to the new homes
of the multitude that moves on the
first of this month. This year the
regular semi-annual household exodus
has been held up by the wild disorder
of the celebration week and the middle
of the month will hardly see every
family finally settled in its new niche
i'll the vast desidence sections. More
people than ever before are swarming
on to Manhattan Island this year and
filling the new crop of flats, rooms
and residences that have been built
to fill its few remaining vacant lots.