The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-07-30


ruption to business, lack of employ
ment for labor, diversion of trade and
bankruptcy and the loss to states
counties and cities by the destruction
of taxable property. Summaries show
that some states including ILLINOIS,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut,
have reduced their fire losses consider
ABLY while other states, notably Mis-
sissippi and Tennessee have seen the
fire losses increase. Meanwhile new
laws have been devised adding to the
difficulties and consequent expense of
underwriting and increasing the un-
certainties and therefore the rates nee
essarily charged.
The DISCRIMINATING squad" of Chi
cago's dog crusade which has this
year begun early because fifteen per-
sons have been bitten has instructions
to learn whether a decrease OF $780,
900 in dog license is due to an actual
reduction of the canine species and
whether soap factory enterprise is the
cause. Commercially the dog is too
valuable to waste, for he is gloves,
soap grease and ornaments, and the
shotgun squad which has orders to
shoot on sight unmuzzled Rovers in
the streets will consign them to that
great beyond" for Chicago dogs
Roby, Ind, whence they emerge in the
stocks of winter gloves and toilet
soaps The first days kill was forty
two dogs and one dascheund. The effect
was an increased interest shown at
the dog license window whence As
600 licenses have already been issued
a falling off that raises suspicious that
agents of glove factories have been
abroad and busy making their interest
ing collection of canine beauties for
treatment in the rendering vat. With
out an Indian reservation to relieve
the city of its surplus, as is done III
Omaha, Sioux City, and other cities
ious years at famous rate. The
shotgun squad has one rule of i'm
portance: "Do not shoot dogs on
private premises. They must be clear
of all lot lines before any attempt
is made to shoot them" This saves
the pets of many children, often by
narrow margin of brave effort by
them in scurrying their dogs to safety.
They feel as General William E. But
Ter did about muzzles. He was in the
habit of taking his dog to his office
and was threatened with arrest on
several consecutive mornings because
| the animal appeared unmuzzled, and
finally the officer put him under ar
rest. ''Why?" demanded the general.
Your dog isn't muzzled!" replied the
policeman. Indeed" answered the
general. 'Now see here, give looked
up your fool ordinance, and it doesn't
say where dogs should be mlEzled and
| if you'll look again you'll see my
| dogs got a small muzzle on the tip
of his tail" 1t had. Has yours'
The chaos resulting from the re-
numbering of houses and business
blocks is unsetting social and COM
mercial Chicago, is destroying the pa
thence of all the mail carriers, delivery
| Ieu anu cOllecloTS, coHSeStlHS loIeiSH
trade and befuddling the stranger
within the city's gates. All that saves
the map department is that the pur
posed changes in street nomenclature
will be deferred until the city has be-
come used to the new plan of num-
bering and the innocent householder
knows how to properly awake in
different number than the one in which
he went to sleep. Delays in mail de-
livery, tardy shipments owing to be-
lated receipt of orders, loss of bust
ness through the confusion that com2s
from mixed address, arrangements
between friends from letters gone as
tray, breakfasts late because the milk
man or tine groceries got lost, no morn
ing paper at hand, and large sup
ply of individual and commercial sta
tionary to be re-engraved or re-stamp-
ed are only incidentals of the effort to
put the new scheme into working
order. Some idea is gained from the
Jumps" taken by street numbers under
the new system, which runs 500 to the
mile and enables every man to be an
automatic calculator and tell by house
numbers just how far away he is from
the two main arteries of the city,