The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-08


considered by the leading parties in
making their nominations and each is
making strong appeal to the indie.
pendent vote. -Four years ago an in
dependent candidate on an indeepndent
ticket came within 5000 votes of
being elected mayor of New York and
there are many more Independent vot-
ers now than there were then.
Greatest Woman Farmer.
Under an arrangement now being eff
fected for the management of the e.
H. Hartman estate, Miss Mary Harri-
man, the dead magnate's eldest unmar-
ried child, will become the greatest
woman farmer in the United States, if
not in the world. She now virtually
has control of Arden Farm, consisting
of 10000 acres.
Already she has taken hold of the
task with characteristic Hartman en-
ergy and skill. She is directing per-
sonally the unfinished work of road
making, the terracing of hills, land
scape gardening, etc, just as had been
planned by herself and father jointly.
In smart trap drawn by a high
stepping cob, she daily drives over the
farm, giving instruction in detail to
the foremen of nearly four hundred
men now at work.
Miss Hartman, from early girlhood,
has been extremely fond of country
life. She has never cared particularly
for society. Although reared in the
circle of the ''Fcur Hundred -" she has
preferred to devote heself to :, more
serious career. For several years she
has actively participated in settlement
work in the city. Among her most
notable charities is the ferryboat in
the North river for consumptives.
The Little Princess Kuni
One of the most interesting of the
foreign visitors to the Hudson Fulton
celebration is Princess Kuni, whose
husband is officially representing his
cousin, the Mikado of Japan. The
princess, like her husband, is quite
western in her dress, inspite of her
typical Gap" type of beauty. The
Partisan toilettes which she affects,
do not make the little lady look other
than the most charming japanese
belle, and one realizes how much more
characteristic would be kimono
The princess, like her consort, has
come in touch with western civiliza-
ton more than moss of her compa-
tri Nha &c ta
itan, having been educated in Ger
many.
Crankdom Is New York.
With the precautions taken to guard
President Taft from danger during his
present trip to the west some one with
a penchant for queer data and prob
able grievance against New York has
called attention to the fact that the
largest percentage of cranks who an
noy the president come from New
York. Naturally Gotham, which shout
ders so many unenviable regulations,
is not pleased with this new bit of no.
toriety. There is some consolation in
the fact, however, that Chicago is
given second place in this queer compi-
lation of statistics and st. Louis third
The south and far west will probably
grow chesty when it is learned that
comparatively few of the presidential
annoyers come from those sections,
but jolt is given to their pride in the
explanation that it is perhaps because
transportation facilities are not so
great from those regions as from the
northeastern regions.
Examining the Finery.
Although much has been said and
written in condemnation of the meth
DDS practiced by customs inspectors
in going through the effects of incom-
ing passengers of transatlantic liners
it is safe to say that there are dozens
of society women who envy Collector
Loeb's subordinates who 90 through
the belongings of social leaders now
arriving from Europe, and would give
anything for glimpse of the inery
arriving daily and representing the
"dernier cri de Paris" 1t is said that
the duty imposed upon the foreign
purchases of one young matron alone
would support an average family for
q lifetime. The matrimonial entangle-
ments of this matron are, by the way,
engaging public attention, as the hus-
band from whom she has just been
granted a legal separation is a scion
of one of the wealthiest families in
the United States.
Roasting the Night Courts.
When ex-Police Commissioner Theo-
dore Bingham first began in one of
the magazines his expose of conditions
existing in the police department and
certain branches of the New York
courts, public opinion was divided into
two classes-friends of the police and
judges who said "cold feet" and oppo-
nents of the city administration who
believe that wrong doing is allowed to
continue undisturbed in many parts of
the city. Even Tammany hall is un-
able to explain the report of the COM
mission appointed by Mayor Mcclellan
to investigate the affairs of the night
court. This report discloses condi-
lions which are perilous to the pub
lie and a reproach to the administra-
ton of justice. The extent to which
the illegal practice of releasing pris-
oners on parole has been carried by