The Mankato free press., 1910-06-03
BOUNDS
GOTHAM'S HIGHWAYS CANNOT
HANDLE THE TRAFFIC.
Mammoth Structures Whose Peaks
Shoot Skyward Must Be Leveled
in Order to Obtain Street Room:
Millions Of Tons of Ice Stored:
Straw Hats Are in the Minority:
the Sky Shocks; Notes.
Especial to The Free Press,

| New York, May 3O.-That the pres
sure of its enormus street traffic mus
soon burst the bounds of Gotham
highways is predicted by engineers
VINO are today consulting here will
the mayor on the emergency problem
OF forcing new avenue through tn,
J heart of the island. Only by pryin!
apart some $40,0OO,O0O worth of tow
ering structure just west of the mali
| artery of Fifth Avenue can even {
temporary check be put upon the ser
ious congestion of every thoroughfare
1T is agreed. Some of the most mas
sive skyscrapcrs Of the clubs, apart
mcnts, hotels, and offices of the fash
ionable part of town must be levelef
by the city to make way for a few
additional miles of highway, if tn,
present plans are carried out AL
ready the solid structure of Manhat
tan Island has begun to dam up al
traffic to serious degree, and New
Workers are beginning to realize that
further failure to open up new high
ways must ultimately fetter all move
ment about town.
Supplies for the Summer
Millions of tons of ice are today
stored and ready to relieve the people
OF this town through the hot spells
OF the opening summer season, accor
ding to reports that have lust been
received here by welfare workers who
are interested in protecting the people
OF the tenement districts against the
horrors of ice famine. Only the mach
nations of the ice trust barOns can
now serve to shut off the poor from
plenty Of this life saving commodity
1T is asserted, as a cold winter and
great growth in artificial ice making
have guarded well against shortage
in the natural supply. With human
life weighing heavily in the scales
that determine the plenty and price
of ice blocks to New York's swelter-
ing poor, the authorities have this
year determined to insist upOn some
regulation of this trade during the
Gays when the babies begin to die
about the fetid East side.
Taft's Trip to Ivied Towers.
To meet President Taft beside the
ivied towers of their alma mater.
scores of Bryn Mawr graduates here
are today preparing to make a general
exodus with their husbands and fam-
lies to the most momcntous commence.
nent reunion that has ever been held
over in the Pennsylvania seat of this
girls college. With some $GOOO9 still
to be raised to meet the requirements
of the conditional gift that will as
sure the half million dollar endow
ment fund, which ia needed to extend
the work OF wOmans education at
Bryn Mawr, the alnmnae in this city
are making every effort to enlist the
full support of the friends of their
college here. If its thousand gTadu-
ates fail now to raise the remaining
sum, they declare, Bryn Mawr cannot
continue to hold forth an education to
all American girls without lowering
its standards or raising its tuition
fees. Bryn Alawr ties are strong
throughout this town and it is ex-
pccted that the president will be able
to announce that the future of the
college to which he has sent his
daughter is to be assured.
Recovered From Shocks.
Recovered somewhat from the panic
that has pervaded the poorer quarters
at the threat of collision with the tail
OF Halley's comet, thousands of people
OF this town are eacn night crowding
the bOulevards above the Hudson for
long sessions of serious star gazing.
Seldom has any scare talk really inn
pressed itself upon New Workers more
deeply than that of the possible brush
ing by of this stampeded sphere in the
heavens. Church revivals, hospitals,
asyums and police stations are still
receiving scores OF the victims of this
delusion, and the colored quarters nave
not yet quieted down. Altogether
Gotham has been miraculously sobered
by even this hint of the unavoidable
OF the revolving of the
universe.
For the first time in recent Gotham
history, straw hats are today still in
the minority upon the streets, although
the date for the change in mems
spring Eeadgear is a fortnight gone by.
Cold rains and sultry showers have
apparently frightened the male popu-
lation so that it still clings to the SOM
bre shining derby. Even the rusty
thick suits OF winter weight are vet
worn by three men out of every five
New York has never known a spring
season that delayed longer in yielding
fit for the Things of summer
The Weekly Shoot.
The following were the scores made
of tho unaElv cbont of tho NI,pIato n