The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-04-08
PLAN HOW TO MAKE MAEKATi
MORE BEAUTIFUL.
Work of the Civic Improvement League
Is Set Forth By Several Commit
tees at Meeting Held Last
Night; MaSsmeeting in the 0pera
House Within Next Two Weeks
Speakers to Be Engaged
MAKE Mankato Beautiful" I'll

l.lHit. W nat Nature mas ia'iru 10
do. the handiwork of man, also the
women and children will accomplish.
The charmen OF the committees Of
he league held a mce,n" in the pub
lie library building last evening Ton
he purpose OF outlming The wort, that
the league intends To do next year
with a view To making the work OF
the membership committee easier.
". II. Gary. chairman OF the com
mittee on streets and alleys, suggested
Il number. of ways in wiica he be.
Geved the condition of the streets and
alleys should DE Improved. Tie M
slightly wood pile which now stands
on the boulevard back OF the Prcsby
terrain church should be removed imnc
diately. The bill boards winch may
bc seen in 81 many places, he believes
SHOULD be ruled ont entirely. The bills
are continually coming loose and blow
ing about the streets, thus nccrSstat
ing considerable expense in having
item collected and destroyed. MIR.
Gary believes that this Using
papers. He expressed himself ~ very
wiliin" To start the movement by re
moving his Large sign board il Others
We're willing To follow Another very
:nuch needed improvement which he
suggested was an ordinance prohibit
ing the placing OF barrels, boxes.
boards and other rubbish, Oh or near
enough the sidewalk to be in danger
Of catching and tearing the garments
al the passers-by.
Remove the DISTINCTIONS
George Sngdcn agreed with Mr.. GARY
that the distractions on the streets
and sidewalks should be removed. The
city is not rs large as st. Paul ana
Minneapolis. nor the streets 80 crowd
ed, and it would not Of course De
practicable to require that every OH
siructiOn be removed, as this would
III many cases work an unne, eSsary
hardship and cause much hard feel
ing, .ut it is surely not asking TOO
mrcl to require all merchants 10 re.
strict themselves 10 tie use of the
three feet of walk, allowed them by
the ordinance. He suggested the plan
OF holding Il large masSmceting in
the opera house in the near future
for the purpose of aronsing Il greater
interest in the work OF the league.
For this he suggested having = few
short addresses by citizens of Man.
kato, wno are acquainted with the
,.,1
ioan Civic association has offered The
use OF some lantern slides, Illustrating
some feat ures which might be useful
i'll Il town the size of Mankato. such
as the planting of flowers. arrange
ment OF shrubbery, etc. He believes
that a talk. using these slides might
he very successful in arousing an in
teiest in the work. Manager Grie6el
has kindly offered The free u.e OF the
Crera house for one evening some time
within the next two weeks
Favored the Mass .ueeting.
c. +. c. Riley of the normal eX-
pressed himself las being strongly in
favor of the massmce.ing, especially
the addresses illustrated with the
slides. He thinks it is one of the
best possible ways of bringing he pco-
pie to understand he work The PIE
TIRES. showing the condition of lots
before and after work has been done
on them, can hardly fail to arouse
AN interest on the Improvement of the
vacant lots in our own city.
Miss van Burcn explained briefly the
plans of the committee on play
grounds. They have decided dcfintel,
10 have the play grounds and the
main question under consideration nov
is the securing OF centrally located
lot where children who live in store
buildings and in fats can easily reac.
il. a number of lots have been con
sidered, but nothing definite has bee,
decided as yet. Then it will be neces
sary to have some apparatus in TIL.
play ground. The young ladies of tht
town, through their chain lunchcons
have raised something over twenty dol
lars. and expect to raise fifty within
the next few weeks. This will be ex
PENDED for apparatus. such rs swing
turning pole, small merry &C round
etc. But of course this will not q,
far and more will have 10 be raised
1t has been suggested that the Soca
Science club lie asked 10 furns', on,
piece Of apparatus. the council one. tht
ladies' clubs one, the Y. NJ. c. A. one
and so on until the playground i
completely fitted ont with siiitabl,
apparatus.
Services Are Offered
Mr.. .>Dcerhake and Mr.. With o
the Y. NJ. C.. 4. have kindly orere;
their services in the supervision OF th'
play. when this is established
DIR. Dahl suggested that the lcagu
co something to help ont the health
department. As Il means he propose.
having - 'clean mp" week, as is don
now in Minneapolis and St. Paul
However, he world not have il ut til
beginning OF the season as is dom
there. hut later. after the regular cit,
cleaning has been done. By the l5ti
OF April, all the cleaning is suppose
10 have been done. hut there arc us'l
ally several vacant lots and som
where people are living which ar
neglected, BY having this clean up
week many of these could be clcaEe
IN without tire serving of LEGAL no