The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-01-07
SNOW KING IN YORK.
LEAVES PROGRESS PARALYZED
ON THE BIG ISLAND.
Heaviest Fall of the Beautiful in
Many Years; Thoroughfares of the
Metropolis Are Completely Clog
ged to Traffic; Tammany Is Still
Tenacious Notwithstanding the
Blows 1t Has Received

New York, Jan. 3.-Never in the his
tory of this town has the Snow King
left progress as paralyzed as it is to-
day from end to end of Manhattan
Island. Following the heaviest snow
fall IN dozen years, the thoroughfarcs
of the metropolis are completely clog
ged to traffic, while headhigh piles of
the chilly deposit threaten to flood and
ill each inch of pavement with tor
rents of slush at the first touch OF
thaw. Though tens of thousand of
tons of snow have already been dumped
over the river banks in frantic at
tcmpts to clear the submerged city,
surface traction still halts and pas
sage by foot is attended by serious
delay and danger. Seldom have New
Workers seen their movements as fet-
tered by frost as they are today, and
for many long year this blockade
of 1909 will be remembered along with
the blizzard of 1888.
Tammany Is Tenacious.
Defeat, death and disease have today
chastened the spirits of the Tammany
tribe in this town to a lower level
than all political history here has
chronicled since John Kelly set up the
wigwam. Stunned by their overthrow
at the polls, the beaten braves have
seen Big Tim" Sullivan sicken and
Little Tim" pass away in his prime.
big Tom Foley, another foundation
stone of the Tammany political struc-
ture, is now stricken with serious
prostration, while Battery Dan" Finn,
a pillar in the organization, is reported
as stretched on sick bed that will
hold him for some time to come. For
all the panic occasioned by these light
ming strokes of Fate, the disordered
forces of Tammany are being rallied
to stand through the new reform term
with what fortitude they may mus
ter In the light of the real love which
all the poor have shown for the de-
ceased Little Tim" Sullivan, Tammany
is realizing that its roots are planted
so deep in human hearts here that no
temporary reverse can shake its
power
]. P. Morgan's Might.
Heading a money trust that grips
almost every concern OF the plain peo-
pie the country over, ]. Pierpont Nor
gan is today regarded here by Wall
street men as coming to be one of the
most potent factors in American life.
For many years New York has known
this subtle financier as the man of
oil 10 r =
tered industrial fragment throughout
the land. Today with vast banking
and insurance funds assembled at his
back, the financial sages here assert
that Morgan is in absolute control of
the majority of money support for
every large enterprise that may be
undertaken by his countrymen from
coast to coast within the next ten
years. Citing the recent buying up of
Independent telephone interests by Nor
gan as a, shining example, Wall street
prophets are today predicting that the
money master will soon attemp to
weld into a wire trust all friends and
foes of the Bell combine, as well as
shape to monopolistic magnitude many
Other common utilities upon which all
Americans must depend.
Due to Drink.
Christmas cups of the kind that in
ebriate as well as cheer ARE today ru-
mored to be responsible for the record
lump and bump in Rock Island stock
that scattered sudden ruin and riches
about Wall street in the first fifteen
minutes market after the holiday
weekend. That few big manipulators
ordered big buying in this stock on
Christmas eve and forgot to order as
big selling, because the buying OF
drinks claimed all their remaining at
tention, is a story that will not down
and has not been contradicted by those
who should know best. Drunken fancy
and forgetfulness have been proven re-
sponsibe for dozen spectacular cor
ners and contortions of the stock mar
ket here. One mere boy in his cups
.on change once bid certain stocks to the
ceiling and would have Weakened with
fortune had he not forgotten a few
details in the closing of this coup of
his iniiamed imagination. If the Rock
Island ruinOr is true, no one VINO
knows the game of bull and bear will
be surprised.
Back to the Barnyard.
Turned temporarily into one vast
barnyard, the great arena of Madison
Square Garden is today just being
cleared of 1000 cages of the fowls
that have been giving New Workers a
chance to listen to their clueks and
cackles. Whenever one of these shows
comes TO the heart of this metropolis,
some city folks are sure to forget their
surroundings and seek the sights and
sounds of the farm yards. The country
bred boy often leaves his office and
automobile to renew his youth when
horses, cattle, dogs or poultry are to
be seen in these parts.