The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-08-11
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New York, August 5.-An exhibit
ton under the auspices of the Ma
tional Child Labor committee. in
stalled in a Fourth avenue building,
is now attracting much attention
from passersby. The show" is free
and has doubtless been the means OF
enlisting the interest of many thou
sands in the unfortunate youngsters
who toll in the tenaments and
sweatshops of this supposedly Chris
tian and civilized metropolis. In
the window of the exhibition build
ing is a placard which tersely calls
attention to a lamentable fact, which
is made plain at the beginning OF
this story:
Sweethearts in their youth but
separated by a dispute over some
trifiing matter which caused each
to marry another, James Kane, ageG
seventy, of Bloomfield, N. j., and
Mrs. Marion Dowd, a few years
younger, of Northport, Long Island,
have been reunited in their old age.
The wedding this week was cele-
brated with all the festivities that
might have marked a happier culmi-
nation of the romance blasted nearly
half a century ago. Mr.. Kane is a
veteran of the civil war, and as an
engineer handled the throttle OF the
first regular locomotive which ran
over the rails of the Greenwood Lake
branch of the Erie railroad. Within
the last few years both lost their
helpmeets, and they met accidentally
a short time ago. Mr.. Kane resumed
the broken-off courtship with
vigor, and in few days won a yes
from the lips of the Widow Dowd
When the special term of the
New York supreme court adJourns
next Tuesday, nearly $500 new vot-
ers will have been created since July
8, when the naturalization mill pc
gan grinding in order that the new
subjects of Uncle Sam might get tner
papers in time to cast their nrst
votes next November. This Will pc
the first time in forty-three years
that the calendar has been wiped
clean of naturalization cases. Quite
a few foreigners, anxious to become
citizens of the United States, nave
been turned down because OF lgnor-
ance concerning the government OF
this country. Some of these were
unfamiliar with the name OF the
present occupant of the presidential
chair and the capitol of the govern
ment. Gaynor, Roosevelt, Murphy,
big Tim" Sullivan, Lincoln ana
George Washington were among the
guesses as to the identity of the
chief magistrate of. the land, and not
a few named New York and Albany
as the national capital, while one
man gave Chicago as the capital seat
of government.
If you should ask Dennis Cronin.
of Ninety-sixth street and Second
avenue. what he considers the most
useful toilet article, he would re-
spond, right off the bat, "A button
hook" With good reason, for Gro
min owes his life to that article.
In the College Point ferry house
the other day he took out his plug
of "chawin" and bit off big chew.
Just then he sneeZed and the quid
lodged in his windpipe. He was on
the point of choking to death when
a man took buttep -ook from his
pocket, inserted it i'm Cronin's facial
cavity and fished out the tobacco.
Mother" Kennedy, who kept a
souvenir stand at Coney Island until
her place of business was wiped out
by the Dreamland fire, leaving her
with total worldly capital of $3.50,
is back in business. Moreover. she
has an angel in the person of An
drew Carnegie. Mother" Kennedy
was acquainted with the laird of