The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-26
ocean HORROR ST|RS
OFFICIALS TO ACTION
New York Harder Authorities Are
Alive to the Situation.

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probe deep into the secrets of the sea
tragedy of the Titanic whose living
fiotsam and jetsam have just been
landed here, the federal authorities
are today organizing a rigid inquisi-
ton into the conditions under which
thousands of souls embark from this
port each day. Backed by business
men as well as the travelling public,
the harbor officials intend to insure
adequate protection against wreck by
every device known to science. Many
survivors of the ocean horror is to
be explained and heard on every
phase of the fatal night among the
icebergs. With public sentiment fan
ned to fever heat, it is promised that
drastic reforms in maritime risk will
result from this inquiry into the
tragedy that lies heavy on the hearts
of all New Workers..
High Cost of Living Probe.
With state food investigating
commission sitting high up in sky
scraper and several thousand house
keepers securing the markets each
day, the causes of high living costs
seem in a fair way to be searched
out soon here. While hundreds of
big and little butchers, grocers and
household tradesmen have been sum-
moned to tell all they know to the
gentlemen commissioners, the lady in
vestigators are finding out things at
first hand from their personal canvas
of thousands Of shops and markets.
Thus far the middle man in the food
supply trade has succeeded in con-
vincing the ladies that he isn't en-
tirely to blame, while the retailers
are showing that they must charge
present prices or fail. If the women
finally decide that the trusts are re-
sponsible, everyone here expects to
see some trust busting that will rival
any attempts ever made by mere
man.
Ready Are the Rodmen.
Hundreds OF faithful fishermen
have this week dropped all mundane
matters and are blissfully whipping
the streams all about town for trout.
ever interfere with this annual ex-
odus to the trout streams, which
sportsmen have found abundant in
almost any direction within a few
hours train ride from the metropolis.
Since several thousand deep sea fish.
ers are already testing their tackle
over the salt waters, it is estimated
that this weekend will draw at least
one man in every hundred here out
of town behind rod and reel.
. Carefully scanning the curriculum
of the new school of journalism as
just announced most of the news
paper workers of Park Row declare
today that they fail to find the cours-
es that formed their early education.
Through four years of the proposed
journalistic college most of the time
appears to be taken up with "Natur-
al Science" "Epocs of History"
General Survey of English Litera-
ture," laboratory Course in Modern
EuIOpedH I1lSCOGy, ClclHculo VI LIZ
bel Law and smooth sounding sub
jects of the sort. To the mind Of
the simple scribe there should be
provision made for some Survey of
Ship News, Police Stations, Hotels,
and Courts" Elements of Modern
News Getting" "Epocs of Catching
Editions" and "Some Aspects of
Getting Beaten" with an exhaustive
laboratory course in the use of the
blue pencil
SOURCE the Smokers.
Threatening to Danish tobacco
smoke from every public place in
Greater New York, league of non
smokers, aided and allotted by sew
eral women's clubs, is now making
life miserable for the officials of the
board of aldermen and of the police
and health departments. Smoking in
street cars, public parks and build
ings and even in crowded streets is
barred by these latest fanatics as a
menace to public health. Fortunate
ly the city authorities are sufficiently
saturated with nicotene to prove
more or less deaf to the new war
cry.