The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-06-21
WOMEN CUT OUT MEAT
BECAUSE OF THE PRICE

New York, June 17.-With three
thousand women already boycotting
the meat trust by a vegetarian diet
and many thousands more focking
to mass meetings to protest against
present prices, Gotham has today
begun to experience for the first
| time in the history widespread
housekeeper' strike. Scores of the
smaller butcher shops are closing
down under the stress of the ladies'
desertion and joining with them in
calling on the beef barons to lower
prices to selling and eating level.
Before the summer is over, the local
market experts now predict that
this spreading strike of the house
wives new union will force gen.
eral reduction in charges or drive
the retail meat men out of business
before the womens' telling tactics
of vegetarianism.
! The Campaign Calculations.
Practically superceding all bust
ness and social activities here, the
matter of the choice of presidential
candidates is this week engrossing
all New Workers. While the repub-
lican nomination battle has hereto
| the talk has now turned to the dem
ocratic selection, which it has just
been realized may win or lose the
election. With Teddy heading the
republican ticket, political veterans
declare that Woodrow Wilson could
draw many thousands of conserva.
tive votes from the e. o. p. ranks in
| this city, where he could also be eX-
pected 10 win many radical republic
ans if Taft weer to run. In spite
of the recent booming of Mayor
Gaynor, it is believed that Tam
many may yet abandon their pet
candidate and join the democratic
forces of the rest of the state, that
are lining up solidly for the Jersey
governor.
Precious Are The Parks.
That park space here has now
become almost too valuable to be
covered by the most costly public
structure, has just been proven in
the controversy over the accept
ance of the old Lenox Library
building, which was generously of.
fered to the city to be moved and
set up in Central Park With a hun
dred thousand human beings de-
4 pendent upon this grassy stretch of
less than one square mile, experts
from the health department declare
that an encroachment upon even a
few square feet Of it's greensward
and breathing space would seriously
affect the army of nearby residents
who look to it for air exercise. New
Workers are now convinced that
every foot of open land upon this
island is worth it's weight in gold to
the pent-up residents here.
Aston Is Ahashed.
! That the Establishments Of thou
sands of utterly unknown women
may drive young Vincent Astor
aboard for at least year, has just
been limited by several friends most
close to the boyish heir to $780,,
100000. While it is not expected
that the son of Colonel Astor will
join Waldorf Astor as an ex-pat-
riate, it is known that he is plan
ming to escape for while the bun.
dies of love letters and begging
appeals that have begun to disgust
the bashful boy. Over a thousand
ambitious maidens are now recorded
as already having made a leap year
proposal to young Astor and hun,
dreds more have bombarded him
with scented sheets scrawled with
affectionate appeals for his photo
graph. "'
Rather Wet Welcome.
Scoring a record consumption of
beer. wurst and pretzels, two thou
sand German and naval tars and two
hundred thousand German residents
here have just completed the great
est "grussfest" that Gotham has
Witnessed in many year. Every
weinstube, turnverein and rathskel-
lar in town has been thronged with
enlisted men of the visiting fleet,
each attended by scores of his
American friends and relations who
have made one long holiday to honor
the Kaiser's men-behind-t the gun
Though many foreign navy crews
have been entertained here before,
these teutons have received the wet,
test welcome that ever splashed the
whole metropolis. r's