The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-07-05
New York Has Real OId.Time
Attraction; the Events.
SOME DON'TS FOR TRAVELLERS
Breach of Promise Suit For $4,000;
Plaintiff Is Sixty and Defendant
Eighb-Three.
Especial to The Free Press.J

New York, June 29.-New Orleans
has its Mardi Gras, Portland it's
Rose Festival, Seattle it's Golden
Petlatch, ST. Louis it's Yelled Prophet
and Kansas City it's Priests of
Pallas, not to mention dozens OF
similar carnivals in cities all over
the world Even Podunk has it's
street fair. New York now proposes
to get into the carnival game, and
on Monday the metropolis will swing
wide her gates and invite the world
to drop in and see the grandest,
most gorgeous and glittering summer
carnival in the history of America.
1t will continue three months,
through July, August and September,
with something doing every day.
The main features of the carnival will
be an exhibition in which all the
states and important cities will dis
play samples and exhibits of what
has made them great New York
has furnished free the space for
showing the displays, and the visit
or will see, absolutely free and with
out price, a vista of the beauties,
resources and products of all the
United States. On Monday noon
Mayor Gaynor will stand on the
steps of the city hall and announce
to all and sundry that the big do
ings are on 1t will not be an ex-
position in a collection of enclosed
buildings, but the displays will be
scattered all over Manhattan, Brook
Ign and the Bronx. In parks and
plazas, gayly decorated during the
day and brilliantly ablaze with
lights at night, the floats and vans
will be drawn up and will form
the decorative platforms from which
the entertainers will describe the
attractions of their respective Sec
tions. Five of the most magnifl-
cent floats used in the last New Or
leans Mardi Gras have been brought
here to show the southern idea Of
a parade and pageant. Many of
the western states will make fea-
ture of their state flowers in the
decoration of their floats. The Cali
fornia exhibit will include booths
filled with fruits grown in that state.
A safe and sane Fourth of July cele-
bration and a number of day and
night parades and pageants will be
held during the summer carnival
season.
George W. Sweeney, proprietor of
the Hotel Victoria. has prepared a
list of Ten Don'ts for Travellers"
that afford some pointers to guests
of metropolitan hotels. They are as
follows:
Don't marry the girl at the news
stand. She is worthy of you, but
the hotel is not matrimonial bu-
reau.
Don't feel hurt if the proprietor
refuses to cash your checks. Your
credit may be o. X, but the pro-
prietor has enough checks return
ed N G. to build several hotels.
Don't carry thirty-six trunks with
a collar button in each one. Light
luggage will give you time to see
the sights. And the porter will
bless you.
Don't make friends with every
jolly good fellow at the bar. Good
Samaritans in New York sometimes
sell bad mining stocks.
Don't forget to pay the telephone
girl. 1t is embarrassing to be called
back for a dime.
Don't turn the hotel inside out
for your wallet, until you look un
der your pillow You probably slept
on it last night.
Don't carry off souvenirs. When
we wish to demolish and dismantle
the hotel we will send you special
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