The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-24
GRIP AND COLDS HAVE
LAID FOLKS ON BACKS
New York Is Suffering From All
Manner of Ills.
Especial to Tine Free rress.1

tSpec1al TO Inc Free FreSS.
New York, May Shrivering and
soaked in the grip of the chilliest
spring ever experienced here, New
Workers are to-day suffering an
epidemic of disease that is spread
ing over every block i'm town. Pneu-
monia, grippe and common colds
are prostarting people by the thou
sands, while the children of every
quarter are succumbing to swift
spread of measles and whooping
cough. The frantic forces of the
health department declare that the
unreasonable weather is largely re-
sponsible for this dangerous prev
alence of sickness, which has al
ready begun to register it's results
in the official death rate figures in
spite of heroic efforts to say it.
Campaign Is Closing.
Brisk betting on presidential
choice has this week just begun to
mark the close of the campaign of
the candidates, whose chances are
now considered here to be pretty
finally determined While plenty of
Roosevelt money is being offered on
Wall street, the formerly enthusiast
tic hackers of Taft and Harmon ap-
pear to have lost much of their con-
fidence. Following the showing of
strength behind Woodrow Wilson,
that is coming to the front each
day from all over the Empire state.
less talk is heard of Clark and
more money quietly placed on the
Jersey governor. The fact that Sena-
tor O'Gorman, a leader of Tammany
Halls better element, is actively de-
claring his choice of Wilson, seems
to be accepted here as additional
evidence that the real democracy
of this city and state is steadily
lining up behind the former Prince
ton president.
Spelling the Sport.
To save the national sport from
the fate of racing, the local le-
gions of baseball fans are to-day
backing the emergency measures to
be taken to root out betting and
bookmaking from the bleachers.
For the first time in generation
the professional gamblers are now
known to be making book secretly
but steadily on every turn of the
games that are the only clean sport
ing exhibitions left here. All about
the diamond it is being planned to
station sleuths to check such opera
tons, and it will surely go hard
with all gamesters caught soiling
this sport as they have the ring
and race track.
Walters Are Wroth.
Tipping trays, cold consomme and
mangled napkins are showing as
symptoms of the upheaval of the
walters union that has now made
dining-out slow and uncertain ex-
ercise all over town. With red and
angry faces the garcons are serving
at such posts as they have not aban-
doned in a state of nervous excite
ment that makes the crash of crock
cry mark almost every course. I'm
less the knights of the napkin are
pacified, Gotham will continue to
suffer slow service that will soon
leave it's public dining places de-
serted, it is prophesied
Remove the Restaurant.
Stuffing spoons and other silver
souvenirs into their pockets, a mad
crowd of celebrants have just closed
up the restaurant in the old Del
monico building, that for, forty years
has been a rendezvous for the smart
set Big business building has now
driven the old resort further up
town, to leave on its historic site
only memories of the dead days of
it's former social functions. Before
another decade passes, the restau-
rant men believe their stands must
be moved many more miles above