The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-04-19
Religion Forward Move Has
Taken Hold in Gotham.
MOTOR Is REPLACING HORSE
Prominent Democrats Will Crate al
Jefferson Banquet Tonight: New
York Notes.
Especial to The Free Press. ]

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national convention of the Men
and Religion Forward Movement, will
be held in New York next week
While the congress proper does not
begin until next Friday, conference
OF the experts who have been hold
ing meetings all over the country,
in an attempt to spread the move
ment for bringing men into the
churches, will commence with a
the following four days the experts
will teach laymen of the metrop.
oils how to capture the male nom
church goer and bring him into the
field. Hundreds of distinguished
men. including President Taft, have
agreed to deliver addresses, but the
only woman admitted TO the program
is Miss Jane Adams of Hull House,
Chicago, who will speak to mas
culine audience on THE Social Evil
New York is an excellent place to
hold such congress, for a visit to
almost any Protestant church on a
Sunday will discover the fact that
the metropolitan male lis not given
to worship. The Men and Religion
Forward Movement promotes hope
TO change this condition, and teach
men that they can't hope to get to
heaven on the piety of their wives.
If any proof were needed that
the motor truck is now rapidly
displacing the horse in the Detrop-
oils, il would he found in today's
motor truck parade. Since the last
annual event of this kind hundreds
of big concerns have disposed of
their horses and substituted power
drays. and the movement in this
direction is constantly on the in
crease. 1t is predicted that with
In a few years a horse will be an
object of curiosity in New York
streets. and this prediction seems
already we'll on the way to fulfill
ment. The municipal government
is now buying nothing but motor
equipment for the fire department.
and ii is now but a matter of short
time until the last horse will make
it's last run to fire in this mans
town There is nothing more pic
turesque than race of the fire
horses through the streets, but they
are not as efficient as the motors,
and this is an age OF efficiency
Thomas .Jefferson's birthday will be
commemorated in New York tonight
by great banquet of the National
Democratic club. William J. Bryan,
Governor Woodrow Wilson of New
Jersey, Champ Clark, Senator OGor-
man, Governor Dix and Mayor
Gaynor are among those who have
accepted invitations to speak. TWO
Of these are active candidates tor
the democratic presidential noml-
nation. while three others have been
mentioned" for that honor. 1t is
expected that as a result OF the
dinner considerable addition will
be made TO the fund for erecting a
Jefferson memorial in this city, to-
ward which the late Joseph Pulitzer
y
bequeathed $4,000.
| The first big exhibition of its kind
was opened in Grand Central Palace
today with the inaugural of the
National Inventors show. Some OF
the greatest inventive geniuses OF
the age have entered their newest
products, including Edison, Marconi,
Beleriot, Steinmetz, and host OF
others. The budding inventor who
hopes to reyolutionize the world has
not been barred. Such remarkable
Appliances as an apparatus for
extracting gold from sea-water ana
motors for utilizing the rays OF the
sun for power and lighting purposes
are on view. In the past such things
have been useful principally for
extracting gold from the pockets OF
credulous investors. but who knows
what the future may bring forth
Perpetual motion is, of course, dem
oustrated at the exhibition. for what
! Inventions show would bc complete
without 1t? A Menominee. Mich,
man is the inventor of this "perpet-
/ ual motion motor" which he says is
run by terrestrial magnetism. A
device for locating oils and minerals
| Ia shown, and there is also an appara'
tus for registering unspoken
thoughts. In the more serious depart
ments the United States patent
| office has a fine display showing the
inception, progress, and perfection OF
the greatest inventions which have
/ received patents from the govern
| mani