The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-10-31

1879 in 1910, and since 1886. it has
at least doubled. 'EAir,
''The school population of the city
has grown greatly since. 1896. The
normal, department of the state nor
NAL school mas grown from flo to
$50, and nearly all of them live else
/ where. The Mankato' Commercial col
Ilege has an enrolment of 1000 aas
compared with 200 seventeen years
ago. The Catholic Mother House,
recently built, has ain enrolment of
IS, and the Lutheran seminary, also
recently completed, eprolls about 100
this year. The city and pafochial
schools report an increase. in enroll.
ment. ss.T, -
Patients From Abroad.
The two hospitals were erected
since 1896, and one reports forty-five
patients on ! the average, and the
other fifty, mostly from abroad. The
sugar beet business Is a new one. to
be added to the shipping list. and lin
the laft year Or two has added great
tly to the shipments out of the city.
Smaller industries and retail mer-
chants have not been seen, neither
have the stone, cement, lime, brick
and tile men, Their business can
be found on the records in the rail-
road offices In fact, you have avail.
able figures that cover the shipping
of the city during. all these years,
no doubt, and can readily learn how
greatly the business of the railroads
in Mankato has grown in the last
few years. YOU know how your
yards have become crowded for track
room from time to time, and how
you have met it ,by laying more
tracks, until now you are, crowded
for space and hampered. rs Man.
kato is just entering upon what
seems to be period of growth and
business expansion such as 1t has
never known in the past, YOU can
easily conjecture how inadequate
your facilities will soon become
Traffic on the street. 'es
Mr.. Cray stated that on last Sat
urday the Mankato Commercial club
appointed four census takers to keep
count of the traffic on Main and
Pike streets. These figures were
made in much the same way that
the recent figures made by North
Mankato Commercial club were made
with the exception of the fact that
record was kept of traffic going
one way only, that is to say, that
only travel going in the direction Of
North Mankato was recorded, whereas
the figures made in the North Mankato
count recorded travel both ways.
The following are the figures Of the
count on Main street,: automobiles,
1856; wagons, 4eS people, 3,505. Of
this the following number crossed
the bridge. autos, So; wagons, 3f5;
people, 1,167. By making a subtrac-
shows that the following number Of
people went to the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Omaha union depot.
automobiles, II; wagons, 1873; and
people 1888. On Pike street, 8 au-
, tomobiles; It's wagons and 435 peo-
pie were recorded and this leaves a
total travel to the union depot of
70 automobiles, 95S wagons and q
77S people The recent figures gath
cred by the North Mankato Com
mercial club were used also.
At the conclusion of Mr. Cray's re-
marks w. H. Pay presented his
plan providing for the location of all
of the depots on the street, between
Front street and the present railway
tracks, and having them east of all
of the tracks, A. w. Trenholm,
general superintendent of the Omaha,
Immediately raised the objection that
such plan would as he said make
complicated mess" The principal
objection he made was that with all
of the trains coming lin with so little
track roo nthe traffic could not be
handled. He considers the present
depots fairly adequate, but agreed
that the present plan Of having the
Northwestern and Omaha trains
ocme in as theyado causes much diff
ficulty. He finally suggested that
the Commercial club have the city
engineer make plan of the railway
yards and also of all the. railway
property, designating the tracks and
property of each road separately,