The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1914-06-05

|ploy of the government.
Misses Ruth and Estella Bragdon
win leave tomorrow for Los Angeles.
Cal. where they will spend the sum-
mer. Miss Ruth will return TO Min
nesota In August and Miss Estella
plans to remain in the west.
Roy Watson OF the Zufnbro hotel
at Rochester passed through Man
kato yesterday, accompanied by his
sister, on their way TO Los Angeles,
where Mr.. Watson will attend the,
National hotel clerks convention,
June 8, 9 and 10. ~ p zs'tp
A. C. .Hedbers has gone TO Colora.
do Springs for a week, having won
the trip from the Mutual Life In
surance company, by The large
amount OF business he had written.
-Four other agents from Minnesota
went on the trip. 'bW
Fairmont Sentinel: Asher +. Pay.
an old newspaper. man, and wife, of
Huron, s. d., w. II. Pay Of the Pay
Candy company, ManRato, and wife
have been enjoying themselves at
weekend party. at the g. s. White
home. w. ii. Pay and wife returned
this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Asher
Pay will remain few days longer,
Mr.. Pay has retired from the news
paper business, having worked at IL
for fifty-three years, and with his
wife has been on a sightseeing trip
throughout the United States.
John German. a well-known resi-
dent of Fairmont, is dead.
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From Wednesdays Daily. %
Irve Hammett, son OF W.. X. Ham
NETT, the dray line man, is back
from Indianapolis. where he spent
all last week attending the automo-
bile races. So enthusiastic was the
young man over this affair that he
attended every one of the prelmi-
naries, as we'll, as the final race on
Saturday, finding keen enjoyment in
his trip, although he did nnot meet
q soul he knew, with the single ex-
ception of Captain +. p. Buyer,
whom he met i'm Chicago, from the
time he left Mankato until he re-
turned. |
1.-The race track" said Mr.. Ham
NETT, as paved with brick, just like
Front street. 1t is two and a half
miles long and the autos course
around this track at maddening
speed. The race course Is five hun
dred miles. This was made on Satur-
day OF lastsweek by Rene Thomas,
the winneryin six hoursediiree min
utes and forfy-flye seconds, making
an average speed of 82A7s miles per
hour. / had that man spotted for
the winner: just from his record, be-
fore i went ito Indianapolis, but he
would not have come out first, IL
George Boilloti had not blown out
tire on the track and broken wheel
He was going at the rate of a 'hun.
dred miles an hour and of course
his accident put him out of the race.
Tire Blowing Out.
"The blowing out of a tire by Il.
self will not put man out perma-
nently, for that, is a rather frequent
occurrence. Il; In fact, "A mans fortune
on the track depends very largely
on how his tires hold out So skill,
full are the mechanics at taking the
bad tires of and putting good ones
on that this can be done I'm thirty
minutes.
you would think that there would
be great many mishaps I'm the
races. when the autos go at such ter
rife speed, but only four people were
hurt, to my knowledge, during the
entire week. Only one was badly
hurt, and that was Joe Dawson. He
performed an act of heroism. Gil
hooley. with his green car, had brok-
en- down In front of him, and rather
than run over him or his mechanic,
Dawson steered his car right. of the
track into the, dirt embankment. His
collar bone was broken and It is
feared that his back has been seri-
ously injured. 49, a-s -. -
Jules Goux, who won last year.
was the favorite In the general opin-
ion this year. but he came out only
fourth. Rene Thomas was first; Ar.
thur Duray, second: Albert Guzot.
third, and Jules. Goux, fourth. II is
remarkable that the first four places
were won by Frenchmen. An Ameri-
can, Barney oldheld, won fifth place.,
with a Stutz car. II was a Delage
car. that won first and third and
fourth places were won by Peugeot
cars. $780,
'Duray, who cane out second, had
the smallest ear in the race. He
was leading until within hundred
miles of the goal, when Thomas pass
ed him.
"Forty-five entered for the races,
but there were only thirty when the
race Itself came on on, Saturday. the
rest all having been eliminated by
competition"