The Mankato free press., 1915-03-26
Then People Take To Resorts
For Rest and Recreation
from Mondays pallv.

From Mondays DaIiy. 80
New York, March 22.-Recording
ihe earliest spring opening in all
Gotham's history. police. traction and
resort experts reported today that
three million men. women and chill.
dren spent last Sunday in the open.
at beaches. ball grounds and picnic
parks about this city. Practically
every summer resort near the great
er city is now being thrown open for
the season with equipment for the
hot weather crowds that is calculated
TO have cost the amusement and
hotel mon six millions OF dollars.
while summer schedules are being
begun on the suburban lines that
haul the holiday crowds. With foreign
tourist traffic cut OF. the resort pro-
rrietors hereabouts are predicting \
record season of outings by Ameri.
cans within America. .a
Great Book Boom.
That ten million books were last
year brought to the homes of this
city from the new public library. has
Just been announced by the librar.
ians. who say that these statistics
show half million more readers
added to their patrons. Sixty thou.
sand students sought the reference
rooms of this huge literary store.
house each month during 1914, in
which year almost three million visi.
tors on every errand passed through
it's portals. With an investment in
this central library, structure of over
fifteen millions CT dollars, New York,
ers now seem TO consider that they
are reaping rich returns, from this
showing that proves an average ex-
tension Of two or three reading priv.
ileges to every resident of the whole
metropolis.
Tax Is Terror.
DaZed at the demand for a direct
tax from Albany. that would bring
toward bankruptcy the sagging
finances OF this town, the property
owners OF Greater New York are this
week organizing TO demand that the
official pruning knife trim all state
extravaganza before such a big bur.
den is rolled upon their shoulders.
When such lavish bodies as the old
conservation commission, that Tam
many controlled to promote its state
hydro-electric scheme calling for
Si00. .000,0 900 worth OF public con-
tracts, are replaced by simple bureaus
and all the padded payrolls at the
capital cut down. New Workers be-
lieve that the proposed tax may be
averted. With every voter in the
whole state struggling to make a
living in the face of the sad stagna-
tion of business. the taxpayers bitter
ly resent any attempt to saddle them
with state debts incurred by recent
political raids and contractors carni-
walls at the expense OF the people.
Relic Of Roadhouse.
Turning the key for the last time
on aIcGown's Pass Tavern, the park
authorities and a host OF horsemen
have this week sung a requiem over
the remains of what was once the
most popular roadhouse hereabouts.
For full century the city has rented
this caravansery. peIched beside the
main drive of Central Park. to land
lords who made II famous as the Nee.
ca for the gentlemen drivers and rid.
ers OF this section, whose rigs and
mounts used to block up an acre CT
surrounding sheds. Now that the
gasoline carryall has supplanted the
horse as n park pleasure vehicle. the
crowd has come to buzz by the old
inn on its way to resorts many miles
above 1t. and the old road house has
had to be closed and kept only as n
relic OF bygone days.
The Newspaper Nomads.
Following five of the great dailies
that used to line up On Park Row.
The Tribune Is now rumored TO be
planning to leave its old home and
move uptown, miles above the old
printing house square. With only
The World. Jaurnal. Press and Sun
now left grouped about this former
center. the old Park Row
crowd OF ink-slingers has begun TO
feel a bit lonesome. When the
quaint, old-fashioned facade of Gree.
ley's building Is no longer backed up
by its newspaper plant. the time
honored reporters row viii seem
very empty to every member OF the
craft.