The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-12-17
New York Five and Ten Has
Secured New Location
from Mcndsy'e Daily.

| One day ana few hours more
ELAPSED between the great fire on
South Front street. which burnt out
the New York Department store, the
Mankato Commercial college and the
, JJniuue theatre, before work was act
ually going on in preparation OF the
new quarters for the two of these
| institutions first named.
Philip c. Morrell, proprietor of the
New York Department store. on Sat
urday afternoon closed the deal for
his new location, the store room at
4OS South Front street. next to the
Richards block. He planned to open
there this afternoon. Yesterday part
of his new STOCK was already in the
store. and force CT men was at work
on the new display shelves. He will
employ about twelve clerks during
the Christmas holidays. In the old
place there were eighty clerks on the
! regular force. and as holiday extras
he was intending To put en- about
fifty more. The fire thus threw quite
a number of people out OF employ
ment in that institution alone
No Scarcity Of Water.
| Many people have the idea that
there was a scarcity Of water during
the fighting of the great fire. Chief
Philip Leas and the firemcn say this
was not the case, because the water
was taken directly from the ten-inch
main at Main and Front streets. But
| the water was taken faster than the
| station could supply il and the CON
sequence was that the hydrant pres
sure was somewhat reduced by rea-
son of the depletion Of the water sup
ply in the reservoir
Il is not for juilGirgs in the
neighhorhood Of the Front and Main
street nor for buildings along Front
street north TO Wa bingtoD that the
larger high pressure main is wanted.
Here the mains are pretty large, but
they are smaller elsewhere in the
heart OF the city. A rig fire at Front
and Jackson streets would have only
a six-inCh main TO draw upon.
Chief Leas' idea = to have a six
teen inch high pressure main, run
ming through the alley between From,
and Second streets all the way from
Washington TO Cherry In such q
main. a greater pressure could be
forced than can safely be put into the
present water supply MAIN, for n
very high pressure would be liable TO
cause break somewhere. II Is
planned to fore" river water into the
high pressure main in time of a
great fire.
BORROWED Some Hose.
During the big fire. the fremeh
not only used the hose of their own
department but also 600 feet bor-
rowed from the hose house of North
Mankato. Some Of the S1ulpaugh
hotel hose was also used.
The boys at the central fire sta
ton miss two pairs of rubber boots.
two rubber coats and about n dozen
pairs OF mittens. These. IL is thought.
were taken by sornb of the volunteers
to help in fighting the fire. II seems
that those who took them have for
gotten to return them. AMI the
authorities would like to have thes.
goods brought back to the station at
once.
Late yesterday afternoon. when the
back wall Of the ruined building was
pulled over into the debris filled
basement, the wall kicked back a
little and broke down a pole, putting
out OF commission for a few hours
some telephone and electric lighting
wires.
John Anderson. the photographer.
was at the scene of the fire early in
the morning and obtained some ex-
cellent views of the burning building.
He took pictures from six until 1880
o'clock
Suffered Heavy Loss.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. bernstein, who re-
Gently came from Patterson. New
Jersey. and who were employed In
the New York store. suffered loss
OF $1,000 in the recent fire. They had
all their valuables in trunks in the
basement of the building. storing
them there until they could get into
the Kuebler fiat on Elm street. which
was TO be ready for occupancy this
week. Mr.. Bernstein has been here
for three months and had charge of
the silk department. Mrs. Bernstein
arrived only few days ago and was
to assist in the store during the holt
days. She was at the store the day
before the fire. Mr.. and Mrs. Born
stein were at the burning building
about five o'clock Friday morning and
Mr.. Bernstein who had taken care
OF the stores receipts the night be-
fore and who had the keys TO the
store. made an attempt to get into
the building. but in the absence of
a light and the dense smoke was
prevented from reaching the money.
part of which was in the safe and
the currency in a secret spot. About
$1,000 In money was i'm the store
at the time of the fire. Mrs. Born
stein, who Is relative of Mr.. Nor
rell. the proprietor of the New York
store. has become very much attached
to Mankato, but she and her husband
will return to New Jersey after the
holidays where Mr.. Bernstein will
again engage in the manufacture of
silks, business with which he is
thoroughly familiar.
from Mondays Daily.
Joseph Kodel, 'switchman employ
ed by the Northwestern railroad i'm the
New Ulm yards. was run over and
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