The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-04-07
or FIVE years ago. 1t showed scenes

or HVe years ago IL SnOWSu oOChCS
Representing historical events of the
| state of Massachusetts, beginning
with the landing on Plymouth Rock
and going right through the Reyo-
lutionary war. He thought the club
should get behind the project and
push it to a successful conclusion.
Troy Zimmerman suggested the
J idea Of offering a prize for the best
/ float, and thus stimulating interest.
Should Select Victims.
Judge Cray remarked that it had
been proposed to have one float rep
resent the hanging of the thirty
eight Indians. He said he wished to
be on the committee that would
select who the victims should be.
Frank Pay moved that the club
donate 500. Theodore Williams
thought the club should take steps
f, to raise $1,000 for the pageant. Now
there arose a long discussion. Paul
Radichel thought it would look rath-
err cheap for the club to go on record
as giving 800.
w. D. Willard moved that the
president appoint committee OF i've
| to cooperate with the ladies. Mr..
| Currier remarked that at the present
time it was not known how much
money would be needed. DR.. A. F.
Schmitt thought the committee
should look into that as well as into
other features of the proposition.
NJ. F. Sullivan thought the COM
mittee should be made ten instead OF
five. Judge Cray thought commit
tee of ten would be unwieldy. A. F.
SLIDER was strongly in favor Of
pledging the club to give $500. Logan
Rose thought the committee should
consist of ten and 500 be APP
propriated.
H. F. Kuester observed incident
ally that personal call ought to be
made on every merchant to take part
in the celebration and have float
of some sort of an exhibit.
1t was at length decided to have
| just five on the committee and to
appropriate no money for the present
but let the committee see what would
| have to be done.
Even after the motion was deter
mined and carried, Mr.. SLIDER con-
tinued to speak with enthusiasm for
the' idea of pledging the club to give
$780, and in this he was seconded by
l.. Salet, Jr. w. d. Willard said
the cost might run as high as $1,000.
F. I. Packard said this should be
investigated Mr.. Currier comp1i-
mented Mr.. SLIDER and Mr.. Salet for
their enthusiasm for the develop
ment of the city, but he thought the
committee should make preliminary
investigation.
Endorsed Large Water Main.
Another project Endorsed by the
club was that of having large water
main running through the alley that
extends north and south between
Front and Second streets in the main
part of the city. This would be for
fighting fires.
Theodore Williams said this should
be done, as it had been recommended
by the hydraulic engineer, who was
sent to Mankato by the insurance
bureau. If these recommendations
were not carried out, Mankato would
not be granted the reduced insurance
rates that has been desired, and
which the city ought to have A six
teen-inch water main ought to be laid
not merely as far south as Jackson
street, as the engineer had recon-
mended but all the way to Cherry
street. This main ought not. to de-
pend for its water on the city reser-
voir. 1t should be connected with
the river
C.. E. Wise thought that main
should go in before the alley was
paved. M. D. Fritz thought this
main more urgent necessity than
| that of building the new reservoir.
He suggested that a committee of
three be appointed to lay the matter
before the city council. Wilbur
! Taylor remarked that if the matter
should be neglected there might be
a very bad fire some time in the
! central part Of town and there would
be no sufficient water supply to fight
I it. DR.. A. F. Schmitt said the city
councilmen already had the project
in mind and had been planning on it
A motion was finally carried to
have a committee of three place the
matter before the city council.
Spoke for independent Chautauqua.
j. R. Brandrup spoke of the in
dependent chautauqua. He said he
wanted to make it emphatic that al
though the guarantee pledges had
been burned in the fire that DESTROYED
the old commercial college building,
the tickets had not been burned, and
he had the pledges of the sales of
tickets. He said the news of some of
his chautauqua records having been
burned seemed to have gotten down
into Iowa into the hands of the cir
cult chautauqua managers, and the
result was that story had been
spread that the independent chau
tauqua movement in Mankato was
dead. Mr.. Brandrup declared that
the movement was not dead. It was
very much alive, more so, in fact
than it ever had been before. He
had gone around among those who
had pledged themselves to guarantee
the independent chautauqua for GER
tain amounts against loss, and all OF
these people had readily renewed
their guarantees. But he did moi
think they would be called on to give
any money, for it looked as if the
enterprise was going to be a success