The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-16
TRAIHLoADs OF EATABlEs
HEADED FOR GOTHAM
Secret Service Men Are BusiIy Engaged
In Running Down cIews That Might
Lead to Any German Intrigue; Tricks
: OF Tammapy; Seek Out the Soldiers;
There Is Some Flag Famine. In
New York City
Especial to Free Press.1

From Mondays Daily.
+ New York, March d2.--With hun
dreds of trainloads of foodstuffs
crushing through the snow toward
this city, real relief from the pre-
yailing food shortage was promised
today by all the authorities, who be-
liere that a transportation ie-up is
the most serious cause of the spec
tacular clamor of the past week
When some sorting of the congested
cargo freight that blocks this pent-up
port can. be made, free tracks from
the west and south will work out an
end to the menace of famine condi-
tons throughout this town, the ex-
perts declare. Meanwhile, the secret
service men are busted in running
down very clue that might lead to
any come ction between German in
trigue and the pitiful plight of the
poor, who have only just found food
at prices to fit their purse. y
Tamnnany to Try.
Seeking to secure the. tacit back
ing of the president for their cam
paign to capture this town next fall,
the chieftains of Tammany hall are
returning from their dressy inaugur-
al marching at Washington with high
hopes for federal favor. Although
Mayor Mitchell has hitherto held
most of the administration democrats
in sympathy with the fusion forces
that Tammany will strive to dis.
lodge from city hall, leading braves
of the Wigwam now declare that the
strong republican flavor given to the
coming campaign of the fusionists
friends of Wilson at Washington. II
Murphy can win federal support for
his ticket next summer, it is be-
lieved that he is ready to hope to-
control again not only this city but
the Empire State as well.
Seek the Soldiers.
Following an attempt at military
census that the police have begun to
make here, the city authorities are
now urging upon the state admins
tration that such a survey should be
taken throughout the entire state.
Although the cataloguing by the cops
of military prospects has proved to
be slow and difficult project here
in town it is believed that over the
state its progress might be sped up1
and facilitated by a good corps of
volunteer enumerators. When the
tenth of the whole country's popula-
ton within the boundaries of the
Empire State is completely classified
as to possibilities of war service, a
long step will have been taken to fit
this country for fighting, the, militar-
lists assert.
Weber is Wrecked.
With the news of the sale of the
site that has held the old Weber's
theatre, New Workers are preparing
to see the razing of one of the last
landmarks in the old amusement dis
trict just above Madison Square. For,
a. score of years this old playhouse
was the Mecca of the crowds. that
Weber and Fields show
as devotedly as ever did the devotees
of Harrigan and Hart; and to these
the familiar corner of Broadway just
above twenty ninth street will never
seem the same with Skyscraper run
up instead of the squatty little audi
forum. Though the old days Of the
famous stock shows at Weber's have
long since gone by, thousands of the |
alumni of this pleasure palace will be
sad to see the demolishing of its old
shell.
Is-Fiag Famine.
Cornered by unprecedented pa
triotic purchases, the flag market is
this week hard put to it to supply the
demand at doubled prices for poles,
cord and eolors. Scarcity of bunting
and the dyestuffs to color 1t red,
white and blue are ascribed by the
banner makers as contributing causes
for prices that now make flag flying
almost luxury. Since>almost every
household here is demanding the ma
tionai colors to festoon its front, the
dealers declare that their orders ex- !
coed those preceding an ordinary
Fourth of July.