The Mankato free press., 1917-03-23
POLICE ARE DRILLED;
PREPARE FOR BATTLE
FINEST In HEW YORK ALL
READY TO GIVE FIGHT
Should War Break Out Department Is
In Shape to QuelI Disturbances;
Equipped With Machine Guns and
Armored Cars; Street SnarI Is Prob
lem; Educational Situation; Ukase
Issued BY Ushers
Especial to Free Press.]

loPCS4oi W IiCO ISSS.I
New York, March 21-That al
armed, munitioned and well drilled
military force is now ready to be
placed by the police department about
this town at the first outbreak of war
fare, was admitted today by men
most closely in touch with the secret
steps that have been taken by the
authorities here since the first break
of diplomatic relations with Germany
Machine guns, armored autos and an
arsenal of other fighting supplies are
at hand for the little army of police
mens that has been trained for real
defensive campaigning, it is known
while every strategic point to stand
Off invasion or internal rioting is
covered by the mobilization plans
for the force, that can be set in mo-
ton at the touch of button. Unless
some unexpected condition arises,
New Workers are assured of protec-
ton in case Of war that can cope
with almost anything hostile except
the actual bombardment of the city.
The Street Snarl.
That one automobile in every three
that are licensed throughout this
state is owned and driven within the
limits of this city, was calculated to-
day by the local traffic heads, who are
frantically struggling with the snarl
of vehicular movement over all the
main streets here With more than a
hundred thousand motor cars and
seven thousand motorcycles chugging
forth from the garages of this town
each day, the congestion from clr',
to curb throughout the main traffic
arteries has become almost unmar-
agable by men who must make way
for millions of pedestrians through
the highway tangle, it is admitted.
Unless new motorwayS can be opene
up on the river fronts or by tunnelling
beneath or through existing structure,
it is prophesied that this record crop
of. gasolene wagons will swamp all
street progress from end to end Of tn. :.
island.
An Educational Emergency.
Threatening the progress OF
science, letters, art and education
which has been kept up in America
alone since the outbreak of the Euro
pean war, the sacrifice of students that
Yale and other universities must make
in case of war is today calculated by
leading college alumni here to mean
the closing of these institutions, un-
less their sons rally to tide them over
such a serious emergency. While &.
patriotic pledge to extend the serv-
ices of it's laboratories and scientists
to the country in the event of hor2e
hostilities will make, it imperative for
the great university lat New Haven to
keep it's forty million dollar plant ii.
operation, Yale men here declare that
their alma mater will be facing a
grave financial crisis in the loss of
income due to an exodus of it's stu
dents to mobilization camps. in the
case of Yale, the continuation of a
democratic campaign for contributions
of any amount from all her graduates
is expected to serve to sustain her
academic activities, even if war con-
ditionS come.
CurtaiI the Cooking.
To enforce the legal limitation
against cooking in any house except
a tenement occupied by three or nor.
separate families. the municipal head
have just begun to spy upon and raid
the residents of rooming houses
studios and bachelor apartments, who
still attempt to prov h.N'r inalierahh
right to cook up an egg or a dutcl
lunch upon occasion. In thousands o.
lodging establishments that are no
listed under the legal category Of to-
ements the roomers have within the
memory of man here felt free to turr,
to light housekeeping, either openly OF
only under cover from the landlady
If this precious privilege is curtailed
by the city. every bachelor and bo-
hemian will protest to high heaven
against what they consider blow at
the altar of liberty.
The Ushers' Ukase.
Following the strike of the twenty
five ushers who have just walked out
from their labors in the aisles of a
Fifth Avenue church here, the whole
cutaway- coated body of these Sundcr
servants is now seriously split bv
sympathy or condemnation. Pulpit
criticism of their prerogatives in
keeping certain pews filed to capacity
is said to have urged these religious
floor walkers to this action that is
unique in all the annals of local labor
troubles. Whether boycott, lockout =
other similar union tactics will result
from this strike, is question that is
interesting those New Workers whu
retain an interest in church affairs
hereabouts.
Viii Float Liberty Loan.
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