The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
THAT IS VIEW OF SOME MEN
WHO TOUCH AFFAIRS
Claim Made That Germany Will Be
Forced To Sue For Display of White
Dove; Eighty Millions Of Dollars Are
Being Spent in New York City On
Hotel and the Other Structures;
Planting Gardens
Especial to Free Press.]
From Tuesdays Daily.

from tuesdays Dally.
New York, March 27.-That a
prospect of world peace has surely
been opened by the Russian revolu-
ton, even in the midst of the events
threatening war to this nation was
secretly asserted today by several
men in close touch with the state de-
partment, who have just returned
from Washington. Before the coming
summer is ended, Germany will be
forced to sue for peace, not only by
starvation but by the force of
pie, already rising to overthrow
the weakened war party. 1t is
declared on the basis of confidential
reports on foreign conditions follow
ing the spread of the news of the
cars downfall. Although no positive
proof of an impending revolution and
retirement from warfare by the Ger
man people can be yet offered, it is
pointed out that the same observers
who predicted the Russian revolt have
received reports of much the same
symptoms in the kaiser's empire
today.
IIC FIOlSt F1dbtttdliOhs
With eighty millions of dollars now
being spent on building added hotel
structure in this city to accommodate
seventy thousand more guests than
the present hostelries can hold, all
records for extension along these lines
here are being broken. Ten times. as
many travellers as sought their desks
decade ago have stormed the local
Hobbies every night of the present
year, the hotel men declare, while
almost any two or three of the pro-
jected caravanseries will hold as
many guests as could be entertained
at. all; of the sixty fashioned
hotels that have been torn down in
the last ten years. In spite OF this
huge building boom of the bonifaces
it is predicted that accommodations
will be. almost as scarce when the new
structures are opened.
The Arabic Acres.
Planning to turn every inch of their
lawns, terraces and ornate acres into
intensified truck gardening, a score
of multi millionaire. estate owners on
Long Island are this week organizing
a general scheme of metropolitan
gardening to meet the high cost of
wartime living. With fifty thousand
acres all about town ready to be
plowed and planted to vegetables, any
food emergency due to war or trans
portation isolation could be met more
easily, if tillers could be found for the
soil set apart to feed six million New
Workers., these amateur truck farm
enthusiasts assert. In any event, the
people of this town are now prepar-
ing to go into home farming on such
scale as their household yards will
permit, and the seed business is
booming already.
The Church Cut.
Serving to cut off massive dome
from the plans for the new st. Barth-
olomew's church to be erected up
town, the rise in labor and building
materials is now being blamed for
this forced curtailment in the pro-
jected million dollar edifice. Fully
81, 500, 900 would have had to be spent
by the wealthy parishioners of this
congregation if the original plans for
their elaborate building were now
carried out, on account of an increase
of over thirty per cent in the price
of men and material to build. Though
it's architectural effect may be less
ened by the doing away with its dome
this big church structure will not be
cut down in any of the manifold
parish work plants that are to be a
part of it, it is assured.
Waste of Wisdom.
That a hundred thousand or more
perfect plans to settle the war situa-
ton, labor troubles and food problem
are right now going to waste before
them, is reported by the men behind
every bar and cigar counter in this
town. Though the president has not
yet been urged to take advantage OF
all these sure schemes to settle the
nations difficulties, many OF the local
dispensers areS thinking of wiring
him to drop around some afternoon
and pick up some of this waste OF
wisdom. Meanwhile the patient people
who serve these sages are consider
ing resorting to earlaps.