The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-05-21
TRUCKS ON DISPLAY
MOTOR TOUR TO
NAVAL BAND EATUR
BY J.HOHMANN
Good Roads Under Babcock
Plan Is Explained To In
terested People
Tuesdays Daily.

From Tuesdays Daily.
Ship by Truck Good Roads Week
was opened in this city last evening
by the arrival of a fleet of nineteen
trucks picked from a stock of Min
neapolis dealers which left that city
yesterday morning on a six day tour
Of towns Of Southern Minnesota
which will complete Minneapolis
share of the nation wide movement
for the observation of Ship by Truck
Good Roads week. The tour was
under the direction of J. r. Shelf
field of the Firestone Ship by Truck
bureau, and j. A. Deerwester Of the
Munger Feist Motor company acted
as tour master. L. E. Crosser of the
Excelsior Motorcycle company pilot
ed the tour from Minneapolis to
this city, and east out of here this
morning when the tour was re-
sumed.
1t had been planned to have Sen
ator P. H. McGarry and G.. M. Bah
cock, state highway commissioner.
5pCdh HCiC, DuI luSoc Two StutlcllSu
were unable to reach the city in
Mayor E. v. Waters and a number
of businessmen of this city drove to
st. Peter to meet the tourists, and
escorted them to this city where
they arrived about seven o'clock, and
the machines were parked on Bridge
Square opposite the Saulpaugh hotel
for the night control. Accompany
ing the tour is the Great Lakes
Naval Training Station band u. s. N.
in charge of Lieutenant Commander
G. H. Fort, out with the tour in the
interests of recruiting for the navy.
With the aid of a Delco Farm light
district manager for that company,
the sailors were permitted to give
some interesting outdoor moving
pictures of the U. S. navy in action,
and other educational pictures show
ing the labor saving devices on the
farm through the use Of electricity.
The naval band rendered several
selections in the Saulpaugh hotel
and On the grounds outside, which
showed the excellent training re-
ceived at the hands of Sousa while at
the Great Lakes training station.
Address BY J.. II. Hohmann.
III Xix dUSClSC VI OSIldJOI MUTUAL
ry and G. M. Babcock, state high
way commissioner, John H. Hob
mann of this city, ex-state president
of the Minnesota automobile assoc
iation, was called upon by Mayor
Waters to address the tourists, and
others who had gathered at Bridge
Square to listen to the band. Mr..
Hickman dwelt at some length upon
the present congested condition Of
the handling of freight, stating that
ne demands Of transportation have
outgrown the facilities of the rail-
ways to handle the same. The ship
by truck movement, Mr.. Hohmann
said, will be the solution of the trans
portation question, but in order to
make the movement a success hard
surface roads are an absolute neces-
sity. Here the speaker went into
the details of the Babcock hard sur
face good roads plan. and urged that
the amendment to the state consti-
tuition to be voted upon this fall,
which will permit of building roads
under the Babcock plan be strongly
supported by every one. MI. Hob
mann called attention to the fact
that under the proposed hard sur
proposed hard surface trunk lines
will center at the intersection of
Main and Front streets where he
was speaking. The passage of the
Babcock amendment would mean
much to Mankato and in fact the en-
tire community.
An Attractive Float.
One Of the features of the tour,
which arrived in this city last night,
was an attractive float on a truck
owned by the Munger-Feist auto
mobile company of st. Paul. This
float contained an exhibit of the
the Marine corps recruiting station
at st. Paul. Sergeant John V. Ed
er, U. S. M. c., is in charge, and
while here distributed literature and
booklets relative to enlistments in
the Marine Corps. Sergeant Elder
stated that many young men from
this locality are now enlisting in the
Marine Corps to take advantage of
the opportunities offered for travel
and education, a special features be-
ing the U. S. Marine institute, which
is considered to be the best service
university now in operation. This
ginia, and is patterned after the
International Correspondence school
of Scranton, Pennsylvania. The same
text books and courses are offered
as at that institution, and upon
completion of the course of study,
the Marine receives a diploma from
the International Correspondence
school. Expert instructors conduct
the various classes, and a student
obtains an education which is hard
to equal at any school. There is no
Marine Corps recruiting station in
this city, but anyone interested may
apply to the postmaster for informa-
ton.
Sergeant Elder was very highly
impressed with Mankato, speaking
of the cleanliness and business like
appearance of the down town district
and the at~tractiveness of the resi-
dence district. He hopes to pay
| Mankato a return visit.
An Army Detail.
Another feature of the tour is a
passenger car with an army detail of
the Forty ninth Infantry in charge of
Lieutenant j. T. Hopson, Trumpeter
lKlyman and two enlisted men.
Among those accompanying the
tour are: HI. G. McNicol Of the Bre-
Inn McMullen company: Among the
press representatives were: Frank
McInnery of the Minneapolis Daily
News; D. G.. Congdon of the Mime
apolis Journal, R. B. Light of the st.
Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch; and
E. w. Meyers of the st. Paul News.
Among the entries in the tour are
the following makes of trucks. all