Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-21
1RE SUMNER IRAkPS
A Glass That Starts Out in Covered
Wagons to Live Upon the
Farmers
----
Claim to Be Emigrants Kind Hearts
Of Prosperous Farmers Make
1t Easy.
Eldred Hart, the Iowa Member Of
Republican National Committee
His Career.
Special to mes-Republican.

his Career.
Special to Times-Republican.
Des Moines, June 2l.@This is the sea-
son of the year when the rural districts
are invaded by the scum of the cities
in various forms. One variety OF sum
smer tramp which has not been much
written about is the pretended emil
grant. Every spring a lot of these OUT
fits start out from Des Moines and
doubles from other cities. A family
will manage to get possession Of an old
pair of pelters and an old ramshackle |
wagon, over which they will put a
cover of some sort and, placing their
few belongings inside, together with
the usual swarm of children, will start
out to prey upon the farming commun
ity. They go along by easy stages.
paying nothing for anything because
they have nothing to pay with. They
beg or steal as occasion requires. OF
course some of them will do a little
work and occasionally earn little
y
which they exist. Miss Golf, secretary
of the Associated Charities of Des
Moines, says that she has seen more
from Des Moines this spring. After
their delightful summer vacation most
of them turn up in Des Moines when
cold weather begins and have to be
4 supported by the public in some way.
fS..t~
tell en- route, most of them being the
usual hard luck stories, concluding
i with, the announcement that they are
4 going somewhere to live on a farm or
that they are bound for location
where they are to have work. But work
is the last thing that most Of them are.
Hooking for. They count on the gener-3
ISosity and prosperity of the Iowa farm.
er and the fact that thereis plenty and
to spare. They know by experience
THAT under these conditions they can be
4 sustained with little or no effort.
4 Mr. Charles H. Bowman. instructor
lin the department of physics in the
s| State University of Iowa. has been
i elected to full professorship in the
4 Montana school of mining, with the
little of professor of mechanics and
4 mining engineering. Mr.. Rowmanis a
1 graduate of the Iowa University and
q has served it faithfully and With
q marked ability as an instructor for five
4 years. There has been no criticism of
"A his work or of his character as a man.
LIN fact, he has been one of the strong
Il Young men in the university He leaves
y it only because. after waiting patiently
a for five years. working on Very small
salary, he sees no prospect of recog-
|nition such as his work deserves in
Iowa He has seen other young men
work along for a period of years. doing
the original and vigorous work that
made their departments POPULAR. and
! failing to get the advance in salary
which their services are worth. During
I the past three or four years a dozen
iyoung men have left the university foi
s. this reason. Some Of them are Still
's| there. hoping that their devotion to
i their state will not go unappreciated
OF course if this policy is continued
now that the university has the means
. to take a step{toWard paying these nen
what they are WORTH they will feel that
! it is time for them, in justice to them;
y selves and their families. to look else
It.where. Iowa has produced great mer
lin all lines OF human endeavor. There
l5seems to be no reason why she sheulc
not produce great teachers and uniNer-
! sity men as vel. as Statesmen and pol
!. ..Iticians and leaders III the business
& sIworld. Up to this date. however. tht
: State University has been training
: school for the universities Of othel
states. AS soon as young man dem.
& onstrated conspicuous ability it wa:
: 'discovered by the management of Other
) institutions and he has been offered op.
s portunities and salary which he coule
E / not we'll refuse and which the Iowa
14University either could not or did no
give him.
Ernest Eldred Hart, the new mem
ber of the republican national com
y mottee from Iowa, is a native of thi
: state. He was born in West Union
: December 8. 1853. His father, Henry "
. Hart, was a surgeon in the civil war
J. serving thru the entire war with TIL
I. Ninth and Thrty-eighth Iowa regi
: ments. Shortly after the war the fam
lily moved. to Council Bluffs Ernest L
Hart graduated from the Counci
Bluffs high school in 1875. and afte
y taking a special course in Iowa Colleg
!. at Grinnell entered Yale, graduatin
: with the class of 1881. He immediatel
: entered upon a business career i
:, Council Bluffs with his brother in-laM
: j. D. Edmunson. and in 1884 bega
business on his own account. He ha
J. J. been actively engaged in the loan an
! banking business since that time and
: Isconnected with several of the leadin
:. financial institutions Of Council Bluff.
= Two or three years ago he secured
!, controlling interest in the Counc
Bluffs Nonpareil and is president of TIL
!, company He has made the Nonpare
more of political force than It ha
been for some years previously. Th
4 he has been always interested in pol