Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-19
SR|LOA'S MONUMENTS
Commission Appointed Today Fx-
pect to Be Ready For Dedica.
tion April 6, 1901.
Some State Fair Plans Want to
Have Rev. Sheldon as Chief
Attraction.
Another Presbyterian Preacher Ad-
mits Faults Of the Creed-Fa-
vors Revision.

MlI8 EaulCS Oh tH0 OT0ou-G q.
vors Revision.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. April 1s.-The Shiloh
commission appointed today will prob
ably hold meeting soon and arrange
for the submission of designs for the
monuments for the eleven Iowa regi-
ments that participated in that great |
struggle. Col. n. H. Rood. who has I
been prominent in the Shiloh battlefield \
park work from its inception. being
the commander of the Crocker's Brig
ade Association, hopes that the monu-
ments may be in place SO that they
may be dedicated April 6 next, on the
anniversary of the battle. Col. Rood
ilsays the appropriation by the legisla-
ture, $4,000 for the eleven regimental
monuments. $4,000 for the state monu-
ment and $1,000 for expenses, is ample
4 to do the subject justice. 1T is not
l.quite as mucn as We asked = said Col.
Rood. but it will make a very credit-
\
ments can be delivered by water trans
liportation, which will not be expensive.
lIf the contract is let to a Cincinnati
4 house they can be iioated down the
4 Ohio to the Tennessee and thence to
the battlefield. The park is all ready
for the monuments. The locations are
all marked, so there Is nothing to do
Il but to set the monuments up and select
-fn,.f cf1 ia
a That will not take long. Now i want to
A see the other battlefelds in which Iowa
lis Interested also ilonored as the Shiloh
battlefield has been We have set the
lace and now it will be easier to get.
Il appropriations for the others. Shiloh
came before the others, SO it was only
3 fair thar the state should begin with
Shiloh Besides the park there is all
i, completed. while at the others. espe-
cially Nicksburg, the locations are not
N selected and the park is not laid out.
4 Capt. Rigby wrote me the other day
s that they had specified all the land for
| 1.-The vicksburg park. but had only just
!, begun the work. 1t will take at least
! 1.-TWO years to finish. Illinois. Ohio and
8 think Indiana, have provided state and
regimental monuments for their sol
diers who fought at Shiloh. Chicka-
nauga will probably come next.
Mai. w. S. H. Matthews has re-
I turned to the section of the United
Il States which pleases him most. and !:
IlsiSnow serving of tht. staff of Gen. Wads
y Fat ST. Paul. one of the best berths e
81 which he, could possibly be assigned
Mai Matthews has been we'll provided
c for ever since he entered the service a:
II surgeon of the Fifty-first Iowa. Hi
g has walked straight tothe front by be
n ing able to overcome prejudice thar
IL which what's stronger?-that of a Wes
: Point man againstAa volunteer officer
IS To be sure, the major had some gooe
II friends in Washington who haN'
u helped him to get a chance to SHOW
n what was in him; but if he had no
'e baen endowed with peculiar qualitica
1f tions for the discharge of the duties t
u (which he wasSassigned he never coul'
e have held the face. Nerve to stand III
,dl and assert himself and ability to sus
ID tain his position so as to compel sup
he port. was What gave him his start u
eel the army. He holds the position til
illiJuly. 1901 when the future of all vol
lg tunteer officers depends upon what con
~ gress does in the meantime DIR. r.
o. Hutchins. another Iowa volunteer off
ed Ger, who went out as captain and com
US missary. has returned from the Philip
and will retire from the army o
so account of i'll health. Two wars hav
RS been too much for him and he feels lik
%. taking a rest He comes home with
t. fine record for he is a thoroughly caI
i'll able man.
or
The management of the state ia
promises that some attention will /
devoted to the sanitary conditions {
:. the grounds this year This has new
- been done before, largely because Il
- - society did not have any money f
= that purpose. The conditions a
:, frightful-in fact. disgraceful. To bui
i, a sewer would be TOO great an eXpens
~ for it would nave to run nearly tv
aa miles but system of dry closets w
- be tried. Walks Will also built
h. permit people to get about the groun
:. after a rain without putting on the
~ rubber boots and wading.
~ The proposition to build a stock p
To- wilton has been revived. 1t has be
discussed for several years. Now I
society may build 1t, for the dout
purpose of exhibiting stock during I
zzht fair. when being judged for prizes. a
ms for other state fair uses, and for t
!use of stock sales during the YET
an stock men say Des Moines might
made the best place in the state to he
'a' stock sales, because of its superior ra
way facilities. The people of the ci
US would be interested in this enterpri
for it would be money TO them.
would greatly benefit and stimulate I
se- stock business. say experienced m,
i a so it would be within the legitims
rr scope Of the society to build it.
,ns
err Among the attractions the fair ms
agement would like to have is the r
Charles NJ. Sheldon. the same Who ,
derIook to run a newspaper in Tope
tea Kan, not long ago. He will be asked
ar preach on the fair grounds Sunday
oa ternoon at small admission fee. 7
nea society is speculating on how ma
'm- curious people would go, not SO m,
to hear as to see. the man who Wr
SIN His Steps" and undertook to adj
I'M Its principles. as he saw them, to
rom manaRement of newspaper.