Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-30
GATHERING The BOOKS
State Librarian Doing Good
Work..Seizes Many Good
Bargains.
Greeley's Old Paper Among Some
Job Lot Purchases..InteE.
esting News.
Unjust and Misjudsed Criticism
Of Board of Control..Rufus
Harvey Appointed.

of Board Of Control..Rufus
Harvey Appointed.
Special to Times Republican.
j Des Moines. Nov. 3O.-Johnson Brig
ham, state librarian, is doing great
work for the state of Iowa is complet
| ing the collection of books which is al
ready the pride of the state. In future
/ years this work will be appreciated
more than now. The state now owns q
splendid collection of rare and valuable
4 books. But it is the work of years to
to have This is what Mr.. Brigham is
doing quietly. For instance yesterday
he received lot of books from an east
ern city, which books he had purchased
at auction. He did not get all that he
I bid en- but he got good many fine
books. One job lot OF bound volumes,
/ eighteen in number. he got for 25 cents
each. Out of the lot he will get five that
are valuable to complete sets; the other
\ SuIcS VIII 30 lulO tIle QuQllCdlS 1851.
| bought Job lot of magazines unbound
dated before the war, the whole lot of
| 159 for SS cents. If he should only get
! one number that is needd to fill sets he
| would be repaid. but in fact will get
many numbers out of the lot that are of
| use He got thirty-five good books.
There lie bound volume of the Youths
Medallion" Boston. May l, 1s41; copy
OF the Family Circle and Parlor An
mails" edited by an associationof clergy
men, published In New York, 1847; cop
| les OF the Literary Souvenir" pub
lished and edited by A. B. F Hildreth,
| in Lowell, 1S41. A prize in the collec-
tion is three bound volumes of The
| Portfolio" published in Philadelphia.
one dated 1906. Two numbers OF THE
DIAL" were secured. This Is the maga-
zine in which Emerson made his repu-
tation The numbers secured were print
ed in 1S42. Mr.. Brigham is picking up
the Dial a number at time, and when
completed he will have set that will
be worth many times more than 1t cost.
He has the "Knickerbocker Magazine"
all save the last volume. and. this has
| beens picked UP a little at a time. Some
;sofythe books secured by Mr.. Brigham
few years ago from SO cents to $1.50,
each are now quoted in the catalogues
at from $40 to $12 each, their worth hav-
ing become known only recently.
$50
One of the volumes secured Mr.. Brig
ham in this lot is of Horace Grceley's
New Yorker. The state library already
has several bound volumes of this per-
iodical. The book just added to the list
contains two volumes in 1887. This is
Horace Greeley's famous newspaper be-
fore he became connected with the Tri-
bune, and 1t is rare and valuable. Turn
ing over the leaves Of this book hastily
your correspondent found among the
news items the following which showed
that Horace Greeley even at that early
date has his eye on Iowa:
Fort Des Moines-This name has
ceased to exist. The United States
troops formerly stationed here have
been ordered elsewhere by the govern
ment, and the Des Moines Land Com
pany have possession of the fort. where
new town will soon be laid out, to be
called Montrose. The land Office OF the
company has been opened at this place.
Montrose is one of the most delightful
situations on the Upper Mississippi. 1t
is situated at the head of the Lower, or
Des Moines Rapids, of the Mississippi
river, opposite Commerce. in Illinois. 1t
is distant fourteen miles from FIT Mad
ison. about twelve miles from Keokuk
at the foot of the rapids, about fifty
miles from Burlington and sixty from
Quincy, Ill.
The above item is credited to the
western Adventurer,' which has
passed out of the knowledge Of men.
The first few lines OF the news item
might lead one to infer that reference
was made to the fort at the forks Cf the
Coon river but the last part of the item
definitely locates the Fort Des Moines
as far from the place where the new
army post is to be built.
The American, published in New
York. says that some years ago 1t
printed a map of the bank robbing in
dustry. and this map showed that Illi-
nois held the banner. AT that time Iowa
had record of eighteen bank robberles
within few years Now Iowa has had
twelve within few months and has
taken the first place from Illinois.
The state board of control has re-
ceived letters from both Cedar Falls |
and Iowa City in regard to their report.
The defense of the State Universitye by
Secretary Haddock was enclosed. In re-
gard to this Judge Robinson says that
the Haddock letter was evidently writ
ten under a misrepresentation and based
on newspaper versions rather than the
report of the board itself. The board
has not criticised any of the bills which
were incurred in coming to Des Moines
on call of legislative committees. A
similar misapprehension exists as re-
CARDS the criticism Of some Of the bills
of the normal authorities. The board
had not fully considered the letter of
President Beardshear yesterday, but
will go over the matter carefully to-
day.
Rufus Harvey is to be requlsition
clerk under Gov. Cummins. He was a |
member of the Fifty-first Iowa and CIV
en- detached service as confidential clerk |
to Gen. Elwell Otis, in which capacity |
he proved himself to be man Of great
ability. He will be. in fact, contiden-
tial clerk to the governor and have
charge of large part of the work OF
the Office which requires most careful /
attention. The appointment u purely