Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-10
TRY DOUBTFUL SCHEME
Iowa Building for st. Louis
Fair Being Planned Suit
able for Removal
BOARD OF CONTROL WILL GET 1T
Architects Working Out Plans for a
Building That Can Be Taken Apart
and Removed to Iowa for Use as
Some State Observation-Disclosures
Complain.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Nov. 10.-The state OF
Iowa is going to make an effort to make
la partial saving on the building which
will stand for the state at the Louisiana
| Purchase Exposition in ST. Louis in
1904. The experiment will be one not
before tried by any state. building
| is TO be erected with special reference
| to having it so constructed that it can
! be moved into Iowa after the exposi-
| ton Is over with and with view to
having it as useful as possible after it is
removed to Iowa and erected again.
Iowa had a unique experience at Chi
cago in that this state fell heir to a
building already erected on the jack
son Park river front, q park shelter.
which was converted into an Iowa
building that was in every way salts
factory, and at comparatively small
expense. But when the Columbian eX-
position was over the building reverted
to the exposition management or park
commissioners and Iowa got nothing
out of it. The experience of some of the
western states at the Pan American
Exposition in Buffalo was not encour-
aging. They sold their buildings for
what they could get and in some cases
realized but little from investments
that had been considerable. The state
of New York had built building as q
permanent structure and 1t was pre-
served and given to the city of Buffalo
as a museum. When the subject for an
appropriation for an Iowa exhibit at st.
Louis came UP in the legislature last
winter there was much unfaForable
criticism because a preliminary COM
mission had recommended that $t50Uu
be spent in building as headquarters
for the commission at st. Louis. A
movement was started to require that
building be erected with view to hav-
ing it afterwards brought to Iowa and
be erected as a stock pavilion at the
state fair grounds. This was aban-
G,n@d when the Legislature decided up
on appropriating $4,000 fer,the imme-
diate construction of a pavilion, which
has in fact since been erected ana used.
Then a resolution was unanimously
passed directing that when the ST.
Louis exposition is at an end the LOUIS
lana Purchase commission for Iowa
shall turn over to the state board of
control the building which has been
used for Iowa, with view to having 1t
torn down and brought back to the
state for use at some one of the state
institutions. 1t has been estimated that
if the building is constructed with a
view to its subsequent use In the state,
as contemplated by the legislature,
more than half it's cost can be saved to
the state in value as a permanent build
ing. It can be made use of at any one
of four or five of the state institutions,
as an auditorium, gymnasium, an Of
flee building or otherwise, provided the
design adapts itself to this purpose. In
accordance with this requirement of the
law several of the architects at work
on preliminary plans are planning for a
building that will be most readily re-
moved to the state for re-erection.
About twenty leading firms of archi-
tects are at work on plans. The COM
mission has voted to expend $4,000 in
a building but the cost will likely go far
beyond this when the building is fur
nished. Before the plans are finally
adopted the board of control, to whom
the building will ultimately be given,
will be consulted as to the plans which
are best adapted for their use as a
permanent building. The building COM
mittee of the commission meets here to-
morrow to further consider the matter.
The state is being put to a good deal
of trouble and some expense in the en-
forcement of the new law for sending
and morphine victims to the
state insane hospitals for detention and |
to keep them away from temptation.
Over 100 have been sent to the Mount
insane hospital since the law
went into effect and about thirty to the
hospital at Cherokee. The counties
must pay for the keeping of these per-
sons at the hospitals at the rate of $12
a month at Mount Pleasant and SIS a
month at Cherokee. But at Mount
Pleasant the experience has thus far
been that it is almost impossible to
prevent the inebriateS from running
away. They can not be treated as in
sane in every respect, for the majority
Of them are not in fact inebriates. but
merely persons in the habit of getting
drunk when they can get something to
srink. All kinds of subterfuges have
been necessary to preventescape of the
inmates. They are not allowed to have
access to their clothing when they are
asleep, so that If they get up and run
away they will be poorly clad and can
pc quickly detected. With the insaneI
he system of closely guarding the hos
oital has been almost done away with
md only in extreme cases is any force
lsed to prevent the insane from getting
lway. But at least a dozen of the oc-
of the "dipsomania ward" have {
escaped. Two from Dallas county,
Miller and Kinds, escaped the other |
lay All that the Mount Pleasant hos I
,ital authorities can do is to report the
natter to the sheriff of the county and |
lsk his assistance in finding the es-
aped "dipsys" and returning them TO
he hospital. The superintendent has c
10 authority to send out for a man or S
O incur expense in searching for es-
aped members. AS a. result 1t is be-
oming known that escape from the
.ospitals is comparatively easy and
afe, and many more desertions may-be
The men sent to the hos
'ital under this law chafe more with