Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-01-30
Iowa Commission Disapproves
of Unusual Projects for At
tending Exposition
THINGS ARE PRoMIs
AS in the Case Of the Chicago E,
ton, However, Many ofThese Sc 8 $
Are Nothing But Private Enterprises
in the Guise Of Public Philanthropy
Monument for Sheppard.

arrived for the announcement of
schemes for excursion parties and spe-
cial trips to the st. Louis exposition,
and the schemers have already COM
fcrent projects for inducing Iowa peo-
pie to make arrangements now to go to
the exposition next year are understood
to be ready for announcement. These
include schemes for getting church peo-
pie to go and board in specially pre-
pared boarding houses, for school
teachers to go in great herds and live
in cheap hotels, for school children to
be taken in herds and to make sure of q
rooning place, for persons living In a
county or a city to form parties and se-
cure the advantage of cheaper rates
and guide, and have all their affairs
looked after. It is sufficient to state
that the Iowa exposition commission
has not given official recognition to any
CT the various schemes, and members
say they will not. 1t is the same old
story of private enterprises in the guise
OF public philanthropy. At the time Of
the Chicago exposition a great many
different schemes were worked on the
Iowa people. The most seductive of
these schemes related to securing
boarding places at the exposition. The
cry went up that the Chicago hotels
would be unable to accommodate ev-
erybody, and unless rooms. were en-
gagged in advance Iowa people would
have to walk the streets. On this theo-
ry many schemes were worked, but
Iowa people went to Chicago in throngs
and found that there were abundant
boarding houses and hotels. So it will
be at st. Louis, SO the members Of the
Iowa commission say, and they do not
advise going into any OF the schemes
being worked for taking Iowa men and
women and children to the exposi ton
by any extraordinary or unusual way.
The legislature last winter made an
appropriation of $500 for THE building of
a monument to the memory OF Charles
Sheppard. the solder OF the revolution
who lies buried insan unmarked grave
on the banks OF the Skunk river in
Henry county, some eight or ten miles
~
neglected for many years and the la
dies of the Daughters of the Revolution
started a movement to have the grave
marked. The legislature appro priated
$500 for this purpose and placed 1t in
the hands of the Grand Army post at
Mt. Pleasant. The contract for the
monument has been let. The design is
that of q simple large block of granite,
eight and a half feet high, on the top OF
which is to be two small cannons
crossed. These cannons will be donated
by the war department. The monument
will be put up in a cemetery near Mt.
Pleasant. 1t is probable that the grave
itself will be marked by a simple monu-
nlent provided by private means.
The people of Knoxville have not
generally favored any legislative move
ment looking to making use of the dis
used buildings at Knoxville erected as
an industrial building for the blind, un-
less it be for a state normal school. That
there has been some change in the sem
ument there Is shown by the fact that
a Knoxville minister has published in a
Knoxville paper a bold proposition that
the buildings be made use of as an In
ebriate asylum. This minister, Rev. f.
e. Stuff, proposes that enough of the
inebriates be sent to Knoxville from
the state hospitals to fill the state
buildings there when properly remod--
eled, that the inebriates be compelled
to work five and one half days each
wsek that the governor "appoint a
trustworthy man to care for said home,
who is we'll known among us for his
integrity and honesty as a business
man" and shat the genuine gospel of
Jesus Christ be preached twice a week,
and more, as the patients have need OF
the medicine, and prayer meeting once
each week" Rev. Mr.. Stuff makes no
charge for his prescription but offers to
preach at least once each week to the
'-dipsys." The suggestion has often
been made that the Knoxville buildings
be used for the state dipsomania hos
pital, but this appears to be the first
willing to discuss it. 1t is said that the
treatment suggested at Knoxville for
the unfortunate ones is quite different
from that administered at the three
state hospitals where they are now re-
ceived.
Frank w. Bishop, of Muscatfne, new
ly elected to be lieutenant colonel of
the FIFTY fourth regiment, is being ex-
amined here today by a military COM
touching his qualifications for
the office to which he has been elected.
This is the first time in the history OF
the guard that one elected to such
high position has been subjected to an
examination before being commission
ed. hut the new rule treats all alike, and
officers of all grades must show their
fitness before they can be commits
stoned.
The conflict between the state SUI
preme court and the federal courts in
regard to the water works proposition,
or more properly their differences as to
the Interpretation of the constitution OF
Iowa, appear to leave the federal courts
with much more to say about the Iowa
than the state supreme |
court itself. The other day Judge Nc