Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-07
Death of Prof. Cess and Super
intendent Miles Resigna-
ton, Much Regretted
THEIR PLACES HARD TO FILL
Puts State Board Of Control Into
Quandary as to Managing Of the Two
institutions of Which These Men
Were the Heads-AnnuaI Spring
Hesira of lnebrates, Begun.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to rnes-Republican.
Des Moines, May THE sudden
death of Professor NJ r. Gass, superin-
tendent of the Iowa Soldiers Orphans
Home at Davenport, and the resigna-
ton of Superintendent Z. J. Miles, Of
the state Industrial school for boys at
Eldora, puts the state board Of control
in good deal of a quandary as to
managing those two institutions. The
superintenden nts recalls that there have
been several notable changes at the
state institutions in recent years. Sup
erintendent Applegate, who had been
an assistant, succeeded DR.. Hoyt at the
head OF the state hospital at Mt.
Pleasant ntlhe latter's death. w. r.
Cwunpacker succeeded Dr. Hill when
the latter resigned as superintendent OF
the state hospital at Independence.
George Z. Mogridge. assistant superin-
renderpt at the asylum for feeble minded
at Glenwood succeeded his superior DR..
f, NJ. Powell, when the latter resigned
a short time before his death. DIR. NJ.
N voldeng was placed art the head of
tlra Cherokee hospital when 1t was
opened. A new man will have TO be
taken into the class of heads of institu-
tions wlren the inebriate asylum at
Knoxville is opened Some time next
year. New men will have to be placed
at Davenport and Eldora at once. AT
Davenport the steward, Henry KELLOGG,
has been temporarily in charge since
the illness of Superintendent Gass, and
win be continued until successor Is
selected.
# at win be. a very hard matter to
select a successor 10 Superintendent
Gass.' said Chairman Cownie, of the
state board. He was very popular
man with the 500 or more children he
had under his care. When he went
about the grounds the children would
gather around him and hang on his
arms and talk to him with greatest
greatest freedom. He was an ideal
s,lperintendent of the institution. In all
our visits there we never heard one
whisper of complaint from any Of the
wards Of the state, but all agreed that
Superintendent Gass was one OF The
pantlest and kindest of men. he was
graduate Of the State University OF
Michigan, and he worked his way thru
that institution earning his support Dy
laying brick. His knowledge OF ma
sonry was great help to him. He was
rood mechanic. He personally sup
erintended the work we have had done
t,,sre IN recent years and was invalu-
able to us"
The departure of Superintendent
Miles, of Eldora, from the STATE Has
not a great surprise. The Iact IS ina,
Iowa cannot afford to pay the gooa
salaries that other states are payins
for high class talent, and opportuhi-
,ias are always coming to men In the
service of the state. The state board
bas besn criticized for extravaganza III
having salaries but it is true that bet
ter positions can be had in otner
states.
II was with Superintendent Niles al
Eldora for eight years. said Superin-
tendent F,itzgerald. OF the girls indus
trial school at Mitchellvlile' ana re-
gret his departure from the state lie
is a most capable man. He mas beer
with the school for twenty-five years
and his management has been admir-
a BILE. 1t is no easy task to manage
lot of boys of unrnly disposition, ana
to make q success OF that work, but ne
has done So The death of Super1n-
tendent Gass came as surprise 10
me. He will be greatly missed. | do
not know where the state can find an
other to take his place. He was one
Of the genial, coed natured men, loved
by everyone.
superintendent Fitzgerald states that
the ruction at his school a few weeks
ago when three of the girls ran away,
left no bad consequences. On the
contrary the disgrace was keenly felt
by the other girls At first there was
a furry, for 1t was the first time any
thing of the kind had happened III
four years or more. The next day
after the escape of the girls a COM
mittee Of the girls of the family to
which they belonged waited on the
and assured him that
they had known nothing about it, that
they disapproved Of anything of the
such an incident. Instead OF creating
any restlessness on the part of ths
other 200 girls of the institution, the
conduct Of the three has led to show
of earnestness on the pant of all in
obeying the rules of the school
The reports from the state hospitals
show that the annual spring hegira
on the part of the inebriates has begun,
and that during the month of Aprl
33 of the inebriates or one-third OF
AIN who were there, walked away. The
state has never provided for the
slightest restraint on the part of the
for inebriates and their
so called escapes" are merely volun-
tary retirement from the hospitals
But this will be the last spring that the
nebrates will be able to return to
their homes without trouble ahead.