Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-06-02
DECORATIONS IN
CAP||0! BUILDING
Necessity of Master Mind to
Plan Them All Can Now Be
Plainly Seen
INSCRIPTIONS TODAY
Three, One Each Credited to Patrick
Henry, George William Curtis and
Scion, are Being Placed on Some OF
the Wall Space to tho West Of
Grand Staircase.
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Special TO Times Republican.
Des Moines, June BY next Tues
day the scaffolding in the space above
the grand staircase at the state house
will be removed. Three inscriptions
are now being placed on some OF the
wall space to the west in that space
and the colored skylight Is being re-
moved and other glass substituted to
admit more light When this is done
the scaifolding will be removed. The
work was delayed by the delay of the
capital commission to decide what the
inscriptions should be and also by the
delay in getting the new glass for the
skylight Some of the colored glass
there before is allowed to remain, only
the center square being removed.
The Inscriptions We're being finished
today. The one to the south is from
Patrick Henry, and is: mo free gov
ernment or the blessing of liberty can
be preserved to any people but by firm
adherence to justice, moderation, tenn
perance, frugality and virtue and by
by frequent recurrence to fundamen-
tai principles" On the north two in
scriptions will occupy the same space
as that from Patrick Henry on the
south. These are: Courageous con-
fidence IN the intelligence Of the
community is the sure sign of leader
ship and success" which is credited
to George William Curtis, and 'sThe
ideal state; that in which an injury
done to the least of its citizens is an
injury done to ALL which is credit
ed to Scion. In the cove, the curved
space between the walls and the cell
ing of the space above the grand stair
case on all four sides has been painted
an American eagle. Deep blues and
gold abound in the decorations in this
part of the building. AS one stands on
the gollery above the grand staircase
and looks toward the rotunda of the
building the necessity for master
mind to plan all the decorations is
readily seen. The colors in the space
here must harmonic with those in the
rotunda and beyond in the corridor
leading to the entrance Of the library.
The deep blue on the drum of the
dome doesn't look so much like hole
in the ground now that there are 9TH
er blues about the building to keep it
company.
On the first floor of the building the
decorations are all of the mosaic effect
which lends a substantial appearance
to the building. Those in the west cor
ridor are nearly completed. Workmen
have also been started at the decora-
tons in the house chamber within the
past two days. There are no Colds in
the decorations on the first floor. There
is an abundance of gold in the decora-
tons above that. On the first floor out
in the rotunda the twelve signs of the
above projects into the rotunda maxi
ing sort of gallery. From the floor
below, looking up at this there are
twelve spaces and twelve signs Of the
zodiac are being placed, one in each Of
these spaces. The balance is the only
one that has been put on thus far and
it is in the, space to the north. 1t Is
being done in a MOSAIC effect to corr
respond to the rest Of the decorations
on that floor.
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Evidence that buffalo at one time
inhabited the region that is now the
state Of Iowa is increasing very rap
idly. Men are being discovered that
actually saw buffalo in the wild state.
Captain Warren of this city at one
time operated a mill near Oskaloosa.
He remembers having seen the buffa-
10 trail which passed his mill. 1t was
always known as a buffalo trail and
the earlier settlers say the buffalo fol-
lowing the trail to water. In 1853
wild buffalo was captured down near
Oskaloosa and was taken to the black
smith shop of the uncle Of William
Cowan, now a real estate man in that
city. There 20 men or more threw the
animal down and put a ring in its nose.
There was theen no railroad within
fifty, miles and the animal could not
have been shipped in and at that early
day there were enough wild animals
without going to the trouble to ship
in any, Major S. H. NJ. Byers of this
city was a boy there at the time. and
remembers we'll the incident. The ami
NAL was no doubt one Of the last Of its
race for the greater number Of the buff
IA1O OIL LILO SIdlc llttu Unsupported OSs
fore that time and there were none but
small herds and stragglers left.
It filters out from the sanctum sane
toriumao the Daily Capital office in
this city that Hon. Lafe Young poses
as the coiner and originator Of the term
tariff ripper" This IN itself may
havesli little significance but it is said
that no one on the paper is allowed
to use the sacred word except Mr..
Young himself. Occasionally they are
allowed to repeat the word but never
to use it in an item or article of any
kind. On enc occasion according to
gossip among the newspaper men of
this city, one reporter was brash
enough to write the hallowed word in
a political article. His attention was
at once called to the fact that the use
of the word was the especially prerog-
erative and delightful recreation of Mr.,
Young. Thus far no intimation seems
to have been made to other newspa-
per men of the state that Mr.. Young
would consider it a courtesy if they
would restrain their impulse to write
the word, but it is presumed that it
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