The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-29
LTSTY YOUNG IOWA SOCIETY
roo Hawkryes at Christening Dinner Hep.
burn and Hull Speak.

Two hundred Iowa-born New Workers
launched The Iowa Society of New York with
a whoop in the Aston Gallery of the Waldorf
Astoria last night, with the assistance of a
few of the heavy guns Of the Iowa battery in
Congress. This number represented the
natives Of the Hawkeye State, whom the
organizers of the society, Gen. Grenville
NJ. Dodge and Gan. James $. Clarkson,
Surveyor of the Port, have been able to
round up since February. They ha We found
that the city holds more han four hun
dred sons of Iowa, and intend to give the
Ohio society a run for its money.
Gen. Dodge was the POSTMASTER. The
guests were Congressman Hepburn. Hull,
Lacey. Smith. Hubbard and Dawson;
Theodore p. Shonts. chairman of the 18TH
mian cana commission; the Rev. DR..
Newell Dwight Hills, and Judge John F.
Dillon, formerly of the United States Cir
cult Court. Senator Allison, who was
expected to deliver the talk Of the night,
couldn't be there, and Congressman Cousins
sent word hal he had to go back home to
see that his fences were in shape for the
meeting of the convention which is to re-
nominate him for Congress.
Other forner lowans present were John
A. Drake, Senator +. r Bracket, ex-Gov.
Manning, who had ex-Gov. Odell a. a guest
Judge W. n, Cohen, Surveyor of the Port
Clarkson. Thomas A. Buckner, Ellis Parker
Butler. Rupert Hughes, Edward c. Sanxav,
president Of the American Chamber of
Commerce at Liverpool; CAPT. h. NJ. Koehler
Of Fort Schuyler and ex-Fire COMMISSIONS
James r. Sheffield. immigration Commits
sioner Watchorn was present as the guest
of Gen. Clarks son.
Representative Hepburn, who was down
to talk on THE Prairie Schooner and the
Three-Qlarters of a Million People II Took
Into Iowa" sail that sometimes when he
hears mon discussing railways and corpo-
rations as things hostile to the general
good he thinks Of the unrestrained express
sions of joy that possessed all the people Of
Iowa when they learned that Congress had
made q land grant for four railroads in
Iowa, which would relieve the prairie
schooner, their only means OF travelling
to adjoining States.
Men We're so full Of emotion that they
had no means of expressing their Joy at
being liberated from isolation" he said.
Possibly there ia no one who would be
willing 10 obliterate the railroads, and if
that is the case / am glad
Representative Hull said that Iowans
considered themse.ves rich il they could
ru' a Iil,Ie money in the bank every year
at;cr they had paid their debts. They had
different ideas about what constitutes a
millionaire than are held in New York.
The Rev, DR.. Hills estimated that it takes
less pine lumber to build a ladder to Heaven
from the hills Of western Iowa than from
any other part of the earth.
judge Dillon. in laudIng the early judges
and lawyers Of Iowa, paid a strong tribute
TO Territorial Chief Justice Mason, who was
born in New York, educated at West Point
in the class of Gen. r. 4. Lee and Jefferson
Davis, and appointed the first judge of
Iowa when the Territory was formed in
1888.
Congressman Lacey said that there was
no place like the land between the Mis-
sissippi and Missouri, Talks were also
made by Congressman Smith, Hubbard and
Dawson.