Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-03
NEW HOSPITAL NOT
READY THIS Y[AR
Owing to Delay in Completion OF
Tuberculosis Institution Occu-
pancy May Wait
A FEW MAY ENTER DECEMBER
Supreme Court May Reopen Dubuque
Saloon Cases, on Application Of Pc
titioners Who Would Close Them
EntreIy-Literature in the Hospitals
For Insane.
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For Insane.

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Des Moines. Oct. 3-Because of the
rainy weather the new tuberculosis
hospital at Iowa City may not be &C.
cupied till next spring. There is yet
two months work on the institution be-
fore it is completed, according to MI.
Liebbe, the state architect. Ihe Whlte
coat of plaster is now being put on
and after that there is the interior
wood work to complete. septic sewer
tank to build, heating plant to IN
stall. water pipes, gas pipes and sewer
pines to be laid and installed. There is
a full two months work on the lnstl-
tuition building before they are ready
to be occupied
Because of this it may be decided
not to occupy the building till next
spring. 1t has been the intention OF
the board to occupy it this fall and the
buildings should have been ready by
September 1. That would have been an
ideal date to go into them. The build
ings are erected for the outdoor treat
ment for tuberculosis and unless the
patients have been used to the outdoor
treatment during the summer the
treatment is thought little too dras-
tic to begin living outdoors the tirst OF
December.
The board has not determined its ac-
ton as yet 1t may be found that
number of patients have been living
outdoors late at their homes and are
in condition to enter the institution
December /. If this is found to be the
case the institution may be opened
then.
The cause for the delays has been
largely the wet weather. 1t has ralned
so incessantly that it has been diff
cult to get laborers and difficult to get
work done. Building contractors COM
plain that not in many years have
they been hindered with so many days
on which no work could be done as
this year.
]. r. Edwards, of Dubuque, has filed
with the supreme court an application
for writ Of certiorari in the saloon
cases from Dubuque. He charges that
the district Judge there has issued an
order that is illegal and the forty
three saloon cases there started by
Archbishop John ]. Keane and others
may ali be reopened.
Edwards charges that the archbishop
and those who consented to the Or
der of the court consented to an order
and a compromise that was not legal.
The archbishop insisted only that the
saloons obey the law. Edwards insists
that they all be closed up. In his pc
tition that has been filed with the clerk
of the supreme court he charges that the
saloons should have been en1oined
from operating at all because the 45
saloon keepers pleaded guilty to con-
Quoting nuisances. He points out that
the order of the Judge permits the por-
ters to sleep in the saloons and to go
in and out after and before hours.
Edwards charges that this is illegal
because the supreme court has held
against it. The order. of the Dubuque
Judge further permits the saloons to
open at in the morning and keep
open till IL at night and Edwards
charges that they cannot legally open
fill 6 in the morning and must close at
10 at night.
The particular petition Of Edwards is
filed in the case of Frank Prandy but
includes the AZ other cases. The actions
against the saloon keepers was started
May Z, 1907. by John j. Keane In be-
half of every citizen of Dubuque coun-
ty.
Rocks are medicine to the diseased
minds in the state hospitals for the in
sane. according to the experiences Of
the board of control, and Miss Miriam
Carey is the doctor In charge. She
has been in the employe Of the board
If control as the librarian Of the state
institutions for a little over year
and she declares that the work is
meeting with the best results.
Miss Carey was the librarian at Bur-
lington in the city library. She was
engaged by the state board Of control
in March. 1906. In a report on the
work that has been accomplished dur
ing that time she stated that fairy
tales are not attractive to the insane
and neither is the --latest novel, nor
the "best seller" They pay no atten-
ton to those things and care little.
for what is popular. The insane, Miss
Carey says, she finds from her years
experience. are peculiarly and some
what mysteriously alert as to the goocl
qualities of book. 1t must be some
thing substantial and good or they
care nothing for 1t.
Properly selected books are Won
derful remedial agent in the treatment
of the insane patients. They do not
enjoy the imaginative, they want the
realistic. AS a rule they show good
taste in their reading and any good
book will satisfy. They care nothing
for the sentimental. 1t has been dis
covered that even the violent patients
can be interested in reading good books
and the reading Of the books sooths
the wrought up natures and assists