Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-04-02
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Gen. DODGE Presents Records.

| Gen. Dodge Presents Records.
Des MCSH es.-Gen. Grenville M.
Dodge visited the city, spending the
time in the historical department with
| Acting Curator Harlan. He turned over
| to Mr.. Harlan for the historical de-
| partment the original papers and
| documents relating to his career as
soldier and railroad builder. There
| are five large army chests filed with
these materials which thus become the
property of the state historical de-
partment. General Dodge directed
Mr.. Harlan to arrange and preserve
everything desirable to the historical
collections, except possibly certain
items General Dodge accumulated
while chief Of General Grants secret
service department.
81 present these papers," said
General Dodge, through the solicita-
ton Of my lamented friend, Charles
Aldrich, who visited me in Council
Bluffs, last summer. 1t was the last
trip Mr.. Aldrich ever made in behalf
of his beloved work. He remained
over night with me and gave me a
more intimate and extensive view of
his cherished plans than | had before
received. He disclosed some of the
difficulties overcome and others appre-
hended, but | assured him that his
work would unQuestionably, suffer
nothing in plan nor in purpose at the
hands of the Iowa public. l am glad
to turn my documentary materials
over to the institution, at his request,
be held by 1t as he explained, in
trust for the future.
HE was great man, the state
should erect statue to him in front
of the building. Indeed the state
must fill the inches in these walls
with the figures of her eminent citi-
zens in bronze or marble.
ut has been my privilege to erect
five notable statues in the city of
Washington and to see much of the
work of hat character in America and
Europe, and / know that as an ex-
preston of honor to the dead and as
an ennobling influence upon the liv.
ing nothing will be finer than the COM
pletion of this detail of the plans of
Charles Aldrich."
General Dodge said he plans of re-
moving all his interests to this state
were interrupted by the panic and
III UO uSloy GU III u gSdi.
Inspect Medical Colleges.
The subcommittee of the state board
of heath is inspecting the medical
colleges of the state and spent a day
looking over the medical colleges of
Des Moines. The committee con.
sists of Drs.B. l.. Eiker of Leon, A.
c. Morke of Burlington, and A. p.
Hanchett of Council Bluffs.
At the last meeting of the board 1t
required the secretary to invite rep
reSentativeS of each of the four
schools of medicine to accompany the
subcommittee on this tour of inspec-
ton and in response to this invitation
DR.. Royal of Des Moines. representing
the homeopathic, DR.. Colwell of Chi
cago representing the regulars and
DR.. T. B. Hammer of Des Moines rep
resenting the physic-med icalists, visit
ed the colleges with the committee.
The committee first inspected the
Keokuk college and hospital. From
Keokuk the committee went to Iowa
City, where the university medical
school and the hospitals were thor
oUghly inspected and later the Drake
medical school and the Des Moines
hospitals were inspected. From there
the committee went to inspect the
Sioux City medical school and the
hospitals there.
According to members of the COM
mittee, all of the medical schools of
the state are in good shape, the re-
quirements are up to standard and
the work in each school is well con-
Quoted.