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The building, the commission believes, is a credit to Iowa in every sense. It combines the artistic and the practical in an unusual degree, being roomy and comfortable.
The structure is of wood and staff, ivory white, in accord with the general color scheme of the exposition buildings. Over the main entrance appears the word, "Iowa, " and it is expected in carrying out the mural decorations to por- tray historical and allegorical scenes directly relating to this state.
On the first story there is ample porch space, and on the second, wide bal- conies. The tiled roofs over the second story will be used as lookouts or ter- races, and are easily accessible through doors at the end of attic halls. Arrangements will be made for covering these terraces with awnings and lighting them in the evenings, thus affording extensive views of the exposition grounds.
One of the strong features of the plan is the interior arrangements. On the first floor in the center is a rotunda, 28 by 28 feet. Leading off from this are two large public parlors. There are also on this floor two reading rooms, each 2212 by 40 feet, a woman's retiring room, the secretary's office, toilet rooms, and wide vestibules leading from the main entrances. The first story will be 14 feet high.
On the second floor is the governor's reception room and exhibition room, each 30 by 40 feet. There are private rooms for the governor and for the presi- dent of the commission, and six comfortable commissioners' rooms ranged along one side of the building. The hall space in the second story is ample. The height of the second story is 16 feet. In the third or attic story are the rooms for employes and in the basement a storage room for folding chairs and packing cases.
The Iowa building is for the accommodation of Iowa people and their friends who desire a resting place during the day and where meetings can be held by Iowa people, and general meetings for fair visitors.
INFORMATION BUREAU.
A bureau of information and a postoffice where Iowa people can receive and send mail, will be maintained and every facility offered for furnishing informa- tion concerning the exposition and the city of St. Louis. The Iowa Commission invites all Iowa people and their friends to make their headquarters at the Iowa building during the Exposition.
ORGAN.
President Larrabee has tendered a pipe organ for use in the Iowa building during the Exposition.
The contract was awarded the M. P. Moller Organ Co., Hagerstown, Md. The organ is to have two manuals, thirty stops, 1,512 pipes, nine pedal movements. The casing will be of solid mahogany wood, the front pipes being handsomely and fittingly decorated. It is to be installed at the head of the grand staircase leading out of the main rotunda, the most attractive and prominent place in all the building to install such a gift. It is expected that concerts will be given in the Iowa building, where an auditorium seating 600 people has been provided, and the great organists of our own state and abroad will be secured for recitals.
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CONTRACTS.
Proudfoot & Bird, of Des Moines, are the architects, and E. W. Nichols & Co., of Des Moines, are the contractors of the Iowa building. Hon. W. T. Shepherd, of Harlan, is the superintendent of construction, and J. O. Wicker- sham, of Harlan, assistant superintendent.
L. H, Kurtz, Des Moines, awarded contract for plumbing ; Wm. G. Andrews, of Clinton, contract for decorations ; Theodore Thorwegian, of St. Louis, contract for grading, sodding and floral plats; Mitchell Vance & Co., of New York City, contract for lighting fixtures.
INSIDE INN.
The Inside Inn, one of the largest hotels on the Exposition grounds, having 2, 257 sleeping rooms, is located within two blocks of the Iowa building.
CHRONOLOGY OF IOWA AND THE WORLD'S FAIR.
June 17, 1673. Discovery of Iowa soil by Father Marquette and M. Joliet.
On June 16 and 17, 1904, Iowa State day will be celebrated at the Exposition in commemoration of his event.
April 30, 1803. Louisiana Territory purchased from Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of F ance, by Robert Livingston and James Monroe for the United States.
December 20, 1803. Formal transfer of the Louisiana Territory made at New Orleans.
January 6, 1899. Governor L M. Shaw appointed delegates to attend the convention of representatives of the fourteen states comprising the Louisiana Purchase, to be held at St. Louis January 10-11, 1899.
March 15, 1900, Representative W. L. Eaton introduced concurrent reso- lution in the Legislature, urging the passage of bill in Congress of $5, 000, 000 for the World's Fair. Resolution passed both houses without contest.
January, 1902. Governor Shaw in his biennial message endorsed the Louisiana Purchase Exposition and urged proper representation by the State of Iowa.
- January 16, 1902. Governor A, B. Cummins, in his inaugural address, urged a liberal appropriation by the legislature for proper representation of Iowa at the Exposition.
April 11, 1902. General Assembly passed bill appropriating $125, 000 for the World's Fair.
April 29, 1902. Governor A. B. Cummins appointed thirteen commissioners to represent the State of Iowa at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.
July 1, 1902. Iowa Commission organized by electing former Governor William Larrabee as president.
October 2, 1902. Site for Iowa Building allotted to Iowa on the Exposition grounds at St. Louis, and accepted for the Commission by President Larrabee and Commissioner Palmer.
October 7, 1902. Iowa Commission permanently organized by the election of vice president, treasurer, secretary, and executive committee.
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December 18, 1902. Architects' plans of Proudfoot & Bird for the Iowa Building selected ..
March 4, 1903. The contract for the erection of the Iowa Building awarded to E. W. Nichols & Company.
May 2, 1903. Cornerstake of Iowa Building driven by Governor Cummins, ceremonies being participated in by governor's staff, Fifty-fourth Regiment Band, Fifty-fourth Regiment Iowa National Guard, and members of the Iowa Commission.
June 24, 1903. Democratic party of Iowa endorsed the Exposition and the part Iowa should take in making a creditable exhibit.
July 1, 1903. Republican party of Iowa cites the last public utterance of President Mckinley saying that "Expositions are the timekeepers of progress, " endorsed the Exposition, and approved liberal appropriations therefor.
August 25, 1903. Flag raised over the Iowa Building by Commissioner Shepherd, assisted by President Francis.
November 14, 1903. Reception tendered in Iowa Building to the South- western editors and Exposition officials by Commissioner Witmer of the Iowa Department of Press and Publicity.
December 20, 1903. Celebration in all Iowa schools of Louisiana Purchase Flag Day.
January 6, 1904. Contract for decorations for Iowa building awarded to William G. Andrews of Clinton.
January 13, 1904. Joint legislative committee, consisting of L. W. Lewis, F. L. Maytag, Thos. Lambert, on the part of the Senate, and H. E. Teachout, Scott Skinner and A. F. Frudden on the part of the House, was appointed to inspect the Iowa Building at St. Louis and report with recommendations to the General Assembly concerning the needs of a proper representation of Iowa at the Exposition.
The St. Louis Exposition, and Iowa's representation in a creditable man- ner, being a part of the Louisiana Purchase, has received the endorsement of the Iowa Press Association, April 12, 1903; The Upper Des Moines Editorial Association, February 6, 1903; The Northeastern Iowa Editorial Association, February 20, 1903; State Federation of Labor, May 14, 1903; The Improved Live Stock Breeders, State Agricultural Society, State Dairy Association, State Horticultural Society, State Teachers Association, State Federation Women's Clubs, Iowa State Manufacturers Association.
IOWA FIRST AT WORLD'S FAIR.
From President David R. Francis' address at the reception tendered the Southwestern Iowa editors at the Iowa Building on November 14, 1903:
"When St. Louis citizens sought for a method to celebrate the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, it wasan Iowa man, Mr. Fred Lehmann, now an emi- nent attorney in St. Louis, who insisted and finally established the idea that an exposition should be the means employed to that end. The congress which was held to discuss the plan, and which was attended by representatives of all the states carved out of this territory, was presided over by an Iowa man, Lieutenant Governor Milliman, of Logan.
"Iowa's legislature was the first to memorialize the national congress to act in the matter.
"Iowa was among the first states to make an appropriation for an exhibit.
"An Iowa Congressman, Mr. Lane of the Second district, introduced the bill in Congress authorizing the holding of the Fair.
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"An Iowa man, Speaker Henderson, made it possible for the bill to go through the House.
"An Iowa man, Senator Allison, had charge of the measure in the Senate.
"An Iowa'man, Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, inspected the Fair and released the government appropriations.
"An Iowa man, Mr. Robert Fullerton, has charge of the disbursements of the national fund for the Exposition.
" The Iowa state building was the first state building contracted for.
"Governor Cummins of Iowa was the first state official to drive the corner , stake for a state building.
" The Iowa building was the first to be completed and to fly the stars and stripes from the staff on its dome.
"The Iowa Commission was the first to extend the hospitality of a com- monwealth to the Exposition officials and to its own people.
"Iowa has had much to do with the great fair."
IOWA LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN AND MISSIONARY RIDGE MONUMENT COMMISSION.
Appointed by the Governor.
MEMBERS.
Name.
P. O. Address.
Regiment.
Alexander, Thomas C
Oakland
Fourth Iowa Infantry. Fifth Iowa Infantry.
Bascom, Elias B.
Lansing
Miller, Alexander J
Oxford
Sixth Iowa Infantry.
Abernethy, Alonzo
Osage.
Ninth Iowa Infantry .
Head, Mahlon.
Jefferson
Tenth Iowa Infantry.
Spencer, Fred P
Randolph
Seventeenth Iowa Infantry.
Young, John A.
Washington
'T'wenty-fifth Iowa Infantry
Fegan, Joseph D
Clinton
Watkins, Samuel H
Libertyville
Twenty-sixth Iowa Infantry Thirtieth Iowa Infantry .
Humbert, Solomon B.
Cedar Falls
Thirty-first Iowa Infantry.
Frazier, Elliott
Morning Sun
First Iowa Battery.
Chairman-JOHN A. YOUNG, Washington, Iowa.
Secretary-ALONZO ABERNETHY, Osago.
The Twenty-ninth General Assembly provided for a commission of eleven members to erect monuments on the Chattanooga, Tenn., battle fields, where Iowa soldiers were engaged in the battles of November 24, 25 and 27, 1863. $35, 000 was appropriated for the purpose of erecting three state monuments, one on Lookout Mountain, and one on either end of Missionary Ridge at the places where the different Iowa troops were engaged, to perpetuate an expres- sion on the part of the people of Iowa of their appreciation of the patriotism, courage and distinguished soldierly bearing of their fellow citizens who took part in said battles.
The commission made one visit to the Chattanooga battle fields in Novem- ber 1902, and after a week's study, located the three sites, one within the national military park reservation of ninety-eight acres on Lookout Mountain, in front
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of the Craven house, where six Iowa regiments took part in the famous "battle above the clouds" on the afternoon and evening of November 24th, another near the center of the national military park, Sherman reservation of forty-nine acres, on the north end of Missionary Ridge, where four other Iowa regiments led the advance against the confederate right November 25th. The third was placed at Rossville Gap near where six Iowa regiments and the Iowa battery assaulted the confederate left and rear, and helped drive General Bragg and his army into hasty retreat before night of the same day.
The Van Amringe Granite Company of Boston, Mass., secured the contract for building the three monuments for $32, 000. They are to be of the best qual- ity of Barre, Vt., granite. Each is surmounted by a colossal granite statue of a color bearer in the attitude of "Defense of the flag." The one at Rossville Gap has also above the base, fine granite statues of four pri ate soldiers.
The two memorials o . Lookout Mountain and Sherman Heights are fifty feet in height. The larger one at Rossville Gap is seventy-two feet high, on an octagonal base of twenty feet. The largest single block of granite used is the thirty foo square shaft of this monument weighing forty tons.
They are to be completed March 1, 1904, an t dedicated early in the year if found practicable.
IOWA SHILOH BATTLEFIELD MONUMENT COMMISSION.
Appointed by the Governor. MEMBERS.
Name.
P. O. Address.
Regiment.
Godfrey, George L
Des Moines
Second Iowa Infantry.
Crosley, George W.
Webster City
Third Iowa Infantry.
Miller, Alexander J.
Oxford .
Six h Iowa Infantry.
Reiniger, Robert G.
Charles City
Seventh Iowa Infantry.
Bell William B
Washington
Eighth Iowa Infantry.
Morgridge, George O.
Muscatine
Eleventh Iowa Infantry.
Soper, Erastus B. .
Emmetsburg
Twelfth Iowa Infantry.
Kepler, Charles W
Mount Vernon.
Thirteenth Iowa Infantry.
* Matson, Daniel.
Kossuth
Fourteenth Iowa Infantry.
Carson, James W.
Woodburn
Fifteenth Iowa Infantry.
Hayes, John
Red Oak
Sixteenth Iowa Infantry.
* Appointed November 21, 1900, to succeed W. T. Shaw, resigned.
Chairman-E. B. SOPER, Emmetsburg.
Secretary-JOHN HAYES, Red Oak.
The Twenty-eighth General Assembly appropriated the sum of fifty thousand dollars for the purpose of perpetuating the memory of those who par- ticipated in the battle of Shiloh and designating by proper monuments and markers of granite the positions of the several commands of Iowa volunteers there engaged April 6 and 7, 1862.
The act, approved April, 6, 1900, provided for the appointment by the Governor of a commission composed of men who were present and participated In the battle-one soldier from each of the eleven Iowa regiments engaged.
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The commission is making use of the funds at its disposal by erecting in the Shiloh National Military Park at Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., a State monu- ment at a cost approximating twenty-five thousand dollars and eleven regi- mental monuments at a cost approximating two thousand dollars each.
IOWA VICKSBURG PARK MONUMENT COMMISSION.
Appointed by the Governor. MEMBERS.
Name.
P. O. Address.
Regiment.
John F. Merry
Dubuque
Lucien C. Blanchard
Oskaloosa
Twenty-first Iowa Infantry. Twenty-eighth Iowa Inf'y.
J. A. Fitchpatrick
Nevada.
Third Iowa Infantry.
E. J C. Bealer
Cedar Rapids
Twenty-second Iowa Inf'y.
David A. Haggard
Algona
Twenty-first Iowa Infantry.
W. O. Mitchell ..
Corning
Thirteenth Iowa Infantry.
W. H. C. Jacques
Ottumwa
Nineteenth Iowa Infantry.
Henry H. Rood.
Mt. Vernon
Thirteenth Iowa Infantry.
James H. Dean .
Des Moines.
Twenty-third Iowa Infantry
Commission met and organized May 21, 1902, in Des Moines.
J. F. Merry was elected chairman.
Henry H. Rood was elected secretary.
In October, 1902, the Commission visited Washington, D. C., Gettysburg, Pa., and Richmond, Va., to study memorial designs and inform themselves for the wise discharge of their duties.
In July, 1903, a sub-committee visited New York and Boston for a further study of the question, and to select a sculptor.
In October, 1903, the full Commission visited Vicksburg and selected sites for the State, Brigade and Regimental Monuments.
Henry H. Kitson of Boston was selected as sculptor for the State monu- ment, and the sub-committees are carefully considering designs for monu- ments.
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IOWA CAPITOL COMMISSION.
Appointed by the Governor.
MEMBERS.
A. B. FUNK Spirit Lake.
CHAS. A. CUMMING Des Moines.
EDWARD P. SCHOENTGEN Council Bluffs.
OFFICERS.
A. B. FUNK President.
F. D. HARSH .Secretary.
The Twenty-ninth General Assembly, in accordance with the recommenda- tion made by the Capitol Improvement Commission, appropriated the sum of $250,000 to repair, improve, adorn and complete the capitol building and grounds and authorized the Governor to appoint a commission of three mem- bers to superintend and contract for the improvements. In accordance with said law Governor Cummins in May, 1902, appointed the above members of the commission. The commission held its first meeting in July, 1902, and since that date has gone steadily forward with the work. The first substantial work was the replacing of the old slate roof of the capitol with a modern copper one at a cost of $19, 178. A new fireproof warehouse has been erected across the street from the capitol at a cost of $28, 465. This building will be used for a doc- ument store house and the basement for the electrical machinery.
The heating and ventilating system of the capitol has been replaced by a modern fan system. The building has been wired throughout so as to permit of the substitution of electricity for gas in lighting and a modern electrical plant has been installed to generate sufficient power. The old elevators have been removed and new machinery for their operation installed. At the boiler house the old boilers have been displaced by new high pressure water tube boilers. During the past twenty years many parts of the building had fallen into de- cay and consequently a considerable amount of restoration has been necessary in connection with the above mentioned improvements. To date the commission has expended $192,000.
In addition there yet remains as unfinished work the repairing of the walks, coping and steps; the refinishing and repairing of the wood work and furni- ture; the regilding of the dome and the painting and decorating of the halls, corridors and rotunda. It is the intention of the commission to bring the standard and character of the decorations up to the architectural dignity and beauty of the building.
The fire in the north wing of the building, which occurred on the 4th day of January, 1904, caused an important interruption in the work of the com- mission. It will cost about $5,000 to restore portions of the work of the com mission destroyed or impaired by fire. The entire loss to the State will prob- ably not exceed $100, 000. The exact sum will probably never be known, from the fact that it seems to be the determination of the legislature to make the building in that section as nearly fireproof as practicable, which will involve additional expenditure.
Of the emergency fund of $8, 000 provided by the legislature for expenses incurred at the time of the fire and in fitting up the House Hall for use at the present session about $6, 000 has been expended.
CENTRAL BUILDING-IOWA STATE COLLEGE, AMES.
PART III.
BOARD OF CONTROL.
STATE INSTITUTIONS.
IOWA NATIONAL GUARD.
COUNTY
OFFICERS.
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Board of Control of State Institutions.
MEMBERS.
JOHN COWNIE, Chairman, South Amana April 5, 1904
G. S. ROBINSON, Sioux City April 5, 1906
L. G. KINNE, Des Moines April 5, 1908
F. S. TREAT, Secretary, Des Moines.
HENRY F. LIEBBE. Architect, Des Moines.
The Board of Control of State Institutions was created under the provisions of chapter 118, laws of the Twenty-seventh General Assembly, which, with the amendments thereto, clothes the board with full power to manage, control and govern, subject only to the limitations contained in the act, the following named institutions:
Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home, at Davenport.
Iowa Soldiers' Home, at Marshalltown.
School for the Deaf, at Council Bluffs.
College for the Blind, at Vinton.
Institution for Feeble-minded Children, at Glenwood.
Mt. Pleasant State Hospital.
Hospital for Inebriates (Mt. Pleasant).
Independence State Hospital.
Hospital for Inebriates (Independence).
Clarinda State Hospital.
Cherokee State Hospital. Hospital for Inebriates (Cherokee) .
Industrial Home for the Blind, at Knoxville.
Industrial School for Boys, at Eldora.
Industrial School for Girls, at Mitchellville.
Industrial Reformatory for Females, at Anamosa.
Penitentiary, at Anamosa.
Penitentiary, at Ft. Madison.
The board is also required to investigate thoroughly the reports and doings of the regents of the State University, the trustees of the State Normal School, and the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and the books and records of said institutions. It also has supervision of county and private insti" tutions in which insane persons are kept, and of associations and societies receiving friendless children.
, Prior to July 1, 1898, the foregoing state institutions, except the peniten. tiaries, were in charge of separate boards, each of which had its officers and each had a secretary and treasurer.
The Board of Control was organized on April 6, 1898, and took full control, as provided by statute, on July 1, 1898, of the institutions heretofore named. At that time the various boards of trustees and commissioners ceased to exist, 11 IOB
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The Board publishes quarterly a bulletin of over a hundred pages, devoted to the scientific investigation of the treatment of insanity and epilepsy, and the feeble-minded. and information embodying the experience of soldiers' homes, charitable, reformatory and penal institutions in this and other countries, it being the intention of the board to keep in touch with the best thought and judgment of the age.
As provided by law, under the direction of the board, the state institutions under its control are supplied with goods for their support on competitive bids, thus procuring proper supplies at the lowest market prices. An opportunity to bid is afforded anyone who indicates a desire to the board.
The board visits and inspects each institution under its control at least twice each year, and oftener if necessary. Some member of the board visits and thoroughly inspects each hospital for the insane once each month.
The Twenty-ninth General Assembly passed an act for the detention and treatment of dipsomaniacs and inebriates and directing the Board of Control to designate a ward or wards in the state hospitals for the insane to which they should be sent. Wards have been opened in the Mount Pleasant State Hospital, Independence State Hospital and the Cherokee State Hospital. The table at the end of this chapter shows the population of each of said hospitals.
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STATE INSTITUTIONS.
EDUCATIONAL.
STATE UNIVERSITY-IOWA CITY.
President-GEO. E. MACLEAN, A.M., Ph.D , LL.D., Iowa City.
Secretary-WM. JUDD MCCHESNEY, Iowa City.
Treasurer-LOVELL SWISHER, Iowa City.
Board of Regents-His Excellency, the Governor, ex officio President. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, ex officio.
Terms expire.
First District-W. I. Babb, Mt. Pleasant 1906
Second District-Joe R. Lane, Davenport 1906
Third District-C. E. Pickett, Waterloo. 1908
Fourth District-Alonzo Abernethy, Osage. 1908
Fifth District-Thomas B. Hanley, Tipton 1904
Sixth District-W. D Tisdale, Ottumwa 1906
Seventh District-Carroll Wright, Des Moines 1906
Eighth District-H. K. Evans, Corydon 1904 Ninth District- 1904
Tenth District-Joseph H. Allen, Pocahontas. 1908
Eleventh District-P. K. Holbrook, Onawa 1908
The State University of Iowa is an integral part of the public school system of the State. As required by law, the work of the University is based upon the preparation afforded by the duly accredited high schools of the State, whose graduates are admitted to the undergraduate and professional courses upon presentation of the proper certificates. A sense of this vital connection with the public schools determines, in a large measure, the requirements for admission to the University, its spirit, and its courses of study.
The control of the University is intrusted to a board of regents, consisting of the Governor of the State and the Superintendent of Public Instruction ex officiis, and of one member from each of the eleven congressional districts, e ected by the general assembly.
The University is administered through the following organizations :
The College of Liberal Arts, including engineering and the summer ses- sion ;
The College of Law;
The College of Medicine;
The College of Homeopathic Medicine ;
The College of Dentistry ;
The College of Pharmacy ;
The Graduate College;
The School of Political and Social Science;
The School of Applied Science; The Nurses' Training Schools ; The Hospitals.
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The College of Liberal Arts embraces four courses of study; Classical, philosophical, scientific, engineering and mining. Four years are required to graduate in either one of these courses, and on completion the appropriate Bachelor's degree is granted.
In the college of law the course of study extends through three years, and on completion thereof the graduate is given the degree of LL. B., and admitted to practice before the state and United States courts.
The college of medicine and the college of homeopathic medicine require the student to pursue his studies during a four year's course of nine months each, and on completion of such course the degree of M. D. is granted.
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