Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 5, 1882, Page 3

| | . COUNCII: BLUFEFES COMMISSION City Market, Conneil Rlufts Tows, WHOLESALE F Genoral Agenta for the Celebrated Mills ot H. D. ansas, and Queen Bee Mills, Sioux Falle, Dakota, F eterence, Smith & Crittenden, Council Bluffs, ia. O. 0. COOK & CO. MERGHANTS, LOUR HOUSE, Kush & Co., Golden Eagle Flour, Leavenwosth, WHOLESALE STATIONERY AND COUNCIL BLUFF3, IOWA. TITLE ABSTRAGT OFFICE Lands and Lots Bought and Sold. MONEY TO LOAN NOTARIES PUBLIC COUNGIL BLUFFS - - WHOLESALE DEALER Ready -fitted uppers, in calf skin and kip, oods appertaining _to the shoe trads MRS, :NORRIS' NEW FOR STYLISH SPRING MILLINERY. PATTERN BONNETS AND CHILDREN’S HATS A SPECIALTY. 105 South Main Street. - That never require crimping, at Mrs. J. J. Good's Hair Store, at prices never befere touched by Also a full line of switches, etc., at xreatly reduced prices. Alse gold, Waves made from Indies’ own hair, Any other hair dealer. silver and colored nets elsowhere. All good warranted as represonted. AND 15 North Main Street, Gor ds xold a AND RETAIL PRINTER'S GOODS, AT LOW RATES. CONVEYANCERS. 1OWA, RSOIN, IN SHOE FINDINCS. 0Ok and Hemlock SOLE LEATHER, and al cap s in the East. MILLINERY STORE - - - - Council Bluffs Ia WAVES Do not tail w call_bofore purchusing RS, J. 3 29 Main streor, Council Bluffs, Towa. MASON WISE, LIVERY, FEED & SALE STABLE The largest and best stables in the west. Roadsters, Saddle and draft horses for sale, also afine lot of mules Jjust received which will be closed out cheap. i SC0IT ST., NEAR BROADWAY. COUNCIL BLUFFS. IA. \ REMOVED without the drawing of blood or use of knife, Cures lung diseascs, AND OTHIKR Fits, Scrofula, Liver Com- plaint, Dropsy, Rheuma- TUMO RS tim, Fover and Morcur- ial 8ores, Erysipelas, Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Catairh, weak, inflamed and granulated Eyes, ~crofulous Ulcers and Fe- malo Disease of all kinds. Also Kidney and +Venerial disvases, | Homorrholds or Piles cured ‘money refunded. Al diseases treated upon theprinciple of veget- able reform, without the use of mercurial pois- ons or the Knife. Eloctro Vapor or M-dicated Baths, furnished osewho desiro them. . Hornia or Rupture radically cured by the use the Elastic belt Truss and Plaster, which has superior in the world. CONSULTATION FREE CALL ON OR ADDRESS Drs. B. Rice and F. C. Miller, LIVERY, Feed and Sale Stables, 18 North First Street, Bouquet's old stand, Council Bluffs, Towa. WILLARD SMITH, Prop. W.D.STILLMAN, Practitioner of Homeopathy, consulting - Physicianand Surgeon. Office and residence 615 Willow avenue, Coun- ol Blufts, Iowa. W. K, BINTON, DENTIST. 14 Pearl Street, Council Bluffs. Extractingand filling a specialty. First-class work guaranteed, DR. A. P. HANCHETT, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Oftice, No. 14 Pearl Street. Hous, 9 o, m. to 12, and2 p,m, to 6 p, m. Residence, 120 Baricroft streef. Telephonic connection ’ with Central office, DR. AMELIA BURROUGHS, OFEIORE No. 617 First Avenue. _ Hoursfrom 10 to11 a. m. Merchants Restaurant JOS. ROSS, Proprietor. Corner Broadway and Fourth Streets. Good accommodations, good fare and cour- teous treatment. " S. E. MAXON, AROE I T H OT. and2to 5 p. m. Office over savings bank, COUNOIu BLUFFS, - . - Iowa REAL ESTATE. W. C. James, In connection with his law aad colleotion businessbuys and sells real estate. Persons wishing to buy or sell city property call @t his office, over Bushnell's book store, Pearl atreot. EDWIN J. ABBOTT. Justice of the Peace and Notary Public. 416Broadway, Council Bluffs, Deeds and mortgages drawn and scknoledged HAIR GOODS. Council Bluffs; - Medical Office Cor, Broadway & Glenn Ave, ficulties peculiar to females a specialty. Employ tho best Bread Baker in the West; also a choice hand for Cakes and Pies, WATER WAVES, In 8teck and Manufactur- ed to Order. Waves Made From Your Own Hair, pressions I quote this one: ‘‘With the short acquaintance I have had zth your people I have learved to love you all, avd will be pleased to mect you, which I want to do, and have a long and friendly talk with you.” Now, isn't that gushing to come from & man who «aye ha elected on the fesne of my removal from a poritior which every trustee, every legislative vis- itor and every parent 1 was effloiontly WANTS A HEARINC. To the Fditor of Trra Brx: The Council Bluffs Nonpariel of Satur. day, May 27th, contains an article signed by W. H. Hall, vitterly assailing and tra- ducing the management of the Feeble Minded Asylum at Glenwood. His | filling? Notonlydid he not hive al ng and friendly talk, but e egtirely avoided charges not only reflect upon myselt but |y (RSIRNETEG G i, eRtirely ot alsoup n Dr. Thrall of Ottumwa, D, M, Baker of Chariton, Fred O'Donnell of Dubuane, and E. &, 8. Woodson of Glan wood, the Iatter two being his nssociates on the present board, The article charges the grossest abuses, and abounds in wicked and cunningly worded insinuations and envendoes, tion. . During his first visit to (Fenwond, which lasted twe days, of which period avout six hours —alinos: entirely deyoted to rontine board work +were spent, as Le- fore said, in the inktitution, He falked covsult a book, billar vouchir, Mr Ha'l starts with the nssertfon that his eloction as trustee #as oo the lssue of my retirement from th rintendenay y that a number of menibors sought from him & yromive to use his influence to \re- vent my re-en.ployment u not pres pared to sweepingly deny this claim, but | have the word of many nicubers of both houses that they had n', knowledge of any such arrangeu.ent, and Lad they kn wn of 1 prepared a reply anc on presen ting it to Col. Chapmap for insertion in his paper with a positive refusal, after his paper had given | ublicity, with aruel editorial comment, to an article which sought to make infamnous my mane f o) STEERNECUTE | K 0 o gement of an {istiution which T had [ly ended. It is certainly a strange asser organized and mace a grand succe &, if the | ton to come feom & mamier of the legisla opinion of scores of e good men of Tawa | t9F® that the legiklators had to conspire to- ¢ ¢ d me gether to bring ahattt tho romoval of the is worth anything, W It fair winded peo. | supermtoudent, of & state institution of ple consider the refusal to give me a hear whigh its trustees have this to say ing in my own defense as just and hoaora. was met The Glenwood asylum i« oy of managed institations to be found ar ble treatmpnt, - charit l-m-. AN effclent il g i v el by meorph of well selecte Will you please publish the reply, and Al &g FRAE ST S with the hope that all concerned will give it & careful perusal, I am, Very respect fully, O. W. Arcuisarn, ARCHIBALD'S ANSWER, In Gov, Gear's messige to the last Gen. eral Assem/ly a table is given showing the cost per capita per month of supporting the inmates ot the various state mstitu. tions, from which we quote as follows: Monthly cost per fnmate. College for the BInd. ..vve...v.. ..yy 890, Institution for the Deaf aud Dt Hospi al for Insane at Mt, Pleasant. Hospital for Insane at Independenco, Asylum for Feoble-Minded Childr excellarice of nik Agement. 1t has beon very ratifying to notiee the ifaprovouent wado by tldren: who nro inmates «of the has 0ot been 5o much, porhaps, L lgoke (which stself i quite remarkatle) us in habits of s, evidences of poliencss wnd good magoners, and kil in all 1 1 bor i perforined | The ac latter knowledgo alone IS an wnpla roturn to the state for tie money ¢xpunded fn hahalt of these wards. Does the statesman rosort to treachery and deception fo accomplich his ends? Iy it possible that the legislature of I wa had to resolve itself into a/ star chamber and secrotly exact certain protises from one of its own members before elevating him to with no fnstitution: employe, dnd did wot | 4 from Gov, Geat's last message concérnine the alleged | debtedness incurred by the institation during the long winter of 1879 '80. From this quotation we quote: In May Jast the board of trustees addressed o letter to the executive council, asking that tody to allow the Board to create s debt ngainst the state under the provisians of chapter #7, ncts of the Seventeenth General Assembl the ground of Inabllity to support the in: tion on the amonunt allowed by law, © The teustees had peroitted the suporinendent exceedl the » x ure allowed by law by thie o 1,000, ¢+ 4 & T ayes, and cut down tha rate %0 Yhat the aaylam, at the dat. 1 wan i debt to ar onnt a littie less th due from the eoun! for clothing Mr, Hall presents a dozen orr rep 1 csponsible foreverything, while the govefnor makes the trustees re- avonsible, The trostees, without excep. ien, considered the expense incur:ed dur- ng the winter as logitimate. and in good faith they arked the executive council to permit the state to assume Tte couns cll not consenting, tha only way out was to reduce the living expenses, donate sal. aries and discharge help until even Mr, Woodiow said we only had enough to “barely ho:d the children,” 1 he goyernor deliberately states an un- truth in declaring that *‘the asylum at the date of thereport was in debt to an amount o littlo less than that dae from the coun. tios for clothing.” By consulting Treas: urer Woodrow 8 raport therecan bo seen this statement: ‘‘Balance in favor of the asylum at the time of the report, 8380.55%" I ask the fair minded people of lowa if Bret Harte is hot almost right in declaring the ““Caucasian a failure,” when the gov. ernor of a greatcommonwealth will, “with deliberation awl malice aforethought, stoop to wi-lead theprople who have hon- ored him_with high cfficial position? The reader will ask: *“What interest had the bought with my own money a team cost- ing $250, the support fund not being suf- fioient to justify the parchase of horses by the state, Liater 1 ‘;ough! another team, at equal expense, it being rendered neces- sty on account of being compelled to haul water for the general uses of the institu. tion, Kor two or more years nearly all the water u ed by us was drawn in wagons up the long steep hill to the building. After bathing the children the water was used for serubbing and rough purposos, ro precious was that article, which, inseasons of dronght in_Eoypt, (is aptly called the “gift of God.” * For the past four years T have owned from. four to six horses, and used them exclusively _for the institution During the six years of the various horees owned by me and used by the institition, three died outright to my complote loss, and two were worn out and sold for much loss than the ori; In ad dition to this, grade was made for the gyranasivm building, L furniehed the inatitution with the use of aepan of mules that cot $300, ons dying in service to my entire loss, Leonsider that niy actu.lloss in cash by the death of horees to be not less than £500, aside from the investment of mon ther Horses for the use of the inatitution since its establishment, Asis el known the institution build- ingp nro looated on the top of a hill, di ficult of access, especially durng muddy wanther. I have endeavered to fuly ne- conmodate the publié by going to aud from all trains and the town, keeping one team almost constantly enguged in that service, Now, while haviog a little “horse tak,” it will not be amiss to set Mr, Hall right in the matter of expense connected with the keeping of the one team, The team in question was bought by the trustees for §125, about a~ven months ago, September, 1881, and was the first money the state of Towa ever invested in horse “flash for the governor in tryfng tobrask down the man- agement of the institution?” Tt whuld take too mich epace to detail the particulars hore, but there are peopls in Glenwood who understand it. As every resident of Iowa knows, the winter of 1870-80 was Tong, cold an dreary, snow covered the Jmnnd the greatar pact of the seaton, and large drifts rendered wavel difficult, and the procure- mentof supplies was ng small task; Iivery- the positlon of ttustes of one of the state's great_chavitios? Tho promise alleged to have been demanded and given, was that the superintendent of the institution for The iusans hospitals, with five to six hundred inmates, simply custodial estab- lishments, ought to be run much cheaper per capita than an institution with only one-third the number, containing a class of helpless persons —requiring quite as much, if notmore attention than the insane—and bui d with the additional expense of maintaining an educational department, It wilbe seen by Mr, Gear's own table that the feeble-minded asylum, with ex- pensive disadv.ntages aud incohveniences to which no other insiitution is subjected, cost per month a smaller sum of money than any given in the above named chari- ties, The deaf and dumb institution, with aclass of children able to take personal care of themselves, cost more money per capita; the ollege’ for the blind, an able: on, No oharge of incompetenoy , tho only fault found was by the gover.or, who charged extravagance, yet tables jn' his own mesiage thowed td the contrary, The legislative mittee sent 0 seo if the trustees were vight in thi fr claim that the Glenwood asylum really was “‘one of the best managed institutions to be found among the charities of any state,” returned and reported that the money of the state had been “wisely and economically expended,” and that officers and employes vied gach with the other in faithtulness, and " toat “‘a great work was being done by those'in the employ of this TOILET ARTICLES, All Goods Warranted as Represented, and Price Guaranteed. MRS. D. A BENEDICT, 337 W. Broadway, - - Jowa. Electrician AND -GYGNECOLOGIST. Graduate of Electropathic Institution, Phila delphia, Penna. COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA. The treatment of all diseases and pointul [dit- The Star Bakery, HOWARD & ROBIE, 227 MAIN ST, Bread delivered to all parts of the city. FRESH FISH! ; Game and , Poultry, B. DANEHY'S, 136 Upper Broadway, JNO. JAY FRAINEY, Justice of the Peace, 314 BROADWAY, Counoil Bluffs, W. B. MAYES, Loans and Real Estate. Propriotor of ahstracts of Pottawattamie county, Office corner of Broadway and Main streets, Council Bluffs, Iowa, JOHN. STEINER, M. D, (Deutscher Arzt.) ROOM 5, EVERETT'S BLOCK, Council Bluffs, ~Discasos of wazon aud chuldss olaliy; P. J. MONTGOMERY, M, D., Free DISPENSARY EVERY BATURDAY, Can always be found & Towa. Office in Everott's block, Pearl troet. Reel) dence 628 Fourth street. Offico hours from 9 to 2a.m., 2t0 48ud 745 8 p. m., Council +ufle F. C. CLARK, PRACTICAL DENTIST. Poari street, opposite the postofice. One of the oldest practitioners in Council Bluffs. Satis Iataction guaranteed in all cases DR. F. P. BELLINGER, EYE AND EAR SURGEON, WITH DR. CHARLES DEETKEN, Office over drug store, 414 Broadway, Council Bluffs, Towa. Al diseases of the eyo and car troated under the most approved method, and all plxes guarantecd JOHN LINDT, bodied class of inmates, cost agreat deal more money; the insane huspitals, with a larger per cent of inmates able to take per- sonal care of themseive than in vhe fesble- minded asylum, cost moremoney. My in. sti i is both eustodial and educatidnal, requiring employes in both capacities, which is true of no other of the charities named, Uhe governor also gives another table, showing the number of officers and em- ployes in the several state institution, and the rativ of employes to inmates, from which I quote: institution.” How is the legiglature to learn of the munagement of the institution under its cont'ol? Certainly, ‘from those officially designated for that purpose. What is the testimony of those sent to the feeble-minii- ed institution? Tt was most favorable, to judge from the extracts given elsewhere in this aruiole. Does the legislature be- lieve its committee snd its trustees, and act in accordance with their reports? Mr, Hall says no, and one is lead to infer tha: outside influence was. gufficient to break the force ot official statements, and thus stamp them as untrue, v No official word of censure h & ever come from a single trustee, nor legislative visi- Soldiers’ Orprans’ Hon tor, against the Feeble-Minded institution, Asylum for Feeble-Mind weeies 892 a record I think no other superintendent BIt will be seen by this table that the | in the state can claim. In the face of all college for the blind had_one employe to [ this, Mr. Hall alleges thpt the members every three inmates, while I hai one to | found it necessary to use unfair means to within a fraction of six., Not one helpless | uccomplish the overthrow of a mansge- nor dependant person ean be found amon | ment pronounced good by thuse who cer- the blind, each and every one being aule [ tainly ought to know something of the to take personal care of 'themselves and o [ work €A ai about quite a. freely av thedeafand vumb, | I wight qu te. colnmns of the good With tho feeble-winded, however, personal | opinions expressed conpernihg my manage: attendunce must b given to nearly every | ment. ‘ Lo une. | Dr. W, S. Robertson, of Muscatine, Now, it reems singular that institu- | now President of the state board of health; tion with an exhibit lhowlnf aller ox: | hays : 3 3 pense per oa, ita and a smaller ratio of em- | I'was president of the boprd of trustees at the pluyes to inmates than any other gister | organization of the asylum at Glenwootl; saw gharity nanied, sshonld he stnglédicut aud | Dy ARITL bemto/Ls e nknd ontinaad it ita manogement branded by tho goverior | TLiluble Toan ha the potli{uias chrelit) pandon 88 extrar gant and unwarrante 1’ o T B R ) ol The trustees did nut think the governor | interests'of the {nstitution ana its lomates, T was correct, inasmuch as they report: Irave nlways thought his selection for the posi- ““The Gienwood asylum is one of the ton s most. fortunate one for thie dnstitution, and for the state He stands well mith the beat mausged’ fnstitntions to ibe' found (A0 105 the statel Ho sisnde mal) ikl tne among the charities of any state througliout the country, and his displaceent The legislative visiting committee, con- [ for alme R pacintly fo ) for almest any other man, and especially for sisting of Senator Logan - and Representa-| oue who has no pract] experience in this tives Morgan and Platter, visited thein- | speci-dJin:, is most detrimental for all co stitution, ufter haviog bad full tie to di- gest the gove nor's arruignment of my mis- corued, 1 consifer It a most unfortun thing for the asylum that heshould be removed munagement and_extravagance, and I find thexe sta ements in their report: Ratio of employes to inmates, College Blind A 0 Institution for thoe Deaf and Dumb) Hospit 1 for Insane at Mt. Pleasait I consider him a most the fechle mindod should se remived from | thing wha oxpensive. I'he cold being’ pro- tracted the amount of fu:l consumed was greater than during any previous winter, and s considerable sum had to be diverted from_the living fund to make improve- ments abso utely necessary to the comfort 'and health of the children. Tho trastees in their nppeal to the exe- cntive counail fully explained thesituation. but the Iatter body refused to allow ths funds meedéd, although they had the authority to do so. The trustees said re. trenchment and economy had been prac- tloed in overything, but the inoreased cost of living and other exponses rendered neo- essary by the protracted d would run the institution behind. = As said, the exe. cutive conndil refused ith consent, conse- quently the institution had to get al ng as best it could. Warm wenather approach- ing, numerous expenses were cut off, in the matter of fuel, li_ ht, meat, ete.; needed employes were discharged, the officers and tenchers donated their salaries, and in variety of ways we struggled alovg through the summer, and overcome the descit of the wintet ~All who were in any wise familiar with the distresswe labored under duriug this period of revere retrenchment, wll say no other institution’ in this state every went throurh such a trial. Searcely a potind of hutteror suger was bousht dur- g a third of a year, and lmlr such things were purchased ns were absolutely needed to keep body and soul together, and to cover t.[w nakedness of the childien, There is 1.0 institation in Towa that does not run behind during the winter senson, but the summer vacation always helps them' out, because the children are at home, leaving the institition to draw just as much while the children are away as ‘when they are present snd a source of ex- pense, But with the feeble-minded a great majority of the children remain at the,in. stitution, while the deaf and dumb, and the. blind; firmd three nionths atihome, their respective institutiopns, however, get- ti g the eme pay for them from the state a8 Sq ng the winter, Every winter, as in other institution, I heve always been be: hind, but made’it up in the mmm’:r’ Dur- iog tbi) wiater, longer and colder than usual, I got 8o far behind that I considered it would be impossibl« to catch up, and so informed the board. ' After carefully can- vassing the situation they agreed with me that the institution 'could not be main- taineed with even comtnon decency during the rummer, Aud we wero right, The manner in which the institution had to be carpied onduring the summer was a shame to.a state with its coffers full of money, If the managemens was extravagan and profligate during the past two years why did the last general assmbly so linerally endow the institution with additional means to waste? During the first hiennial period the smalary fund was §2,000; the from ity superintendence, O, A. Croney, for several yoars editor of We found that in the opinion of your com- mitue, the vppropriations have been wisely the Glenwood Upinion, and mow editor of and economically expended, Your committee feel that there is a great work being done by thosein the employ of the state at this hospital, each tencher and attend- ant vieing with the superintendent and matron in the work of qualifying, as nearly as possi- ble, the unfortunate 1 8 their care tor the battie of life. In closiog this report, your committes can- {rain from again speaking in the highest of the managoment, and especinlly do we feel that the work of the teachers 18 thore diflicult than that of any institution within the state, They are kind and attsentive to tho wants of their pupils, ‘We might quote more from the kind and complimentary words of this report, as alko of other similar ones, but this suffices to show that the three unprejudiced legis. lators did not agree with the report of a governor whose action in the matter was influenced for reltish ends, us I verily be- lieve, and future developments will bear me out 1n this belief, “The visiting committee spent two days and a night in the institution, and thoroughly examined every departmient and feature of the work, On the other hand the governor never spent to exceed two hours, at a time, in the institution, and yet he seewns able to find out more than thret other men do in two days, given to caretul and painstaking research, It remained, however, for Mr. H.ll to come to the front as an investigator and corrector of public wrongs, He visited Glenwood in March last and remained two days, spending some six hours in the in- stitution, the time being taken up with talk and routine busivess. lan his article **Archibald Arraigned,” he says: “‘Since that meeting I have been attending to my own personal affairs, and & part of the time absent from thestate,” On Tuesday, May 23d, he again returned, and for the second time met with the board, A por- tion of the time on Tuesday, Wednesday sud Thursday was spent in the institution, but nobody realized that he was making an investigation, Among the proceedings of the board on Tuesday was an orderto rescind the aotion of the first meeting allowing me to remain until July 84, to entertain the national associution of medical officers and superin- ‘tendents of feeble-minded asyluws in the United Siales aud Canada,ap honor which had been unanimously accor'ed the (ilen- wood ing itution at the lust annual session of that body by ordering my immediate retirement from” the :xmrlnundunuy. my successor being allowed to take charge next morning, Wednesday, May 24th, Hon, Fred. U'Donnell, the pre-ident of the board, —as he also did at the time of the original order of removal—protested against this second uuwmu{ roceeding, but one vote beat two, and fnd to Ko, On Thursday, May 25th, Mr, Hall weut to Council Blufts, and on' Satucday, May 27th there appehred in print toder Kis sige nature a staiement setting forth his reasons for assisting in wy removal from the super- intendency. Under startling head lines 1 am charzed with gross mismanagement, misapplication of funds, and general crockedness. To the oasual reader it would soem that Mr. Hall had wmade out & clear case, But in this, as in many other ques, tions there is another side, and before the public passes judgment 1n the matter | wish to explain” the various charges, and AT'TORNEY-AT-1 AW. Wil practice tn all ste tals s a4 plso bring to view some f.ots not gensrally own, On March 2lst Mr, Hal] addressed me #s “‘Dear Doc,” and among his loving ex- second peaiod it was 82,500; the toird, and last, it was 85,000, This present period the legislature grants 822,000, or 812,600 more than for the preceeling six years while the support fund will be largely increased by the addition of pupils without equal corresponding cost. Mr, Hall suys: I certainly have no interest to subserve other thau the public good, and the attainment of the greatest possible comfort and improvement of the children comumitted to the care of the inktitution. To secure these ends, however, 1 must bend my. energies, and devoto All my the Clarinda Herald Four years of obseryation of the methods of teaching ‘and the diseipline of pupils and em- ployes about the Institution leads us to remark that both are perfect, and 1o change them by the appointment of auy person, other than the present superintendent, to ifs matagement would have the eflect to ‘greatly lesson the use- fulness of this grand churity, Hon. (D). M. Blake, a memberof the logislature when the institution was organ- ized : “The removal of Dr. Archibald aud wife from the management of the asylum 18 not only an injustice to themyolves but an injury to the efforts, My personal inclination and sympi- children of the fnstitution, who have learned | thies not only lead me iu this direction, bug 16 love aiid respect the doclor aud his wife with | my boundea duty under my oxth and the law, all the fervor of humnu gratitude, I was for- | il conspire to unify my thoughts and energies merly pmlhlcllltl;:l Ihu‘|lu‘:lrlll and w:wlfil : 10 the achievement of these result. qusnigeuient with a eritical cye, each visit be- | [ \wune ¢0 vive him the benofit of overy o o of & thorough e § o every seatute of tho Work and T wish o | thing, and hiv plattorm embodied in the g0 on record as saylng thiat the management [ above extract is cheerfully given a place, was perfect. 1t is good; it .reads well-" It may be un. Hon, Fred O'Donnell, now president of | charitable to say so, but had he *‘bent all the board of trustees, and who protested | his energies and devoted all his effoxts, and against my removal, says: unitied all his thoughts” at home, his Allow e here to bear testimony to tho per- | hroken household would not now impeach sonal worth and splendid quditications of Dr | thiy pretty declaration, and leave it us iunty high patiaation of is Wila as asieas | NPLY Words, words, words mous jon of 0 g 2 of tho tnmtitution of Glanwaod. Thoy have | My detailed classification of supplies is maudo this institution all that it is—took churge | the most complete given by any institn- atits commencement, when it was a mere sub- | tion in the state. I ask an examination Ject umut-urrul“u‘ .Tx"l"‘fi.;m;n]"fih:,’:f.'," s and comparison in this mrtioulnr with the Ratililo-dny ) the Il institutions in the randest cluritics in the state, whose (por- | FePOrts of any or_a . $ico fs evidenced by the generous sppropia. | United States, Not an_ article way ever tions of the last goneral ussembly, To Dr | bought without having it recorded in its Archibuld, wore toun to " il olhérs, is. the | proper place dn the classifioation list, credit due for making an experiment so great a | From the number of papers of needlet and success, and now wh'n ho is thout 16 sover his | Ling “and cost, to tons of hay, bushels of oanseetion withithis wen oats, yards of ecalico, and number of stomach punpy, all appear in their order for the use of trastees, legislators, parents or anyone elso who cared to examine, 1 made no attempt to couceal aaything. "The trustees knew singly, and in tho ag- gregate, of various items and everything receiyed cordisl ap.roval, My classification list shows about eight hundred different items of expenditure. In face of this Mr, Hall gays : Thousands of things, each trifling in itself but muiounting to thodssnds of doliars 1o the sagrcyate, bitve bean purchused Ly the stute [ wouey which wers never needed. challenge @ *striot, searching and thorough inveati- | i1 T s i 1n Tows, to examine. acy the tion,” or any investigation, to be false, | facts and scrutinize the Youchers, and way if far as an inyestigation at the institution | the ot boen'the worst kind of busiuess ~—where the books, bills and vouchers are | msnagement at the head of the institution, kept —is concerned. Mr, Hdll knows, For pure impudenca and re klessness of Mz, Woodrow knews, that no invi on took place at the institution, The figures [ro) ‘rn'i:l or ounu&lzfincfi ‘hthlc -hfim-nt ‘takes the rag off the onsis, giyen in Mr, Hall's article are taken from | 'Robertson, Russell, Oattell, Thrall, Bake: the last biennial report, of which twa or | 0'Donnell and Wooirow, the trustees, of three thousand are scattered overthe state, | whom two are y Hall's colleagues, who Every lhmol-xf:em' given therein had tnaw and approved of the purchase of the -pgmul of the trustees, Every flfim hese various articles, submit to this wild given by Mr. Hall is in the report, and no | charge; reckless a8 it is infamous!! Isthis effort at conceatment was made. The | positively wicked stetement not an wbuor vari,us items were known to the trustees, {nn insult to the various legislative visi. and the same were alio examined by the [tors, of whom: we might name Seuators leginlative comumittee without & word of | Russell, Hains, Miller, He dges, and Logan, condemnation, All these things p‘fiq nd Repre entatives rtookton, Seeman under inspection, and it remained for Mr! | D'snoomibe, Rursell, Hayden, Mongas and Hall, a stranger, to pronounce them ex- | Vlatter, all of whom in their official res travagent. Ho says Mr. Woodrow, ad * he | ports to the legislature cordially and is informed,” haw protasted against my ex; | out solicitation commended tho eflicie trayagance, He does not say Mz, Wood- | and economy displayed in the institutl row told him 80, because Mr. W. knowshe | Were all these men blind to ‘ oannot stand before I'red O'Donnell, Dr, | condition of things? The public avill’ be Thrall sud 1D, M, Biker and iay !hlt(he slow to believe that these v"hufi“.' state and an outrage upon the unfortunate which ho. will do spotless record for bo 80 ovil as to apeak o word_ aga s falr name, but he shiould recolye ghe thanks of the whole: state rather. No matter what snyone may say, | am. certain that the parents of the unfortunate wards of the state who are inmatos of the ine stitution, yes, and the fmates tiemselves, will ever prafso the wkill, pationce, kindness and puterusl afliction of Dr. aud Mrs, Archibald, Mr. Hall clayms that he made “astrict, searchipg and thorough investigation,"and then meanly asserts {hn he “‘cannot ask space to state all that the investigation isclosed.” T pronounce his statement as 2 ever protested in a single instance, On|wen w under an; the other hand i cordiaily approveds ac| sllew el piciaes te to oo J% usually rogretted that ihe atate did not fout bellevink them to be trus to the swal support the fegble-minded instituf a8 berally as it did some of the other chari. ties, Mr, Hall gives & lengthy quotation g -m.l:-mué“:i bt partioulars, Were thelr e :'uf- 'o:kP .;l'hcy“ By 063' dwdm m.a‘. amination was iyuy When I took charge inetitution for feeble-minded children, ex- ceptin aspan of ponies bought previously, and not being suited t1 the work were sold and the money invested in this team, The team originally cost me about $200, and when sold, ufter two or more years of free 4 [ 8¢rvice for the state, they were only worth the price paid by the teustees, but the loss by the deteriati n in price wrs mine. These personal losses and sac ificos may sepm trifling, however, | after readiog Mr, ]ln'l'm\wlurnr--»\_\- of expens's commected with keeping them during the last + iennial poriod, A was said the state only owneo them about a month before the i erind closed. The fact is, L had, curing the biennial period, from four to six horses in the service of the ipstitution, and all to the knowledge and by the consent of the trustees. Ivow, ns to the cost of feed, eto. Mr, Hall eays 1,956) bushels of onts were used, the amount, howaver, was 1.7;«:F. a8 e revort shows; a difference of two hun- dred bushels, Did Mr. Hall intentionally exaggerate? Allowing a half bushel of oats per day to the horse, six horses in two vears would cat 2,190 bushels. But our TorRAY, dic /bt AL thai wany, because during the long, cold snowy winterof 1879- ’80, not less thun_five hundred bushels of onts were fed to the cows, itbeing impossi- bls to get bran and vther feed. To verify this it is only necessary to question the em- ployes of the ins:itution, and particularly those engaged in cariug for the s ock The next large item of expense connected with keeping this “‘expencive toum,” is_that of 95 62:100 tons of liay, at a cost of $517.50, Ay is well known to those familiar with the institution the beds of the two hun- dred children are filled with hay, and with changes, in wany instances almost dafly, a large quantit, isused durig the vourss of twoyears. But more, the eeport of the period was made in the fall, aRer 1he hay athering season, with a large supply on Knml for the coming winter, Thiz is also true of eats, corn and other supplies. In the matter of ‘corn it is ouly necessary to say that it was fed variously to horses,and ground and mixed with bran to cows and hogs, to cows all the {en "round, so as to secure ps much milk ss possible for the children. 'As the employes well know I allowed them to faed liberaily, not permit- ting stock 10 suffer for. food" 1 won't say there was no waste, that would be absurd, but to the charge of “pr digal” ness I most respectfully The pas- turage bill was rental” for s twelve ncre field adjoiniog the institution 'for the use of the cows—not.the, team, T have taken particular pains to inquire of blacksmiths aud livery men asto the cost of keeping a horse shod and shoes in 1ood repair the year 'round, and learn that $12 would be a fair contract Frlce. If thisis so our horse- shoeing bill of $6: for two years is not excessive. y 2 As to the harness and . repairs, and wagons and carriuge repairs, all was for the institution; there wak no * concealment: nor secrecy; the trustees knew and ap- proved ot all, The various articles, new and repaired, are, with tew exceptions, still in' use, Mr, Hall in 'his anxiety to make o stunning statement forgets to de- duct the cost of the sawme from the feed, and apparently wants the public to believe that 81,500 went down the throats of this one toam —or rather into _my pocket. As to the three saddles and’ bridles, the same are now, and always have been, in the in- stitution’s barn, Instead of fifteen robes snd dusters, the report shows that only eight were purchased, and four of them Itrll remain, Again, did Mr, Hall intend to exaggerate? Of horse blankets nige were purchased, and worn out during the two years, Duriag the cold winter of 1879-'80, N ifha 1o of malignant disease aud precautionary, measures demsnded the de- struction of two or more. ‘When 'the in- ventory was taken several of these well worn blankets remained, but were not con- sidered worth: enough to be returued as property, Now, as to the whips, nineteen were purchased, Thisitem of exp nse has been rolled as » sweet morsel under the tongué of slander which has wagged furi. ously and fast against me during the past few months, Lt does seem like the busest ingratitude that after all theexpenso I have heen subjected to in keeping the in- stitution in horses, and | for which the old trustees have frequently expressed their gratification and * thapkfulness, that T should be paraded before the state as “oriminally profligate and contemptibly dishonest,” Instead of “one team’ there were from four to six horses, twelve to rixteen co aud from twenty to fifty hogs to be fed and bedded during the two years, exclusive of hay used almost daily in filling the beds of childre To make. out a hill of $1,500 in two years, Mr. Hall tumbles, mis el- Janeously, hog and cow feed, wagon, car- risge and harpess repairs, horseshoeivg, blankets, whips, dosters, lap robes, sad- dles and bridles, articles new and old, down the throats of this one poor old team, Iy he not bhard run for “reasons?,’ Mr. Hall grows really jocular at times, and again and npln indulges in *‘glitter- ing generalities” and insinuations caleu Iated to mislead. He talks glibly about “the doctor’s fancy stallions, horses an( olts,” until one |{ lead to think 1 kept a livery stable on the ungl\nu hill, The various trustees knew 1 had horses, and they willingly allowed them to be main- tained by tfiu state, Every horse I kept at the institution was used in its service. The drayave and team expenses paraded by Mr. Hall, as | am glad to expla n,were for the hauling of material for the laundry building, and other stuff used in making varlous repai :h’nhuut the buildings, for ing. hauling expenses of the s ':l’:lg 'lng kept = aud report l~3ulhly. The expense of livery wat t07 s considerable ut‘ant‘ 06 canio] by of imme- dht’o";fd u’xuul for logt and +un- ey ohildres, LR thioge 1 am charged with bei inally profligate and wnuqnp&y il £ i by o be under the IIMI. “E’”J “.‘7’! of expense ourrying on of a great have passed under the tained the approval of De. Thrall, D. M, Ba- ‘oodrow and Senator Lo: 3 Reprosentatives Morgan and ".l.&\-. Aund who demands this exjlans- tion? & ed | from the treasury; the order = Frankenstein and died before it reached o x Ily facetions in noting r. Hall grows really facctions in the ronaway and the breaking of my buegy; he calls it ‘‘gossamer like;” true, it was a light rig, suitable tor two persons, but it was used for the benefit of the insti- tution. When it was broken the trustees kindly allow ed the expense of repairing 1t tohe piid from the funds of the state. The state owned no light buggy and th thought if T was willing to buy o e wil my own money, the state could well afford to koep it in 1epair. Tvery vehicle owned by me ha« Loen used in the service of the institution. \+ to the “flest-footed, silk-haired,” avimal and the stomach-pump, 1 say, 1st, The animalin question was a good one, and I owned it; it was usadfor every purpose about the institution; it was taken sick, nd T songht to save its life by using & stopach-pump, the only oné f.nm, purchased from a Gienwood physician for %20, barely a trifle over half its actual cost and the instrument yvas quite as good as vew, 2d. The horss died to my complete loss, and the stomachypump took its place il the dispensatory with other instruments absolutely needed abeut an institution of this kind, 1t was subsequently used in roieving the s tomach and saving the life of ore of the boys, who had taken a quan- tity of strychnine and iron, the bottle con- taining it having been left ungarded for moment by one of the nurses, As to the stato having an interest in only one stomach-pump I doubt not that the num- er is nearer a haif-dozen—each insane hespitable having one or more, and I think also §the penitentiary, Mr. Hall is en tirely too previous, Mr. Hall saysa large force of personal hmr is employed about the institution, an he hunts through and through the classifi- ontion ligt and finds *‘white-washing, set- ting up“stoves, laying oarpets, sewing, washing, buying ¢ rn, and cutting wood," the aggregate beivg $.75,00, less than the talary of one good mahi for a year, while thexe expenses covered two years, ‘setting up stoves” item, including some forvy stover, is emall when understood that Temployed men from the t.wn familiar with the work, to put up, wite and scieen the stoves for safety buth to the children and the institution, The carpet-laying in- cluded the making of 880 yards of oarpet. The buying corn bill was the small com- mission pald & dealer to buy corn, aud money was saved by ko doing. When it is understood that all the clothing for the girls and small boys, ind the mending for all is done in the mstitution, as far as possible, it is certainly a amall thing to tind fault with and arcaign bsfore the state ab ‘‘extravagance” on a ‘‘sewing” charge for two yoirs of §78.10, an amount the half which we venture Mr. Hall himself has oft-n invested in the making of one suit. With thirty to fortystoves ia use aud hun- dreds of cords of wood buraed, Mr. Hall proclaims as profligats an item of three dollars and ninety cents for cutting wood. Some 800 ibems are enumerated in the clusssfication list, and Mr. Hall's muck rake runs thiough and in all that large number he can o ly find and drags out tweuty-seven, which he declares to fi: ex- travazant, and of these extravagances he must needs come down to one of £3,90 for cutting wood As £ employing outeide help at & cost of $275 for two years, and to Mr, Hall's claim that I had a large force inside which ought to do what in every case is & special work, I need but to refer to G (f'.’:u’- o of employes table and show that my ates stood six in point of “extrava- to inm, gance” among . the ilmunuam of Towa. And os before said, the inmates are the most helpless of any to be found collected together in w state of §49, See the maliciousness of the man, A second-hand biliiard: table, quite as good as new, the original cust being four or five tunired dollars, bought at auction for $49. ' All similar institutions in the coun- try not only have blllln‘-d tables, but bow- ling alleys “and other ‘equal y 'expensive amuseineuts for the use of the inmates. o the insinuation that it was for the en- joyment of gentlewen’ friends I will say that I never played half a dozen games in my life, and thess exclusively with the boys of the institution. Gov. Gear, dur- ing his v higily complimented the Sumhun and corsidered it a valuable ad- er.lon to the amusemcnts of the institu- jon. Mr. Hall says T went to Kentucky to attend the national convention of superin- tendenta of feeble-minded institutions and extended my ‘visit to a period of three weeka witHout the consent of the trustees, and that the state paid my expenses. The state did not pay my expenses and the trustees found no fault with me. 1 asked permission to be ubsent, two or three weeks and the request was freely granted. The association on the invitation and under the persoual uirection o the governor of Kene tucky, visited several of the fine stock farms, and | saw some good trotiing on farm tracks, Kvery other institution in Lowa has a vacaticn of three months dur- ing which the children are at home, but not ko with the feeble-iinded—the vast mujority of the latter children remaining at the institution ' the year 'round. The officers of otheér institutions have eix to ten weeks' vacation, but not 8o with those in charge of the feeble-miuded,their work, like the water ot the brook, goes on for- over. As tomy ubwsence from the inststu~ ticn T will say that it was always left in charge of my wife, who is as fully compe- tent (0 manage it as I am myself, and dur- ing six years we have never been aw: - gether except on. two or three occason: After the Kentucky trip I 1eturned home y Dubuque to attend an- nual ‘couvention of the state wedical pociety, which practically added & week to my absence. I wish here to say that every summer I have visited two.or more of similar institutions in other states, to better qualify myself in my work, sud always at my own expens while like trips by superintendents o other institutions have yenerally been paid by the state, My trips, however, owing to our meager support, I did not feel hike asking the trustees to pay. Mr. Hall quotes from the law governing the ins itation, without knowing, I doubt not, that the law was made up from my six years of experience, the clause making iv free to all the feeble children in the state, and many other important feature:, were written by myself, and the whole presented to Semator Clark, of Page county, who pushed it to ruccessful pus- sage, Mr, Hall also has bis little say about my land purchase, Ilnpl{iu‘ to what he ways on this subject. quote from a printed letter from Fred O'Donnell, presi- dent ot the board : 5 The legislature last winter gave the institu~ tion an appropriation for the purchase, among other lands, of w certain twenty-four acres Iying in front of the grounds now owned by the staie. This money when drawn from the stite tredsury, would go into the hands of the trensuser of the board of trusiees, Mr. k. R. 8. Woodrow, ub (ilenwood, and not a doliar of it would or could be bandled by the superin~ tonden er than this, when: the land would be tho purchase would have to be ) by the trusiees and then by the execus couticil, before the money could be paid, wheu thus approved the treasurer, and noe superiniendent, (for he would not have the woney,) would on # proper crder make the payment. But the land bay not been pur- Chised; the money is probably not yeldrawn s not yet beea drawn te pay for the land, and the Teport is fulse in substance, iu detail, iu everything. Tuis indeed & wicked charge, and 15 an il xe~ turn for years of faithful service to the state from as faithiul aud = efficient an officer us cver filled & position of responsibility us, 10 s true that Dr. Archibald a few weeks ago bought some laud, bt four acres, 1 believe, . and paid for it with his own money; und this fact 15 (hé on'y foundation for %o great s wrong us has beon done dn this case "W hese four acres ars PAFL Of the twemty-four which we wish 10 securg for the stal d the Tear that the doctor would hoild this piece and ot allow us to bave it at cost, iy the oly cause for %o vile & slander, 1 wrote the doctor some days ago, SRR hear- ing that bo bad bought (his pisce of land, ‘3; fug him to let ns hive it for the staies otico paid by hiw, and frow bis answer have 'nv doubt hewill turn 1t over without & cent of enstein, & creature "the 1,050 of sal- the house the fatal kiss of were, 8 wad in ' o gun of a %‘h\h v of aries = . or, a8 it who might ke likened to without & profit 1o himselt, Mr, Hall says : Atter repested efiurts to extort from [Continued on Third Page.)