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[page 71] not be able to get along with the steward because the law was difficult. That is, the law out there said the superintendent should be superintendent. The law here says the superintendent shall be superintendent, and that the steward shall be under his direction. The law was just as good in one case as in another, only the superintendent there was a man and acted as a man, and as a superintendent, and was capable, was able, was efficient. They used to have a female physician there before I came. She was there about a year and a half appointed almost the same day that are was appointed in Iowa at Independence. She staid [stayed] there a year and a half. Mr. Wakefield of Bangor, I think, who was a trustee and who knew her well, was the principal one concerned in getting her there. From what I could learn- and her name was repeated quite frequently both by patients and by the officers- the patients all seemed to have liked the woman, and she did her duty, and tried hard; but she could not get along. Why? She could not get along with the steward. What had the steward to do with her? He didn't treat her