The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-07-23
AWFUL VENGENCE
OF BURLINGTON
The Town Made Famous by Gold
smith in His Deserted Village"
Believes that it Has at Last
Got Even
OVER HUGHES STORY
Declares that the Saturday Evening
Post Has Turned its Paper Into
= Historical Mag
azine.

All ha The william is revenged.
| II Keokuk baseball fans call Lemon
| a lobster, the Hawkeye wreaks ter
rible revenge this morning by declar-
4 ing that Rupert Hughes stoy IN the
current issue Of the Saturday Evening
Post, is a true history Of Keokuk with
a history of the late j. G. Hubinger's
career here
The Burlington ball team won a
game yesterday and therefore there
was no Lemon foolishness in this
mornings issue OF the Hawkeye, but
that paper believes Il has joke on
Keokuk by citing the Hughes story.
1t believes that fiction is history and
1 gravely announces that Rupert
Hughes returned to Keokuk and wrote
a story about this city falling to
| pieces.
If the Hawkeye would only look up
the records Of literature, 1t would no
doubt be surprised to find that Oliver
Goldsmith in writing his famous tale
The Deserted Village" most faithfully
describes Burlington as it was, as it is
and as it will probably always be.
Rupert Hughes is talented Keokuk
product and II he took some inspira
lions from Keokuk history and work
ed 1t into story, he did so from
fiction standpoint. He was not writ
ing history and is too loyal to his
home town to do anything detrimental
B. to 1t,
Il Burlington is partly excusable Just al
the present time for feeling sore anc
grabbed at everything. With its bal
team about to take drop out OF sigh
and It's business connections at For
Madison In rather shakey state, It !.
enough to make any man get riled VI
and excited. The Hawkeye is forgiv
en- because the following in thi
mornings issue was written while tn
, writer was In the terrible condition
most of the citizens Of that place ar
in ait the present time.
The Revenge.
Burlingtonians who have beef
! brooding over old insults, or who wer'
embittered by the abuse heaped upol
them recently at Keokuk. may 81
down. smoke their pipe in peace am
turn their thoughts to something else
Burlington has been avenged, AM
there is the double qualification Q
, seeing Keokuk. stripped and skinne'
!. and lambasted by one OF her owl
sons. who had long since turned M
hack upon her. In the Philadelphia
! Saturday Evening Post of this weeF
Rupert Hughes, Jr., son of the Cat
CITY has the first article, sketch en-
titled aThe Mouth of the Gift House.
: He paints faithful picture of Keokul
!, as he knew her years ago and as sh
.. Ia today. and then he tells the stor
: of the man who came to Keokuk ash
;, ed nothing OF her, showered hi
: wealth upon her, tried to make cit
! Of her and got nothing but abuse TO
: his pains and his extravaganza outlay
= 1t is the story of John G, Hubngel
! the man of the starch mills. the mi
lionaire who organized and built OH
new telephone system. who gave kel
kuk an opera house, fine bushes
blocks, parks, amusement places, ligf
{ and many other things; who tried !
do for her what she could not an
: would not do for herself. The stor
IL idealized in spots. but in the mai
It is cold, solemn fact. And u
description Of the town leaves nothin
to be desired while Mr.. Hughes pre-
/. ents portraits Of prominent citizen
4 as he knew them.
j OF course no leather-lunged oratt
, of the diamond can reply to this a
I tack as the verdict of the Jury, An
4 IS there is little left to be said. Hubi
). ger is dead, and in the language of Il
- author he did what few benefacto
i have done for American cities,
a even left Keokuk ruins. OF cours
= some attempt will be made at an e
4. PLANTATION and perhaps that nhnbl
= witted many-sided Keol1uk booste