The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-05-12
PRESENT KEOkuk
RESOLUTIONS
Resolutions Drawn up by Motor
Boat Club Were Presented
and Read at Detroit on
May First.
PEORIA MAN IS HoNORED
Commodore Thos. Webb of the Peoria
Club Appointed to the Execu-
tive Committee at
Detroit.

Commodore IhOmaS WeDD OF IuS
Peoria Motor boat club who is known
by several Keokuk gentlemen of the
local motor boat club and who is popu-
lar in regatta and race circles has re-
ceived notice of his appointment to
the committee of FIVE gentlemen COM
posing the board of executives
recently appointed at the forming of a
National Power Boat Association on
May LIST at Detroit.
Keokuk Motor Boat club resolutions
were read at this meeting in Detroit
having been drawn up and approved
at recent meeting of the club at the
home of Major M. Meigs and sent to
Commodore Combs of the M. V. P. B.
A. at ST. Louis who presented them at
the meeting. The gathering at De-
troit was a notable one at which
motor boat men from all parts of the
country were present and took active
part in denouncing the Marine bill
mentioned before in these columns.
Regarding Commodore Webb's ap-
pointment to the executive board of
the National association the Peoria
Journal has the following to say:
Commodore T. H. Webb has receiv-
ed notification of his appointment as
member of the executive committee
of the newly organized National Pow
err Boat association which was launch
ed at Detroit last week. The five men,
bers of the board are Commodores
E. S. Osborne of Chicago, S. o. Rich
ardson, Jr., of Toledo, o., H. T. Koer-
nor of Grand Island, N Y; T. H.
Webb, of Peoria, and John A. Penton
of Cleveland, o. The officers of the
Organization are Charles w. Kotcher,
president, and w. B. Wood secretary
and treasurer, both of Detroit.
The Keokuk Motor boat club is
small comparatively with. that of the
Peoria boat club but there is enough
enthusiasm in the local club to give
promise of greater things to be done
by the members of the K. M. B. A.
who would do we'll to take this larger
club as worthy example. A good
vertisements town can have and
with the ever ready assistance of the
newspapers and support of the citi-
zens in general good live club can
be maintained and do things.
Following are several notes of in
terest to the local motor boat club re-
ceived from Commodore Webb of the
Peoria Club:
The new Ivy club home will be for
mally opened May 30 with an elabor-
ate program, consisting of an enter
tainment refreshments and music.
Arrangements for the opening are in
the hands of a committee of which
Charlie Burdick is the chairman. The
alteration in the plumbing of the
structure is rapidly being changed and
will be completed by the end of this
week
The regular meeting of the club will
be held Tuesday evening at o'clock
at the National hotel
The Commodore is also in receipt of
two letters from motor boat enthusi-
asts of Keokuk, Ia. One from the edi-
tor of the Keokuk Gate City requests
that a number of cuts of Peoria boats,
club house and other racing scenes be
sent him in order to create more in.
terest in the races at that city. The
other is from A. c. Decker who as
Isures the attendance of Keokuk boats
at the annual regatta of the Ivy club
August Is and 10. Mr.. Decker states
that boat racing is taking a hold upon
the residents of Keokuk and with the
assistance of the newspapers will soon
become center for races.
Commodore Webb has received re-
ply from Robert e. Power editor OF
the Power Boating magazine, of Cleve-
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