The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-06-22
THE DAILY GATE CITY

great public convenience, but prof
liable business enterprise. When MS
boats ego to the bank" at the end OF
each successive season there Is always
handsome balance on the right side
of the ledger The profits thus made
are expended in the purchase OF new
boats and in improving the service
rendered by the old ones. This policy
has been persisted in since Captain
Blair put his first boat in the Daven-
port-Burlington trade, and will con-
tinue to be his policy as long as he is
in the steamboat business.
Pilot Hugh Mckenzie is the real
Keokuk article and is genuine
clear through. He was born in the
Second ward-you may have heard OF
it,-was reared and educated and has
lived there all his life with the excep-
ton of two weeks. The lapse" &C.
cured at the time his father, Nicholas
Mckenzie, ST., removed from the old
home to his present residence on
North Seventh street. Hugh endured
the change for two weeks, at the end
of which TIME he got married and set
up home of his own on Timea street
between Second and Third where a
new generation of McKenzies live and
flourish and add value to the commune
ty. Pilot Mckenzie has fine assert
ment of marine views which his
r,ri yila 10 r1,iy MI
admire. Among them are pictures Of
old-time steamboats, on the Mississippi
river-the Die Vernon, Hawk-Eye,
Redwing and others. He has also
many views Of river landings when
steamboating was in it's prime, and
complete set of views of the Roose-
welt presidential fleet on it's trip from
Keokuk to Memphis, Tenn. He knows
the upper river in, this vicinity as we'll
as a land-lubber knows the country
road over which he travels daily. And
he is as careful in the discharge of
his duties as he Is well qualified for
the responsibilities that rest upon him.
There are scores, perhaps hundreds,
of people in Keokuk who always in
sist that Ed. Walsmith shall be the
driver when they need public car
riage to take them to or from trains
or elsewhere In the city. There may
be other drivers who are capable
but the experienced passenger knows
that he takes no chances when Wal
smith is on the box. Like confidence
is reposed in Hugh Mckenzie as a
river pilot, If storm comes up the
Keokuk, under McKenzie's careful
guidance, goes to the bank and is
made fast there until all danger is
past. So we'll and generally is this
known that uneasiness as to the safety
of loved ones aboard the boat is al
a minimum when Hugh Mckenzie is
at the wheel All who know him know
that whatever happens he will do the
right thing and do it at the right time
and in the right way. Such a reputa
ton Is as honoring as it is deserved
One could write columns concerning
! things seen and heard on trip BY
boat to Quincy and return but the &C
cumulating pages of manuscript I'd
monish one that, great as is such +;
desideratum, an elastic chase" ha.
not yet been invented for use in news
paper offices. The steel bands tina
surround the columns of type and holt
them in place will contain Just S,
much type and no more. The fore
man in The Gate City news-room i
one of the most obliging gentlemen il
the world, but he Is powerless agains
certain conditions with which he ha
to contend. 1t Is therefore useless t
appeal to him for unlimited space
!. which he would gladly grant If h
could. But he must somehow saueez
in brief reference to Hon. Hiram n
!, Wheeler, editor of the Quincy Dali
/, Journal, without mention of whor
a visit to Quincy by the writer woul
seem like the play of Hamlet wit
Hamlet left out. Mr.. Wheeler's g1ea
charm is his individuality And We
, he is something of puzzle witha
, The writer thinks he knows him pre-
ty well, but the better he knows hill
; the greater the uncertainty on tn
! part of the writer as to whethe
: Wheeler's mind or his heart is the bi,
. ger. The inference intended to h
drawn is that both are of capacior
. size and highly ,creditable to him. H
a Is a thoroughly Anlf-made man, and a
;. honor to his maker. Many men el
, dowed by nature with brilliant talent
: have all originality and force take
: from them by the excessive polish
: the schools. They are like a piece
), fine steel that has lost what Is know
;. as it's temper" as the result of r
!, peated heating and cooling and har
mering and polishing intended to brir
!. 1t to the highest possible perfectio
: Mr. Wheeler was fortunate enough
!, escape all this. All he has learne
: he has learned on his own initiati,
: and in his own way, without injury
= the talents with which nature blesse
:. him SO abundantly. Today he IS OF
:. OF the best-informed men in the con
. try, brilliant conversationalist ar
Z one of the most forceful writer's {
:. the American press. Be his subje
= politics, morals, ethics, religion
'O what not his Thought inyaria bl,, oo