The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-05-29
Major Meiss Offers Neat Cup to Win
ner of Run to Warsaw and
Return, Week from
This Afternoon.
PLANS FOR JULY FOURTH
East Boats will be Sent Here from
Burlington, Fort Madison,
Muscatine, Quincy and
Other Cities.

The secretary of the Motor Boat
club received lettc- late last night
from Ernest Corsepius saying that he
could not be here the Fourth of July.
Following is the text of Corsepius'
letter;
Replying to your valued favor of
the twentieth, l am sorry to say that
1T Will be impossible for me to at
tend your celebration the coming
Fourth, as have already made ar
rangements to be at Peoria on that
day with my boats. Thanking you.
ever, for your kind invitation and hop
Ing that you will meet with grand
and glorious Fourth with good water
program, | am,
Very truly yours,
E. CoRSEPIUs.
Ii present plans carry, and there is
no reason why they shouldn't, one OF
the most attractive Fourth of July
celebrations that will be held any
where in the country under the Safe
and Sane Fourth head, will be the or
der of the day in keokuK on the natal
4 day Of the nation.
| AT meeting of the Keokuk Motor
Boat club held Friday evening. it was
! decided to invite Davenport, Musca-
! tine, burlington, Ft. Madison, Quincy.
warsaw, Canton, and Ottumwa. to
participate in a river regatta here
1 on the Fourth. In accordance with
this decision, letters have been sent
out to the secretaries of these clubs
/ with the request that they send in the
names of all boat owners in their city
who would most likely be interested
in river regatta and racing schedule
To Stir up Local Enthusiasm.
Next Sunday, week from today,
! there Is to be a race on the river
from Keokuk to Warsaw. Commo-
dore M. Meigs, Of the local boat club,
has generously offered to hang up a
loving cup valued at ten dollars to be
given TO the winner for the third time,
the race is won by that boat
The race will be started at two
O'Clock and committee of three has
| been appointed to get the owners of
club boats together to race for the
cup which is to be hung up Burton
! Wilkinson. Orville Publisky and
Frank Ballinger have been appointed
to arrange matters for the race.
Tryout in Canal
Major Meigs has trial racing
course in the cana five hundred feet
| in length. Here the members of the
club will tryout the speed of their
boats on next Sunday evening, prob
ably between the hours of six and
seven. Announcement of the time
will be made later in the columns of
this paper and the list of entries
/ given. All who will tryout their boats
and will enter in the race next Sun
day will register with the secretary
not later than Friday noon.
4 The race on next Sunday to War
saw and return will no doubt attract
mush attention. The boat club has
made plans to increase the interest
4 in a Fourth of July regatta here,
which will be the only attraction
along the river SO far as is known.
See the Business Men.
4 The feeling among the business men
of the city regarding Fourth of July
( celebration in Keokuk could not be
more favorable The major portion
of the retail merchants have expressed
themselves in favor of such an event
! and are willing to back their favor
able words with money Not less than
five hundred dollars will be realized
from solicitation among the mer-
chants to be expended for prizes and
other matters which will take money
to arrange.
The Fourth will be given over to a.
real river carnival and persons from
miles around will be attracted to the
city to witness the races and the il
Illuminated parade in the canal in the
evening
The athletes of the Y. NJ. C. A.
have generously offered to assist In
the carving out of the morning por
tion of the program. Acquatic events
. will be pulled off in the canal in the
morning which prove unusually in
teresting, and Physical Director, r. E
Chamberlin has promised to look al
:, ter this end of the days events