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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Systematic Shipping

The bureau is organized to take
hold of the shipping Systematically, =
said Mr.. Wrightman yesterday at
will give special and fundamental ship
ping information to start with, In
structing party as to his rights and
what he should do from time to time,
and doing for him what he cannot do
himself. 1t fills. long felt need and
is here to stay.
only the very largest firms in the
country can afford to maintain com.
retent traffic departments of their
own. because of the difficulty and ex'
pense of keeping up complete files OF
traffics, rulings and decisions, and be
cause of the scarcity of men thor
oughly pointed on the laws, decisions
and rulings affecting transportation
and fully trained in the tariffs, rn'es
and actual practices of the carriers
Fully 95 per cent of our manu-
facturers and merchants have been
paying the charges asked by the car
riers without any means of knowing
whether the charges are right OF
wrong. 1T is entirely safe To figure
that at least 5 per cent of the charges
collected by the carriers are over
charges, because of the complica
lions of the tariffs, the inefficiency Of
agents, the practice of rating high
when in doubt and the we'll known
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Passenger Run From Carthage &c
Burlington is to be Taken Off
After the Holidays Ac-
cording to Eustis.
A LOSING PROPOSITION
Train Arrived in Burlington in Morn
ing and Returned in the At.
ternoon--Will Help Keokuk
Some.

1t was announced at Mondays lunch
con OF the Burlington Commercial club
that the Burlington road proposes to
withdraw the Carthage branch passen-
ger train after the holidays OF the
action, which is destined 20 boost
keokuk trade, the Burlington Hawk
Eye says:
The discomforting news was an
nounced at yesterdays luncheon of the
Commercial Exchange by Secretary
Egan that the Burlington road pro-
poses to withdraw the Carthage branch
passenger train after the holidays.
P. S. Eustis, passenger traffic man
ager of the Burlington, with headquar-
tiers at Chicago, writes to this effect,
and he has told the members of the
Exchange that the train has not PROV
ed profitable to the railroad. In fact.
1t has been losing venture. but fig
ures of the business done ware not
submitted.
MT. Eustis states that he will come
here at an early date to present the
statement and show why, from the
standpoint of the road. it will be nee
essary to withdraw the service The
train has been in operation about a
year. and the service had been de
manded for long period before the
railroad finally decided to try it out
! The train arrives here at 1920 a. m
and departs at :35 D. M, thus en-
abling the people along the line to
come here, do their shopping and get
back home before nightfall
( The inauguration of the train ser.
| vice just year ago was highly appre.
/ ciated by the residents of the towns
! along the Carthage branch and by the
people of Burlington. The first train
brought big crowd, which was met
by members of the Commercial Elk
| change, accompanied by band Nat
urally before the holidays the train did
large business, but after that period
4 had passed. the railroad officials state
/ there was a falling off, and the train
has not been paying proposition. The
railroad requires certain amount OF
/ business to be done. at least fifty cents
a train mile. and it is understood the
figure has been about thirty cents per
train mile, showing quite discrepan-
\ cy.
4 Half the loaf is better than none at
/ all it may be held, and the tserchants
have some consolation in the fact that
the train will remain in operation
4 probably until the Christmas season.
enabling the people to come to Bur
lington to trade at this Important
period of the year,
There appears to be practically no
hope of retaining this train. but De-
fore taking it off Mr.. Eustis has prom
ised to come to Burlington and ex-
plain, the attitude of the railroad,
and to give the exact business done
with statement of what the railroad
requires in the way of patronage.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Halay Houses.

Malay houses are invariably built on
posts so as to raise the 6oor from four
to six feet above the ground The
floor is composed of bamboo. with III
terstices between stats, the earth be-
meath becoming the receptacle of the
drainage of the establishment. The
universal plan of the well to do ma
tivcs is TO build the house in two di-
visions. the front one for receiving Wis
itors and Icunging generally. while the
rear portion is reserved for the WON
en- and children.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
New York Instructor Now at Y. M. c
a. Writes Interesting Story on
Art For The Gate
City.
Is Great Developer Of the Lungs
and is Beneficial to Tubercu-
losis Paticnts-What
He Says.
IBy H. l.. CoRSAN. !


A good swimming pool is whole
gymnasium In itself. in which muscle
can be developed to that beautiful
symmetry that fills out the hollow
places in the attenuated and angu-
lar while the embonpoint ones work
OIL that nnsightly superfluity that is
constant annoyance to them.
Not long ago physical directors adj
weed those in training not to swim
as 1t would weaken them; but ii was
soon demonstrated that it was not
swimming that weakened them, nor
the water, but the temperature of the
water being cool or cold. soon ex-
tracted the body heat, and the hearts
! fisht to keep up the normal rempera-
! ture soon exhausted them. For this
reason We find the worlds greatest
swimmers in Australia, where every
man, woman and child can swim ex-
cept the sailors. On this continent We
are just beginning to learn Comfort
able water for swimming in indoor
pools should be from so to So degrees
F. while outdoor pools should be kept
from 72 to rs degrees F, as the suns
action keeps the person warm in the
latter A man can work in the water
at so degrees all day. Let a sick man
I get in the water and swim to health,
for there is no better exercise for the
rheumatic than swimming, as their
muscles are painfully decaying for
want of use.
For developing the lungs and
strengthening those organs against
tuberculosis there is nothing to be
compared in value to swimming.
Breathing like porpoise is what they
say of a swimmer. A swimmer will
breathe in through his mouth and out
through his nose, and as there is no
dust suspended over the water this
IL the proper method. For straighten-
ing the spine, correcting round should
ers and throwing out the chest the
crawl stroke is SO far superior to all
| other methods as to be out of con-
troversy. Then those pelvic displace.
ments that are the cause of so much
misery to womenkind can be so quick
ly corrected by swimming as 20 cause
wonder. If nervous and those who are
threatened with mental diseases would
try swimming they would sleep nat
urally and soon forget that they were
sick. The poisonous evils that threat
en- the lives of those who are forced TO
lead sedentary life can pc greatly
Offset by taking daily SWIM.
Swimming pools should have good
sanitary drainage. ventilation and a
stream of sunlight pouring in all day
: in order to be in accord with modern
hygenic requirements.
Swimming should not be confined to
the young. but all classes of persons
and all ages. would far sooner
teach an old lady than child, as the
probability is that the child will not
pay attention, while it is brains more
than muscle that sends the person
through the wa.er with grace an6
ease
The latest style of swimming known
as the crawl has more hygenic value
than the out-ot-date breast stroke o.
sailor fashion as the strose is some
: times called. In few years ever5
city will have It's public swimming
pools.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
"ishnael.'

Newest of plays appealing TO all
classes is "Ishmael" wil-cl will be
seen in this city this evening at the
Grand. AS the title at once suggests.
it is from Mrs. L. D. f. n. South
worth's most famous novel. or rather
from two of them, as the author has
drawn upon the companion story,
Self Raised for portion of her
material
"Ishmael" was written years ago
and really created sensation as it
was generally believed to portray pas
sages in the life of one of America S
most famous public men. Thousands
cried over it and talked about it until
its fame spread across the seas, the
book being translated into several
foreign tongues.
Miss Grace Hayward. who success.
fully dramatized "Graustark" and st.
Elmo gave these two stories a most
careful study and then fashioned a
play which is rich in melodramatic
incident, strong in comedy lights and
appealing in general tone The hum
BILE circumstances of ':snmael's"
birth, his rise from obscurity to bril-
liant position by sheer force of in
tellect and the story OF the unwise
Claudia who loved him. but who was
daZzled by title are set forth with
clarity The play is meeting with
great success.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
UNDERSTANDING Last Year.

Last year the local association ar.
tempted TO secure Quincy's release
from the Central and offered $500
for its freedom. At that time it was
implied in seeming sincerity by the
Central magnates that Quincy should
have release at the end of this year.
How well that verbal promise was
carried out is now history, and not
of the kind to brag about. IT will
rather occupy secluded niche as a
family skeleton
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
How's This2

we offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case OF Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Hairs Catarrah Cure.
L. j. CHENEY &. CO. Toledo. o.
3 the undersigned. have known IT, j.
Cheney for the last is years and believe
him perfectly honorable In all business
transs ctions and financially able to car
rs out any obligation made by his firm.
Waldng. kinnan z Marvin.
Wholesal lie Druggists. Toledo. o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and nu-
cous surfaces of the system. Testimon-
ials sent free. Price IS cents per bottle.
Sold by all druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipa-
ton.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Room for Doubt.

The cuckoo clock had just chirped
the half-hour before midnight, and the
girl in the parlor scene was weary.
MIR DeBorem." she said. as she
yatnly attempted to strange a yawn.
I heard something about you the 9TH
.r day that I'm sure is not true"
Indeed" he exclaimed What was
IT."
Il heard some one say you were An
easy-soing chap" she answered
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
California Girls Company.

The company is composed of 80
people. A score of pretty, shapely
girls, four principals and chorus of
sixteen and ten comedians, with spec
ial scenery, handsome costumes,
bright catchy music and good, clean
wholesome comedy Two big musical
comedy burlesques, "A Breezy Affair
and In Jungle Land" and seven big
vaudeville acts. The above company
win appear at the Grand next Satur-
day evening.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
WILL ESTABLISH
TARIFF BUREAU.
Iowa Manufacturers Association to
Set up One in Des Moines for
Shippers Protec-
ton.
LOCALLY INTERESTING
keokuk Manufacturers Like Idea Of
New Bureau Proposed and Worth
Can be Ascer-
tanned.
LOCALLY INTERESTING

Shippers in Iowa are to be protect
ed by tariff bureau established in
Des Moines, says the Des Moines Reg.
lister and Leader.
This announcement was made yes
terday by G. A. Wrightman, secretary
Of the Iowa State Manufacturers as
sociation. The manager of the bureau
is to be Walter f. Huncke. rate ex-
pert in Chicago for the last twelve
years and one of the best posted men
in the United States. The installation
Of this bureau is said to mark an
epoch in the Industrial and CONNER
cial progress of Iowa.
1. To audit freight bills and ex-
press bills.
2. To present and handle claims.
8. To quote rates, classes, rules,
decisions, laws, etc.
T. To give right routings.
s. To correct service.
6. To prepare cases and appear be-
fore courts, state and interstate COM
missions and boards and committees
of the carriers, as q traffic expert for
the correction aud Amusement of
rates and charges of shippers, for the
localities and for the state
/. To stand ready to give advice
and information on every transporta-
ton question.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
A Thorough optimist.

"You are an optimist?''
~ am, replied Mr. Dustin Sta2. II
not only hope for the best. but ] make
practical arrangements 10 get it
Washington Star.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07

If you are suffering from biliousness
constipation. indigestion. chronic
headache, invest one cent in postal
card, send to Chamberlain Medicine
Co, Des Moines. Iowa. with your
name and address plainly on the back,
and they will forward you free sam
pie of Chamberlain Stomach and
Liver Tablets. Sold by all dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Safeguard for Mothers.

A substitute is dangerous make
shift, especially in medicine. The
genuine Foley's Honey and Tar cures
coughs and colds quickly and is in a
yellow package. accept no substi-
tutes. Wilkinson & Go.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Won Twenty-Three, Lost Five Games
In Season, With Russell Ford,
Former Three-Eye
Second.
LEAGUE MANY STRONG POINTS
IN AMERICAN
Jack coombs Who Won Three
Straight Games of Worlds
Series is Third on
the List

Pitching donors in the American
league for the past season belong to
Chief Bender, the tall Indian twirler
OF the worlds champion Athletics. ac>
cordiug to official figures just given
out. Winning 23 and losing but 5
games. gives him an average of .S21
He was never taken out of a game
he started TO pitch. Close upon the
heels of this veteran is the youngster,
Russell Ford OF the New York club,
with percentage of SIS. He won &c
of his 50 games, was taken out but
once, and had the enviable strikeout
record of 209.
Jack Coombs, the hero of the world S
series because of his feat of winning
5 games from the Cubs, is third on the
list, with mark of IT'S having won
81 and lost games.
Lange of the White Sox is we'll up
with the leaders, though working i'll
few games He won 9 and lost 4
which placed him fifth in tn. rating
Doc White, also on the losing White
Sox, won 10 and lost 10. Ed Walsh
strikeout mark of 25S. Waiter John
sons record with the trailing Wash
ington club is remarkable. for be
sides setting worlds record for
strikeouts, 313. he won % out of A.
games.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07

Worse than an alarm of fire at
night is the me;allic cough of Group,
bringing dread to the household.
Careful mothers keep Foley's Honey
and Tar in the house and give 1t at
the first Sign of danger 1t contains
no opiates. Wilkinson q Co.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Same Story Next Year.

Various papers around the circuit
have limited that if Quincy VII re
main in the Central but one more year
and play the role which they call
sportsman. then the city will get
its release. That gag worked once
and the fans of Quincy declare they
won't fall for the stall again.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Her Words.

His Sister And did she say SIZE
loved you in so many words? Her
Brother-That's what. Her words filed
twenty-seren paces.-ChicaGo News
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07

The greatest danger from influenza
is of its resulting in pneumonia. This
can be obviated by using Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy, as It not only
cures influenza, but counteracts any
tendency OF the disease towards pneu-
monia- Sold by all dealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
At His Request?

AT our church" said little Kitty 10
the caller. 1.-The women are just as DO
lite as the men. They take off their
hats to the preacher"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Hugh Jennings to MARI.

DETROIT. Dec 7.-Hughie Jen-
nings, manager of the Tigers, will
we'd the second week in January. He
and his fiancee have been reticent re-
garding the matter. perhaps because
they had made no decision. Hughie
warded off the reporters yesterday
when questioned. Last summer he
asked the bride-elect. Miss Margaret
O'Boyle of Scranton. to pick an Octob-
err date, so they could have a long
honeymoon before it was time to go
south with the Tigers. But Miss
O'Boyle preferred to wait.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
fact that shippers generally have no
way OF verifying the charges assessed.
Shippers Should Know.

Besides, every shipper ought to
know whether or not the rate on his
goods is just and fair, and ought to
have a prompt and practical means of
getting rates changed when they are
found not to be just and far There
are no bars or narrow bounds upon
this bureau. 1t will do everything In
transportation matters required by
the shippers of Iowa.
The managers of the new bureau
have had much experience Mr.. A.
Wrightman, secretary of the associa.
ton has been in the commercial
transportation business since 1886,
having worked his way up from clerk
and freight handler to traffic man
ager. He took his present position
three years ago for the express pur-
pose of eventually starting the traf.
fic bureau.
The new traffic manager OF the as
sociation, Walter E. Hunckt. has been
a rate expert in Chicago since his re-
turn from the Spanish war in 1898.
Warning Issued.
The Iowa State Manufacturers as
ISOLATION has issued warning to
shippers as follows: The wide pub
licity given transportation matters
during the last four years and the con-
flict between tariffs, commission rul-
inSs and court decisions on great
questions involving the whole country
have awakened the shippers of the
country to realization of the great
losses they needlessly bear every year
in failing to supervise their shipping.
As result freight bureaus are
springing up all over the country.
some of them good and some OF them
downright swindles. We have lately
seen number OF circulars from
some OF these people which were full
of gross misrepresentation, frauds
upon the face of them. But the traf-
fic bureau of the Iowa State Manufac-
turers' association is backed by the
organized manufacturers OF Iowa. It
is absolutely first class. 1t can rem
der more than double the service that
any outside bureau can give and at
no actual outlay or expense at all to
YOU. No freight bill or claim need
be sent outside of Iowa for audit or
| collection
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07

HONOR:
Order Gold Medal Flour next time.
FELrcrrr
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
Growth of Many Years.

Inc sentiment against 5tuS 1euti dl
association can not be dated as To-
Tine of birth. To get near the time
of its inception in the minds of Quin-
cy fans it is necessary to go back al
most thirty years-back to the time
when Quincy was associated with st.
Paul, Toledo, Grand Rapids. Colum-
bus, Indianapolis, etc, and again with
Omaha, st. Joe, etc. In those days
Quincy was in the top layer of the
heap and was even then regarded as
one of the best minor league baseball
cities in the country. For various
reasons which now have no signifi-
canct baseball died in Quincy for
short time during the nineties and
then the old Reserves" revived
everyone to greater enthusiasm than
ever. That short drop from organized
baseball dropped Quincy from COM
pany with Toledo. st. Paul and the
other cities of the old leagues, and
then came the Centrals unfortunate
opening which was, more unfortun-
ately still. accepted by Quincy. Even
at that time there were hundreds of
fans who objected to going into the
Central, but they hoped the little
league would prove stepping stone
into a higher class.
No thought was then entertained
that they should be forever bound to
such cities as Keokuk, Monmouth
Kewanee, etc. cites which have nc
common interest with Quincy and are
in no way equal The fans have
simply regarded the Central as a
means of getting back into organized
ball. Even at the time they entered
the Central the Three Eye was hot
on the trail. and the Central directors
knew it. Else why was It necessary
to telegraph Secretary Farrell that
Quincy was Central territory on the
very night when the franchise deal
was as good as closed? Quincy PEG
pie at that time understood that their
city would be released from the Cen.
trial at the end Of reasonable length
Of time And the agitation now
grows out OF the feeling that this
reasonable length of time has Ions
since expired
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07
QUINCY MAY Be
AN OUTLAW YET
That City Does Not Like Attitude Of
Other Papers Of Circuit and
Speaks Editor
tally.
SAY FANS INsT1GAToRs
And That Quincyites Will Stand Pat
in Their EnmIty Toward Central
association Ball in
1911.

QUINCY. H.. Dec. Quincy is to
be tabooed, ostracized, outcasted. in
fact. she is to be a nil in baseball
hereafter That is. according TO the
threats which are coming from the
Central association press reports.
Burlington dopesters. as do those OF
Keokuk. have the inside dope on
everything that occurs in Quincy, and
the local association has nothing
which is not known to them-accord-
ing to the stories which are each day
published in the columns of the Path
finder and Indian papers.
If it isn't one insidious scheme
which President Hofer and his tribe
are attempting to pull of it's another,
and even President Justice now adj
mits, through an interviewer, that he
doesn't exactly understand the sitlla-
iion in Quincy. 1t must be awful
this suspense.
In all the comments in the Central
press outside OF Quincy there is a
prevailing sentiment that the whole
fight against the Central comes from
The local association in general, and
from President Hofer in particular.
The agitation against the Central is
also regarded as of recent origin: its
growth. is looked upon as though it
we're of the mushroom variety. The
Quincy press also comes in for a vast
amount of censure for the part 1t has
taken in the efforts to secure Quincy's
release.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-12-07

Read The Daily Gate City.
New-York tribune., 1910-10-20
FIREMAN PLEADS FOR RAISE
Makes Appeal for Comrades Be
fore Budget Committee.

Walter l. Dugan. a young fireman OF
Flushing. made an eloquent plea before
the budget committee Of the Board OF Esti-
mate yesterday for an increase OF 500 a
year in the salaries Of the firemen in the
first. second and third grades They now
get 8. 400. $500 and $1,000. respectively.
Controller Prenderzast spoke OF the 1act
that the Board OF Estimate had increased
the pav Of the officers and the fourth grade
men in the department. but Dugan replied
that the men for whom he was speaking
could not pay the increased grocery bills
with the increa ses given 10 others.
When II came 10 including in the budget
for the Department Of Water Supply, Gas
and Electricity enough money TO increase
the salary Of Commissioner Thompson from
S-.5O0 70 $4,000 Controller Prendergast took
occasion TO pay g high compliment TO the
Commissioner President McAneny said,
however, he thought the board should go
slow in increasing salaries. The question
was left unsettled.
The examiners Of the Finance Depart
nent had cut the budget estimate for the
Water Department from s.. .SI2.47I 10 s7.05S.-
75S Commissioner Thompson said he could
not possibly get along with so little money,
saying that the additional expense was due
in no small measure TO the work OF the
Auueduct Commission, which was taken
over by HIS department this year.