The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-24
Burlington and Keokuk

burlington Hawk-Eye: Tie Keokuk
Standard, purely local publication Of
that city, has on several occasions
Il ed1torally criticised the Hawk-Eye
and the people of Burlington for what
1t alleges is their indifference and Oh.
i position to the Keokuk water power
enterprise. 1t has in various articles
insinuated that Mr.. Thomas Wilkin.
son, OF this city, president of the Up.
per Mississippi River Improvement
association, has systematically CD.
posed the project, and claims that the
! Hawk-Eye has given the matter very
scant attention. One of its more re-
cent articles is as follows:
Recently The Gate City made the
excellent suggestion that the pool
above the dam "a mile vide and forty
miles long, be named Lake Cooper.
The Burlington Hawk Eye, which at
the most important period declined to
send reporter to interview Mr.. Coop
er at the Delano hotel, and printed
practically nothing about the water
power, until work began-and since
then it has been shouting it's protesta-
tons that it has always been the best
friend the project had-objects to this
name for the pool, 1t suggests as SUBJ
st1tutes, Lake of the Locks, or Lake
Shoquoquon, or Lake Montrose; there
is to be only one lock, lake of the
rose mount is somewhat contradictory.
and one wonders what the queer name
a man has to be teetotaler to pro-
nounce means.
The Gate City, which has reached
the higher stage of santification which
enables it to cheerfully turn the other
cheek, recently regretted tne more sim
ful attitude of the Standard in telling
some plain truths about Burlington.
Since then the Standard has so grown
In grace that it now suggests that the
pool be called Burlington lake; 1t will
extend a mile above Burlington, you
know, as measured by skillful engin-
GERS with instruments OF precision;
novice in telepathy can hear all Bur-
lington second this suggestion unani.
mously: it would be a very graceful
way of acknowledging the immense
aid that the Hawk-Eye, President Viii.
kinson and all other citizens of Bur-
Hngton gave to the Keokuk and Ham
ilton water power during its promo
ton"
The Hawk-Eye did not at any criti.
cal periods, or any other time, refuse
to interview Mr.. Cooper at the Hotel
Delano. The Hawk-Eye is not con-
scious of having neglected an oppor-
tunity to secure good interview rom
any man of Mr.. Cooper's standing
The Hawk-Eye was among the first to
announce the passage of the Keokuk
water power franchise Had it not
been for the personal influence of two
Burlington men, Congressman Thomas
Hedge and the late j. W. Blythe, the
franchise would not have been Sc
cured, and none could have been
passed after that time on account of |
the aroused public opposition to the |
granting to private corporations Of
franchises to control large water pow
er rights
At the time of the passage of the /
franchise the Hawk-Eye editorially en-. t
dorsed the project. Since then it has !
published vast amount of matter
it. Practically every /
development of the enterprise has
been given good space in the Hawk
Eyes news columns. For weeks prior
to the announcement of the final ac-
complishment of the funding of the en-
terprise, the Hawk-Eye printed every