The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-27
Writes EntertaininsIySo Of Big Engineer
in Sunday Article Appearing
: Burlington Hawk
Eye.
HOW HE CHARACTERIzEs
Writer Declares He is "The Most
Thoroughly Human Great Man
lrsaginabiev-He Worries
About Next Job

Under the caption Hugh L. Coop
er, Father Of the Keokuk Water
Power, G. Walter Barr in the Bur-
lington Hawk-Eye writes:
Hugh l.. Cooper, who spoke. to the
bankers in Burlington last Wednes.
day, is the most thoroughly human
great man imaginable. Human nature
is as complex and as inclusive as a
dress pattern or woman's costume
Of course; but the human nature in
this greatest living engineer is SO ex-
pansise that it oozes out of him all
! the time, like dress pattern that fus
the paper and extends over the edges.
Most Of the worlds, captains have
been so absorbed in doing the impos-
sible that they neglected the ameni-
ties seen most efnphatically between
neighbors in smaii town talking ov-
er the garden fence But this Hugh
L. Cooper. wizard Of the water power
!. and making a plaything of the impos-
sible, likes best Of all to talk over
the back fence and hand over to the
neighbors mess OF new potatoes,
some early caulifower, or bunch Of
roasting cars.
:. Therein lies much of the secret OF
his success-he Is sincerely cordial
\ toward mankind. Being sincere is lie
major part Of that, too. He goes to
: the blue veIned, cold-blooded, bone
chilled captains Of finance and gets
twenty-odd millions to build the
greatest water power in the world at
Keokuk: he goes to the hard-headed,
successful, rather suspicious farmers
i. AT the Lee county institute at DON
nelson, and in twenty minutes has
them cheering him as they might ac-
claim the winner OF battle in war
time. Probably it Is easier to- capture
the confidence of the leaders of Wall
street than to win that of the farmers
OF lowa--but both are easy for this
sane Hugh Il. Cooper who is after all
essentially man of mathematics and
the Harvesting Of tile mighty Missis.
sippi.
Winning ways and the Baby.
1T. is hiss.sir rity along thoroughly
human lines that makes him diplo
4 mat equal to Chinda or Sato, of the
Japanese foreign ONCE that makes II
saeriainsthat there would be no dead
locks many state which he desired to
represent in the United States senate
~ fon' can't fool j. Pierpont Morgan
NOR q successful Iowa stocklnan with
any line Of talk learned out Of a, guide
to statesmen with a page of talking
points You must have the best goods
and be absolutely sincere in every
thing you say and do, from asking
about the health of the new baby te
demonstrating the way you take care
Of the stresses and strains in the pen
stock or the gasoline engine. Because
this very human man Cooper realli
wants to know how the baby Is getting
along he carries real sincerity which
wins-wins everybody, everything
now and forever, to the end OF The
world.
This neighborliness toward all man
Kind crops out all the time. He il
having pavillions built covered from
rain and sun. with easy seats AMI
guides. from which visitors may over
look the whole of the greatest en-
sgineering construction plant. in tn.
World, except that at Panama and j
the people should not come to US,
those pavillions,. he will be as dis
appointed as the little girl with a ligh
attendance at her birthday party. |
IS necessary to keep the public out 0
the big works where booms are re
Voiying and dynamite exploding irreg
uiarly; compare the Keep OUT sign
with which you are familiar, with thu
requests posted on boards at thu
gates of the, plants of the keokuk ant
hamilton Water Power company
fhose of Engineer Cooper politely re
quest the public to be SO kind as Il
take the trouble to turn to the RICH