The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-27
His Results That Talk.

, 49,
His Results That Talk.
Here is q great engineer-perhaps it
will be we'll to indicate how great an
engineer he is: When the British gov
ernment wanted the greatest engi-
necrs to do tor the dam at Assuan,
they chose Mr.. Cooper for one of the
i've; when that wonderful absorber
Of the very best in the world-Japan--
wanted the greatest engineer in, the
world for a consultation, it sent for
{ Hugh l.. Cooper: the engineering pro-
fession held its breath while he built
at Niagara Falls the most daring and
original plan for power ever dreamed
OF, and when that hurricane came down
over Lake Erie with crushing ice in
its teeth, every other installation
there was damaged, while the one
Cooper built never varied the speed
OF its dynamos and sold current to all
the others. Now he is damming the
irresistible Mississippi in its widest
mood and strongest stretch and writ.
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on the pinnacle topping American en-.
/ cheering in the river.
Here is a great engineer, man OF
mathematics and formulate and main
strength and pure logic. who, after all
believes that sentiment and culture
and heart interest are the greatest
I things in the world
/ He said SO in effect when he told
the farmers in Dornellson that the
/ material benefits of bringing at least
4 half million people to this stretch Of
river between Keokull and Burlington
] are after all minor to the mental bene
fits to come to us here on account Of
i the proximity of this immense en-
! cheering and manufacturing center
which he is planting in the center o.
the middle western empire.
On the way home, he enlarged Oh
this topic somewhat and the full stol
necessary here brings up anothe
phase of his intense human nature
anG his superb diplomacy. He neve
makes mistake in his talks. Hi
long contact with financial magnate
/ in big propositions precludes any dan
I-ger in that direction. His worst enem.
could not find finger hold in any o
his public utterances.
A Polite Photographobac.
In private he is extremely interest
4 -. u. ne, &,I1
4 epigrams, flashes of philosophy, ant
brilliant illumination of things, s,
that few quotations verbatim woul'
20 far toward making a characte
sketch of the man and he takes. car,
i that these chats which SO much de
serve printing. occur when one is hi
guest, with the rose hanging overhead
SO that ones lips are sealed and one
Il typewriter fingers palsied effectually
u Moreover. he is genuine gentlemal
reminding one OF the old south, an
1 he would no more think of telling
writer that he prefers his words to b
4 confidential. than he would count TIL
spoons after his dinner party ha,
eaten and was ready for the librar
again.
Il Apropos, there is no portrait to g
with this article There has neve
. been a picture of him printed. He cor
stantly refuses photographs to news
i papers and magazines and thus ia
Y, has seen to it that they get none
Now, it would be the easiest thing Il
7 the world to get cracking good pho
tograph of him, for he always look
/ his part of an engineer doing the in
possible. and a man with koda
could get a dozen snapshots to max
managing editors joyously smile-bu
, no man who knows him well enoug
/ to write about him, and with charat
ter enough to get into the good publ
q cations is going to steal his likeness
any more than he Is going to site
pins into a baby to get an illustratio
I for an article on stomach-ache. NJ
BODY ever has snapped him, and
: would no more do it than | woul
renig at whist against Colonel Carte
J, OF Carteryille. The real point to thi
!. paragraph is the peryasive. genuine
/ sincere, hearty. philanthropic. gent
/. manliness of this interesting man.
], AS to Modesty and Ambition.
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