The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-12
Chicago CONSTRUCTION Company
Will Start Moving Dirt
For Magnificent New
Hosiery.
PROMINENT HOTEL MAN
Stockholders Will be Asked
Forty Per Cent Of Their
Subscriptions Wednes-
day or Thursday.
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= Within less than year a .
= $500, 600 hotel will stand upon =
= the site Of the old Masonic .
= temple, corner Of Fourth and .
= Main streets. Work will begin .
= next week and construction oper- .
= atoms pushed with all possible =
= speed. keokuk will emerge from =
. the hotel controversy With one .
. Of the fineet, most modern and .
= complete hotels In the middle =
= west and reflect credit upon the .
= city, and every influence or In .
= dividuaI having anything to do .
= with the work that has led to .
such desired contamination. =
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Beginning to move dirt the frs. of
next week, the Guaranty Construction
company of Chicago will start to bunu
the new hotel at Fourth and Main
streets for the Iowa Ho.el company.
The manager will be Fred Gazely
Of Chicago, who will be here tomor-
row with the underwriters OF the
bonds, and it is expected that all the
contracts will be formally executed
then. they having been agreed upon
orally.
A letter has been prepared which
will be mailed to the preferred stock
holders tomorrow or Thursday, call
ing for forty per cent OF their sub
scriptions. This letter from Hugh L.
Cooper will state that all the prelim-
inaries have been arranged and every
thing is ready for the actual cons.ruc-
ton work and paying for 4
The Man Who VIII Manage Il
Fred Gazely, the manager after the
hotel u operating, is one OF the best
known men among the hotel frater-
nifty Of the country. He built and
operated the LaSalle hotel in Chicago
and Is noted for his successes. He
will manage the new Keokuk hotel on
the same high plane and likes this
proposition we'll enough to take all
the $4,000 issue of common stock.
The bonds are nnderwritten by
sencws. Rogers & Co.. OF Chicago, and
the Guaranty Construction company
which will build the new hotel is a
subsidiary corporation of the firm.
The Keokuk committee met with }
ynr H.
all the details This committee sole
tied the preferred stock subscriptions
here with marked success and de
serve much, credit for the manner in
which they attended to Keokus's parl
of the enterprise. in the opinion Of
everybody who has been interested
In it. The members OF the committee
are Wells W. Irwin, l.. A. Hamill
Asaph Buck. John NageI g. B. Hobb.
and Harry r. Culkin.
Hotel to Be Adequate.
The hotel will have a front Of 14t
feet on North Fourth street with q
frontage OF eighty-two feet on Main
stree. The main entrance will be or
Fourth street. The building will have
six stories and basement and the
plans show fine building Of very
beautiful lines and finish.
It will be OF the most modern con
struction throughout and strictly a
first class hotel in the metropolitan
sense.
Moreover, it is SO planned as to be
workable as hotel with the greatest
economy OF methods, and very care
fnl inspection of the plans and speci
fications shows that it will be entire
" adeuuate to he great needs OF
Keolsuk for the next decade.
The TWO Fine Facadss.
On the Fourth street side, which Is
the front of the hotel, reaching from
Main street to the alley, will be the
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