The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-20
Makes a Change in its Former
Proposition and Will Not
Include Riverview Site
in Contribution.
BOOSTERS WILL HELP

Enthusiastic Meeting Of the
Booster Club at the Elks
Hall to Help Make $780,
900 Hotel Certainty.
RESOLVED, THAT THE CHAIR
MAN APPOINT A COMMITTEE OF
THREE TO PERSONALLY CALL ON
MR.. COOPER AND MR.. Al.
LEN AND ASSURE THEM
THAT THE BOOSTER CLUB rs
HEARTILY IN FAVOR OF THE NEW
HOTEL AND WE OFFER THEM
THE SERVICES OF THE CLUB IN
plvJDUALLY AND AS AN oRoANl-
zATIoN, AND TO DO WHATEVER
I THEY CALL ON US TO DO, TO
MAKE THE PROPOSITION A Sue
CESS.
The above resolution was offered at
the luncheon of the Booster club held
this noon a. the new Elks club home,
by Myrtle Baker, and was unanimously
adopted President B. B. Hobbs will
announce the committee later, which
will personally visit Messrs. Cooper
and Allen and present the resolution
A new feature of the Booster club
meeting was the announcement made
by President Hobbs that the Water
Power Co. had decidec to make its
contribution to the new hotel project
$4,000 cash instead Of $4,000 In cash
and $4,000 in property. This state
ment was applauded most enthusiast
tically The Water Power Co. has
decided to retain the land originally
purchased for hotel site and changes
lis contribution to $4,000 cash. While
the support of the proposition has
been liberal money is needed to put
It over and the meeting Of the Booster
club was for that purpose.
Wells M. Irwin.
Wells NJ. Irwin to whom President
Hobbs referred as the dean of Keo-
kuk boosters, was requested to intro
dice the hotel subject and he express
ed himself as heartily in favor of it.
lie said he hardly knew just how to
Stir up the enthusiasm as the time
appeared to have passed when refer
ences to the starry flag, the frozen
north, the everglades of the south or
the broad land between the mighty
oceans could be used as a basis for
enthusiasm. He did not want to hitch
his wagon to star because in these
days of aeroplanes that system would
be too slow. He said it was time to
get down to brass lacks and that the
charm of words appeared to have lost
their charm. He thought the offer
made by the Water Power Co. was a
most magnificent one, exceedingly
liberal. If 1t was left to Keoknk alone
10 raise 100000 or 100000 1t would
pc long time before we could get a
hotel. The hotel meant less to the
water power people than to others.
heoknk needs 1t and needs it badly.
ihls city will be the mecca for years
% come for visitors and automobiiists.
good hotel will makS their coming
peasant as well as their going. They
VIII see here an enterprise not seen
elsewhere. Keokuk has overcome
PROPOSITIONS greater than the hotel
Project and should be, able to raise
the $4,000.
Hugh n. Craig.
" was a pleasure to hear Hugh H.
sfaig, former resident. tell how Cal
aornia did her boosting. He said he
.eA the new spirit pervading Keokuk.
sour years ago when he left this city
ae said it would have been impossible
70 raise $4,000 for a hotel. Now he
said the people were tackling the
imposition in the right spirit and
we're going to make it go. He said
me western people had motto
mat was posted on office doors to
so'ne IN without knocking. go out the
same way which was the secret Of
we success of the west. The county
~ which he lived made a tax levy for
on immigration fund that was used for
auseftising. and entertainment to
Soost California. The people were
. sad 10 pay it as it brought good re-
suihs. The present success of south
gu Salifornia was it's excellent hotels.
Aeokik needs an up to date hotel. A
aew keokuk means new hotel. II
WI pay good dividends as we'll as
s.eate new spirit. If you believe in
! eood thing and believe in it hard
s s.a 1t will come. true. There is a
suuerence between a boomer and a
Jester. The booster has facts for his
~ - sument but he must be able to see
~ possibilities. He felt that with
ha.. spirit keoluk is now showing the
'0'ei would be a go.