Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-07-20


verda Beggs, one of the Courier
Juniors.
Galesburg is pretty city and Is
college town There are Knox college
a Congregational school which IS q
years old; Lombard college, a Uni
versalist school, There Is also a Ger
man college, and Browns Business col
lege.
We spent two afternoons and even
ings at Highland park, where We
tished, went in bathing and went boat
riding. We also swung In big SWING
which went over the lake.
Another afternoon a crowd Of about
twenty went to Knoxville on the IN
terurban to Gilbert's park to spend the
evening and hear the band play.
ST. Mary's, an Episcopal college fol
girls, is located here. It has a beauti
full campus, quaint Episcopal church
close by, and all the buildings are Gov
cred with honeysuckle and woodbtne
Many flowers and much shrubbery Is
on the campus. There is also college
for boys in another part of town.
Galesburg has beautiful 100000
library which we enjoyed visiting.
| There are many fine churches IN
Galesburg We attended the Congrega-
tional a fine church with twenty-seven
rooms, where they have lately In
stalled a $4,000 pipe organ.
We visited the hospital and went
through large bakery.
Papa came on July and stayed the
rest of the time with US. On July 4
all the Sunday schools Of Knox county
held a picnic on Knox campus.
From Galesburg on July II we went
to Burlington to attend the Southern
Iowa Editorial association. We first
went to the convention headquarters.
There were only three children, includ-
ing Dorothy and I, besides baby, at
the convention While mamma and
papa were at the meeting in the after
noon we girls stayed at the hotel.
In the evening the Commercial club
of Burlington had arranged to give the
editors and wives and7automobile ride
over the city We saw Grape park,
very beautiful one; we also saw many
other interesting things in Burlington.
After the auto ride we went to the
Garrick theater to which we had been
given tickets.
On Friday the Commercial club had
prepared to take the editors and
wives on a boat from Burlington to
Keokuk. Friday morning at 8 O'Clock
we were all at the docks and on the
boat The boat that carried us was the
"Black Hawk"
They stopped at the towns along the
river to unload freight. The first stop
was Dallas. At Fort Madison we saw
the penitentiary from the boat. We
passed Nauvoo, the noted Mormon
town. The other station was
Montrose. There we're many fam
lilies camping along the Missis-
sippi all the way from Dallas to Keo-
kuk. The scenery along the river was
so pretty and the blue waves dashlng
to and fro or on the rocks on shore
was very pretty.
After we entered the canal most
everybody went on deck to see the
locks when we came to them. 1t was
very interesting to see the water rise
in the locks.
About 1870 we reached Keokuk and
were taken to observation cars as
guests of the Mississippi River Power
Co. There is sixteen miles of railroad
in and around this great dam and we
rode in and out all around the works.
This ground where the dam and power
house is was all under water at one
time: but the water has all been
pumped away and now the ground Is
twenty-five feet below sea level.
The chief engineer. H. l.. Cooper,
and DR.. Barr, went to Burlington to
take the trip with us and explained
things about the works and told us
what to do when there.
The great power house will be LIB
feet in length when finished and 1913
feet wide and 1771a feet high, solid
mass of concrete.
The dam is 4,27S feet in length. SO
feet high and the piers 6 feet thick
and spans 80 feet inside
There are 1900 men working around
the mower house and dam Some work
| in very dangerous places, such as
along the side of the power house as
much as ITS feet high.
We could see them mixing cement,
boring in the rocks, lifting rocks that
weighed sometimes over ton. We
also saw them lifting the large square
buckets with IL tons of cement. We
saw where the cement walls we're be-
| ing nodded. There Is about $1,O00,000
worth of machinery used in the max
ing of the dam.
We were also taken across the river
to Hamilton, ILL.,, where some of the
works are In Hamilton we saw a
brick building which is one of the
Oldest in Illinois.
After the ride we climbed the steps
up the dam and walked around on top
of the dam So feet high.
The men who work in the swift cur
rent of the dam are French Canadians
who are used to working in the swift
waters of Canada.
We had been told long before that
the river and power company would
serve luncheon We we're taken on
top of the bluff at o'clock to the club
house. Out on platform out Of doors
was long table prettily decorated
and we were given the finest banquet
I ever attended.
We we're given tickets for the train
going back to Burlington Which had