The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-25
Committees Named at Meeting
Of Keokuk Motor Boat Club
Last Night, Report
in q Week.
is UNDER FULL SWAY
Free Gasoline to be Furnished
Speed Graft That Come
Here in August Provi-
sions and Grand Stand.

SlO1AS N4u A10Au 0Uduu.
Much Of the smaller business con-
nected with the Mississippi Valley
Power Boat Association regatta was
removed and the more important de-
tails of the gigantic lake show placed
in the hands of responsible COM
mittees at meeting Of the Keokuk
Motor Boat club last night, and an
excellent start has been made toward
handling the first OF these important
events that the city has had.
Committees on food and ice provis-
ions. motor boat supplies, sale Of
souvenir badges, barges, floats and
other necessary adjuncts, were nam
ed by DR.. F. c. Smith, commodore of
the club, who presided. One of the
important measures adopted by the
meeting was the resolution giving
Commodore Smith the privilege OF
notifying the race boat owners at
Toledo and the Put-in-Bay celebration
that their gasoline would be Furnish
ed free. DR.. Smith will leave some
time soon for Toledo to be one of the
judges at the Pllt-in-Bay races. He
was also instructed to take fifty of
the souvenir badges east to pin on
the entrants to the regatta which will
be held at Keokuk next month. A
number of large placards have been
printed and these will be taken to
Toledo and placed in conspicuous
places SO that the thousands who at
tend the races there will learn of the
Keokuk regatta and celebration in
this manner.
Gasoline Provided for.
The club commodore reported that
M F. King, Jr. manager Of the
Standard Oil Co., in this territory, had
promised to place tank car In CON
venient place that the motor boat
club named and pipe the gasoline to
barge where 1t could be dispensed
to motor craft during the regatta.
Besides this, Mr.. King has offered
to furnish men used to handling gaso-
line and measuring pump.
1t was decided by the club that the
best place to have the barge is near
the old Hornish place on the lake
shore. This location will be the best
obtainable as it will be within sight
Of any craft on the lake. H. d. Elem
ing has promised to see that planks
necessary for the top of the gasoline
barge are placed in time for the re
gatta and removed afterwards.
The Food Arrangements.
IN the hands of Committeeman
Chandler Carter, A. C. Decker and H
d. Fleming, tn, matter of making ar
rangements for food provisions, ha,
been left. 1t has been proposed to asl
D. H. Sage to handle the provision
and a certain per cent of the proceeds
given to the motor boat club for tn,
privilege. This commissary depart
ment will also handle ice for the re
gatta people.
H. C. Miller, Dr. e. c. Brownlee an,
". SOlAiiieo WIN dChOl 0SiO iioAiOu .
the committee on badges. 1t is prob
able that number Of boys will b
employed to sell these on commits
sion basis. The badges will be sol
at twenty-five cents each. They ar
very worthy souvenirs for the regatts
having gold surface, the upper ls1
of the badge showing an Indian heat
coupled with an oval attachment o
which the dam Is seen and across tn
surface, the word "Keokuk." Al
pended to this by two small sid
chains, is miniature state of low;
the words Mississippi Valley Powe
Boat Association" being printed acros
the state. 1913" and "Keokuk" al
below the association name and tn
tall of the first TX" in Keokuk arrow
to star in the southeastern cornt
of the state where Keokuk Is locate
geographically. A motor boat undo
power with an occupant, Is shown G
the lower part of the badge.
The number of these badges orde
ed was 1900; the price for the Il
exclusive of over eight dollars for g
pressage, is $275.40.
Getting "specdersy In the Water.
Officials of the Water Power G