The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-28
Some Interesting Details About tho
Bio Plant.

1
Big Plant.
w. e. Whetstine in Columbus Safe.
guard: The Safeguard man has been
gadding around again something awful
Sometimes / go some place about
every year and rubber around at the
sights until get homesick and come
i back
This time / went all the way to
Keokuk to attend some conventions
and to see the big power plant. have
written great deal about the KeokuK
power dam, but what / have written
previously has been about Its construc-
] ton. Now it is finished, or enough OF
| it is finished for immediate use and it
! is more interesting than ever
You can't notice much change in the
stage of the Mississippi river until al
ter you reach Fort Madison and then
you can see a great change. The old
G. B. & @. right of way is covered by
water most of the way on to Keokuk
and at Montrose what used to be
Front street is now on the river bank
and some of the old buildings are
standing in the waters edge. The riv-
er is very wide at Montrose, perhaps
wider than at any other point. AS yon
approach the city of Keokuk the big
power plant, the dam and Lake Coop
| er above present beautiful picture, a
view that is surpassed only by the
same scene from a river boat on the
- NJ lNntfpy frWQ rd
| the magnificent power house.
At Keokuk put in the forenoon at
the postmaster's convention In the
federal building which was Of interest
to those in the service. At the poon
hour l was invited out to lunch with
DR.. Moorhead, who Is postmaster at
Keokuk and editorial writer on The
Gate City. have always enjoyed DIR.
Moorhead's bright, original paragraphs
/, in The Gate City and l also enjoyed
his splendid hospitlity. John Welborn,
postoffice inspector Of this district
also dined with us and besides being
one of the most efficient insL ectors in
the service, he is a most likeable fell
| low AS a rule an inspector Is about as
much admired by the postmasters as
an umpire is admired by the baseball
/ player, but 1t is not so with Mr.. Vel
born. He works untiringly for good
service and he makes it his mission
to help the employees to give good re
4 suits, and his presence Is always en-
joyed by those who know him.
j During the afternoon the postmast
ers were shown over the big power
plant, but as the editors were to make
the same visit the next day deserted
TIL mail handlers and went over to tht
Y. NJ c. A. building where the pencil
pushers we're having a splendid pro
gram. They adjourned about tire,
: o'clock and a majority of the buncl
went out to the ball park to see tn
Burlington and Keokuk teams put Of
{ matinee. The score was IA to i
: favor OF Keokuk and they played a
| most as good as our old team, tn
: Maroons, did In their time.
4 Thursday evening the Industrial Al
r ISOLATION Of Keokuk gave banquet a
the Grand cafe in honor of the scribe
and it was a swell affair BY that W
4 do not mean to say that the guest
!. wore two-button walkaway coats an
i the ladies dressed stingily, becaus
, there was nothing formal about i
= They served a nice "eeed" and the
/ had some very entertaining after dill
ner talks by members of the Industrif
Association and by editors. DR.. Moo
head was the POSTMASTER and he &c
= away with the job very nicely.
: We are taking too much space tel
ing about the social affairs of whic
you may not care power dam, whe
. we want to tell you something abo,
I Keokuk's big power proposition.
4 DIR. G. Walter Barr, who is the pu
9 licity man for the power company, an
one of the most interesting men "
have ever met, conducted our crow
o over the works Friday afternoon.
l. you ever go to Keokuk you will Sc
. DR.. Barr. He is everywhere in Ke
e kuk II you are UP town you will Sc
N him hustling around looking after SON
p business matters for the company, b.
n generally entertaining visitors.
you go out on the cam he will
there, too, and just as busy as an o
If hen with Matching of young ducks
n look after. He is as much alive
b. those high tension wires which car
the electric Juice" to st. Louis fro
the power house. He is the author
a good book or two and is one Of Il
most capable newspaper writer's
o Iowa. He took our party out to Il
y dam site and across the wide concre
4. walls onto the upper gate of the b
at lock which has just been complete
~ and which is the largest in the worl
~ He lined us all up on the second ga
~ and had our pictures taken. The
~ dustrial Association has promised
u each one of the pictures when tn
IL are finished, and we will be very 81
ID, to get It, II the picture shows enou
ne Of the works to make 1t interesting
10 our readers we may print 1t in t
ny Safeguard, 1t is to be printed in t
er American Press printed in New Vol