The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-05
Creator Iowa Committee Asks Local
Men to Help Build State Build
ing It Panama Pacific
Exposition.
DON'T SPARE CRITICISM
Some Of the Visitors Seemed to Take
Pleasure in Calling
This Dead
Town.

The Greater Iowa committee visited
keokuk last night Since Keokuls
knew practically nothing Of the COM
Ing OF the committee until Saturday,
there were no preparations made to
meet the crowd. However, about ten
Tor fifteen of the local men met with
the committee at .he Industrial asso-
citation rooms last night After tell
ing US we were dead ones, and that
our town looked like 1t was perpetually
keeping Sunday. and few other
acter, the committee preached sub
jects OF subscriptions for the erection
Of an Iowa building at the Panama
Pacific exposition.
| w. G. Haskell Of Cedar Rapids, who
presided at the meeting. was the ring
leader in the funeral compliments. In
fact he was about the only one who
1 displayed the hammer. He declared
that Keokuk was dead, and that they
thought it must have been Sunday
when they arrived here. The fact
that the local bunch didn. warm up
particularly to some of Haskell's
stories didn't help out in the chair
mans opinion of Keokuk. The COM
mittee begged the local people not to
take Haskell, and his statements zoo
seriously, however
o. B. Towne, c. r. Joy. ]. A. Trawick
and n. /. Sawyer told the visitors
few things which led them into the
light Of affairs. The committee was
informed that Keokuk has a building
down here in .he river that really
amounts to something. and that per-
haps Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, ct al,
we're not the only spokes in the,
Iowa wheel. That Keokuk has done
its share and more towards advertis-
ing the state. was che thought of one
OF the local men, An apology was
made for the small crowd being pres
ent. but the circumstances for this
were explained.
Marsh Tells Of Start.
W. W. Marsh was the first speaker,
after w. g. Haskell had taken some
time in which 20 introduce himself.
Mr.. Marsh traced the history OF the
movement to have Iowa represented
at the exposition. He said that when
the legislature refused to appropriate
The money last winter, he asked them
II they would put a measure through
delegating the right to Waterloo to
build the building. This was done
and Waterloo has subscribed $4,000
to the fund I'VE deny the accusation
that 4. was a smart act of Waterloo's
Ito cop out cheap advertising
scheme, as we have been accused OF
doing" Mr.. Marsh said. He advo-
Gated sending exhibits to the sxposi-
ton. He told OF his experience as an
exhibitor In the st. Louis exposition.
Advertisements In the coming two
years will be predicated on the awards
made at San Francisco, Mr.. Marsh
said, and he thought Iowa should get
into the movement which Waterloo
had started.
Woodwork Clum of the Clinton
Advertiser, suggested that the legis-
|lature's act last winter was good
thing for the state, as 1t is making the
state take steps to pull together. He
suggested that it was good deal like
spanking children. 1t was for the
future good Of the spanked. He urged
that Keokuk get into the game with
the rest az the cities. There were
too many cities which did a lot OF
grun.ing but didn't put their shoulder
to the wheel, he said.
Colonel g. W. French OF Davenport,