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be accepted in judging.
This. notwithstanding the favorable
notices it received and the fact that II
was genuinely entertaining. Whether II
S that its philosophy of Concentration
for success was without appeal. or that
the splendid acting ability Of Miss Ethel
Browning as the little slavey, did not
compensate for the missing marvellous
outburst of song which the plot demand
ed in the climax and which disappointed
audiences could not overlook, remains to
be seen.
Bub if Ambition" the play, fell short
of the popular approval its producers
hoped for. the ambition Of the Poll Play
ers in soaring into Shakespeare was not
clipped by the faithful admirers of that
clever organization either in attendance
or applause. Romeo and Juliet" as in
terpreted by Miss Izsdta Jewel and Mr..
Richard Buhler was accepted as a genu-
inc success by the Poll audiences, whose
enthusiasm at every performance was
unmistakable They were glad. too. ap-
parently. to welcome the return of Miss
Jewel to the cast after her vacation con-
quests. Everybody ought to be happy.
The advent of Miss Violet Heming as
leading woman of the popular Columbia
Players was marked by the cordiality Of
her welcome. resulting in a delightful
performance of one of the plays to whose
recollection the admirers of Billie Burke
will long cling with fondnesa. Miss Hem
ing has appealing youth. personal Charm
and genuine ability as an actress This
was demonstrated more than ever the
past season with George Arliss In the
splendid production of ''Disraeh." Al
ready a warm local favorfte. she was
quickly accorded the honors due her as
a stock star. and Coiunnbia patrons are
looking forx ard to a season Of real pleas
ure from her, work.
y i
Anna Held, even. with her nose out of
Joint maybe by the marriage of Bili1e
Burke to her former husband. was IN
vaudeville just what those who always
20 to see her expected Her smile has
lost none of its charm. and her insinnat-
ing art Is as insidious when she plays
wig vaudeville. as when queen OF the
..Folnes." Her assets seem fully az
great az when she first started the taste
for her Temptations a Ia Paris"
u
An of which leads to the discovery
that the dramatic entertainment that
wfll never fail with American audiences
depends and always will depend upon
their dramatic appetite. And that Is ap-
parently at changeable as the wind. even
il not as frequently changing: People that
want to be amused do not want to work
tn ref their amusement They want II
wished on them" The best wisher In
this respect ID always going to be the
most successful producer. probably.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-20
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s27 100000 project. Following is an
extract from the article.


extract from the article.
Twenty years or more ago, an anbi-
tious youth walked into the private
office of George Horton, western
structural engineer. He was fresh
from the high school. where his boyish
thoughts had been full of bridges, en-
gineering plans and power dams. This
had developed in him passion for
mathematics and blue prints. He told
Horton in just about SO many words
that he wanted job. Even that was
more of for1nality than anything else
for the boy had gone into the office
firmly convinced that he was going to
get it. Horton told him that business
was light. and that If any changes
were made in the force he would lay
off men rather than take them on.
Now, Mr.. Horton, was the ans
wer, came here to go to work for
you. Where shall hang my hat?"
Horton decided that, dull as bust
ness had been, he could afford to give
boy of that caliber an opportunity.
1T was confidence and determine
ton that won for Hugh Lincoln Coo
per in Horizons office, and 1T has been
these same factors that have enabled
him, while still in his 40's to harness
the Mississippi river at Keokuk, Iowa.
and by means of $27,0O0,0O0 power
development dam, a concrete monolith
from the Illinois to the Iowa shore, to
develop 100000 electric horse power,
GO per cent of which is furnishing the
current for the public utilities of st.
Louis, 143 miles to the south.
Hugh +. Cooper did not need a
technical school to prepare him for
his work And the manner in which
he financed the Keokuk project is the
best illustration of the logged persev-
erance that has won for him success
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-20

hog ranch somewhere beyond the
outskirts of the city. The other re.
fuse, and cleaning up, is police reg
ulation. There are all kinds of incin
Grating plants, mostly all failures, anc
very costly to operate, and in constant
need of repair, to says nothing of the
cost of maintenance. There are plen-
ty of abandoned incinerating plants
which have proven costly failures. The
privilege of gathering garbage should
BIS granted to some one who will
gather this garbage and utilize It.
This is gladly accepted in many cities
If the council will see that broken
glass and foreign matter is kept
therefrom. An incineration plant will
not make clean city The other re-
fuse must also be removed and looked
after by the police department.
Here Is an outline by man we'll
learned in thu matter from prac-
ticle standpoint. A man with prae-
teal experience in street work and
as an official. Copied from the Omaha
World Herald Of Feb. Is, 1914. II
may save Keokuk from buying anoth
er gold brick Gas ths yard ought to
be about full to overfowing now,
Again why not let some other city in
Iowa try the experiment instead OF
making Keokuk the first goat" Aft.
er successful operation then there is
time to get into the game Here r.
the extract:
In an interview with City Commits
sioner A. G. Kugel of Omaha, new
head of the department of public safe
tty and public health, is opposed to
the voting of 100000 in municipal
bonds March 10 for the construction
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-20


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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-20
Kansas Woman HELPLESS

Lawrence. Kas.-Mr. ]. E. Store. Of
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-20

throughout. He had just completed
unusual power plants in the east when
he heard Of Keokuk. One of them
was at Niagara, where Lord Kelvin
and other British scientists laughed
when he spoke of driving tunnel un-
der the center of the Horseshoe falls.
Cooper ignored their protests, went
ahead and carried his blue print plan
| to complete success.
Then he looked to the Mississippi
An article in an engineering publica-
tion had attracted his attention and
he decided to go to Keokuk to investi-
gate He made the trip, saw, and was
convinced. The waters of the Missis-
| sippi held the power, running I'M
checked toward the gulf, and Keokuk
| felt that in Cooper it had found the
man to carry out the hopes of many
years past. But the most difficult
problem of all remained unsolved-
how to get the money. Cooper's low
| est estimate was $20,000,000 To
finance it as a local proposition was
out Of the question, and Cooper could
not handle it alone, although he did
spend before the work was under way
over 100000 of his own money. 1t
struction began he was $500 In debt.
Cooper went east and before he
received one favorable answer he had
been shown out Of the Offices of 5S
capitalists The strange part of 1t is
! that when he found men who woulo
listen, they were not Americans, and
when the project finally had been
| financed, Go per cent of the stock was
held by foreigners. One man was In
doubt whether the power could be
/ sold as a paying proposition after it
| had been developed. Cooper was pos
tive that st. Louis alone would give
contracts large enough to warrant the
undertaking. The flnancier still was
| skeptical. In order to settle the ar
gument. Cooper went to st. Louis and
before one bucket Of concrete had
gone into the work he had contracted
| for the sale of 10000 horsepower to
the Mound city. At that point the
engineers who had studied the situa-
ton began to shake their heads.
They told their chief that turbine
wheel could not be found that would
prove successful under conditions at
Keokuk
I IF there isn't turbine wheel on
the market that we can use, was
Cooper's answer, we will build one to
fit our needs. You men come into
my Office and well work this out to-
gether.
| 'They did SO, and to-day thirty Of
| these wheels of entirely new design,
built to meet the peculiar conditions
| in the river at Keokuk, are develop.
| ing tremendous horsepower under
conditions that are the wonder of the
engineering world"
The Daily Gate City, 1oc per
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-20
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-20
OF two garbage incanerator plants.


Instead, Mr. Kugel proposes a plan
OF his own, Involving the purchase OF
farm to be used as work house
for municipal prisoners who could do
the work necessary to feed garbage
to herd of hogs as is now done by
a private contractor on the river bot
tom. This PLAN would settle two
problems at once, Mr.. Kugel believes.
Commissioner Kugel has made
known his views to the municipal af-
fairs COMMITTEES OF the Commercial
club. in direct contradiction of the at
titude of Commissioner Ryder, his
predecessor in the department ana
the author of the bond ordinance.
Failure OF supporters of the incin-
orator proposition to prove the par
manent economy of their project is
MIR. Kugel's reason for opposing the
bonds. He doss not credit claims
that the inoinerators will be self-sup,
porting, especially in view of the
probable necessity for their renewal
In a few years.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-20
CHATTING ABOUT
ENGINEER COOPER
he Has Completed His Work at keo-
kuk and is Looking About for
Other Engineering Worlds
to Conquer.
MAGAZINE MENTIONS
December Number of the American
Magazine Gives an Account Of
His Life and Some OF. His
Achievements.

One OF the really big men of the
land is Engineer Hugh L. Cooper, who
damned ths Mississippi at Keo-
kuk. His work at Keokuk is
zone and he is looking for. other
worlds to conquer, for other problems
70 solve that others have pronounced
impossible of solution.
IN the Interesting People depart
ment OF the December American Mag
ailie appears an article about Hugh
Lincoln Cooper, a graduate of the pick
una shovel university, who tunneled
uhder Horseshoe falls at Niagara and
Nammed the Mississippi at Keokuk-a
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-20
= . . . . eeeees 800 .
PUBLIC OPINION
{ > . . . . . . . @@.e . . ,
Safe, Sane and Sensible Garbage Dis
posa1

I posal.
To the Editor of The Gate City:
Garbage disposal is an issue in
Keokuk and many Iowa cities and
should be for the whole nation. But
until the nation and the states pass
laws prohibiting the dumping of re
fuse, filth, dead animals, garbage, ana
toilet excrement and waste into the
streams of the nation, not much head
way will be made Why should Keo-
kuk undertake to do what nation
and state will not? There is nothing
to be accomplished until there is u
united action along these lines.
An 'incinerating plant" will not
make clean city. 1t requires more
labor than disposing Of kitchen gar
bage, and that is all you can get away
with in an incinerating plant. If the
manure from the stable was hauled to
the land to enrich it, and the old
cans, stone, brick, ashes and solid
refuse, to depressions, and leveled off,
thereby making beauty spots" much
good would result. Night soil and
toilet wastes are not run through an
ineinerating plant. Old paper is gath
cred and pressed into bales and sold
for junk.
The main thing is to provide by
law that kitchen garbage be placed in
proper twenty gallon receptacles and
collected several times a week and he
used to fatten hogs, and establishing
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-20
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-20
Aaalnst tho Honda,

II do not believe that bonds should
be voted for inctnerators unless 1t is
plainly shown that this method or
garbage disposal will be permanent
Improvement over the system of feecs
ing to hogs said MIR Kugel. lit is
beside the point to complain OF poor
collection of garbage; incinerators or
no incineratoEs the collection system
must be the same.
II am not convinced that the incin-
orators would yield by-products sum
GENTLY valuable to pay for the cost
Of operation In addition, l believe
that the extreme heat necessary to
consume the average city garbage
would burn out the incinerators in
time and that a renewal of the Orig
inal Investment would be necessary in
few years Furthermore I antici-
pate difficulty in securing the consent
OF any neighborlood to the location OF
an incinerator In the vicinity.
Half the Cost
nave u pihu III NY oWit, WHICH
may or may not be good Half Of the
proposed sto0o incinerator bond IS
| sue would he enough to buy $50 acres
of land a few miles out and to erect
the necessary buildings thereon for a
municipal work horse. Instead OF
4 turning garbage over to a private
contractor for feeding to hogs l
would have herd of hogs owned by
this city, the farm work to be done by
prison labor.
I IF this plan proves feasible, two
birds will be Killed with one stone
incidentally the city's investment wrn
not depreciate, as in the case of an
incinerator and the land will always
be there.
objection has been made to this
plan on the ground that the city has
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-20
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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-20

no authority to buy land for this pur-
pose. / do not see the need of par
ticular haste. The present private
contract can be renewed for two years
and In the meantime We can secure
the necessary amentimsnt to our
charter by the Legislature"
MUNICIPAL EXPERT.
Kcoauk, Iowa, Feb. 10, 1914.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-20

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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-09-08
NORTH BENNINGTON

Mrs. John O'Mara and Michael
Kearns of Troy visited their aunt
Mrs. Ed. Powers Of Pleasant street re
Gently.
Miss Frances Richards left Satur
day for her school in Ashfcld, Mass
where she is to teach tho coming
year.
William c. Stanley and Miss
Nora Harris we're married at the
parOchial residence Monday morning,
at $50 o'clock.
William Minoguc, who has been
spending fow days at the home OF
Mr. and Mrs. William Mayhem has re
turned to Schenectady.
Mrs. Margaret Casey, daughter
Agnes aud son Bartholomew, have re-
turned from Pittsheld where they at
tended the welch-Casey wedding.
John Harlem. who passed the week
end with his mother. returned Mon.
day TO Schenectady. accompanied by
his wife and children. who have been
spending few weeks in town.
The graded school OF the village
opened this morning. Septem-
Der Sth. School will have two SEES
sions OF three hours each. from . TO
- a. m. and from / to Z y. m. The
school building has been cleaned and
sinted throughout, aud is in first
class condition. There will be four
new teachers in the faculty for the
coming year. Miss Annie |. kentield
CT Amherst. Mass. graduate OF Mt.
Holyoke. and Miss Helen I. Plumer Of
Union. ~ A.. graduate OF Smith col
lege. will be the high school assis-
tants. taking the places Of Miss Rock
well and Miss Pead. resigned Miss
Nellie l. Hunton of Rutland. gadu-
ate OF Castleton Normal. will teach
the grammar department. taking the
place OF Miss Oneal Miss Mary L.
Corcoran Of Rutland. OF several years
experience in similar work will teach
the intermediate depa .tment in place
OF Miss Nora Z. Harris. resigned. H.
n. Kibbey will be superintendent and
supervising principal. as before. Miss
Alice N. Young and Miss Clara A.
Monahan will have charge OF the
same departments as last year. The
heate- has been thoroughly overhaul
ed. and repaired. and practically re-
built. and il is expected that Il viii
now heat the building at considerable
less expense. J H. Mccarthy, who
has had considerable experience in at
tending heaters. has been appointed
ianitor.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-09-08
BRADFORD HOOKS
BEST COMPANY
IN PARADE
Won Silver Cup at State Tour
nament in Rutland
"PUTS" HAD AN ACClDt MI
Bennington Hose Team Shut Out of
Money Because OF Collapse
Of a Runner
"PUtS" HAD AN ACClDt MI

Tho Bradford hose company OF
Bennington secured the prize. a silver
loving cup. fer the best appearing
company in tho big parade of the
state iremen's association at Rutland
Monday
Tho company was in the seccGd
division of the parade which was
comp Used of 600 men and which ~as
considered one of the most successful
events of the kind in the history Of
the association. The parade was
witnessed by crowd Of between
1000 and 5000 people.
Twelve companies took part in the
hose races. The Putnam hose com
pany team from Bennington made an
excellent run, bu, failed to win ono
of the lI-izes for the reason that one
OF the runne,s collapsed.
The Bennington City band wen to
Rutland with the iremen and its
work in the parade was one OF ,he
features of the day
Nearly a hundred 6remcn from this
village attended the convention and
nearly hundred more citizens were
in tho Marble City for the day.
w. II. Bradford Chief Harry Spear
of the department and Harry b North
of the fire committee of the board OF
trustees were guests OF the depart
ment at Rutland. They put up at the
Bardwell and late in the evening tho
Bennington department gave them
serenade at the hotel.
Among those from bennington who
were in Rutland Labor Day to attend
the muster were Mr. and Mrs. Viii
liam Sears. JohnP. Ryan. AIR and Mrs.
William Lonergan. Miss Lillian Van
Kleeck. Miss Winifred Elwell. Edgar
S. Buss. Charles Green. Cornelius Sui
livan. William Lowe. Edward S. liig.
gins, 7. =. Gregg, Mrs. T. H. Fergu-
son, Il. H. McCue, Mr.. aud Mrs L. d.
Moore
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1914-09-08
SERVICE OF lNTERSESsIoN
To Be HELD al St. Peters Church
Each Wednesday Morning

Editor cf the Banner: From now
on, till further notice. there will be
a service OF intersession for peace.
eve-y Wednesday, at ten O'Clock in
the morning at St Peters church.
These services viii not be over If
teen minutes in length. more time
would interfere with the business OF
most persons. There is really moth
ing that the American Christian can
do to help to bring this frightful
struggle in Europe to an end. but to
pray. For this reason this short mid
week service is designed. and ST
Peters extends an earnest and CO.
dial invitation to all Bennington poo
pie 10 Join in asking Gods overruling
for a permanent peace OF the world.
Very truly yours
Thornton =. Turner.
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c. M. C. HIKE
Party Of Seventeen Made Trip to
Summit Of Bald Mountain

Although the Green Mountain club
hike which was held yesterday was
not as we'll attended as the last one
on account of the many activities in
town Oh the holiday, thoroughly
good time was enjoyed by all. The
party was made up CT II people
who started from the corner Of Main
and Branch street at $50. The hike
was made up the trail to White
Rocks aud from the,e to Bear Wal.
low where lunch was eaten. After
lunch the ascent was made to the
summit and then down the other
side of the, mountain to Bickford Ho.
low. The hike In all was between
thirteen and fourteen miles
The day was fine one for such
a "trip as the heat did not make the
walking tiresolnc The only discom.
fort felt was at the summit of the
mountain where there was such a
gale that it was almost impossible TO
stand still.