The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-19
Wiktor Chybowski Thinks Mississippi
River Power Comp any's Plant
Here ls Model
Structure.
LIKES PEOPLE HERE, TOO
He and His Wife, Who 10 Very Ora
cfous, Pretty Young Woman,
Pay Compliment to Atmos-
phere Of City,

The Mississippi river power plant
! at Keokuk was praised as one OF the
finest electrical installations he had
visited in this country by Wiktor
Chybowski, consulting engineer OF
the ministry of commerce and indus
try of the government OF Poland.
Mr.. Chybowski is making study OF
electrical power to be useo IN MS
native country, and the Keokuk plant
may furnish model for the tndus'
tries which are to be built In the new
republic In the east
From conservative England. and
practical Germany and Switzerland.
as he explains. the Polish engineer
has come to America. Here he finds
industry on grand scare. but like
most foreigners the thing Lnat strikes
him is the fact that we are not very
econom ical.
you do everything on such .
grand scale, but you are not eco
nomical with it. see electrical
power plants like at Keokuk, and
then you use lots of steam power,
steam trains and the like"
Mr.. Chybowski says tnat the Pol
ish government will take over the
management of the ranroacs, com
bining government capital with pri-
vate capital. He has been studying
central power plants for the purpose
Of supplying power for the electric
cation OF some OF these roads. War
saw Is to have system OF suDways
similar to New York.
Poland is recovering rapidly from
the effects Of the war, Mr.. Chybow-
ski believes. Where there was Ger
man occupation their factories have
been damaged by destruction Of parts
of the machinery. These parts are
being replaced and rebuur as rast as
possible and Poland IS rapidly re-
turning to its normal life.
Mr.. Chybowski is very interest
ing conversationalist and his know
ledge Of electricity ana engineering
is great He Is familiar with power
plants Of all kinds, but likes the one
az Keokuk very much. He thinks the
plant in Chicago for supplying power
to the electric lines there Is model
for steam construction, while the
local plant is good pattern for the
water power kind
Has Charming Wife.
Madam W1ktor Chybowski is with
her husband in this city. She is ac-
him on his tour Of Amert-
ca, and her special interests are the
schools Of this country. She is visit
ing the institutions of learning in all
Of the cities which they stop in and
trying to gain some knowledge of
them which she can take back to her
Poland, and put into practice there.
Madame Chyowsh is a pretty little
woman with blue eyes which she uses
splendidly when she talks, and golden
hair. Her voice is soft and sweet, zen
excellent thing in women" and her
crisp and clear. She has
only been IN America two months, and
has just started to master the prin-
ciples Of the English language. Nat
urally her vocabulary is very limited,
but what English words she knows,
she speaks distinctly and uses them
in the proper places. Like SO many
she employs her hands as
means of expressing herself and she
does 1t gracefully. To look at her one
would think that she might be an
American woman of much refinement
and education and at home in any
surrounding.
do you like American" she was
asked this morning.
ooh, very, very much only ="
and she could not find quite the right
word to finish the sentence with. at
[s SO big and noisy. In all London
and Paris, did not find so big stores
and so much" and here she CROPPED
Tor something to express noise again,
$50 much clamor as find in Ameri.
"a | like Ke'kuk better than the big
cities, there Is more air, more room,
and people, they nod to you on the
street"
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Study Of Schools.
Madame Chybowsh said this morn
ng that she was especially interested
in establishing schools in Poland for
he poor children, and also for the
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