The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-06-18
TWODAYS WILL SETTLEIT
THE NEW RAILROAD CANVASS
ABOUT WOUND Up.

Not Quite S28, 900 Of the $4,000 for
the Americas Road Raised-The Com
mittee to Abandon the Canvass This
Week Unless Renewed Interest is
Taken-The South Bound Canvass to
Be Taken Up Now-What the Pro-
jectors Propose.
The Savannah, Americas and Mont
gomery railroad enterprise seems to be on
Its last legs, as far as the Savannah fund
goes to indicate the public sentiment. 1t
has been understood for the past two weeks
that if the $4,000 subscription was not
made up by June 2O-next Thursday-the
committee would abandon it.
AT last accounts the subscription had not
quite reached s2s, 900, and that announce
ment, and the lack Of general enthusiasm
which the canvassing committee met with,
put damper on the enterprise. There was
to have been a conference meeting
at the Office of Joseph Hull yesterday,
but no one except Mr.. /. @. Haas, secre-
tary OF the committee, attended, so that the
Two members of the committee Of ia did
not feel Ike acting. Since the appoint
tnent OF the committee of ia there have
tSoL wv. CaAlcO tlteeilHBS Oh Tue cOulmiLG0b,
and twenty members was the highest at
tendance. Some of the members Of the
enlarged committee have not subscribed
dollar.
MAY BE RAISED BUT NOT LIKELY.
Mr.. Joseph Hull said yesterday that the
money might yet be raised by a systematic
canvass, but there does not now appear to
be any likelihood that any general effort
Will be made to do so. Those who
have taken an active interest in the can
vass, and who have, themselves, subscribed
literally, are disguised with the apathy and
selfshness met with on every hand, and do
not hesitate to say so. They say that the
policy of the many seems to be to stand
back and let the few bear all the burdens,
thinking that the latter will do so rather
than let the road be directed elsewhere, and
the few frankly say that while they are
willing to do their share they don't propose
to pull chestnuts out of the fire for those
who are hanging back, and with this
ton shown by those who have been
standing back to come to the front, the
enterprise may be said to have been
practically abandoned at this end of the
line.
THE CENTRAL ON THE MOVE.
A gentleman said yesterday that Col.
Hawkins has cut the Central out of some
rights of way at the Canoochee river by
clearing up proposed route across the
river, and at the proposed crossings of
other waterways, and that the Central is
paying woodsmen at the rate of 81 per day
to clear rights of way along its proposed
Eden extension, and has at one or two
places outgeneraled Col Hawkins.
The South Bound enterprise, which was
permitted by its projectors to await the
canvass for the fund TO aid the Americas
road, is now to be taken up for considera-
tion. The projectors do not ask any dona-
tons, but want Savannah to subscribe some
$4,000 to $75, 900 to the stock Of the road
The projectors have never had any doubt
that this amount of stock will be taken
here.
TO GO OVER THE SOUTH BOUND.
Mr.. Herman Myers and James K. Gar
nett left last night for Barnwell, s. c., to
meet Col. Mike Brown and others in con-
ference, and to go over the BarnweL road,
and the road building to Columbia, which
are to be part of the South Bound. 1t is
quite probable that the matter will be
determined at the Barnwell conference this
week whether to go ahead and build the
road. There is only gap of some thirty
miles to complete the South Bound from
Barnwell to Columbia, connecting there
with other lines of railway running east,
west and north. Messrs. Myers and Garnett
will make careful inspection of the line
from Barnwell to Columbia before their
return. and it is not improbable that an
early decision will be reached to push the
South Bound from Barnwell to Savannah
as rapidly as possible.