The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-13
TO GO RIGHT AHEAD.
TIE BUILDING OF THE SOUTH
BOUND TO BEGIN SOON.

The Directors Appoint Committee
to Go North to Arrange for the Or
ganizatiOn OF the Construction Com
pany-The Granting OF the Bay Street
Franchise to Increase the Renting
Value o. Warehouses Along the
River-The Jesup and Jacksonville
Survey.
The directors of the South Bound rail-
way had an important meeting yesterday
afternoon, at which O committee consistIn &
Of Herman Myers. president, b. A. Dea-
mark, vice president, and Col. Nike Brown,
one OF the directors, was appointed to go
north in the interest Of the South
Bound to confer with members of the con-
struction company.
The action Of the committee on the right
OF way and that Of the city council was
reported, and it is understood that the d.
rectors gave the stockholders Of the con-
struction company tounderstand that since
the action of the council in its formal grant
OF terminal facilities to the South Bound
that nothing now prevents the construction
company from going ahead and completing
us organization, and preparing to build the
road
TO ORGANIZE THE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY.
II Is believed that the mission Of the COM
Initoee to the north is TO confer with the
members of the construction company
there, and that by the time the committee
returns the city will have fully carried out
oy ordinance the preliminary step it took
In approving the report of its
special committee as published in
the MORNING NEWS last week, aud when
THIS Is done the construction company will
az once begin the work of construction at
this end of the line, and push forward the
building of the road vigorously, with a
view to having it completed in time to
handle the bulk of next seasons corn crops
The bright prospects Of the South Bound
were the subject Of general comment last
night after the meeting adjourned, and it is
now conceded by those who were doubling
Thomases two months ago that the South
Bound will surely be built.
TO BUILD Up THE BAY.
Already there is an inquiry for business
houses on the Bay, and it Is said that one of
the leading houses on Broughton street CON-
templates removing to the Bay, where bet
ter shipping facilities are assured.
1t is also stated that two or three large
South Carolina firms viii remove to Savan-
nah in time to be prepared for the trade
which is expected TO flow in by the South
Bound.
A well-informed official Of the road in
formed MORNING NEWS reporter yester-
day that be comedies in the opinion Of Gen.
Alexander, as expressed in yesterdays
MORNING NEWS, that the Robinson syndi-
cate is not behind the projected road now
being surveyed from Raleigh via Jesup to
Jacksonville.
a JACKSONVILLE PROJECT.
The official says that it is Jacksonville
project. When asked if he thought it would
ever amount to anything, he was not in
clined to belIttle the enterprise. 1t was.
however, plain to infer from his view Of
the situation that if prompt action on the
part of the South Bound is taken the ne
cessity of the road will not be
apparent, as the South Bound.
with its Columbia and northern connec-
lions, will solve the problem of a short line
TO New York. and if jacksonville wants to
shorten the distance still more, q junction
with the South Bound at Savannah is the
only practicable way to do it,