The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-08
BRICK AND STONE.
Fitzgerald, Like Rome Did, Is Guild
ing for Eternity"


Fitzgerald, Ca, March 7-Mr. P. H.
Fitzgerald has ordered 100000 brick, to
be used in the construction of his new
building which he will begin at once. He
has not decided whether he will build a
hotel or a business house, but will decide
within a few days. He has expected all
the time to put up a hotel. and has been
planning for that ever since the colony
started, but Mrs. Morris wishes to put in
a $4,000 hotel on the corner of Central and
johnson streets and If she de-
viii change his building 70 a
business block covering the seven lots on
The building will be built of brick and
stone. The stone will be brought from the
quarries east of town. Mr. Fitzgerald has
had this stone tested by experts and it is
pronounced to be very fine, as good as any
found in the quarries of Indiana If Mrs.
Morris should put up her hotel she will also
begin at once as she will contract to finish
the hundred room house within ninety days
If she does not put it up, Mr.. Fitzgerald
will go back to his former plan of building
hotel. He has been having his architect
plan for that for some time.
Several car loads of brick have arrived,
and are now on the grounds for different
buildings The Colony Bank had the honor
of beginning the first brick building in
Fitzgerald, but it will not be the last, by
many. The people have only been waiting
TO get the materials to begin the more sub
stantial buildings and now that brick and
stone can be had, building will begin in
Capt. d. c. Clllom has arrived from In
diana, where he has been for some time,
and brings with him samples and will
take orders for suits until he can get his
large clothing house up. He has been to
Chicago ordering goods for his customers,
and will soon have a stock here that will
enable the Fitzgerald dudes to follow the
very latest and set the fashions in all the
surrounding country.
Mr.. j. H Harris has moved into his fine
err n Pine
and Grant streets, and Will have a grand
opening on Saturday. This is probably the
largest store open at this time, though
Others OF equal size are ready to open as
soon as the buildings are completed
DIR. T. B. Goes stump puller has been the
source of much comment and interest in
the last week. While it is not a large ma
chine, it is very interesting to any one
who has never seen anything of the kind,
TO watch it work All the laborers will
pause in their work to watch it, and the
doctor says that he does not like to go
around where there are many workmen,
because he feels that he is blocking some
great enterprise when he stops fifty or
100 men from work, and delaying the pro-
gress of Fitzgerald, and no one wishes to
do that However, every one wants to see
1t, If only for little while.
There are two new hotels contracted for,
J. Annis and Mr.. Way of Atlanta will erect
one on the corner of Oconee and Thomas
streets. 1t will have about seventy-fiVe
rooms. The other is to be the Hotel Demp-
sey, which will have about thirty rooms
and will be located just east of the Leader
office.
There were about 700 excursionists
on the excursion that came in We'd
nesday, Thursday and Friday 1t is in
teresting to watch them as they arrive
and a large crowd always meets the ex-
cursion trains. Some of the crowd go to
meet friends, while others go merely to
see the vast numbers as they arrive. The
next day after one of these excursions
the real estate agents and the colony man
ayers have all and more than they can do
IT IS easy TO tell who are the strangers
in the city by the way they look sur.
priSed at every corner that they turn