The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-22
sHIrBUILDING AT BRUNSWICK.
A steamer TO he Constructed There
for the Cumberland Line.


Brunswick. Ca, July 2i.-Capt. William
NJ. Topper, one Of the recent purchasers
of the Cumberland route line of steam
boats, has just returned from the east,
where he went to purchase new steam
boat for his line. He visited every ship
building port of any consequence in the
east, and after the most careful invest-
cation came TO the conclusion that his
firm can build steamboats, in Brunswick
out of wood taken entirely from Georgia
soil at a saving of from 1000 to SO 900.
Capt. Upper is a Maine man and knows
about ship-building. The steamer that he
intends building will be larger than the
City of Brunswick so well known to pas
sengers on the Cumberland route. 1t viii
be a passenger boat with the usual freight
accommodations, and cost about $751;
The timbers will be of oak, planking of
pine, and finishing of cypress, all taken
from Georgia's timber lands and prepared
for use here in Brunswick. Men expert
enced in the ship builders art will be
brought down from Maine to direct the
work, but labor from home will prodomi-
nate in its construction. The increasing
patronage of the Cumberland route, due
to the island resort and the handling of
all Florida freight from the Mallory line
steamships. makes IL necessary TO have
a new steamboat within a few months,
and the work Of construction will soon
begin.
II is currently rumored that Solicitor
General Brantley will retire at an early
date TO actively engage in the campaign
for democracy, and that Mr.. w. NJ Too
mer of Ware county will receive the APP
pointment for the uneXpired term. 1t is
also reported that this will be In the ma
ture of compromise measure and by
an agreement. Mr.. Toomer Will not go
before the next House for election for the
long term, but will leave the field open
to Mr.. q. y. Mabry of Glynn and Mr.
John W. Bennett Of Waycross, the two
other contestants. If this programme is
carried out Il will be an amicable settle
ment of what has proven in some respects
TO have been a bitter and disagreeable
contest, and all parties concerned will be
| relieved when it is finally consummated
Mr.. H. w. Reed. president of the Ma
tional Bank of Brunswick and promi-
nently spoken of as the populist candi-
date for congress from the Eleventh dis
| trict, has gone to st. Louis as a dele
| gate to the populist convention.
The republican factions in Glynn county.
so far as the colored portion is concern
4 ed, seems to be fixing for another mix
| up" which may outclass the last pow
| WOW they held here Nose Sawyer, a ne
| gro politician, started the dispute Sun
1 day by publishing a card calling for a
mass meeting on Friday next to ratify
| the nomination of Mckinley and Hobart
/ and elect delegates 10 the state conven-
| tion, TO be held in Atlanta" In the call
| is included an invitation to AL republi-
/ cans, and all white men claiming to be
/ republicans and all sound money men, -
/ 10 come out and give their views and
take part. The call. Furthermore, states
/ a desire on the part of Sawyer 10 have
/ all come out and heal the breach of all
| past differences in the republican ranks.
| This card aroused a storm in republican
| circles. and those styling themselves the
| regulars We're dead against it.
They say that Sawyer, being no longer
| chairman of the county executive com
mittee, has no authority to make such
| a call.
Capt Leo Loum, master of the fast
| steam tug DauntleSs, in an interview with
the Morning News correspondent to-day
! regarding a race with the fiilibusterer
| Three Friends of Jacksonville. and quo
! tation from one of her owners in these
| dispatches Sunday to the effect that he
would consider a challenge from the
Dauntless for race, said: THE intima-
! ton from Mr.. Bars that the owners of
| the Three Friends would consider a
| challenge from the Dauntless is ridicu-
| lous. If Mr.. Bars is at all familiar with
the ethics of contests, whether athletic
or otherwise, he must know that as holder
of the championship of Georgia and Flor
ida it IS impossible for the Dauntless to
| challenge any boat"
The delegates from Glynn to the seno-
/ torial convention a { Woodbine returned
| this morning, and report the outlook for
democracy as very promising.