The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-05-27
How SlipshOd Railroad Schedules
Damage Brunswick's In
terests.
RIDING TO TOWN ON A FREIGHT.
Vice-P President McClave Talks About the
Passenger Service Into This
City.

Mr.. E. W. McClave, OF New York,
vice-president of the Yellow Pine
Co., which does an immense lumber
shipping business through Brunswick,
makes an important complaint about
this city's passenger facilities in re-
cent interview with a TIMES re-
porter. Mr.. McClave said:
"While I am a resident of New York
city, have large interests IN Bruns-
wick and have been here many times
in the past few years, and [ love the
town, and feel >as much concern for
Brunswick's welfare as any citizen of
the City by the Sea-
81 wish to say that Brunswick has
done more for the railroads entering
the city than most citizens would do,
having given the free use of the entire
length of the Bay street. Brunswick
already has very large export trade
and the business is rapidly increas-
ing. These railroads give first class
freight accommodations, in fact, there
is veritable scramble for light, but
the passenger accommodations for
Brunswick are far behind those fur
nished to cities of no more impor-
tance. Savannah and Jacksonville
are provided with very good passen-
ger service, but Brunswick is forgot
ten as though 1t was entirely out of
the world, and il the people of Bruns-
wick do not demand their rights,
Brunswick Will be avoided for this
reason by travellers, even more than it
nowis.
"There are many business men who
will not attempt o@ome to Brunswick
if they can avoid it.
"[ arrived in Brunswick Monday
night about IL O'Clock. When | left
New York, took the latest time table
of the Plant System to be had, and
found that train left Waycross or
the arrival of the New York and Flor.
ida train at IL a. m. and arrived here
at 1850 p. m. When 1 got to Way.
cross aE Ii O'clock 1 was forced, on &C
ntof no passenger connection will
the 8. F. & w. train, to wait there un.
til freight started that night ant
was four or five hours In getting from
WaycFOss to Brunswick and had t.
travel on a miserably slow freigh
train. This was on account Of a sud
den change of schedule.
Another wrong is that any ont
wishing to secure sleeping car berth!
or drawing room to New York ].
obliged to go to the TICKET agent here
hours beforehand and have him tele
graph to Jacksonville and have then
secured there. About a year ago
| was here with my wife and a very il
child. Wishing to take them home a
once, / went to the agent the nigh
before and had him telegraph for {
section and drawing room. In thu
morning he said he had heard nothing
but it was likely / had secured them
When we reached Everett the Pull
man conductor informed me that ht
had no instructions about the reserved
section and; drawing room and W,
would have to wait until we reached
Savannah and take our chances O
getting them there.
ut seems to me that with the Jeky
Island club here, Brunswick might
have a service as good as Jacksonville
or Savannah. am no enemy of rail.
roads, but there are certain Obliga
tions which the railroads are under tc
Brunswick and they should give some
return.
81 know the power of the press and
trust that THE TIMES will secure fol
1 the citizens of Brunswick what is theiJ
due from the railroads"