The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-06-27


Time and again the city has been crowd
ed with hundreds of people who come il
on excursions etc. and during the life OF
Brunswick there is yet to be heard the frs;
complaint regarding the ability to handle
any crowd that may come to the city
| The Oglethorpe one of the finest hotel.
| in the south, and an architectural gem
| IS conveniently located, overlooking the
| harbor. and few hundred feet from tn,
| union depot.
There are also Il number of other cheaper
| priced hotels in the city, In addition to
1 Brunswick's hotels. there are two Others
| If note at the resort on. Cumberland anu
| ST. Simon islands, two of the south's most
| famous winter and summer resorts.
Nowhere on the Atlantic coast can there
oe found such charming island resorts as
1 hose adjacent to Brunswick. Jekyl island,
| the property of the Jekyl Island Club,
| corporation composed of a number OF
| wealthy New York men, is indeed an en-
chanting place. 1t has beautiful and
| expensive clubhouse and a number
| of palatial cottages. 1t is in this favored
] spot that those who compose the club vile
away the winter months. Then there is
Cumberland island, the last resting place
| of Light Horse Harry Lee, and the pres
l ent home of the Carnegies. The island
1 has a magnificent water front and other ad
| vantages sought by pleasure seekers St
Simon island, the principal headquarters OF
| General Oglethorpe during the early set
l Element of Georgia, is another point of in
/ terest and also has the desired advantage
TOT either summer or a winter outing On
/ both Cumberland and st. Simon islands are
| splendid hotels and hundreds of cottages,
| where people of the south spend the heated
/ term. Indeed, Brunswick affords advan-
! tages unrivaled by any city in America, Ell
I Their as a place of business or a resort for
| pleasure seekers.
Public schools.
The schools of the city rank among the
1 finest in the land. Here the fact is fully
1 appreciated that education is the bulwarli
1 of the countrys future. The public schools
1 have an efficient corps of tried teachers the
l salaries paid commanding the best talent
| The public schools of the city for white pu-
| have a large, substantial building.
l The number of pupils enrolled for the
4 present. or rather the school year just clos
| ed, was: White, sol; colored 30 The aver
| age daily attendance: White, 400; colored
300.
The school buildings are we'll built. sub
1 stantial structures. and are equipped will
all modern appliances. The best method:
| are employed and approved apparatus ant
1 appliances are introduced as rapidly a:
| practicable Besides the public schools
1 there are a number of private institutions
| Generally speaking. the advantages of {
| thorough education are placed at the dispo
l sal of the rising generation of Brunswicf
| in a manner that will rank with any Other
| community of similar magnitude
Churches.
| There is no institution worthier of the
] appreciation and love of a community thai
1 the churches existing in its midst; identified
| with the earliest growth. throbbing with it:
life. participating in its reverses and shar
ing its prosperity. They seem TO be invested
with personality to be loved and cherished
like those of ones household.
Brunswick has plenty of churches. II
few, if any. cities the size of Brunswick
can he found the same number of elegan
modern church buildings. All denomination;
are represented and have large congrega
tons and are presided over by competen
and eloquent pastors. Fifteen churches anC
missions-nine white and six colored-lif
their spires heavenward, their bells pealine
forth in the Lords day admonishing man o
his duty to his Creator.
The churches are: Baptist church. corne
Union and Mansfield; Presbyterian. corne
George and Reynolds; st. Marks Protestant
Episcopal southeast corner Gloucester ant
Egmont streets; st. Jude's Episcopal. cor
ner f and j streets; First Methodist corner
Monk and Norwich; McKendree Methods
4 Episcopal corner F. and X: Second Advent
corner d amid L; Beth Tefioh (syna gogue)
corner Monk and Egmont. and St. Francis
Xavier (Catholic), corner Newcastle anC
Howe. The churches for the colored PEG
! pie are: ST. Athanasius Episcopal corne
l | Monk and Albany: St Paurs A. NJ. F.. No
; Jos South Wolf street; First Bryant Baptist
corner f and Carpenter: First African Bap
tist Amherst. between Monk and Giouces
ter: Friendship, on Howe street. and tn,
Shiloh Baptist. on Egmont near Mansliel,
street
Societies.
Secret organizations well entrenched
Brunswick has representative lodges of al
the principal secret organizations. They
j are well attended and in good financial con