The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-10
SENSATION EXPLODED.
WHAT COL. GOODYEAR SAYS OF a
YELLOW JOURNAL YARN.

No Il Not Getting Fabulous Prices
fo,. work on the Brunswick Bar
saws lie Has Spent sHore Than He
Has Received-New Georgia Post
masters - Florida Indian War
claims in Congress.
washington, Dec 9-The work which
ri C. p. Goodyear has done upon the
n,r Of Brunswick formed the theme for
o. sensational story in a recent issue of
tb4 World. According to this story,
contractor Donal Mclean of New York
c5orges that Goodyear has been paid
cen ard upward per cubic yard. where
otber contractors under the government
are getting as low as 10 cents per cubic
rari for the same work. The New York
contractor undertakes to show that Col.
coodvears plan of operations with dyna-
mite has proved a very expensive lux
rrv for the government. An effort is
made by the writer of the article to
convey the impression that Col. Goodyear
NAV or may not have used dynamite in
his operations, and that If the work had
been done by an ordinary sea dredge the
cost would have been not exceeding $780,
ON
When asked for his reply to these
CHARGES. Col Goodyear telegraphed the
World that he did not know Contractor
Mclean and had never heard of him.
1.-THE charges" said he, "are untrue in
letter and spirit. have never aban-
doned the original methods. have
used dynamite for all deepening and as
the effective agent; a dredge was only
used as an auxiliary and only for two
wears of the seven in which the work
has progressed. No dredge used this year
and a foot aud a half gained. OF the
Ten and a half gained, all but one foot
was gained in the five years when no
dredgc was used
Col Goodyear and Gen. J. Floyd King
of Louisiana finally got together, and set
lied their differences over the contract
which existed between them. 1t will
be recalled that Gen. King held up for
some time the payment of the 100000 to
which Col. Goodyear was entitled un-
der the report of the engineers for hav-
ing secured in Brunswick a depth of
twonty-four feet on the bar and POO
foot channel twenty-three deep. Gen.
King assisted in securing the original
legislation at the hands of Congress and
had contract calling for division of the
proceeds. There was a difference of opin-
ion as to the terms of this contract, and
it was finally settled by the payment to
Gen King of $4,000 and the cancellation
of an account which Col Goodyear held
against him of about $1,000. In return
for this he gave receipt in full for all
CxOO3uaar md his
This left Col Goodyear $4,000. He had
fled a sworn statement with the war de-
partment that he owed 100000 for ex-
penditures on the work, which would in
dcate that the transaction was not par
ticulary profitable one for him. He has
however, an opportunity under the act of
Congress to earn $3.50 GOO more on the work.
He expects under the survey going on TO
get one foot more depth of water, or TWEEN
ty-ive feet in all. for which he is to get
$4,000, and he expects the survey to show
a channel 200 feet wide and twenty four
feet deep, for which he will get $4,000
more This may give him an opportunity
to recuperate the losses so far sustained.
This will wind up the woTE.
Five fourth-class postmasters were APP
pointed in Georgia to-day: William II.
Grubbs Bethel, Randolph county, vice
AHanda l. curry, resigned; Camilla j.
Bagley, Hudson, Sumter county, vice Lis
ton X. Bagley. resigned H. R. Allen,
lonia, Wilcox county, vice George w.
Priceler, resigned; T. J. Martin, Denmark,
Crawford county, vice Allen A. Mathews,
resigned, and P. d. Hardman, Larkin,
Madison county, vice William 7. Chandler,
resigned.
Mr.. Sparkman of the First Florida Dis
trct and Mr.. Davis of the Second district,
are working very hard to get through the
House at this session the Florida Indian
war claim. This claim has already pass
ed the Senate, and is now in the House.
Il has been pending many years, and if
the Florida members succeed ir will give
their state several hundred thousand dol
lars