The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-08
FERRY FROM DOCK TO DOCK.
WATER LINE TO Be OPERATED
ALONG THE RIVER FRONT.

Petition for the Incorporation of the
Savannah Dock Ferry Company
Hail Been Filed in the Superior
COJEt-The Company Intends to
Opssnte a Line of Modern Ferry
Bosks From the Plant System
Wherves to These of the Central
Railway and to the Manufactur-
ing Plants Further Up the River.
ThtFe Will Be Cheap Fares and
Jongenient Schedules.
petition for the Incorporation of the
Ivannah Dock Ferry Company has been
filed in the Superior Court and is being
advertised in compliance with law. When
the plans of this prospective corporation
are plgced in successful operation they
will rgult in material advantage to the
shinpitEg interests of the port.
The Getitioners named in the plea for
incorporation are William w. Mackall of
SavanIph, R. G.. Erwin of New York;
John saelton Williams of Richmond, Va,
Jacob .Pausen, j. F. Minis. Henry c.
Cunningham. j. A. G. Carson, Beirne
Gordon and w. A. Bisbee of Savannah.
Inc CdbAldI SlOCh 10 Dt 6uIplOyGu Ill inc
businesN is the sum of $4,000 and the
period for which the company desires to
exercise corporate powers and privileges
is fifty years. The names of the men at
the head of the new enterprise make as
surance doubly sure that the corporate
plans and intentions will be carried into
full effect,
II Is proposed to operate a line of COM
n1odious and convenient ferry boats along
Nf nah
Plant System wharves on the east 10 the
Central Railway wharves and The manu-
featuring plants situated further up the
river on the west. The boats will ply from
one end of the proposed route to the 9TH
er, in accordance with a schedule that VIII
meet with the convenience of patrons and
the demands of travel, stopping at the
various docks on both sides of the river.
The main stopping places, of course, VIII
be the three great terminals, those of the
Plant System, the Georgia and Alabama
and the Central of Georgia Railways.
II is thought by the promoters OF the
enterprise that the operation of the ferry
line will be of material advantage TO those
interested in shipping along the river
front and particularly to mariners and
others. whose business calls them to YES
sells anchored far up or down the river
and who desipe TO reach the central sec
ton of the city. There are many also who
work a. these places, and nothing could
be devised that would bring them to the
business quarter of the town more quick
ly and pleasantly than the line of ferries
The fare will be made moderate. to the
end that the line may become popular
from the first. The boats will be of the
best class and will be able TO make the
trip from one end of the line 10 the other
in quick time. The schedule will be
convenient one, so that there will be no
irksome nor unnecessary delays for those
h. cd 10 haN nat Of
the company.
Mr.. W. w. Mackall one of the iucorpora-
tors and leading spirit in the enterprise.
was asked yesterday to give to the Morn
ing News an outline of the plans the
company intended TO follow. Other than
the general idea of the company's purposes
that is sketched above he said he was
not in a position TO give Information, as
the details would have 10 receive the con-
sideration and would be dependent upon
the determination of the stockholders or
directors of the new corpora ton, after its
charter had been granted by the Superior
Court.
1t will be a month before the charter
can be obtained legally, and not before
that time will the company be formally
organized. AS soon thereafter as possi-
bic. however, it is proposed TO place the
line in operation and the necessary vessels
will be purchased, with all other needed
facilities for the convenient handling of
passengers, at once. Mr.. Mackall could
not say just how many ferry boats would
be used by the company, but there will
be sufficient. he did say, to meet every de-
mand of travel.
The enterprise is an entirely new one in
Savannah, but its very newness bespeaks
the confidence the incorporat tors have in
the future of the city and the certainty of
its growth and the immediate and healthy
expansion of its trade and commerce.
SbOflld
be of this fixed opinion is a matter of en-
couragement for the less sanguine of their
brethren and of discontinue to the small
aggregation of Doubling Thomases who
scent disaster in every passing breeze.
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