The Savannah morning news., 1901-03-12
NO MONEY FOR TYBEE
SOLICITING COMMITTEE DID NOT
MEET WITH SUCCESS.
WILL so REPORT TONIGHT.
ANOTHER MEETING OF PROTECTED
COMPANY TO BE HELD.

HOtel-NOt "A Subscription Added 10
Those Received Two Weeks Ago.
State Fair Subscriptions Also In
terfere-Private Enterprise May
Take Up the Matter-Many I'M
proVements VIII he Made at Ty-
bee.
The effort to organize the Tybee Beach
Pleasure Company has proven a failure.
That is what Mr.. John G.. Butter said
yesterday Mr.. Butler is chairman of the
committee that was appointed at the
meeting two weeks ago to solicit sub
| scriptions, and the lack of success with
which the committee has met induced
him to say when seen yesterday, that the
enterprise will have to be given over.
A meeting of those interested in the eff
fort will be held tonight at the Pulaski
House. when a report from the commit tee
will be received. This report will be that
not one name has been added to the list
of subscribers since the meeting two
weeks ago. Three thousand and twenty
dollars was subscribed at that meeting,
but the interest then displayed was no
criterion of that to be shown when the
members of the committee began to circu-
late with lists to be signed.
| The view taken by the majority of those
approached, Mr.. Butler said, was that
the scheme for the improvement of Ty-
| bee would serve only to benefit the rail-
road and the hotel and, for this reason,
they refused to subscribe. Laboring I'M
der this belief, none cared to contribute,
| so that it seemed to Mr.. Butler that there
would be nothing for it but to give over
the enterprise.
Another member of the soliciting com
mittee was seen and his experience had
| been much like that of Mr.. Butler. The
| principal obstacle, he found, was the
| fact that so many have subscribed to
| the stock of the Savannah Fair Asso-
| citation. Responses to the urgent de-
mands of the committees that solicited
subscriptions to that association left
| many who might have subscribed to a
| plan for the improvement of Tybee I'M
| der the impression that they would be
| overtaxing themselves to invest so heaV-
| lily in public enterprises
This gentleman is full of the idea
| however, that such a company would
| pay, and he declared that he would like
! to have 5000 to invest in a switchback
| or other form of amusement. 1t is not
| improbable that he and others will as
| sociate themselves together for the es-
| Establishment for one or more of the feat
ures that are usually to be found at
watering places.
During the season, the gentleman is con-
| tdent, heavy receipts would repay the
establishment of amusements. Mr. Charles
F. Graham, proprietor of the Tybee Ho-
| TEL the gentleman declared, would give
a site for such a purpose without cost.
| The great crowds at Tybee during the
summer would mean strong patronage for
amusements, and it is safe to say that
they would do a tremendous business
during the State Fair, when great crowds
of people from the interior will flock 10
the island for a view of the ocean and
the pleasures of the beach.
Mr.. Butler recalled the days of the
| switchback that was run some time ago
on the island. saying that it had been
very successful until blown away by a
storm. On one May day, Mr. Butler said
the proprietor of the switchbacx took in
more than $500. This experience with the
| storm, however is still fresh in the minds
or many, Mr.. Butler declared, and they
do not want to incur the risk of having
| structures toward which they might con-
| tribute blown away.
Along this line Mr.. Butler gave some
| OF his experience with building upon the
| island that would seem to show clearly
that the danger from storms may be obvi-
ated. Piles may be sunk in the sand Mt
| little expense, he said, and they furnish a
| foundation for buildings that cannot he
washed away. Water pressure is empIov-
ed to sink the piles, and within the last
three years the method has come into
general use.
About three years ago, Mr.. Butler said
a government contractor wanted to sink
four piles for the tidal station. He had
contracted to do the work but found that
he was in fair way to forfeit his bond
| The qucksand he encountered Just Mt
tie way below the surface made II i'm
possible for him to proceed. pile driver
would not sink pile through the sand
but would batter it to pieces, instead. so
compact is the mass into which it was
sought to sink it, nor could the force Of
men the contractor employed dig cut a
hole for the piles.
In sore distress over his difficulties. the
contractor was upon the verge of giving
up the task as an impossih:lity. An en-
gineer officer, however, knew of a means
by which the piles could be sunk He
told the contractor that he might spend
$1,000 on each pile and never get them
down in the way he was trying, but that
he would show him a way in which he
could sink one in five minutes.
The contractor hailed him as his deliv
erer from great trouble, and the officer
showed him the process. A tug ran out a
hose, to which an iron pipe was attached.
A hole was dug in the sand. where IL
was desired to sink the pile, and it was
stood in the hole At the foot of the nile
was stood the iron pipe. and the steam
from the tug was turned on, stirring the
quicksand and loosening it up so thar Inc |
pile sank into 1t of its own weight Within
five minutes II had sunk to a depth or
thirty-five feet The others were sunk
just as quickly.
Since that experience, those who build
on Tybee use force pumps to stir uD the |
sand and let piles sink into the earth for
a foundation. For 81 a pile they NAV be
sunk, and Mr.. Butler declares that thew |
render building immovable when one |
has been placed upon them.
A steeplechase, switchback. shute the |
shutes or whatnot established on the |
beach coald be constructed upon piles. and |
the danger from storms would be renov- |
ed. 1t Is by no means improbable that
this matter of improvement will be taken |
up privately and carried to a successful |
conclusion
Whether or not improvements for the |
benefit OF the pubic are put in at Tybee
il has been settled that there will be far
more than the usual amount of building /
before the opening OF the coming season. 1
M William NJ Rohan a. IN beofn 40 ,na- /