The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1906-08-14
Central City Folk Claim that
Deep Designs are Worked
Against Them
ARE GOING TO THE COURTS
The Charges Are to the Effect that
those Interested in the Ruina-
ton of the Traffic Have Re-
sorted to Wrong Methods.

me steamer Nan Elizabeth, which
Tor some time has been plying be-
tween Macon and Brunswick seems
10 be playing in all kinds of had
luck. 1t will be recalled that the
southern railway has been making.
hght against the steamer landing
at It's wharves in this city and the
following story from the Macon News
shows that other designs are upon the
boat at Macon:
10 you remember those trees thai
insisted on falling in the river and al.
ways obstructed the passages of tha
Nan Elizabeth between this city and
- u,, ""1" 'oh YIM
Wei, if you do yoI will al,l re-.
call that there was suspicion thai
they did not come into the river by
accident.
NOW it is known that one OF them
got there Ny design. Inc design nav
or may not have been to impede the
progress of the Nan Dut the tree did
anyhow.
Mr.. T. J. Carpen.aen, wotle.
sale merchant of th1 city. saw er--
eral men cut tree so that 1t wouI1
fall in tho river and float down to
some narrow place and there lodge
hrhlly to The serious obstruction of
navigation. This tree was cut right
near the city, In fact in the citv linn
us, and was followed out into the
sc'ream by a man In boat and allow,
cd to go tloating down the channel.
'lhe "tory that Mr.. Carpenthen
tells Is as follows Several weeks
ago | was down at the bridge to
see now the water was on account
or work was having done at NV
place up the river and the progress
OF which depended upon the stage of
the water in the Ocmulgee. I saw
party of men, about three, coming
up int river in batteau. The men
were looking at the trees along the
Dahk and passed under the bridge
on which was standing. When
ihey got to that clump of trees ON
the west bank where there are a
lew boats tied up. just above the
bridge, they went asfore, tied fho,r
boat and looked up at the trees. Thew
seemed to be talking among them,
serves and then theV D. duced ar ax
ana began cutting down the tallesr
tf"e III the bunch. IL was cottonwood
ana about one hundred feet feet from
up TO tip and had treat deal M
Foliage. The tree was cut so that
IL would fall m the river and when
IL did one of the men ran down tn tba
boat and followed the tree for a
SNORT distance like he intended TO
guide IL through the bridge. 1t went
through all right enough and the man
turned the boat and went back Tha
otheE men got in the boat and con,
tihued up the river. At the time
thought The thing of cutting trees To
rail- in the river was a bad busi.
ness and could not figure out wbv
1t was being done. | watched the
tree that was cut for some time ana
saw it floating down the river.
I never thought any more of the
subject until | saw those three stor.
les in the News and then [ conclu,
ded to let folks concerned know some-
thing about what had seen. senr
word to Mr.. Emmett Small throueb
Mr. A q Small
i am going to refer .his whole mar.
ter to the government. The wanton
blocking the river Is pretty scr.
ious business so l am informed. In
orde rto keep down Conflicts between
steamboats, and railroads the govern
ment took over the rivers as same
as post roads. While we are charg-
ing no one with having done this
act there stands the evidence that
some one has sought, with malice
atofethonght, to block the Ucmulgee
as a nayigable stream. It is mighty
strange that these trees should be cut
right when the Nan rs expected up the
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