Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-05-11

Two auditors courts have been in session
in the ctymost of the week.
The auditor in the case of Southern Pines Co.
VS. Lon Dickey has been taking evidence several
days this week at the LeeGrant Hotel.
Here is something for Fitzgerald business men
to.think about In urging the business men of
Waycross to Advertise that city at jamestown eT-
position the Waycross Journal says
tNo city in the state has more to offer than
Waycross. Few have as much. This is town
with future to it. How many cities have ~, 600,
900 shops in course of construction? How many
cities in the state will employ four thousand skilled
laborers during the next year? What other city
will have an actual proved increased population
the next year of approximately seven thousand!
Factories and mills and railroads are being plan
ued and established here every day. One man,
Gen. Albert w. Gilchrist, is spending 500, 900 in
buildings and Improvements in Gilchrlst Park.
He is having one hundred and seven cottages built
of his own accord More than five hundred
houses will have to be built here within the next
year to take care of the increased population.
These are cold and irresistible facts that cannot
be gansad. They are economic facts that speak
volumes in and of themselves"
1t is not the matter of advertisement that we
wished to call attention to but the cold statistical
facts stated in the brief paragraph quoted
Now, we are not Jealous of Waycross, because
there is room for prosperity and hers in this
blessed section of the Sunny South. But we want
to be alive to our opportunities, for these days
are full of opportunities, one crowding upon the
heel of the other but opportunities like the water
that turns the mill, passes on and if there is no
mill for it to turn it is lost forever
The building evolution is one of the interest
ing features of Ftzgerald's growth.
The covered wagons and tents were abandon
ed by the 'eary day arrivals for the slab shack
or rough and odd shaped cottages built, often in
dayand night Then came the cottage age neat little
cottages and frame buildings for business hous-
es; the first house occupied by the Colony Bank is
one of these frame buildings with upright weather
boarding and no ceiling, that stands now, IN the
rear of the Crystal Bottling Works, (Which by the
way sin the first brick building ever erected III
the county, The Empire store of that particular
age or epoch of the colony was afterwards moved
to South Grant Street and the law office OF
Col. D. B. Jay several years and but recently was
rolled away to do service as kitchen or stable, to
make room for the stone block of the Fitzgerald
Mercantile Company.
The wooden buildings are rapidly disappear
ing from the business district where splendid
brick and stone blocks Immediately take their place.
The buildings are not torn down, simply
put on wheels and rolled to some remote part OF
the city, to be utilized for suitable purpose
Any day one or more of these buildings can be
slowly rolling along street of the city,
The character of the new blocks is reassuring
to the man who is looking to the future Fitzgerald
as a CITY, At least one brick building, and
with pressed brick front has been torn away to
make room for a modern five story structure
Thus the evolution goes and becomes more
interesting at every stage.
The regularity and frequency with which the
smaller buildings are giving place to more substan
tal buildings and great business blocks, is crafty
ing indeed to the progressive citizen of this pros
pering community.