The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-12-20
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the possibilities presented in the new
colony Of Glencoe located on the Sea-
board on the border line of Camden
and Glynn counties. is due solely to
TIC fact that the active managers Of
the enterprise. Messrs. c. J. Meyers.
Farren, OF Shepard, Mich. and F. A. :
Farren, Of Shepard. Mich, have gone
/. aDout their work so quietly that few
basIress men Of this city have realized
what these gentlemen have already
accomplished and viii continue to do
DUNG the coming five years.
When the Georgia Land company
was organized several months ago The
News and other newspapers chroni-
cled the fact As no advertising mat
ter was circulated in this section few
besides those interested in the COM
pany had kept up with the work which
had been started bv the company.
Naturally the arrival Of a carload Of
Michigan excursionists Thursday
morning was surprise 10 those who
Lad not known or the project.
II was an expectant crowd Of yisi-
tors which boarded the train Friday
morning for q days outing on the col
ony site. Messrs. Albert Fendig and
William Nassbaum, .of this city, resi-
rsnt agents OF the company with
Messrs. Meyers and McFarren. acted
rs guides and were kept busy answer
az questions. The writer. an out
slider and press representative, had
ieen invited to accompany the party
10 present an unbiased. disinterested
report al the days doings Within q
half hour the visitors had him on the
witness stand for furnishing Informs
ion where they Kept him throughout
What became one Of the most pleasant
Ct picnic days
Arriving as Glencoe an hour before
room. the first work was the trans
fer Of the dozen big trunks belonging
@ the visitors from the station plat
form to the big store building owned
81 the company. A score Of suit cases,
boxes and Jackets with dozen nig
tcxes Of lanehes completed the bag
gage equipment. Ii was Jolly party
ID Shirt sleeves. big brawng farmers
VINO went through the baggage act as
easily as il they had been at such work
for years
And then came that which ali had
been looking forward to for three days
"a critical personal inspection Of the
lands 81 the colony site by men who
Know soil when they see II, know what
ii will do and what they have done
and can do again 1t was in a small
way ike one Of the old boomer days
in Oklahoma when the stfip" was
opened and when new towns grew up
III 4 single night on the rolling prair-
les twenty miles from railroad and
q hundred miles distant from another
town. There was that same intense
spirit. the same anxiety-save that
these men went about their days task
with delibera.ion, their eyes and ears
open. Every man was doing his own
looking and his own seeing
Into parties Of ten or twelve each,
piloted by one of the managers, the
visitors were soon spread over an area
of mile One fellow had compass
SO that he could see for himself which
was north and south. County Sur
yeyor Penniman, who is now at work
IN the tract, had laid out the main
road to the farms and i. was along
this route that the several parties af-
ter getting their bearings put in their
work. Singly, in couples and trios
they would so over the land Of this
or that mans prospective purchase
and then pass Judgment.
Glencoe was being weighei IN the
scales. Camden and Glynn counties
were on trial. realized then for the
first time what the visit OF these farm
ers meant to south Georgia and what
little preparation had been made
against their coming. Eeyond the
quickly gathered display OF farm nro-
ducts as arranged III the Office Of Fen
dig & Co, they had been shown moth 7
ing of what the coast section could
produce.
II must have been an anxious hour
FOR Messrs. Meyers. McFarren and
their associates who had pat in sew
eral months hard work to induce these
men To simply come aud see the
new country, where they could escape
from the severe Michigan winters
Here they were on The grotmd making
their own Judgment for themselves
ma their frieudsa decision which
means much for not only the new
colony proposition hut for Brunswick
the nearest market Town fer the set
tlers. where they WI buy supple:
running into the thousands 81 dallal'
every year Group by group they
passed from point e point digslns M
to the sod and examining almost every
rod Of the soil
Tho gentle rollins sarfac ca5lgh
the eye of every man and that fac
that practically ali OF the land IS nov
ready for the plow was a feature whles
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