The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-07-01
BOAT LINE IS IN
TROUBLE AGAIN
NOTIFIED THAT TERMINALS CAN
NOT BE USED by N. & B. NAV
leATloN COMPANY.
The Case Has Been Carried to the
Railroad Commission and Will
Be Heard Before That BODY
on july 9.

The Brunswick Steamship Company
has notified the Macon and Brunswick
Navigation Company that their fresh
water steamers the Chappell and
Small. cannot have the use OF their
terminals at the south end after July
Is. and the notice has caused a gen
eral stir among the officials OF the
fresh water route They have APP
healed the case to the Georgia rail
road commission and it will be heard
IN Atlanta on July 8, and 1t may be
thM the case win 90 from there to
the interstate commerce commission
The first announcement Of the fact
that such a notice had been given the
navigation company was made in the
Macon News OF Monday. when that
paper came out with a twocolumn
article on the subject. in which it is
charged that the A.. p. and a. and
the Southern railway are aiming an
snfust discrimination against the
company. The article in part, says
Unjust discrimination aimed at the
Macon and Brunswick Navigation
Company by the Southern, and the A.
b. and A. railroads is to be made the
6aeme of hearing before the Geor'
gia railroad commission on July 9th.
on that date the officers Of the Navi'
cation Company will appear before
the commission in Atlanta together
with their attorneys and the attempt
eli the two roads to freeze out the com
pany will then be gone into in detail.
AS the matter stands today the Ma
con ana Brunswick Navigation Com
pany S facing a crisis inasmuch rs it
has eccived notice from the two rail.
roads that after the 18th Of July The
docks and wharves will no lcnger be
available to the company This state
ment coming in the face Of the recent
Investments means necessarily con
elusive one as the commission is yet
10 take action and in case that body
Is unable to reach a decision the In
terstate Commerce Commission will
30 called upon
The Southern railroad at Brunswick
owns aud controls the Southern rail
road docks and wharyes, and the A..
b. and A. railroad exercises similar
rights over the docks and wharyes
Of the Brunswick Steamship Company
These are the two carriers that have
told the Macon and Brunswick Navi
aation Company that the steamers A
Z. Chappell and w Il. Small can be
accommodated all the docks no longer
than July 18th
This edict if such 1t may be called
has been sent to the Macon business
men from the roads despite the fact
that the two roads allow all other YES
sells to use the docks for business pur
roses The Clyde Limo vessels, those
81 the Old Dominion freight line, the
Brunswick steamship Company the
Jekyl Island Transportation Company,
and all coastwise and tramp schoon-
ers have been. and will continue 20
make use Of the Brunswick docks and
are not included in the instructions
Just received by President w. f,
small.
The claim of the NJ and b. Naviea-
tt'At N'tAltAitA - Nttii StlNA stNtiNtit ~
IN unjust discrimination and is in re-
straint Of both ntra and Interstate
business. They have, therefore,
through President Small, entered
formal complaint against the Southern
and the A. B. and A. railroads with
the Georgia railroad commission
which is. supposed TO have jurisdiction
N the matter
should, by any chance, the railroads
be upheld in the step they have taken.
ii will not mean that the Navigation
Company will have TO discontinue
operations around the brunswick port.
II viii Interfere with the operations.
however. rs some degree as lighters
would have to be employed in place OF
she docks, A Fighter" is a fat bottom.
ed beat upon which freight can be
moved from one point to another
President Emmett Small Of the Ma.
con and Brunswick Nakigation Com.
pany is not blue over The situation
nor IS he greatly surprised at the
move that has been taken In speak
ing Of Il this morning he said.
1T has always been the policy OF
the southern railroad and it's allied
lines to prevent, il possible, any river