The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-05-29

- SOoSES lON ~ III SOONNtL
The News has a suggestion il
wants to make to the city council this
morning and in doing so it wants to
invite the people of Brunswick into
its confidence in the discussion of a
matter of deep import to Brunswick
and to her future growth and devel.
ment. We are fully aware of the fact
that she municipality has many de-
mands upon its exchequer and we are
not unmindful of the close financiering
it requires On the part of the city to
meet her obligations and make the
needed Improvements in the public
works and in other city departments
However, the matter we have in mind
is knocking very loudly at Brunswick's
door for solution and consideration
and we are quite persuaded that it
is worthy of our best thought
1t must be admitted by every intel
ligent person within the confines CT
this city, that Brunswick's business
condition-her shipping, for that after
all is the foundation of her commerce,
her very lifes blood, is not in the sat
isfactory shape it should be. 1t is also
very true that one of the real under
lying causes of this condition is due
to the fact that the transportation con
Germs doing business in Brunswick do
not cooperate with her as literally as
they do with other seaports in this i'm
mediate section.
Now there is a reason for that!
Lets find that reason and once find
ing it, lets remedy it, if it is possible
and we have a very strong idea that |
it is and that it can be located with
the proper man and the proper effort
there is no doubt.
Why is it, Brunswickians, that lum-
Der mills located within twelve miles
of this, the best port on the entire
coast, are shipping their lumber to
Savannah for the sea? And that con
diticn exists, mark it, in the very face
of the fact that the port of Brunswick |
is in condition to handle cargoes at |
a cheaper rate than obtains in Saw
annah!
Why is it that prominent lumber
dealers, who have heavy investments
in wharves, etc, in this city, have |
within the last twelve months aband-
oned their Brunswick business and |
are now shipping through Savannah |
exclusively, in the face of the fat that
Brunswick is nearer to the saw mills?
AS in the other Instance cited, there
is a reason for such conditions as we
have named and it's BrunsWik's duty
to find those reasons!
II ldS OCCuIISu W L Tic NEWS THAT
it would be a good idea for the city
council to look into this matter to the
extent of employing a competent rail-
road rate man, familiar with traffic
and traffic arrangements, who acting
in the capacity of secretary of the
Board of Trade, would be expected to
unravel this very tangled situation,
and clarity the matter in order that
Brunswick might demand and get
what properly belongs to her. This
official, who ought to be a very COM
petent man, should also hook carefully
TO our interest in all matters touch
ing freight rates, acquaint the out
side world with Brunswick and her
advantages, use printers ink wisely
and judiciously and In fact exercise
those functions usual with paid secre-
taries. "s.:
This is mere suggestion We make
to council, bat we do believe that it
possesses genuine merit and we know
that the people of Brunswick will en-
dorce any action along this line that
council sees fit to make. Think 1t
over gentlement of the council.
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