The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-03-26
STRONG APPEAL
WILL De MADE
To GOVERNMENT
TO RECONSIDER ACTION IN CON-
NECTlON WITH BRIDGE OVER
ALTAMAHA RIVER.
Petition Signed by Many Citizens and
Resolutions Passed by City Council
and Board of Trade to Be Forward
ed to Washington.

The war department of the United
States government will shortly receive
three documents from Brunswick urg-
ing that the department reconsider its
action in refusing the Georgia Coast
and Piedmont railroad permission to
build a bridge across the Altamaha
river with spans of less than 100 Feet.
TTU of these will be in the shape OF
resolutions. one passed 10y the mayor
and council, and the other by the
Brunswick board of trade, while the
third will be in the shape OF a long
county generally.
The petition has been in cirCula-
tion for the past several days and has
been signed by almost, every citizen
to whom it has been presented. The
board of trade passed resolution on
Thursday, while the council took A
similar action Thursday night 1t is
believed that these resolutions and
petitions will have great weight with
the government, and with the work
being done in other ways it is expect
ed that the matter of constructing the
bridge will again be opened which
practically means that Brunswick will
soon secure the railroad in question.
The resolution passed by council
Thursday night was introduced by
Mayor Hopkins and is as follows:
Be it, and it is hereby re-
solved, by the mayor and coun-
Gil of the city of Brunswick, in coun,
Gil assembled, That in the opinion OF
this body the individual members
thereof having a considerable and
long familiarity with and knowledge
Of the geographical and commercial
conditions of the several localities,
that a seventy-five foot drawbridge
span in the Darien river and a sixty
foot drawbridge span in the South Al
tamaha river, each of said rivers be
ing a branch of the Altamaha river
will amply provide for the handling
of the shipping and rafting business
conducted thereon, and will fully meet,
not only the necessities, but the cen
venience of all persons and lines of
business using or to use the said Alta
maha river, or either of its said
branches.
Be it, and it is also hereby fur
ther resolved, That in view of the
above stated facts and of the further
facts hat if the said drawbridges are
permitted to be constructed, as above
recommended, it will be possible for
the Georgia Coast and Piedmont Rail
road company to extend it's line of
railway from Darien upon the north
eastern side of said Altamaha river
and it's branches, to the city of Bruins
wick, and that such an extension, if
made. will necessarily assist, and be
very largely the cause, not only for
the material improvement of the ter
ritory traversed by such extension but
of the cities of Darien and Brunswick
as well, and also will be of consid-
cradle benefit to the citizens along the
entire line of said Georgia Coast and
Piedmont Railroad cOmpany's railway
said mayor and council hereby re-
spectfully call the attention of the
war department of the United States
to the subject matter of this reso-
luton, and earnestly prays that the
said Georgia Coast and Piedmont
Railroad company may DE permitted
to erect and maintain the aforesaid
respective drawbridges on said riv-
ers, for the purpose of enabling said
company to extend it's line Of railway,
as aforesaid.