The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-09-20
COMING OF TIE CLYDE STEAMSHIP LINE
MARKS AN IMPORTANT EPOCH IN HISTORY
Of COMMERCIAL CIRCLES Of BRUNSWICK

interest that | serve, that you will
e. the gamers by the opportunity
thus offered. 1t rests with your
selves.
You have a magnificent hotel one
of the best in the state rearranged
and re-equipped by tie enterprise of
the Atlanta, Birmingham and Allan
tic people. In your beautiful beaches
and lovely sea islands. and in all of
the conditions which have made
Brunswick known as the beauty
spot" you have much to attract these
who go about seeking in climatic
change health and recreation.
AS for the policy of this line
through Brunswick. you have. as
Charleston had and Jacks nville has,
a section which is naturally trilmte
to you. The entrace of the Clyde
line into Brunswick will give you
better facilities in the way of water
connections than you have heretofore
enj yed, for in the combination. of
which the Clyde line is part. with
the magnificent "AGWI' fleet of IS
modern steamships and with almost
an auxiliary navy of boats, lighters
and tugs, and with the inclination,
coupled with the ability to keep apace
with the competition and to meet
the demands as they arise in passen-
ger and freight traffic, you and all
other Cf our ports can feel assured
that as the business grows, the facil-'
tiles will e provided.
The unobserving may say-but a
line to Brunswick alone. a line 70
Charleston alone, a line to Jackson,
Vile alone, uld each be better
than the same number of ships oper-
ating over the southern ports per
trip. This is mistake. The ibusi-
ness which we have is not fixed in
volume or made up of particular
line of traffic. Through the port CT
Charleston we move and receive a
line of merchandise freights, cotton
and other staples. which would be un-
heard of through the port Cf Jackson
vile. Through tie port Of Jackson
Vile we handle the products of Flor
ida's soil and forests. which produce
a line CT traffic northbound wholly
different from the movement through
Charleston. At Brunswick your local
and surrounding conditions. put you
into a zone practically as separate
frI IN Charleston and Jacksonville as
though they were thousands of miles
apart.
While the competition on through
freightS in the upper Georgia, Ala
bama, Tennessee and western points,
may cause rivalry between different
rail carriers, yet that does not affect
the water route except ms far as It's
longer rail haul may increase or de-
crease its proportion of an agreed
rate. Time and distance cost mon
do in rail transportation. The Clyde
line, recC gniZing those conditions,
will so arrange its service that each
of these conditions will have it's
hands the fullest volume of proper
service at proper rates to protect
their interests, and the avoidance,
as far as possible, of these elements
Ct frictional competition in lines
where the activity of merchants may
meet on fighting ground.
With open rates, fairly established,
certainly maintained, with fair treat
ment alike to all under like condi-
tions, no shipper or connection should
justly complain Cf the operation Of
these lines in the territory to which
| refer. Let us hut hope that the
business world will recognize these
situations as they exist and ascribe
to the Clyde line the existence of no
policy other than as herein set out. !
TIC the transportation world direct
ly concerned in the Brunswick situa-
tiOn, | will say that while the Clyde
line contracted with the Atlanta, Bir-
mingham and Atlantic to use it's
splendid terminals here exclusively
for a period of years, I do not mean
by the term exclusive that only the
freight for Brunswick locally and
tAat exchanged with the A.. 3. & A. .
will be handled While the Clyde
line comes here primarily at the in
of the A.. b. & A., and to
supplant the steamship line operat
ed by that company. and ii properly
looks to that line. with Brunswick as
its only seaport, for greater effort to
build up business tnan it could natur-
ally expect from the other great sys-
tens having a wide range of ports
yet in entering Brunswick the Clyde
line recognizes the existence Of and
welcomes the help of both these great
active properties the a. c. l.. and the
At the great nearby port
cf Savannah where the Ocean Steam
ship company operates magnificent .
feet of ships under the sole owner
shin of the Central of Georgia, ! have
not heard that the relations between
the steamship company, Seaboard Air
Line. S uthern and A. c. l.. have been
AT all affected and the volume of traf-
fc exchanged at all reduced Lecause
of the Centrars ownership of the