The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-12-22
WHAT BRUNSWICK HAS ACCOM-
PLIsHED IN 1911.

There is a CLEAN Of truth in the/
widest fable. Inauspicious as the flu
ture prospects of Brunswick may havi
seemed to the average kicker in day
gone by, it must be admitted no
that optimism has triumphed. Oh
skies are illumined with hope an
our dreams of a greater Brunswick
may not have been SO airy and I'M
substantial after all. Conditions hereI
are by far the best they have beenl
in long time and when these condi-1
tons are better understood. it will be
apparent to the fair-minded man thatI
We have marvellous destiny. AS wei
are about to ring down the curtain
and number the old year among the
things that were, we have only toI
compare this glad Yuletide witt that
Of year ago. What changes do wei
note that the one short year has
brought?
A year ago we did not have ourI
magnificent naval stores plant. the
largest Of its kind in existence. which
VIII represent, when completed. a,
outlay of half million dollars aE
will give employment to several ht
dred men. We did not have our
factory, making its wares and ~
ping them to all parts of the count. .
we did not have our fertilizer work.
doing an enormous business out of
Brunswick; we did not have our big
hotel and new street railway line on
st. Simons island, to take care of
the thousands of strangers that Wis
tied this mecca of the sea-loving tour
list; we did not have our splendid new
Elk's home, our new Episcopal church.
our ew Baptist parsonage, our street
railway extension, our postal savings
bank, as well as numerous minor i'm
provements The work of the dredge
Galveston, during the year. gave us]
depth of thirty feet on the bar att
low water as well as seven feet in|
Plantc Creek at low water andj
fifteen 4-. 1t high water, great
help to boats from Darlen and points,
on the Altamaha, Oconee and Ocmul- |
gee rivers. For maintaining our sol
feet on the outer bar, we are only!
asking the federal government forI
$4,000. whereas Savannah asks forl
100000 for maintaining twenty eight
feet!
Again we find that the increase in
the taxable property of Brunswick for
1911 over 1910 amounts to about a
half million dollars, with correspond
ing figures for Glynn county. Receipts
Fof our postoffice show an increase oil
nearly 40 per cent. of the express
office of about % per cent, increase
in our bank deposits OF about 25 per-
cent, as well as substantial increases
In school attendance, in telephone
subscribers, in freight received and
forwarded by the railroad, steamship
and steamboat companies, as well as
a good, healthy increase in popula-
ton that has filled all the vacant
houses that were idle year ago. TIL,
tonnage moved from Brunswick b
water this year isaprobably the largessI
in the history of this port. In Noven
Der nearly 1900 bales of cotto
more We're shipped than for Novembe
of 1910.
What about 1912?
The indications are that we VIII
smash the record of 1911. The South
ern railway will expend large sums in
improvemnt to their terminal prop
erty; the new hotel on st. Simon
island will probably be enlarged I'd
accommodate the travel for the sea
son of 1912; the Acme Brewing com
pany will erect a handsome building
on Gloucester street. which will ALSO
mean the removal of one of Bruns
wick's eyesores; the Southeastern
Yaryan Naval Stores company will
expend quarter of million doll
lars in increasing the capacity of their
plant; $4,000 is available for work on
Brunswick harbor, Club and Planta-
ton creeks, and so on. Besides theres
are rumors of other factories com
ing: there will be great development
in Glynn county, along agricultural
lines, which must come to all our
Southern country sooner or later, and
Glynn county VIII get her share. The
economic pressure is crowding the
surplus population out of the North t