The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-12-13
ONLY 80 VOTED
AGAINST MOVE
WHILE ONE HUNDRED AND
NINETY ENDORSE SALE OF
THE PROPERTY.
City Election Yesterday Was a Quiet
One, the Four Aldermen Nominated
at Primary in November Being For
malIy Elected.

BY the very decisive vote of 100
TO 80, the voters of the city of Bruins
wick yesterday authorized the amend
ment to the charter of the city pro-
Vldlng for the sale of all Town Com
mons property, and again demonstra-
ted by their votes that they stand for
all that is progressive. Though the
registration for the regular city cleo
ton was unusually small, the vote
was quite a large one, many citizens
going to the polls merely to express
their desire for the sale of this prop
erty.
The total vote cast was 224, but
four of those voting failed to desig-
nate on their ballot whether they
We're for or against the amendment,
and consequently their fotes were
thrown out, except that they counted
for aldermen.
The four aldermen elected were
those nominated at the white primary
held in November and the vote re-
suit I'd as follows:
First ward, G. II. Cook, 221; Sec
ond ward, A. j. Nicholson, 221; Third
ward, l.. Ludwig, 224; Fourth ward,
N, Nash, 220.
What Amendment Means.
The tcters of Brunswick showed
yesterday that they do not want any
ching IN the city that win retard
progress, by voting six to one for the
sale OF Towns Commons.
TINS is a tract of land lying in the
northeastern section of the city and
Is about two-fifths of the high lands.
There are also several large tracts
OF riVerfront property and marsh
lands. The revenue from these lands
nave in the past gone towards the
support of the public schools, but the
amount derived fell far short Of
What was needed to keep them up to
a high standard. From now on the
schools will be provided for by rne
city through the regular channels, the
city members of the board of educa-
ton naming the amount required from
l-l0th to 3-10th of 1 per cent, and
1t will put them in better shape than
IHey nave ever been.
The city will also be in position to
improve the Towns Commons sec
tion, something that has been almost
impossible in the past, for the reason
tnat the Commons paid practically
nothing into the treasury, and any
improvements made had to be paid
out of the taxes collected from the
other sections of the city. Now the
Commons will pay their proportion,
and in return will receive their share
Of improvements.
Another important feature Is that
the property owners can now own
their lands in fee. Heretofore they
have only had limited lease, and at
the expiration Of same all of their
property would revert to the city. 1t
is true that these lands would be
worth a great deal at the expiration
Of the present leases, but with the
city now losing about $4,000 a year
in taxes and the losses increasing
each year, would amount to twice as
much as the lands would be worth
then; therefore, as a business propo-
sition it is good.
The present owners can buy a fee
practically for nothing, and can i'm
prove their property without fear Of
losing all their holdings at the expi-
ration of the leases, or they can hold
it as it now stands, but the best plan
is to buy the fee and own the lands.
AS whole it is the best thing that
has happened for the city in many
years.