The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-04-06
MACON At WORK
FOR BOAT LINE
OPERATION OF STEAMERS MAY
SOON BE RESUMED ON
THE ocMULGEE.
Company is Being Organized and Pro-
poses to Operate Steamers from
Points Along ocmuIgee and Alta
mana to This City.

Business men of Macon are again
at work on the formation of COM
pany to build new steamers and put
them into operation on the Ocmulgee
and Altamaha rivers to this port, and
the IL dicationS are that the service.
which was suspended some time ago.
will be established again soon. The
Macon News of yesterday contained
the following on the subject:
Those who are behind the move
ment are very hopeful of the early
naturalization of the project which
has teen launched to resume naviga-
tion on the Ocmulgee river. Two
committees are now working hard to
secure subscriptions in the stock COM
pany which mas been organized and
which will take over the property of
the cid Macon and Brunswick Navi-
cation company. One committee con-
sists of j. E. Chappell and A. j. Long;
while the other committee is COM
posed of Robert Corbin, chairman. C.
E. Newton and j. F. Rutledge. The
new navigation company is to be cap
italizod at $4,000, and the committees
are meeting with a great deal of sue
cess i'll raising the amount which will
be sufficient TO resume navigation on
the Ocmulgee. The company is yet
undecided as to whether the old boats
will be used between the city and
Hawkinsville, and then the freight
transferred to two lighter boats to ply
between Hawkinsville and Brunswick,
or whether two new boats will be
purchased. 1t is believed that the re-
sumption of navigation on the Ocmul-
again navigable than ever before,
realizing the incalculable benefits
which will accrue to the city there
by.
"Messrs. Ralph T. Birdsey Of the
Bird3ey Brokerage company, ane A.
J. Long of the A. J. Long Grocery
company, whel seen in regard to tn
navigation project, expressed great
qualification over the prospects for
the early success of the project,
stating that the committees now at
work are experiencing very little diff
ficulty in soliciting subscriptions in
the sock company, and that not only
leading business men of Macon, but
real estate dealers, brokers, bankers,
and il fact all classes of the citizens
Of the city are squarely behind the
navigation project, and are exceeding
ly anxious that it materialize success
fully. These gentlemen state that the
navigation scheme is bound to be
successful, as it will require only
aboIt $4,000 to establish and main
tain navigation on the river, which
sum merchants of the city now lose
annually in freight rates.
"Mr. Long is highly enthusiastic
over what the establishment of navi-
cation on the Ocmulgee river will
mean for the development of this
city He says it will greatly increase
the transportation facilities of the
city, and b enabling the merchants
to get much lower rates than at pres
ent will increase Macon's prestige as
d JobDlng center. 1t will further de-
Velopment along every line of bust
ness in the city, and will result in a
big increase in the city's population
within the next few years. Mr. Long
thinks it is the duty of the business
men and other citizens of Macon to
lend their cooperation to the estab-
lishment and maintenance of naviga-
ton on the Ocmulgee because of the
great influence that will be exerted
thereby in the growth and develop
ment or the city, enabling the jobbers
to get lower transportation and bet
ter transportation facilities than at
pres ent, and also affording them the
advantage of extending their business
over a much larger territory than at
the present tire"