The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-09-07
STRONG PROTEST TO Be
MADE BY LOCAL PEOPLE
Matter Will at Once Be Taken Up by
City Council, Board of Trade and
Other 8odies-WouId Be Serious
Blow to City.

The board of trade and Mayor Butts
are in receipt of a letter from the state
railroad commission calling attention
to petition filed by the A., B. & A.
railroad asking permission to discon-
tlnue practically every convenient
passenger train between Brunswick
and Thalmann, the Seaboard Air Line
junction; as a matter Of fact the rail-
ROAD company is asking authority of
the railroad commission to discontinue
every one of these passenger trains,
SIX in all, now in operation between
Brunswick and this junction point, and
lt is useless to say that the strong
est kind of protest will be entered
by the people of Brunswick. The mat
ter will be brought to the attention
of the mayor and council at once. the
board of trade will probably hold a
special meeting to take up the mat
ter, and other organizations will be
requested to act at once against this
great discrimination directed at
Brunswick.
The trains which the road asks au-
thority to discontinue are Nos. 5, 6,
Z, 8, 8 and 10, which are the only ones
on the line affording direct connec-
tions between Brunswick and Jack
sonville and Savannah. Train No 5
now leaves the city at $50 a. M,
connecting with Seaboard train from
Jacksonville bound north. This train
handles Brunswick passengers to Sa-
vannah and the north and on the re-
turn, which is No. 6, it brings pas
Sengers from Jacksonville and the
south. Train No. now leaves Bruns-
wick at 4.30 p. m. and makes con-
nectlon at Thalmann with Seaboard
train No 81 from Savannah to Jack
sonV1lle and the south, and returning
this train, No. 8, brings passengers
from Savannah and the north. Train
No. 8, which is one of the most i'm
portant now operated by the line,
leaves the city at S.55 D. m. and con-
meets at Thalmann with Seaboard No.
66, with passengers from all points
in Camden county, Jacksonville and
the south, and at the same time de-
livers passengers to the Seaboard for
Savannah and the north.
1t will be seen that with the dis
continuance of all of these six trains
Brunswick will have practically no
close connection for Savannah and
the north and Jacksonville and the
south 1t is pointed out in the petit
tion by the railroad company that it's
through trains, the only ones which
it intends to leave on, will make a
few connections at Thalmann, but, as
these through trains are invariably
late and the Seaboard will not wait on
them, the new schedule will cause
universal complaint from the travel
ing public generally.
The railroad company further
points out that these six trains are
operated at heavy loss to the COM
pany, but it does not ask to reduce
these expenses by reducing the num-
Der of trains, but wants to discontinue
them all at one swell swoop, leaving
Brunswick absolutely without any
direct connection for the north and
south except via the Southern at
Jesup, which affords, especially to and
from the south, very poor schedules.
Brunswick is not going to ask too
much of the A, B. & A., but the
strongest protest will be made
against the discontinuance of all of
these trains. For an example of what
would result if they are all discon-
tinued it would be impossible for local
people to go to and from Brunswick
to Camden county points and jack
sonville and return in one day. They
now leave here on train No. 3 at $50
a. m. for Camden county points as
well as Jacksonville, and can return
at 10.45 at night, giving the travelling
men the opportunity Of working the