The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-07-06
JOINT MEETING HELD YESTER-
DAY TO DISCUSS PENDtree
FRANCHISE.
OFFICIALS OF ROADS PRESENT
Further Time Was Asked in Order to
Permit Reads Now Entering the
City to Look Into Matter and Pre-
pare Agreement.

For the purpose of discussing an or
dinance now pending in the city coun-
Gil granting franchises to the Geor-
gia Coast & Piedmont railway COM
pany for the use of certain streets,
ETC., in the city OF Brunswick, the
council as a committee Of the whole
met in the. mayors office at $50
yesterday afternoon. There has been
some negotiations on between the
new line and the others in the city,
whereby the former might be able
to make traffic arrangements with the
latter, thus making it unnecessary to
pass the recent ordinance, which
would make it necessary to further
connect Bay street with tracks, etc.
For that reason Mayor Butts invited
the traffic officials of the Southern,
A, B. & A. and A c. L. to be present
at the meeting. All of the lines in
vited' were represented except the
Southern and it is understood that
this company will not inter7ose e any
objections to any reasonable agree
ment acceptable to the other lines,
the Southern having, joint yaro
agreement with the A. C. L. at Rruns-
wick.
Those present were Mayor Butts
and Aldermen Cook, Hopkins, Calnan,
Ludwig, McKinnon and Leo. From
the A. C. L. were General SupeTinten
dent Brand, Division Superintendent
McCranie, Assistant General Counse.
W. E. Kay, division counsel, ]. W.
Bennett and Agent 7. ]. Wright. From
the A., B. & A., Superintendent Mo-
ritz, Division Counsel Boiling Whit
field and Agent Bitch. From the G.
C. & P, Vice President Mendes and
Attorney F. E. Twitiy.
Mayor Butts stated the object OF
the meeting, pointing out the fact that
the city was anxious to have the old
lines make some traffic arraI cement
with the G. C. & P. in order to save
the streets from more tracks and in
dicating the bad manner in which
The subject was discussed by all of
the officials present and number of
Others.
General superintendent Brand made
a splendid talk in which he stated
that his line was ready and willing
to cooperate with the new one and
he believed some sort of agreement
wished for could be evolved from the
situation. He suggested that The mat
ter go over for couple of weeks in
order to give the railroads interested
1ufficient time to get together ana af-
range the details which would have
to go to the executive officials of all
the companies. The other Officials
took a similar view of the situation
and finally this was agreed to. Inc
ordinance now pending will be reao
again at the next council meeting an0
a recess will be had in time to nave
it finally passed at the first meeting
in August. q
During the meeting short talks
were made by Col. w. E. Kay, for
many years a resident of Brunswick
who was very happy in his remarks
felicitating the people of the city on
their advancement and assuring them
of the cooperation OF his company
Superintendent Moritz and Division
Counsel Boiling Whitfield of the A,
B. & A., and Vice President Mendes
of the G. C. & P.
1t seems to be entirely feasible for
the other lines in the city to be in
shape to make the necessary traf1c
arrangements with the G. c. & z. and
it now seems likely that this will be
done.
The visiting officials took a trip
down to st. Simon in the afternoon
and left the. city last night.
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