The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1912-05-11


An interesting and thoroughly en-
thusiastic meeting of the special COM
mittee on the Georgia Coast and Pied
mont Brunswick extension proposition
was held in the office of Chairman
Albert Fendig at 3 o'clock yestarGay
afternoon. In addition to the mem
bers of the committee. Vice President
and General Manager Mendes and
Assistant Engineer Parrigin of the
G. G. & P. were present. Chief
Engineer Cranberry was to have
been present, but missed connections
and did not reach the city until last
night. :
Chairman Fendig announced that
the meeting was called to consider
general plans and to report some
correspondence between himse:f and
President Lisman in New York. He
then read letter sent to President
Lisman touching details of the sit
uation, and he also read reply from
President Lisman. Both of these let
tiers were interesting and full of the
spirit of the work.
The question of a main line from
the rice fields into the city was DIS
cpssed at length. General Manager
Mendes' suggestion that a new one
should be secured because of a ques-
tion as to titles to the Darien road.
County Commissioners Townsend and
4Ogg corrected this impression, as
suring the gentlemen that titles could
be had, and it was finally concluded
to work out the coming of the line
into Brunswick by the old road.
Right Down to Business.
The question of just what Glynn
county proposed to do for the Geor-
gla Coast and Piedmont came up
and Commissioner Townsend clarified
the situation by putting the attitude
OF the county in the following prop
osition:
ta) The county commissioners agree
to procure the old Darien road for
right Of way and to grade this
road from terminals in Brunswick
to rice felds;
% To furnish ties as far as they
could be obtained in cutting the right
of way. and to cut ties from timber
donated for the purpose from lands
adjacent to the right of way. and to
lay such ties on the roadbed to be so
graded:
(c) To furnish the unskilled labor
to be used in laying rails on sucn
roadbed. a.
This to be done in consideration of
the railroad company entering into a
contract to maintain a motor car SER
vice for carrying autGmobiles and
other vehicles from the Glynn county
side of the Altamaha to the McIn-
tosh county side, thus providing
highway connection over the river
and between these two counties.
The legislature will be asked to en-
act legislation authorizing the county
to carry out its part Of the contract.
The railroad company is to give the
county bond in the sum of $4,000
to carry out its part of the contract
and to indemnify the county for its
expenditures and work in the event
the railroad should not be built.
The above meets with the approval
of the G. G. & P. people and mere
details are to be worked out.
The meeting was an interesting one
and 1t can be said that there is no
question in the world about the COM
ing of the line to Brunswick. The
following members of the committee
We're present: County Commissioners
w. r. Townsend, J. J. Lott, L. T.
McKinnon, G. D. Ogg; from city
council, E. C. Butts, L. Ludwig, Geo.
Fl. Cook, j. H. Hopkins; from citizen
committee. F. D. Aiken, F. E. Twitty,
H. F. Dunwody c. H. Leavy, L. H.
Haym, Albert Fendig, E. H. Mason,
J. d. Hirsch.