The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-08-17
ACCOUNTS RUNNING FROM 40
CENTS UP TO $1,000 NOW
BEING PAID.
SOME ACCOUNTS NOT FILED
Commission Has Secured Redemption
From Railroads, on a Number OF
Tickets Which Were Turned Into
the Lost and Foundr Section.

Harrisburg, Pa, Aug. l6-Accounts
for the transportation of veterans
to and from the Gettysburg reunion of
the blue and the gray in July, are
rapidly being audited and paid by
lCol Lewis e. BETTER, the secretary
the Pennsylvania commission and
some odd things are turning up. In
all the state had contracts for trans
portation of veterans, with n rail
roads.
Two of the companies rendered
bills for 40 cents each, that being
all the business they had of the char
acter while another rendered bill
for so cents, another for 80 cents,
and one for $1.2S. The bills of ten
other railroads aggregated $4,000
and twenty-eight others $500. The
Pennsylvania, Reading and other
companies have not yet filed their
accounts Every ticket is accounted
for and the checks are drawn upon
presentation of the, vouchers.
The commission has secured from
the railroads redemption of anumbef
of railroad tickets found on the bat.
tie field These tickets turned up
at the lost and found place, along
with one wooden leg, several dozen
keys, a revolver, numerous articles
.of apparel and II sets of false teeth,
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nothing but the failure Of at least
some previous executives of your
city to live up to their oaths Of of
flee. Attention Of the previous May
or was repeatedly called to the Sc
riousness of this situation, and 1t is
hardly possible that the Mayor in
office on January 16, 1895, and his
successor in office did not under
stand that the ordinance passed on
that date provided that sinking
fund should be set aside each year
which in 1921 would provide sufll-
cient funds to pay off the indebted
ness.
You have, therefore, inherited &
difficulty and we shall be delighted to
we may in any way make it clear to
the people of your city to what an
extent you have grasped the situa-
tiCn and how free from blame you
are for the dilemma in which they
are placed If we may at this point
give our view of the situation we
would say that your incumbency of
the Office of Mayor now is the great
est benefit to the municipality; they
must have an executive now or In the
next term of office to competently
handle the situation.
In a letter which we have from Mr.
Weatherly, secretary of your Board
of Trade, we are advised of the items
composing the, approximately, $780,
900 which you expect tohave in the
sinking fund at the end of this year
That sum Is a very large part Of the
amount which would need to be paid
in this year should you determine
finally and definitely to pay into the
sinking fund the proportionate
amount necessary to refund all the
bonds at matu3ity
OF this issue of three hundred
bonds there are sixty-fye which we
understand from your letter and from
Mr.. Weatherly could be refunded, in
asmuch as they have been issued to
refund bonds which in turn had re-
funded an Indebtedness created by
the municipality prior to the adop-
ton of the present state cohstitu-
ton. The writer does not recall a
case offhand which covers this point
but believes that without question
the courts would allow the refunding
Of the sixty-fye bonds
We would suggest that in order to
be sure of our premises in the fur
ther treatment of the sinking fund
matter, counsel for your city be ask
ed to render an opinion on the point,
making his opinion sufficiently full
to outline his own deductions and
any cases which he may have in
point. Assuming then that there
viii be but .wo hundred and thirty
five bonds "h must be refunded
and that " Ill this year pay into
the sinkina mud substantially the
Y proportion essary, why Is 1t not