The Brunswick news., 1913-05-01
A PLEASANT TRIP
MADE YESTERDAY
SOUTHERN AND A., 3. & A. TER.
MlNALs AND YARYAN PLANT
WE'RE VISITED.
fIP WAS A PLEASANT ONE
Kinsman,eVisitins Transportation
n and Number of the Mem
rs of the Board OF Trade Spent
Day on The Water.

Brunswick entertainment OF Col.
Dan c. Kingman. corps of engineers,
U. S. A., assumed more practical -
pect yesterday, when the colonel,
together with other invited guests
and some 80 members of the Board
of Trade, made trip around Bruins
wick harbor While the trip had its
pleasant features. and while the ex-
! cursionists we're treated to delight
ful lunch, and Notwithstanding that
other social features marked the
days doings, it was, nevertheless, a
practical business proposition. where
in the people of Brunswick, after
modern fashion and along approved
lines. were. showing 10 the United
States chief of engineers of this dis
trict the urgent needs Of deeper
channel depths to care for a steady
and growing commerce
The steamer Sea Gate. in command
Of Capt. Fl. Q. Berrie, left the Mallory
line terminals at II O'Clock and pro
ceeded imme diately TO the Turtle riv-
er terminals OF the Southern rais-
way. This is particularly pretty
trip and in its course is seen prob.
ably the most beautiful expanse OF
water in the inner harbor OF .Nuns
wick AT the new docks the party
went ashore and Inspected the inn
mense terminals which the great
Southern railway maintains and is
now improyiINssat this point The
large new wary bouses now under
course Of constb hction were explain
ed by Engineer lRodenbaush, who is
the genius behi3d this mass of rein
forced steel and concrete, which,
when finished, viii be the most per-
feet SYSTEM of warehouse terminals
in the South 1t was pointed out to
Col. Kingman that the Southern rail-
way people were soothsayers; that
they could see the dawn OF a new
day in the commerce of the port Of
Brunswick. and so seeing, had elected
to spend an enormous amount Of mon
ey on these terminals.
To give a glimpse Of the magnitude
Of this Improvement it might be stat
ed that one warehouse of reinforced
steel and concrete foundation, ex-
tending 800 feet, and easily to be ex-
tended to 900 by 100 feet, is practical
ly well under way. Five hundred
feet Of new wharf is already erect
ed, and upon this wharf will be built
the most modern and up-todate sys-
tenn of trolley freight handling in the
South, by which 60 tons Of freight
can be rapidly transported from ship
to warehouse or vice versa. The
Southern has also recently construct
ed an electric power house by means
of which the immense terminals are
lighted perhaps better than is the
case in Brunswick
After an hour spent here, the par
ty re-embarked and direct trip was
made to the A., b. & A. terminals.
For the edification OF Col Kingman,
the Sea Gate. under full steam, went
into the basin, circled it entirely,
and making a complete turn in the
basin, steamed out and made for
Plantation creek. incidentally. the
terminals showed to good advantage,
three or eour schooners and the Nal
lory liner Rio Grande were loading
or unloading freight, and the busy
scene at once attracted the august
eye of Col Kingman.
It was explained to Col. Kingman
that Club and Plantation creeks. in
which the Sea Gate was now moving,
were connecting links between Ogle-
thorpe bay and Back river, by means
of which inbound traffic from the Al
tamaha and other rivers was spared
the dangers of St. Simon sound The
trip was continued on through the
two creeks and on into Back river
and up to the stave factory Of the
Yaryan Naval Stores plant. Here
thorough inspection Of all Of the
49, of the Yaryan plant was had
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