The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-03-03
BOOSTER SPECIAL"
RUNS OVER LINE
FULLY $50 REPRESENTATIVE CIT.
lZENS JOINED IN THE
FESTIVITIES.
MET ENTHUSIASTIC GREETING
Much Credit Is Due the Committee
that Perfected Details of the Trip
Which Is Certain to Establish Cor
dial Relations With Neighbors.

A clear March day, just cold enough
to add activity and energy, dawned
yesterday, accelerating to the fullest
extent the splendid trip made by the
business people of Brunswick to cele-
brate the final completion of the Bruins
wick extension of the Georgia Coast
and Piedmont railroad. "A special train
placarded and labeled ltom end to
end left the terminals Il the com,
pany, at Gloucester stree. and Coch-
ran avenue at 1880 o'clock yesterday
morning, the train handsom1 in every
appointment, consisted of tree pas
senger cars and a combinatiLl car, to-
gether with private car No 100, of
the company. Fully 250 rep esenta-
tive BrunsWickians took advan age of
the opportunity and joined in tle en-
thusiastic festivities of the ocC Clsion.
The First Regiment band consisting
OF some 19 pieces, added to the mer-
riment of the day. And long be. r.
the schedule hour of the leaving of t..
train the music of the band attracted
large crowds to the station.
Party Is Off.
There was a slight delay on leaving,
due to local passenger and freight
schedules, which had to be protected,
but when once under way the we'll
equipped passenger train glided over
the new 60-pound rails with all the
ease and comfort of an old line trunk
passenger road-in fact the run was
made to Dents plantation before the
average passenger realized that the
train was under way; the magnificent
draw bridges across the Altamaha
worked to perfection, and while the
train proceeded over the bridges at
reduced rate of@speed the passage
was perfect in every essential detail
and the ordinary passenger would not
have thought that the handsome
bridges, the largest of the kind in
Georgia, were for the first time, being
pressed into service The run was
made to Darien in about 40 minutes,
and here, as at all other points along
the line of road a cordial reception
was extended to the Boosters" Led
by the splendid band the Brunswick
contingency and the perceptable por-
t1on of Darien population paraded the
principal streets of that city amid
the widest enthusiasm of the people.
Returning to the station a short ad-
dress was made by Col. w. r. Bar
clay, of Darien. Mr. Barclay spoke of
the magnitude of the undertaking, the
Importance of it's relationship to the
ports of Brunswick and Darien and
stressed the necessity of active coop
GRAFTON on the part of the people of
Darien in the enterprise. In conclu-
sion Col, Barclay, who is well known
lawyer, paid very high compliment
to Vice President and General Man
ager A. de Sola Mendes, of The Geor-
g1a Coast and Piedmont and those who
aided him in making possible the sue.
cess of the new railroad, connecting
growing section of the state with
one of the most magnificent harbors
OF the South Atlantic Coast. Col.
Barclay was roundly applauded at the
conclusion of his address and on be.
half of the people of Brunswick hap
py responses by Mayor j. Hunter
Hopkins, A. de Sola Mendes and F. ID.
Aiken.
On the Main Line.
Leaving Darien with unusual enthu-
siasm the party proceeded to Ludowi-
CT, which, by the way, is one of the
best little cities on the line of the
G. c. & P, here a very cordial well
come was extended to the visitors and
several hundred people gathered at
the station to express their senti-
ments. DR.. D. w. Baggs, mayor of
that city, very cordially welcomed the
party and expressed the belief that
the Georgia Coast and Piedmont
would in time become the most i'm
portant railroad in South Georgia. he
Brunswick was great seaport, was
amply facilitated to care for all the
needs of his section. In appreciation