The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-01-15
FOR LIGHTHOUSE
HEADQUARTERS
PROPOSED SITES TO BE VISITED
BY THE OFFICIALS DUR
ING THE DAY.
A TRIP AROUND THE HARBOR
Tender Mangrove and Stop Will Be
Made for Lunch at Jekyl-Automo-
bile Ride This Morning.

Edwin F. Sweet, assistant secretary
OF the department Of commerce, Geo.
r. Putnam, lighthouse commissioner
and Hal D. King, lighthouse inspector
OF the Sixth lighthouse district, arriv-
ed in the city at 7:15 O'Clock last nigh
from Savannah, where they arrive1
earlier in the day on the lighthouse
tender Cypress.
AS is well known these gentlement,
representing the department of com
merce, to which is attached the light
house department, are on tour OF
inspection of some six or seven South
Atlantic ports with the view Of remov-
ing the present headquarters from
Charleston to some other port mo"e
centrally located and better adapte1
to the work Thus far Wilmington,
Charleston and Savannah have been
inspected.
The party registered at the Ogte
thorpe last night and during the eveli-
ing were the recipl ents of numbers Of
visitors representing the business Iii
terests of the city generally. To all
of these callers the officials were
most courteous and did not hesitat"
to discuss in general the mission CT
their visit.
This morning the three officials, a :
cCmpanied by members of thc Brune-
wick Board of Trade, will Re taken
for an automobile drive over the cit,T.
In the course of this drive they will
be shown the Yarvan plant, the boz
and oyster factories and otner points
CT interest, prospective sites for the
headquarters will be pointed out to
them, and, among other things, thnJ
will be shown apartments in the Gus
tom house which are accessible and III
the event OF their coming to Bruins
wick could be easily used urtil thei"
own building is completed.
Promptly at 1920 the visitors, to-
gether with the following Brunswick
er Mangrove, now in port, fer trip
of inspection around the harbor: +.
D. NJ. Strachah, F.. ID. Aiken, c. p
Goodyear, L. h. Haym, A. J. Crovatt
Mayor j. H. Hopkins, j. E. Lockwood
and J. g Weatherly. The trip will
first be made through the East river
thence to the A., B. & A. terminals az
the south end, up Turtle rive; to the
Southern railway wharves, thence to
Blythe island, which, by the way, is
the property Of the government AMI
will be of considerable interest to the
officials.
After a thorough inspection of tn:
inner harbor, trip will be made t.
Jekyl, where a delightful lunch viii
be served, after which the party will
return to Brunswick.
Secretary Sweet had not thorough
ly concluded last hight whether ha
would proceed from Brunswick this
afternoon or wait until tomorrow
morning to go to Fernandina He is
anxious to get as well acqualn' ed with
all of the harbor points in Brunswick
ETC., as as possible, and it may b.
that he will not leave here Until to
morrow morning. In any event the
party will travel TO Fernandlna anG
thence TO Jacksonville on the tender
Mangrove.
Something About Mr.. Sweet.
Assistant Secretary Sweet IS citi
zen Of Frand Rapids, Mich, of which
city he was mayor from 1904 to 1895
He was born in Dansville, n. Y, No
u, 1S47; was graduated from Yale
university in 1871 with the degree OF
bachelor of arts, and was membe
of the celebrated Skull and Bones
society there. He was graduated from
the law department of the University
of Michigan in 1874. He married So
phia Fuller in 1876. He has five CHI
dren, three sons and two daughters
He was a member Of the board Of ed
ucation of Grand Rapids from 1899 e
1906, and mayor Of that city from