The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-11-19
NUMBER OF SHORT
ADDRESSES MADE
AFFAIR LAST NIGHT PROVED
TO BE ONE OF THE MOST
SUCCESSFUL AND ENJOY
ABLE EVER GIVEN BY THE
BOARD.

The annual dollar dinner of the
Brunswick Board of Trade at the
Oglethorpe hotel last night proved to
be one of the most de ightful events
OF the kind in the history of that well
known organization I'though the
weather man was most unkind and
the day and night were one of the
most disagreeable imagin cable, yet
fully $50 diners took aGvan age of the
occasion and enjoyed to the fullest
what has grown to be a popular Gus
tom Of the Board of Trade.
The Visitors.
Unfortunately a number C tele-
grams and letters of regret were re-
ceived from distinguished citizens who
found it impossible to attend; still
the organization was complimented
with galaxy of splendid gentlemen
who came to make the occasion an
auspicious one. Those who accepted
the hospitality of the board were:
President Fairfax Harrison, of the
Southern Railway; E. H. Shaw, assist
ant freight traffic manager, Southern
Railway, Atlanta; R. B. Pegram, gen
eral agent, Southern Railway, Charles
ton; E. E. Norris, superintendent At
lanta division, Southern Railway; Col.
w. C. Langfitt, corps of engineers,
U. S. A, in charge of this district,
Savannah; C. E. Brewer, superintend-
ent A., B. & A, Fitzgerald; Walter
Shipley, division freight agent, South
ern Railway, Macon, and Lauren S.
Foreman. publicity agent, Southern
Railway. Atlanta.
Promptly at $50 o'clock the diners
assembled in the handsome dining
room of the Oglethorpe and a mag
repast was thoroughly en-
joyed. Manager Jaeckel seems to i'm
prove with age as far as these Board
of Trade dinners are concerned and
the one last night probably exceeded
in delightfulness any of the previous
ones. There was an agreeable snap
time passed rapidly and at 9 o'clock
coffee and cigars were being served
as President E. c. Butts, of the Board
of Trade, in a few well chosen re-
marks, introduced the principal speak
er for the occasion, Hon. Fairfax Har-
rison,. president of the Southern Rail
way Inasmuch as this was the first
occasion on which President Harrison
,ic1y CT, hn hoe
been at the head of the Southern
Railway, the diners were naturally in
terested in his discourse. He was re-
ceived amid applause and enthusiasm,
and as he warmed up to his splendid
subject, "Brunswick's Opportunities -
he was frequently interrupted with
applause, and when finally in conclu-
sion he volunteered to send to Bruins
wick Mr.. c. L. Chandler, South Ameri-
can agent of the Southern. for con-
ferences with the Board of Trade, he
swept those present into tumultous
President Harrison's ad-
dress appears in full elsewhere
Other Speakers.
Col. w. c. Langfitt, corps of engi-
neers, followed Mr.. Harrison. Col.
Langfitt is an old friend of Brunswick
and he pointed out that after a care
full investigation of the Brunswick
harbor he had recommended to the
board of engineers the wisdom of the
new 3O-foot project docks to sea.
The board of engineers had concurred
in his findings and the matter was
now up to congress. If congress pro
vided the sinews it would give his
department great pleasure to do the
rest. Col. Langfitt's remarks were
spIendidly received.
Mr.. R. B. Pegram, general agent
of the Southern at Charleston, who has
been a regular attendant at the pre-
yious dinners of the board, made a
splendid argument for an expansion
of southern marketing conditions and
for more care in the shipping OF
southern products. He had Just re-
turned. he said, from visit to Cali
fornia, and it was his candid opinion
that Georgia and Florida and the
whole south for that matter, produced