The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-12-28
MANY ARGUMENTS ARE MADE FOR
AND AGAINST LEASE or FOOT or
SSTRFET TO SOUTHERN RAIL WAY

berS of the directors or executive COM
mittee OF the Board OF Trade. He
said that many of the members OBJ
jected to the board taking a hand in
the fight and that he regretted that
the petition had been presented. lie
said it was done without the knowledge
of many of the members of the eXecu-
tive committee.
c. d. Ogg next took the floor. and
argued against the petition. He point
ed out that the Southern railway had
worked for Brunswick i'll years gone
by that il had operated a sleeper be-
tween Brunswick and Jesup, from
which it did not receive enough reve-
nue. to pay for the waste used to clean
the boxes He said that all the peO-
pie of Macon were fighting for was to
secure a lower freight rate at Bruins
wiclI's expense, and to put that city
in competition with Brunswick in sup
plying the territory between the two
cities.
Capt. w. NJ. Tupper of Jacksonville,
general superintendent Of the Mallory
line, here made a brief statement in
which he denied the charge of dis
elimination, except as to the rental
charged small rives lines. He said
that the navigation COMPANY was
treated by his line just the same as
anv other transportation line.
F. f. Twitty. Of counsel for the
Southern, then made a short talk in
reference to charges, traffic arrange
ments, etc.
E. H. Mason followed with an appeal
to renew the lease. He related his
experience with a fresh water line
between Brunswick and Macon, and
said it was a failure. He also pointed
out that BrunSwick's city council had
nothing to do with the question at
issue; that it was q matter strictly to
be ~"ttl@d between the transportati IN
lines and that council should not he
called upon to endeavor to settle it.
President f. c. Butts, Of the Boar1
of Trade, after quietly listening tC
many well known citizens oppose the
petition which he, as president of the
board, had with the secretary, pre-
sented, made an address which served
to liven up the meeting. Mr.. Butts
talked plain and to the point He de-
MED the charge that the Board of
Trade was acting without authority;
that he, as president of that organiza-
ton, was authority that he 'had look
ed before leaping'' and, afer express
ing regret that more or less feeling
had been injected into the matter,
when there was no need of it, he open
ed up in real oratOrical fashion. and
showed that prominent members of
the board, present at the meeting, and
who had made talks against the pc
tition and against the little fresh
water steamer line; members who
had claimed that the board was act
ing without authority, we're present
at past meetings Of the board when
appropriations were made to fight for
deeper water on these very fresh
water streams; when delegates had
been sent 10 meeting after meeting
in an effort to secure appropriations
lfrom congress with which to deepen
the channels of the Altamaha and
the Ocmulgee river
"The Board of Trade is acting with
in it's authority" he said, "and | come
here, first, representing that body and,
second, as a citizen Of Brunswick, and
want to say in reply to the remarks
of some of those who have expressed
| themselves tonight that if the South
arn railroad had done as much for
Brunswick as it has not done for us,
| then the line would not be operating
one sleeper between Brunswick and
| Atlanta without enough revenue to
pay for the waste, but it would be op-
Grating solid Pullman trains with
/ handsome dividends and, in the same
case of the Mallory line if that com
! pany had worked for Brunswick it
would be operating to this port a half
dozen large ocean-going ships a week
instead of one measly little ship"
| President Butts then drew many
comparisons in which he charged that
these lines were discriminating
against Brunswick that they were
holding it down to a village of merely
ten thousand people, while ports all
around us were growing and flourish
ing. 81 know it." he said, and we
all know it, that this same condition
has existed for 25 years, and we have
been lodging the issue for that long
a time, and the fight must be started;
this is merely the beginning, and the
sooner we take action the better it
will be for our city"
He said that if the Mallory line
could supply the counties along the
Altamaha river alone, that it would
take two or three ships per week to
bring down the freight, because the
census shows that in these counties
there is an inhabitance Of almost a
half million people
Mr.. Butts went into details in his
address he appealed to council to
look thoroughly into the matter and
said there was enough evidence to
show that Brunswick was being kept a
village by her big transportation