The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-01-01
As Others See Us.

con-Atlantic Navigation company by
other rail and water lines in the city,
etc, the following is reproduced from
the Macon Telegraph Of yesterday.
Read # over carefully, ponder every
line of it and then ask yourself if
Brunswick ought TO be satisfied with
the present situation: If Brunswick
ought to be content to rest under such
conditions or under such IDEAS as pre-
vail as to the situation, Here it is:
"Advices from brunswick are not
sufficiently explicit to give first
class line on what prompted the city
council of the seaboard terminus of
the Macon-Atlantic Navigation com
pany TO give an idea of what really Is
behind what undoubtedly must be con
strued as a hostile move toward the
river project with the Southern rail
way apparently the chief BENEFICIARY
of the action taken. For that matter
II does not greatly matter what Bruins
wick has done for Macon is by no
means handicapped to any great ex-
tent in delivering her freight at tide
water by Brunswick's evident prohibit
ton of it, Darien is on the river, cas-
lily approached by deep sea going
craft. with one of the finest natural
harbors on the coast. 1t will be a
comparatively easy matter for the Ma
con officials to tie up their down
stream boats there and pass up
Brunswick entirely. Tile loss viii not
be ours except that little immediate
inconvenience is resulting.
brunswick stands to lose more than
any other interest related TO the prof
ect. Al present what might have been
one of the great Atlantic ports is pref
~ wen a dead issue as far az traffic
over her waterfront for shipment
coastwise or overseas is concerned, It
has been getting deader all the time
because OF combination of natural
circumstances and transportation in
terests which have been more con-
cerned with keeping rivals out of
Brunswick than in the building up
of Brunswick's business. Brunswick
should he able to see this.
"Macon's river traffic is not going
to be confined TO merely enough cargo
every once in a while to establish
actual navigation and thus secure rate
preferentials from the railroads on
long haul consignments from the
north. east and middle west. A big
carrying trade is already under proc
ess of development far beyond what
even the most sanguine of the origi'
nal hopes were. Another boat is being
built because the Oemulcec cannot
take care OF present traffic and more
will undoubtedly follow this second
one. A considerable fleet in the more
or less near distant future IS absolute
ly assured now.
"rhe most of this traffic of course
stood to he cleared through Brunswick
from and into all middle and many
south Georgia interior points. 1t is
not too much to say that the rennais.
sance OF what was once port with
large and noted overseas trade was in
sight, because renewed activity, no
matter ON how humble a scale. gener-
sally starts am aceeleration hard to
stop,
And Brunswick's natural adyanta'
ges are unbounded, 1t may be thai
1.-THE city at the outlet of the famed
marshes os Glynn may see fiji to re
consider It's actica and see little
more clearly and oonstructivey than
lit seems to be yisioning just Mt pres
ent, If action along this line is rea
sonably prompt comparatively little
readjustment to regain the original
happy basis of working should be
needed. II Brunswick stands pat
then Macon must start TO dieker viii
Darien. and that without little delay
Al this in the long run Darien might
be infinitely preferable from man,
lstandpoinls. 0ceangoing bottoms drol
/ in wherever there are cargoes 60 b'
found and Maeon's part is TO deiiver
tho cargoes on the wnarves at Ia
rieu. This Macon can do because eacl