The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-01-20
He IS ELECT;O
FOR SECOND TERM
A. |. CHURCH NAMED AS VICE
PRESIDENT AND A FEW
CHANGES WERE MADE IN
THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MEETING WAS INTERESTING
Two or Three Addresses Made
and Everybody Predicted a
Better Year for Brunswick.
List of Officers Named.
MEETING WAS INTERESTING

The brunswick Board # Trade held
its third annual meeting !lst night for
the purpose of electing officers, re-
ceiving annual reports, O.. The at
tendance was not as large rs has been
the case on previous occ: sions and
there was lack of that 3rdial en-
thusfasm that has always ! en- char
acteristic of these annual leetings.
However, the meeting was n inter
esting one; it was at least ha, lonious
on the surface and it was ch racter-
lied by a ringing speech from col. c.
p. Goodyear, which was enjoy ! and
which gave the people present 7ome
valuable information on the COM cree
OF the country and what Bruins ,vick
of enlarging her port.
4. President Butts made an interesting
report to the board and covered in
detail the matter now up as to dis
examinations on the part of two of
the rail lines entering the city He be
lieves there is an unjust discrimina-
ton and gave notice that the board
proposes to fight the matter out and
remedy it,
The election of officers was accom-
p1ished without any opposition, and
the result was as follows: President,
E. G. Butts; vice president, A. l..
Church; directors, A de Sola Mendes
R. L. Phillips, F. D. Aiken, c. Don
Parker, G. w. Harper, j. H. Leo and
K. l.. Stephens.
President Butts accepted the office
of president of the organization in an
earnest address in which he reiterated
the fact that the Board of Trade this
year proposed to investigate the rail
determinations and when the cause
was located, it was going to be re-
moved, it mattered not who was hurt
in the operation
During the evening the following
resolution, introduced by Secretary
Weatherly, was unanimously adopted:
Resolved, that the Board of Trade
advocates the acquisition of munich
pal docks by the city of Brunswick,
and that such docks be adequate to
the business needs of the port
BE it further resolved that we me-
morialize our city government to ac-
quire and maintain such municipal
docks at the earliest possible mo-
ment"
Col. Goodyear Makes Talk
The address of Col. Goodyear was
particularly interesting one and one' of
ifC trily
suggestion of direct line of steam
ers from this city to Porto Rico and a
reference to the advance in commerce
made at Mobile in the past twenty
years. He said in part
I'VE must build our merchant ma
rine to foster our foreign trade In
1892 l visited Mobile for three days.
In that year they had undertaken a
steamship line to Jamaica as an expe-
fiment in which Mr.. Henry B. Plant
of the Plant system was interested
Mobile then was one of the dead
towns of the country. It's warehouses
closed, the people talking about before
the war, there seemed very little pros
poets for Mobile. 1t was then fight
ing for IA feet of water at the docks.
In 1889 she had three million dollars
of water-borne commerce, in 1912 she
had sixty-four million dollars of water
borne commerce.
I'm 1890 her population was 10000,
in 1915 it is $4,000. She has 132 man.
ufacturing establishments largely re-
frigerating for her imported fruits,
with payroll of five millions dollars.
She has six railroads which expend
six million dollars year The value
of her taxable property in 1894 was
fourteen million dollars, in 1914 it is
thirty-three million dollars In 1892
she had one steamship line. she has
IS at present. She is the second larg-
est fruit port in the United States
She trades with forty ports in the
West Indies, Central and South Amer
ica Her subtropical imports have