The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-06-17
OPTIMISM ON ALL SIDES
Industrial Activity Is Growing
To Big Proportions-Schoon-
er Arrives to Take First Car
go From Trant MiII-Signs
of Life On Water Front.

out OF the kinks" and getting into
her proper class is the unanimous
expression heard on all sides these
days and the optimism which is seen
on every side is fully warranted by
business and industrial activity, es-
pecially along the water front. During
the last few days that section of the
city has been unusually alive with
business and work.
Yesterday afternoon and last night
those who happened to be motoring
or strolling along the water front
witnessed pretty sight--one that
meant much to those who were gifted
to see beyond the mere range of
the physical eye. The big British
steamship Wearbridge was Just
steamlng out into the river and turn
ing her nose seaward with cargo
Of naval stores. The steamship An
lillian, also from England, was lying
off the Downing wharf with huge
columns of smoke rolling up from
her funnel. The Rio GrGnde was
sinking lower and lower into the wa
ter as scores of longshoremen piled
ton after ton of freight into her holds,
while the steamboat Altamaha, II
mere dot beside the bigger ships,
came steaming down the river with
her whistle footing gaily. Tugs were
nosing about here and there while the
little schooner Sedgwick lay quietly
off the Trant wharf and shot her
masts skyward as though she too,
held place in the whirl of activity
along the water front.
The dock workers were happy, it
seemed, and filled the air with their
songs and signals. The very air was
alive with work and activity. and this,
If current reports are true, is merely
the beginning. 1t was a pretty scene,
in way, and one calculated to fill
the average Brunswickian with pride
for his hustling city. Not that an
artist could see an inspiration for his
prush in the beauty of the scene, but
it meant business. Big business for
Brunswick and just sample of what
is coming
The Wearbridge came for several
thousand barrels of naval stores
which are now rolling into this city
in large quantities. TIVE Antillian
was in such a hurry to get loaded
that she had a crew at work last
night. She came especially to get
forty-fve cars OF tobacco. the fore
runner of hundreds of cars which 1t
is expected will be shipped through
this port in the very near future The
little schooner Sedgwick came for
the first cargo of lumber from the
Trant Lumber company's new saw
mill. Each of the VESSELS simply
brought message of what is to come,
and in this fact is seen the pretty pic
ture the rosy outlook for Bruins
wick
With oceangoing vessels at the
docks, coastwise steamers coming and
going with schooners and barges and
barks and steamboats, plying the wa
ters between Brunswick and the out
side world, the people have right
to gaze upon little scene and see in
it a trace Of beauty. With thousands
Of barrels Of naval stores pouring in
to the city; with indications excellent
that this will be soon be big tobac-
co exporting point; with cotton and
lumber and crOssties and merchan-
disc being shipped to every quarter
of the globe, the people might well
lift their head little higher and ex-
pand their chest a triGe.
When they hear the merry whistles
on the numerous plants, the buzzing
Of the saws at the Trant mill, the
changing of the hammer at the creo-
soting plant; see the ribs and the
masts going up at two big ship-build-
ing plants and count the hundreds OF
people who are beginning to flock to
this city, there Is no wonder that
Brunswickians light fresh cigars and
proclaim this city the best in the
world.
1t is just as well that the people OF
Brunswick look now and then upon
the good things which are here In |
abundance, 1t makes a booster out of |
a nocker. and boosters are the life |
Of any city whether great or small. J