The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-05-11
BIG INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY
BRINGS MORE BUSINESS
Trant Lumber Company's Mill
Nearing Completion - New
Schooner Rapidly Going Up
ward.

All known local records for speed
in construction work have been brok-
en- by the Brunswick Marine Construc-
tion Corporation, which is now put
ting up big ship-building plant in the
southern part of the city, between Bay
street and the river. The shop build
ing has been completed in less than
two weeks from the time the first
piece of lumber was placed on the
ground and everything is now in read
mess for the machinery, which has
been ordered by telegraph and is ex-
: pected hourly.
A crew of forty men have been work
ing rapidly under the direction of
Superintendent of Construction Mil
son and the results of their labor have
surprised the scores of citizens who
daily tour that section. c. G. Hug
gins, one of the stockholders in the
corporation, and now acting as special
representative of the concern, is on
the ground, having come down from
his New York headquarters.
The last piling in the launch.way
for the first vessel was driven yester-
way will begin early this morning.
The keel for the first vessel will be
laid next week, unless present plans
are upset. Also, work will begin at
once on the wharf which is to extend
along the water front for a distance
e h,,n
and feet of three-inch cypress timber
is now on the grounds ready for this
work
The shop building is fifty by one
hundred and ten feet, two stories high.
The second floor will be used for a
moulding room and sail loft. The first
floor will be the machinery room and
will be fitted with up-to-date appa-
ratus Local firms have been patroniZ-
ed as much as possible. The boiler
and engine were purchased from the
Parker-Hensel Engineering company,
while a planer shaper, band saw,
Joiner and several other necessary
pieces of machinery are now en- route
to this city. Mr. Higgins said yester-
day that he expected the machinery
any time now 1t will be installed as
soon as it comes, as the building is
ready for it.
The first ship. the keel of which is
to be laid next week, will be a four
masted schooner. il will be 205 feet
in length; beam, extreme. 80 feet;
depth of hold, IA feet and 8 inches;
mean draft, IL feet The vessel will
have auxiliary engines in addition to
sails. 1t will be beauty, from all in
dications. The work is being pushed
forward as rapidly as possible and
Brunswickians will be seeing the ribs
and masts of new schooner going up
before some of them realize what is
going on along the water front.
The work being done by the con-
struction corporation is not the only
activity in that section of the city.
The entire water front from the Par
ker-Hensel shops to the creosote plant
is alive with busy men, changing ham,
mers and buzzing saws. An industrial
awakening, such as the one now being
experienced by Brunswick. has not
been seen in years.
Just north of the new ship-building
plant is the Trant Lumber company's
big plant, now nearing completion.
Workmen were busN yesterday build
ing the boiler room. The mill is ex-
pected to be ready for operation early
in June. All of the machinery has
been placed under the direction of
Millwright Sweat and only the finish
ing touches are needed. These are
rapidly being put on.
The dry kiln has been practically
completed. and thirty men were busy
yesterday putting up the boiler house,
white washing the framework of the