The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-04
BRUNSWICK MAY
Be DECIDED ON
FOR A BIG PLANT
Site Has Been Decided Upon
and Other Preliminary
Plans Closed.
TO BUILD EIGHTEEN SHIPS
Mammoth Plant, if it is Landed,
Will Use Atlanta, Birmins=
ham and Atlantic Terminals
for Site.
TO BUILD EIGHTEEN SHIPS

Edward F. Terry, of Washington,
and Oscar Doniels, of New York, at
the head of Oscar Daniels and Com
pany, engineers, will arrive in Bruins.
wick today, and upon the outcome
OF a conference to be held between
these gentlemen and representatives
Of the Brunswick Board of Trade de.
Gpends whether or not Brunswick is to
'secure another big shipbuilding plant,
to be erected by Oscar Daniels and
company.
= zthe Board of Trade has been ac-
lively at work in an effort to secure
this plant for several weeks. Early
this week the question of site was
closed 50 conference in New York,
city ooui Il met and granted the
usual taxSexemptions, etc and if was
htfeved then that the plant had been
Jared. However, the site selected
has not as yet been approved by the
government, and for that reason Off
ciais of the Board of Trade urged the
local newspapers not to publish the
story until the government engineer
had visited the city and inspected
the the site. However, inasmuch as
the request of the board was disre-
garded and the story given publicity,
the name OF the company, its princi-
pal owners, etc, as well as other
facts connected with the plant, were
given to The News last night by Geo,
H. Smith and Albert M. Smith, pres,
ldent and secretary, respectively, of
the Board of Trade
1t was ascertained some time ago
that Oscar Daniels and company had
decided to erect mammoth ship
building plant somewhere along the
South Atlantic coast, and the Bruins
wick Board of Trade at once went
to work to locate it. After consid-
cradle correspondence, officials of the
company visited Brunswick, looked
over various sites, and at once an
nounced that they would erect the
plant here if the A., B. and A. termi
pals could be secured. The railroad
company was at once communicated
w. and it was learned that Presi
dent E. T. Lamb was in New York
A conference was arranged in that
city between Mr.. Lamb and officers
OF the company, at which deal for
the terminals was consummated
provided certain tax exemptions
would be- granted by the city OF
Brunswick Council, as committee
OF the whole, held a meeting Tues
day and decided to exempt $4,000
worth of the terminal property from
taxation, all that was asked by the
A, B. and A. This action was i'm
mediately wired to the officials of
the company in New York, and a
government official was ordered to
Brunswick to approve the site. He
is expected here today, and there
seems but little doubt that he will
approve the site, which is an ideal
one for shipbuilding plant
Yesterday afternoon a telegram
was received by the Board of Trade
announcing that Messrs Daniels and
Terry would arrive in the city at
noon today, and conference will at
once be held, at which time some
thing real definite will probably be
SgiNen out. Mr.. Daniels, as stated, is
at the head of the company which
Is to build the plant, while Mr.. Terry
isgsst the head of the engineering firm
oSy Jerry and Tench, which has just
constructed the large Trent ship