The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1921-05-10
FATE OF BRUNSWICK.
STREET RAILWAY To.
BE DECIDED SOON
Petition For Permission to Sell
the Property as Junk TO be
Passed on Friday.
THE ONLY HOPE SAID TO
BE PURCHASE BY THE CITY

III OlNf lfOFE ChlO ~
BE PURCHASE BY THE CITY
Committees Representing the
Board of Trade and the
Young Mems Club Will Sub
NIT Definite Proposition to
the City Commissioners at
Noon Today.-Finai Action
Msst be Made at Once.
The fate of the City & Suburban
Railway Company. as a going concern,
is hanging in the balance, according
to an announcement made Yesterday.
and whether Brunswick is to have
street car service in the future will
be definitely determined, very prob
ably today.
Attorney Mark J. Wilcox, CT the
firm of Conyers and Wilcox, REPRESENT
ing the receivers of the street railway
company, stated yesterday afternoon
that he had prepared a petitio, ask
ing permission to sell the physical
properties of the company as junk,
or as a going concern, and thta this pc
tition will be passed upon by Federal
District Judge Evans, at Savannah,
Friday.
Attorney Wilcox, in his petition to
the court, will represent that the
street railway company is being oper-
ated at loss, and will submit figures
to substantiate this claim. In thd1
meantime however, every possible eff
fort will be made top reserve the COM
pany as a going concern.
UP to City Officials.
A proposition is to be submitted 10
the city commissioners at a meeting
to be held at noon today. in which it
will be proposed for the city to pur-
chase and operate the street railway
lines, in order to preserve this vital
public utility to the people of Bruns-
wick. For this purpose committees
have been appointed by the Board of
Trade, and by the Young Mems Club
and they will oe prepared to submit
a definite proposal, and to ask that
immediate action be taken, as this is
necessary in view of the fact that
Judge Evans is toSpass on the petition
of the company on Frida yof this
week. III
The Committees!
The committees appointed to take
UP the matter with the board of city
commissioners at noon today are:
Representing the Young Mems Club
F. w. Oates, j. E. Lambright, M. B.
McKinnon, E. w. Butts, E. B. Arnold
and VIM. Dunwody. Representing the
Board of Trade will be r. l.. Philips,
c. P. Dusenbury. L. J. Leavy, Jr., Fred
G. Warde, and perhaps others.
At the joint conferences to be held
at the city hall the matter, the impor-
tance to the city Of which is generally
admitted, will be gone into in detail,
and the officials will be given a def
mite proposition upon which they must
take prompt action one way or the
other
Terms to be Offered
While The News has not been off,
cially advised of the terms to be Of
fered to the city in the submission of
the proposal to purchase and operate
the street Car lines, it is stated on
good authority that an upset price of
little more than $4,000 has been
placed upon the property and it is
said that the city will be given the op-
portunity to buy the line for, a sum
said to be in the neighborhoed OF $44,-
00O
~ SoiiiAhiteSSo liOHI the CItiCs UT
CARNATIONS, 1t is said, will urge the
commissioners to act favorably on the
matter, and will proffer their assis-
tance in devising the necessary plans
for financing the proposition.
1t is the general opinion OF the peo-
pie of Brunswick that every possible
effort should be made ts,soreserve the
street car service id i'd the gray-
ity of the present situation is in no
way minimized. Therefore, the city
commissioners urged ON all
sides to take favorabfs action on the
proposal to be submitted to them to-
day, for it is realized that this is the
only fasible way out Of the difficulty.
Brunswick cannot afford to be without
street car service, say the business
men. who believe that such a step as
iunking the line would counteract all
the splendid work that has been done
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