The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1922-10-08
COL. F..E. TW|TTY SENDS LETTER
TO MAYOR MURRAY STEWART
ON BRUNSWICK DAR|EN BRIDGE

Der 18th, 1920. Subsequently the Com
mittees appointed for that purpose
and the organizations interesting
themselves, raised and paid the fol
lowing amount On June 2Sth, 1921,
90. thtoinin
100000; on July 9Th, 1921, $3.50,
making total of $9,640OO, leaving
balance due of $4,000.
"On Sept. 9th, 1920, l received the
following telegram from you:
81 arranged loan of thirty-seven
hundred fifty to make first payment
with understanding that remainder to
be raised over a period of time have
turned telegram over to President Ed
wards of Board of Trade" Signed
Murray Stewart, Mayor"
"On September 18th, you sent the
following telegram to DR.. j. w. Sim
mons, President, Brunswick Board Of
Trade:
| your telegram received. Our COM
mittee begins work next week. Did
| not expect such immediate necessity
Of guarantee. Work of soliciting SUBJ
scriptions will be pushed and you adj
vised soon as possible" Signed Muir
ray Stewart, Mayor"
On September 14th you wrote Mr..
Fred G. Warde, managing SECRETARY
of the Brunswick Board of Trade as
follows:
mfr. Fred G.Warde
Managing Secretary, Board of
Trade,
| Brunswick, Ga.
! Dear Mr.. Ward:-
81 have your favor Of 18th. inst, ad-
vising me that the business men of
i Brunswick had underwritten Savan-
nah's quota for the purchase of the
Altamaha Bridge. l beg to thank you
| for the information and to expresses
appreciation of the enterprising spirit
of the Brunswick business men.
"The committee appointed to solicit
funds for this purpose in Savannah
will be at work this week and hope
will soon make favorable report
Mr. Thos. Purse, Secretary of the
Savannah Board Of Trade wrote me
on September 18th, 1920 the following
is a complete parag graph in that letter:
"As you are aware, we are using
every effort to raise promptly Savan-
lahs quota for purchase of Darien
Bridge"
In your communication published on
he 3rd instant, you made the state
ment as quoted above, that no paper
has been given the subscribert to Sc
cure them.
On October 18th, 1921, We trans
mitted to you the receipt signed on
behalf of the County Commissioners,
for $3,750.OO, which contained the fol-
lowing stipulation:
ut is expressly agreed that if the
State Highway Commission CT any
other agency of the people of Georgia
shall at any time in the future refund
20 the said county of Glynn, all or any
portion of the amount paid by Glynn
on account Of the purchase of said
properties, then and in that event said
county of Glynn will refund to who
ever may be at that time the Mayor
of said city of Savannah the proper
proportion of any or all funds contrib
being the understanding that futher
payments will be made on behalf of
the citizens of the city of. Savannah
through the Mayor of such city,"
You wrote a letter on October Is,
1920 to Mr.. Warde, Managing Secre-
tary of our Board of Trade as follows:
Il have received the agreement for
the repayment of the loan made by
Savannah and thank you for your at
tention to this matter.
with best wishes, Sincerely yours.
Signed, Murray Stewart
Mayor"
In your last communication pub
iished in the News of the 18th. you
suggested that the money be raised
by tells and made the following state
ment:
81 judge the State Highway Depart
ment has contributed nothing to the
purchase of the bridge or to the re-
endorsement of those who loaned the
money to pay for the bridge. and that
the prospect of that department. re-
turning the loans lies in the very dim
and distant future"
b You understand very well that the
$50. 10000 to be raised by G1ynn and
Mcintosh and by the citizens of those
counties and of Chatham County, was
to be used entirely in the purchase of
the bridge and the State Highway |
Department, with the aid of a Federal !
was to reconstruct the