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Waycross, Georgia
On Monday morning, the i3th in&., a meeting of the directors of the
Waycross Street and Suburban Railway Company was held in the office of
Messrs. Wilson, Ben net & Lambdin. Mr. A. M. Knight, Piesident of Riverside
Park Company, and Mr. W. £M. Toomer, who is largely interested in that
company, were invited to be present, and attended the meeting. Mr. Toomer
for his company proposed to build a street car line frcm the intersection of
Riverside Avenue and D Street, north along Riverside Avenue to West
Parkway Avenue or Woodruff Street^thence west to the A. B. & A. Railroad
and to turn it over to the street car company to be operated in connection
with their lines running out to D Street and to the He bard Cypress Company,
as soon as the street car company completed its lines to those points, and at
at a later date to be fixed by agreement, to donate the line thus constructed to
the Waycross Street and Suburban Railway Company.
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This proposition was accepted by the company and a committee
from its boatd of directors were appointed to confer with Mr. A. M.
Knight, president of Riverside Park Company, and agree on the details
as to the time when the connediorik would be made at D street and
Riverside avenue and the Hebard Cypress Company’s plant, the date
when the track built through Riverside Park should be conveyed abso
lutely to the street car company, the schedules to be adopted for serving
this property and the specifications as to ties, rails, fastenings, etc. The
plan contemplated was to operate storage battery cars with power
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purchased from one of 1he local power plants in Waycross.
The construction of this line through Riverside
avenue and through West Parkway avenue or Wood-
ruff street will afford practically every part of River
side Park splendid street car facilities. It is assured
that actual construction of this line through Riverside
Park will begin as soon as the contract Is prepared
and the details as to the schedules, etc., agreed on.
At this meeting $5,000 additional stock was subscribed, $1,000
by Mr. A. M. Knight and $4,000 by Mr. W. M. Toomer.
