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- ' ' ; • '4 . ■. - 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. I 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 i 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.