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THE BRUNSWICK NEWS.
VOLUME 1, NUMBER 161.
CITY COUNCIL MEETS;
CAR LINE FRANCHISE
ON FIRST READING
MUST BffilM
ALSO REQUIRES THAT FOUR
MILES MUST BE BUILT AND
CARS RUNNING WITHIN YEAR
AFTER PASSAGE.
THE STREETS ON WHICH THE
LINE IS GIVEN PERMISSION TO
RIJN. AND OTHER DETAILS OF
THE NEW ENTERPRISE.
Brunswick, Ga., April 3. 1902.
Adjourned Regular Meeting.
Present— Hon. N. Emanuel. Mayor:
Aldermen dußignon, Newman, Cal
noun. Franklin and Cook.
Absent —Aldermen McGarvey, Kais
er and Taylor.
1' nfinisheJ business.
Report from committee on public
woikfc amt railroads amt harbors, rec
ommending that petition of U. B.
Treadwell, Hobart C. Fasli and Geo.
M. Vescelius, for franchise for elec
tric street railway and power plant,
be granted, subject to the terms and
conditions of the ordinance herewith
■submitted and such amendments and
ehages us shall be recommended and
submitted before final passage.
Adopt ed.
ice blowing ordinance was tju-n
plated on Us first reading:
An ordinance, entitled an ordinance
to grant unto 18. Treadwell, Ho
bart Fash, and Geo. M. Vescellus,
their associates and assigns, a light
and franchise for the construction,
maintenance and operation of a
street railway system and electric
light and power plant in the city 01
Brunswick, Ga„ and for other pur
poses. *
Section 1 Be it ordained by the
Mayor and council of the city of
Brunswick, Ga.. in council lawfully
assembled. That the said .Mayor anil
council of the city of Brunswick doe*
give and grant unto L. B. Treadwed,
Hobart Fash and e(lo. M Veseelius,
their associates and assigi ud like
wise any eoiporation widen they may
hereafter organize, r.ie full power,
easement, right and authority to
build, construct, equip, maintain ami
operate an electric street railway
over, upon and through the following
named streets oi the city of Bruns
wick, Ga., the same to he known as
the initial line, that is to say, from
the intersection of .Mansfield with
Newcastle, along .Mansfield east to
Union, south along Union to Bart
mouth to Bay; north along Bay io
Howe, east, along Howe to Newcastle,
north along Newcastle to r ; east
along r to K street, north along E
street to tne city limit; (and such
oi.u r ami further streets as may he
desired and as may be agreed upon by
the sai.t .Mayor ami conn' ’ for the
further extension of such stieet rail
way- system). Such railway company
shall be operated and propelled by
electricity or *n’h other motive pow
er or powers as said parties may de
siie and as may lie approved by the
Mayor and council, provided no steam
engine shall he operated on said
streets, nor shall animal power be
used m propelling such cars, except
as hereinafter provided. And to that
end said parlies, their successors or
assigns, are authorized to grade and
iay track and all necessary switches
and to c reet, place, plant and main
tain all necessary poles and wires and
other material or appliances needful
for the operation oi cars by electric
ity or the motive power aforesaid,
either upon, above or beneath the
sui face of the eanh over and upon
said streets; provided, however, that
the main tracks shal be laid in the
centre of said streets, except on Bay
treet, and on Bay street and said
r ack shall be laid as n<=ar as prac
ticable to the track of the railroad
having the most easterly track on
said street; and provide,l further,
that all poles so to be erected shall
i- so erected as near as practicable
to the line of the sidewalks. Before
beginning the work of construction,
► WILL BEGIN WORK
► IN NINETY DAYS,
k
► The granting of an electric
► light franchise by the city couu
► cil last night marks another
► step in the progress of Bruns
► wick. Messrs. Brobston, Fen
► dig & Cos., received a telegram
- yesterday from Messrs. Fash and
■ Treadwell saying that if a satis
- factory franchise was granted
► they would begin work on the
• street railway within ninety days.
• The city should he liberal in this
- matter and doubtless will giant
• a franchise that is acceptable to
► these people.
said grantees, their successors or as
signs, shall submit a plan or map
showing where it is proposed to locate,
the main line, all sidings, switches
and poles to tho city engineer, under
whose supervision such tracks shall
be laid and poles and wire erected.
Section 2. Bo it further ordained,
by the authority aforesaid,■ That th*
and assigns or any corporation which
said named persons, their associates
they hereafter may tiif'm, (except
where -ais are chartered for special
purposes) shall in no case collect
from any passengers more than live
cents for one continuous passage
with ordinary hand baggage oetween
any two points within the city limits,
to include transfers ai the junction
points; provided that the passenger
or passengers so transferred shaii
take the first car leaving alter his or
her arrival in the direction in which
he or sue wishes to go, and provided
that such passenger or passengers
has sufficient time to transfer to
such first cat. (This section is not
to be construed as allowing such pas
senger a round trip, but simply a sin
gle triji from one point to another by
the shortest and most direct route.)
Section 3. Be. it furtuer ordained.
That the road-bed of said street rail
way ahull at all times correspond
with tire actual grade of the streets,
and that tne top of the rails shall he
so laid and maintained Hush with the
surface or grad** of the streets, so that
carriages and other vehicles can eas
ily and freely cross sam tracks at
and alt points.
Section 4. Be it further ordain
ed, That the right and privilege
hereby granted is so far as it affects
Bay street, shall not prevent the. May
or and council at any time having and
exercising the right to permit all 01
.said street to tie used by steam lail
roatls, and to require the tracks of
said street railway to he removed
therefrom. ill such event the actual
cost of removal and re location of the
line of such street railway shall be
paid by such railroad company or
companies that may be granted such
use of sam Bay street as will requite
such removal or the tracks of the
saiil street ran way.
Section ■". Be it furtner ordain
ed, 1 uat in adult ion to the ad valorem
tax which may i,e lawfully levied an.
collected on such street railway ami
all the propdty and franchises ol such
persons, their succesors and assigns,
by said Mayor and council, said per
ons, their successors or assigns, or
whoever shall control,own and use the
years from the passage of this
ordinance and for live years thereaf
(Continued on fourth page.)
FRUIT IN GEORGIA
NOT BADLY INJURED.
The following summary is sent
out from Atlanta by the Asso
ciated Press, gathered from
southern fruit centers:
Frosts were general last night
in Tennessee, portions of Miss
• issippi, Alabama, Georgia and
the Carolines. The frost, was
heavy at Nashville, Charlotte
and Wilmington, while it was
more severe at Knoxville. Re
ports from eiacon. Savannah, Au
gusta, Charleston, Memphis and
Meridian are to the * ffer-t that,
the trust was light. The dam
age to the flint crop in Georgia,
if any, was slight, a strong wind
prevailing thoroughout. the night.
BRUNSWICK, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 4, 1902.
BLACK BOBBER
KILLS FARMER
BRACE OF NEGRO TftSHWAYMEN
HOLD UR TWO WHITE
FARMERS.
One Killed and the Other Seriously
Wounded—Posse Searching for
Negroes.
Augusta, Ga., April 3. —W. L. Col
lins, a farmer of Edgefield county,
S. C., was assassinated yesterday af
ternoon at Fox’s creek, Martinsburg
road, Aiken county, five miles from
Augusta, by negro highwaymen,
George Wood, a farmer, also of Edge
field county, S. C., a neighbor and a
friend of Mr. Collins, was slightly
wounded in the nip and left shoulder.
The negroes' names are not known.
They are at large, escaping after the
assassination. Tney attempted to
hold up the farmers, who were re
turning to their homes from Augusta,
where tffey had been transacting bus
tness, and the enort was ...resisted.
The farmers were nrling in a buggy,
when one negro appeared on tue
roadside with a pistol in each hand
and comanded the men to throw up
their hands. Mr. Collins was un
armed, but Mr. Wood quickly drew
his pistol. The negro tired, the oall
striking Mr. Collins in the region of
the heart, the ball from the other
pistol striking Mr. Wood in the right
liip.
Mr. Wood fired on the highwayman,
but does not know that he struck mm.
Another highwayman, from the hush
es, fired with a l'ilie, the ball wound
ing Mr. Wood very slightly in the left
shoulder. Five shots were fired. The
negroes escaped into the woods.
Searching parties and officers of the
law are seeking t„em. A posse came
to the city during the afternoil, leav
ing a description of the highwaymen
with the police officers. The inquest
will be held in the morning.
WANT TO ERECT AN AUDITORIUM
Citizens Petition Council for Lot to
Build a Large One.
At trie meeting of council last night
a petition was received signed by a
number of citizens, asking council to
grant them the lot opposite the pub
lic schools for the purpose of erect
ing a large auditorium. Council was
crowded with business and the mat
ter was not acted upon.
The petitioners were mostly those
wlio are interested In t..e big revival
meeting to be held next month, but
it is tie ir intention to erect a per
manent auditorium to lie used for
different puiposes. The matter will
probably be bandied by council at
l tie next regular meeting.
ELKS INSTALL OFFICERS.
Brunswick Lodge Held a Very In
teresVmg Meeting Last Night.
The BrunswicK lodge of Elks held
a very interesting meeting in their
hall over the National bank last night,
and among other tilings, the officers
elected last week were installed. The
new. officers are as follows:
Exalted Killer- B. B. Coleman.
Esteemed Leading Knight- F. A.
Wrench.
Esteemed I-oyal Knight —Kev. C. G.
Bradley.
Esteemed Lecturing Knight—J. W.
Thomas.
Secretary—Louis 11. ilaym.
Treasurer —Hoyt VV. Gale.
Tyles—W. B. Isaac.
Trustees F. I). Aiken, M. Kaiser,
W. S. 'Taylor.
New Town Club Entertains*
The New Town association com
plimented their friends witn a so
ciable last night, which was very
much enjoyed uy all present. Many
specialties were introduced by the
members and the affair was such a
success that the association has de
cided to give another at an early
date.
The Southern Railway
announces a rate of $2 LOS lor the
round trip from Brunswick to Dal
ias, Tex., on account of the Oonfe
crate Veterans' Reunion, Apr! 1 22 to
25. Tickets will be on sale Apri
18, 19 and 20, with final limit May
2. By depositing ticket with tic
agent at Dallas an extension of the
limit to May 15, 1902, may lie .h
taine.l.
MORE COLONISES
HAVE ARRIVED
RUSSIAN GERMANS
REACHEjSthe CITY YESTER
DAY AND ARE AT WORK.
This Makes About One Hundred of
These Farmers Now In Glynn
County.
Seventeen additional members of
ttie German-American colonists ar
rived via the Southern railroad yes
terday morning, and wont out to
tlreir settlement, near the six-mile
crossing.
This makes about one hundred in
crease of the citizenship of Glynn
county within a ft w weeks, and of
that sturdy class of people who mure
than any other within the past fifty
years have developed the great north
west country.
It has been the dream of land own
ers and railroads and emigration
agents to get a movement of Get man
emigration flowing to this country
through southern ports, and this is
the first time it has taken definite
shape though more or less desultory
efforts have been made in the past.
These people are coming from a
province in .southern Russia, which
is about, the same parallel latitude as
our own..and therefore there will bo
little trouble of acclimation. These
people are from a province wholly
made up of Germans who were in
duced to settle in Russia during the
reign of Alexander the Ist., hut be
cause of Russian oppression in late
years have grown restine and they
seek an asylum in Ibis country where
each man who works and is sober may
soon acquire a little home of his own.
if those who come should prosper
and send baciv encouraging word to
the old country there will he tens of
thousands of families to come and
the movement would naturally extend
m Germany itself while thousands
of Germans now enduring the hard
wiuters of the, west would naturally
join their brethren in the south.
There is m tel'ing to what propor
tions this movement may grow, and
our county authorities being compose,,
of wide awake men, have decided to
do all in their power to aid in this
matter by having the land: about
this colony settlement drained so as
to prevent sickness and files dur-.ig
lie coming summer.
These people have their own school
and their own church, and ar* ap
parently: good natured and happy
They land here in the evening and
the next -roivng they .re hard at
work with grubbing hoe and ax
felling trees and digging palmet.o
roots and preparing to raise a crop.
Mr. Alex ls-glei, the promo or and
father of the colony, says he will
have all the waste lands of our back
country settled up in a few years if
the people of the county -*llll the land
c vr.erj wo! only appreciate th > im
pel lance of ibis movement and sus
tain ’nim in his efforts to a re-txoimbl ■
degree.
These people were brought (o
Brunswick through the Southern rail
way and industrial department a.:d
thr ugh th* efforts of Mis.sis. tiiob
ston, Kendig & Go., who secured a
libera] contract from Mr. .7. }’.
lOshaughneasy, of New York for Hie
lands on which Hi use po arc td-
: ng their homes.
It is to he V.opcl t.- ‘f will 1 '■•■sper
for if tli* ■ s mi/ 1 imve to make
valuable these waste lands of cuts
these sturdy Dutchmen will do it,
and if they fail then hope is indeed
gone.
FLORIDA EAST COAST
HELP BOUND NORTH.
About eighty passengers arrived in
the city on the steamer Emmeline
yilsterdajy afternoon from Florida,
and will leave on the Malory steamer
Colorado tooay lor New York. These
people have all been employed at the
big i-lorina East Coast hotels and are
returning to - oir homes for tne win
ter. a majority of them came from
St. Augustine and Miami. They were
enjoying themselves very much in
~ie city last nignt, and were turning
loose some of tne money they have
made out. of the millionaires who
have visited the hotels during the
winter.
New England picked pork. Corned
beef a specialty at Burns & Curtis’.
THE PLANT SYSTEM
ABSORBED BY THE
ATLANTIC COAST LINE
♦ ATLANTIC CITY HAS
♦ A DISASTROUS FIRE.
♦ ——_
♦ Atlantic City, N, J., April -
♦ 3. A fire which destroyed blocks ■
k of buildings and in which many •
k lives were lost, visited this city •
k today, and, as a result, hundreds ■
♦ of people were rendered home- -
k less anil the situation is indeed ■
♦ a distressing one. For hours *
♦ the Itames swept over the city -
k and the firemen were powerless. •
t Men. women and children were <
k crashed beneath the falling build- -
k ings. and it is impossible (o es- *
k timate at present how many lives *
k were lost, nor what the total loss *
k will he. i
kkykk-4-*****-**.**.
NOTES ABOUT TOWN.
nteresting Items Gathered Here aid
There by News Reporters.
Davis Duhherly, in Penick, was
baking hands with his many Bruns
wick friends yesterday.
The many friends in this city of
Mr, G. S. Scarlett, ,lr„ of Fancy Bluff,
will regret to learn that lie is still
seriously ill.
The hoard of trade will meet in
regular weekly session at their
rooms in toe city hall this morning
at 11 o'clock. A full attendance ol'
Die members i urgently requested.
The committee who are in charge
ol the revival meeting to he held here
in May met at the city hall yester
day morning and began to arrange for’
Die erection of an auditorium.
At (he meeting of Die Riflemen
Wednesday, might,! appropriate reso*
1 11 1 ions were adopted on the death of
.1. L. Fouche, winch occurred al Bue
na Vista on Sunday last. When in
this city, Mr. Fouche was an active
member of the company.
The Library entertainment to be
given on Monday night at the opera
house promises to lie an enjoyable
affair. The ladies are taking great
interest in it. and are arranging an
entertaining program.
Unuoim Rank, Knights of Pythias
were out foi a practice drill last
night. Captain Newman and Die
members arc practicing hard for the
coming prize dims, and will go de
termined to bring hack some of me
prizes.
•Mr. F E. Clapp, proprietor of the
Magnolia Modern farm, her yester
day for his home in New York. Mr.
Glapp is very much encouraged over
the outlook of having one of the larg
est. farms hi this section of the state.
He will iftti in to Brunswick later
in the season.
Daily Weather Reports.
Representative Brantley lias secured
from Professor Moore, head of the
weather bureau, an order for daily
weather reports to he telegraphed to
Brunswick and the necessaiy flags
have been sent for signals. These
will lie displayed from the top of the
Oglethorpe hotel.
Ship Notice.
Neither the captain, owner or con
signees of the Spanish steamship Ai
tamira will he responsible ior any
debts co'ntracte.i by crew ot said ves
sel. Zaragoza, Master.
► EX-MAYOR HORN MAY
► MANAGE CUMBERLAND.
►
► The chances are that the
► Cumberland Island 'hotel, for the
► coming season will he under
► the management of Ex-Mayor
► Henry Horn, of Macon, who is
► one of the joliiest fellows in all
► Georgia. Mr. Horn was in the
► city yesterday and held a eon
► ference with Messrs. Brobston,
► Kendig & Cos., who represent the
► owners of the property, and
► while nothing definite has been
► given out by any or the parties
► at interest, it is more than likely
► that a deal has been made where
► by Mr. Horn will manage the
► well known hostelry. He is a
k clever gentleman, and would
k make Cumberland a splendid
k manager.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
El 810 LIS
GO TOGETHER
BY THE DEAL THREE THOUSAND
MILES OF TRACKAGE ARE CON
SOLIDATED UNDER ONE MAN
AGEMENT.
SOUTHERN WILL NOW BE GIVEN
FEE SIMPLE RIGHTS INTO
.JACKSONVILLE—ATLANTA PA
PER SCORES A BIG “SCOOP,”
The Atanta Constitution yesterday
printed a lengthy story from its New
York correspondent to the effect that
the entire Plant System has been ah
sorbed by the Atlantic coast Line.
The Constitution was tne only south
ern paper which printed the article
and if it proves to he true it will he
one of the biggest “scoops" of the
yeai for the enterprising Atlanta pa
per. The Constitution's correspond
ent, in part, says:
The Constitution is enabled to an
nounce by direct and absolute author
ity that the Atlantic Coast Line sys
tem of railways has absorbed the
Plant System and that at an early
date both the systems will be con
solidated under the name and charter
of the Atlantic Coast Line system.
The general management of the Coast
Line will operate the entire system,
all the lines of both systems being
merged into one great system of rail
roads. aggregating 3,000 miles.
For the past month there has been
considerable talk about the consoli
dation of these two systems. It was
reported at one time the Pennsylvania
system was at the back of the deal
and that it would absorb both the
Coast Line and the Plant System.
Again it was reported that the South
ern railway was about to' obtain pos
session of Die two systems and there
were some who gave credence to
this report, largely on account of the
intimate traffic connections establish
ed about a year ago between the
Southern and Plant System.
Your correspondent -ere, however,
is enabled to lay open the story of
the whole deal to give The Consti
tution an exclusive news announce
ment of intense interest not only to
six southern states, but u> the finan
cial world as well.
Negotiations have terminated and
the only thing that now remains to
he done to complete the lormai merg
ing of those two great systems is
the issuance of tue actual orders that
will bring about the consolidation.
The Southern's Master Stroke.
While the Southern is not directly
interested in the ueal, it can be an
nounced definitely that it has made
a splendid stroke in seeming a per
petual contract obligation by which
it will have a fee simple rights into
Jacksonville from Savannah, con
necting with rts eastern lines, and
from Jesup connecting with its
western lines.
The. Southern now has a contract
arrangement with the Plant System
by which it delivers to the Plant
System its eastern trains at Savan
nah, the Plant System handling all
the Southern trains from Savannah
to Jacksoville, to which point the
Southern operates its through trains
from the east Likewise the Southern
operates a through train service from
the west to Jacksonville, just as it
does with the Southern’s eastern
trains from Savannah, 'inis is done
by traffic arrangement. Under the
new deal, whereby the Atlantic
Coast. Lino and the Plant System
are to he consolidated, the Southern
• secures a perpetual contract right
for the handling of all its trains from
Savannah and Jesup into Jacksonville,
thus virtually making Jacksonville
the southern terminus of the Southern
railway system and putting that sys
tem into Jacksonville with practically
the same rights ami advantages en
joyed by the other great, systems
: centering there.