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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.