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VOLUME XX-NO. m Jt?
ATTEMPTS B E I N G
MADE TO DISCREDIT
"SEACDAST” ROUTE
Damaging Reports Are Being
Spread by Parties Interest
ed in Rival Routes.
CLAIM
BRIDGE OUT OF COMMISSION
Mayor Barclay, of Darien, in a
Card to the Savannah News,
Exposes Unfair Practices in
Competition For Tourist
Travel.—Savannah Paper
Pleads For Fair Play.
According to ’reports reaching
Brunswick during th e past few days
persons Interested in rival highway
routes leading into Florida are
spreading broadcast false and mi%
leading statements in the form of
propaganda to induce tourist travel
to pass up the Dew “Seacoast” route,
leading through Brunswick and Dari
en, in favor of the longer and more
difficult passage.
While It is generally admitted that
huch taotlcs might result in mislead
ing a few, It Is not believed that any
considerable number of tourists will
h|e led to take the longer route. How
ever, prompt steps will be made to
correct these false reports, a/id the
true state of affairs will be made
known. #
Among the reports being circulat
ed is the statement tnat the Darlen-
Brunswlck bridge Is out of com mis
aion, and that tli* coast route of the
Dixie highway is Impassable,' This
splendid structure was built at a cost
*of thousands of dollars *in order to
provide a direct roate
from the Fast, as w#ll
up thi cities of Savannah, Darien
Brunswick and Jacksonville, and was
opened to the public on July 2.
A flrst-clnss highway has been built
for the entire distance, and it Is now
in excellent shape, despite the recent
heavy rains. And it is certain that
the threat bulk of Eastern tourist trav
el irVto Florida will use this route. In
spite of the unfair methods being em
ployed In behalf of other routes.
Darien Mayor Protests.
In it card to the Savannah Morn
,mg News, which appeared in that pa
per yesterday, Mayor Barclay, of Dari
en. entered a protest at the unfait
methods used to promote travel
over other routes. In publishing the
card, the Savannah paper embodied
it In the following editorial, pleading
tor fair play, which will meet the sp
proval of all right-thinking people:
Play the Game Fairly.
"Let us have only the fairest sort
of c mpetition for travel over our
road routes. While boosting for our
own particular roads, let’s not tell
less than the truth about the other
ones. Thp M Tiling News has recelv
ed the following from Mayor Barclay
of Darien, under date of Aug. 8:
It hae come to my knowledge
that certain parties are spreading
the report that the brldgee be
tween Darien and Brunswick are
out of commission, and are advis
ing tourist® to take other routes
* as It la Impossible to travel thia
part of the Eastern branch of the
Olkls Highway, I wish to correct
thl§> misstatement as the road and
brldgee are In excellent condition,
and are used by hundreds of peo
ple every day. Thanking you in
advance for the publishing of this
card.
I am, your* truly,
W. d*R. Barclay,
Mayor of Darlrn,
•'Mayor Btrvty in hi* Bmpßatr:
not** *ay* nothing gin*t any other!
road*, He merely save that the Da*j
rlert ks 4 I* In excellent condition
and ready to *erce and 1* serving a
groat traveling public, In the ojt>
building of Georgi*. all Georgia. we
ought to hear In mind that when one
Georgian knork* another, or the In
habitant of He *ectlro of Georgia
knocks another MHtoa, he \* hurting
htm*elf If all of on get InNhe
It of decrying what each other baa,
alt of u will suffer, * our local
pride our local hoowting effort*, let *
ha feogtpatitivw tf we whh hut let *
guru* fairly M
THE BRUNSWICK NEWS
THE NEWS IS A MEMBER OF 'ftHE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MILLIONAIRE INVENTOR
LIVED DOUBLE LIFE
fßy Associated Press.)
St. Louis, Aug. 10. —Eli Hilles Lar
kin, inventor and millionaire, vice
president of the Ammonia Company,
lived for forty-four years as a bach
elor in one home, ajid as H. B; Thomp
son, the reputed husband of Harriet
Belle Thompson, unknown except to
a small circle of friends, In another,
Chas. C. Collins, lawyer and intimate
friend of 'Larkin, assisted in a dispo
sition filed today in a legal contest of
Larkin’s will.
SMALL SAYS RE DID
NOT EVADE ARREST
Issued a Formal Statement Yes
terday Declaring That to the
“Corrupt Political Ring Dom
inating Sangamon County,
Justice is Political Black
mail.”
(By Associated Press.)
Springfieft, 111., Aug. 10.-rDeclarlng
that to-the “corrupt political ring now
detonating Sangamon county, justice
is political blackmail,” Governor Len
Small, in a formal statement issued
today, said be never evaded arrest,
demanded a speedy trial, and attack
ed ’county as a “lawless
ring,” the Chicago Tribune and the
Dailey News, as well an Attorney Gen
eral Brundage and United States Sen
ator McCormick.
Wants Change of Venue.
State Attorney Mortimer tod# pro
posed the conditions under which he
would agree too grant Governor
Sm*ll a change of venue outside of
Sangamon county for trial on the
charge of embezzlement of state
funds while state treasurer, for which*
the governor was arrested by Sheriff
Mester lat* yesterday.
The pe;-opsitioTis were that the go*
eroor’s council file a petition for a'
Y4mm> nRd v* kf © p ■ yiU)
mm IPnrn* f Mnrtfffiftr In, an effort,
to reach an agreement on some coun
ty and that both sides agree to a
speedy trial.
LOCAL CONCERN MAKES
APPLICATION FOR CHARTER
Elsewhere in The News this morn
ing appears a petition for charter for
the Southern J’otasslum Phosphate
Company, a concern which will own
the patent rights to a valuable pro
cess for the manufacture of potassi
um phosphate for fertilizer purpos
es.
This new concern i a separate and
distinct organization from the Indus
trial Chemical & Fertilizer Cos., the
formation of which was announced
yesterday, but will own the patent to
the process to he imed by the latter
organization In the manufacture of
fertilizer.
The incorporators of the Southern
Potassium Phosphate Cos. nre Albert
FVndjlg ttnd Jfx<eph W. Bonnet, ct
this city, and A. L. Krelss, of Jack
sonville, and the company will con
trol patent rights which is certain to
give it a dominating place in fhe fer
tilizer manufacturing business, espe
cially as regards th* use of phosphate.
The principal office and plac* of
business will be In Brunswick, from
where all business of the concern will
be transacted.
WILL PROCEED AT ONCE
TO LEASE THE MANSION
Atlanta. Oa„ Aug. 10.—Preparations
for the lease of the governor’s man
sion property on Peachtree street nre
to he commenced Immediately after
the legislature adjourns, following the
pacts** * Tuesday aft cm on by the j
hgule of the senate bill creating a
commission to lease the mansion for
a period not exceeding five years.
The house property commute* re
commended an amendment, directing
the commission to expend $125,000
of th P proceeds of the lease for the
purchase and equipment of anew res
idence for the governor in or near
Atlanta, hut the amendment was kill
ed by the house, so that the question
of a permanent residence of the gov
ernor Is left open for future determi
nation.
The commission, as provided for by
the MU. ts tb consist cf §p‘ governor,
secretary of state, two members of
the senate, named by the president,
and three members of the House nam
ed hv the -peaker. and three cltlxens
named by the governor
President Acts as Own Caddy in Putting
Contest on Vacation
War Secretary Weeks putting while President Harding, at Weeks’ left, watches.
A putting tourney in which each
of the prominent golfers acted as his
own caddy was one of the interesting
"stunts” arranged for President Hard
ing during his vacation at the home
REMAINS" GUY F. HARVARD
ARE SENT TO WAYCROSS
Areomp.miod by .members of the*
familyjhe Jvuawjy busi
jrernains of Guy T\ Harvard, well
known and highly regarded Brunt*
wick citizen, who passed away at his
homo on Monk street at 2:30 o’clock
blond ay afternoon, left at 4:50 o’clock
yesterday afternoon, over the A. C.
L. railway for Waycross, where the
funeral and interment will take place
this morning.
A short funeral sendee was con
ducted from the residence at four
o’clock, when scores icf friends gath
ered to pay a last tribute to the de
ceased. The flower-laden casket was
then transferred to the station, to
be carlred to Waycross.
Tho following gentlemen served as
pallbearers: Frank Stacy. O. I*arsen,
€. A. Taylor, Claude Dart. C. S. Tait,
L. T. McKinnon, J. M. Keene.
COUPLE FORFEIT BONDS IN
POLICE COURT YESTERDAY
i
The cash honds of fifty dollars each,
put up by a well-known railroad ro2*n
and n young marrtxl woman, a report
of whose arrest appeared In The
New* yesterday, wee* forfeited In
police court yesterday morning, when
they failed to put in an appearance
for trial.
It Is reported to The News that the
couple left the city on th* A. C. L.
passenger train for Waycross. leaving
at 6:SO yesterday morning, giving
Waycross as their destination. The
husband of the young woman involv
ed In the scandal is said to be at
work in Waycross!
COMMITTEE AT WORK
ON COMPROMISE BILL
Washington. Aug. 10—The Prafi
! detit having intervened t straighten
'out the tax revision differences be
tween the leaders of the house ways
and means committee and th* treas
ury offices, the ways and means re
publicans set to work today to draft
a revenue bill to yield three billion
and seventy-flv* million dc,liars, ap
proximately six hundred million dol
lars less than has been suggested by
Secretary Mellfki.
LAST MEMBER OF CONFED
ERATE CONGRESS IS DEAD
Ocala. Fla-. Aug. 10. —Colonel John
-Marshall Marlin, believed to he the
last surviving member of Congress of
the Confederate States of America,
died at hi* home here tonight, after
an illness of several months
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA THI#?SDAY, AUG. 11, 1921.
of War Secretary Weeks on Mt. Pros
pect, Lancaster, N. H. The tourney
was held on the putting green in
front of th e secretary’s horned The
green is probably one pf the highest
SHARK FISHING TO
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President Ehrenreicht of the
Ocean Leather Company
Wires He Will be Here Next
Week to Begin Operations,
and * Dr. Simmons Invites
Movie Men to Make Pictures.
The story of shark-fishing opera
tions of the Ocean Leather Cos., in
nearby waters, will very probably be
told in moving pictures throughout
the country, said Dr. J. W. Simmons
last night, In announcing that Dr.
Alfred Ehrenreicht. president of the
company, had sent a telegram yester
day, stating that h* will be here next
week to begin operations.
Dr. Ehnenrelcht wired that he will
very probably be accompanied to
Brunswick by B.<Jov. Jiohn K. Tener,
of Pennsylvania, an active director
In the company. They expect to reach
Brunswick about the time of th e ar
rival of the steamer lx>uise Howard,
now enroute.
Dr. Simmons stated that he is Invit
ing G*ov. Thomas W. Hardwick, and
prominent newspaper men of Atlanta,
to come to Brunswick to witness the
fishing operations, and that represen
tatlves of the Pathe W’eekly news pic
tures service would also be on hand
to make pictures, which will be shown
throughout the country.
T 0 Invest SIOO,OOO.
In connection with the establish
ment of a permanent fishing station
In Brunswick. It Is stated that Dr
Ehrenheieht and his associates are
prepared to Invest a total ©f one hun
dred thousand dollars In the local
plant, after the preliminary tests are
completed, if results come up to ex
pectations.
A number of Brunswick people have
subscribed to strek In the company
for the building of a station here, and
after th e demonstrations next week,
a call will he issued for thia money
to be paid Into the treasury in order
that work may be commenced with
out delay In erecting the station. The
local money to be Invested In th* en
terprise will be In addition to the
SIOO,OOO to be expended by Dr. Ehren
reicht and his associates.
WILL INVESTIGATT TOBACCO
Washington, Aug. 10.—The senate
yesterday adopted the Smith* resolu
tion for an invest 1 gat ion of the tobac
co trade, including prices to produc
ers and consumer*
in the country, as It *is on the top of
Mt. Prospect, in Ihe beautiful White
mountains, President Harding and
party have returned to the White
House.
NEWS DEPOT OPENED
FOR BUSINESS YESTERDAY
Yesterday witnessed the addition
of another entry into the business
a full line of morning JLnd afternoon
papers, periodicals, magazines, office
supplies and school books. Inciden
ly, h* has added a shine parlor as a
side attraction with cold soft bottled
drinks as another feature. His for
mal announcement appears in another
part of this paper.
Mr. Treadwell is weJl known to
Brunswick. He Is a young man of
fine integrity, a hustler and a busi
ness-getter. The News, with all his
friends, trusts his venture will prove
the success he anticipates.
ALL IN READINESS FOR
FERNANDINA TRIP TODAY
The steamer Atlantic will leave
from Its dock, f#ot of Mansfield street,
promptly at nine o’clock this morning
for Fernandina, and It is expected
that more than one hundred Bruns
wick baseball fans will be aboard to
acoempany the All Stars on their Jour
ney of conquest to the Florida city.
Manager Edo Miller etated last
night that th? team was never in bet
ter shape, and expressed confidence
that the All Stars would win another
victory ovar the FdrnamSna team*
Excursion rates for the trip have been
announced, with the Indications that
th(e steamer will have its full capacity
of passengers.
IMPORTANT EPWORTH
LEAGUE MEETING TONIGHT
r ¥
The to be held tonight, of
the Epworth league of the First
Methodist church, will be an impor
tant one, as well ae interesting. Im
mediately following the devotional
service. a brief business meeting wtll
be called to order for the purpose ct
electing a successor to the retiring
president, Ernest C. fails. who leaves
soon to resume work at the Univer
sity of Georgia, Athens.
Tha musical program tonight will
includV a vocal solo by Miss Eunice
Burgay and a violin solo b 7 Miss Isa
belle Bunkiey.
MACK SENNET COMEDY AT
THE BIJOU THEATER TODAY
Manager Brown, of the Bijou, an
nounces for this afternoon and to
night a five-reel Mack Sennet come
dy. “Home Talent.** said to be one of
th* best productions put out by this
welt knfcwn fuofactary during the
y**r.
SOUTHERN CROPS MADE
GOOD SHOWING LAST WEEK
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Aug. 10. —With gener
ally favorable weather conditions last
week, Southern crops, including cgrn,
tobacco, potatoes, rice, sugar cane,
citrus fruits, and peanuts made good
showings, the descriptive t reports
ranging from fair to ideal for the ma
jority of the products named, accord
ing to the government’s national
weather and cnop bulletin issued to
day. While the cotton crop was re
ported good in some sections, it made
a poor showing generally.
WANTS HIGHWAY
BUILT JOB CITY
J. J. Spears, Well Known Citi
zen and Former Mayor,
Writes Interesting Letter
About the Proposed St. Si
mon Highway, [Urging That
Route From City be Selected.
(Communicated.)
Editor News:
In the various articles in relation to
the St. Simon highway project, ap
pearing in your paper, in my opinLon
the most important features have
been ignored.
I am in favor of the highway, and
will vote for either country or city
bonds, or both if necessary, for a
highway starting anywhere In the
city limits. But I will vote and use
what influence I may have against a
highway starting from McKinnon’s
Still. th e present location, even if
offered to the county without any cost
whatsoever, flor the fallow fin g
sons: ■
All travel coming* way of Dari
en would switch off eight miles from
Brunswick, all travel from Jestip,
Waycross and Florida centers at Ster
ling. six miles from McKinnon’s Still,
eleven miles from Brunswick, weight
miles to still, nineteen miles by way
of. Urunswick. and *ix miles atj&ight
Nbfroa*- % H c* . -v ”
time there is no road from Sterling
to the Still, shoud the highway be
built from that point the owners and
developers of Long Island would have
a powerful incentive to build a road
across, six miles. This road, once
built, the travel to and from Florida
would use it, and Brunswick would,
lose practically all the benefits ex
pected to be had from travel over the
Darien-Bruns wick bridge.
From Brunswick to the Pier, by
way of the Still route, is 22 miles;
via route starting from city limits
the distance Is seven myes. Prom
Brunswick to Long Island by way of
the Still route is 15 miles, via route
starting from the city limits the dis
tance is also 15 miles; thus saving
the citizens of Brunswick a distance
of fifteen miles to the Pier, and los
ing none, in the distance to Long
Island.
It has been suggested by some, as
ithere are no ships ever passing
through Plantation Creek, that a
route beginning from the lower end of
town, crossing Plantation Creek, with
a forty foot elevation, would give us
a highway to St. Simon with but one
draw bridge.
I am not the owner of an automo
bile. and do not expect to be. so 1
am not personally interested in the
time It would take to go and come;
but to build a highway over a route
which would practically take an hour
to go and an hoar to return would be
an Imposition i>n car owtsers ! who
would like to go to the beach for
an evening, when for a little addi
tional cast a highway could be built
taking a twenty minutes’ drive,each
way. *
♦The distances as given above are
ndt from actual measurement*, but
are estimated from a general know
ledge of the country, and are approx
imately correct.
Most respectfully. j
J. J. SPEARS.
RAILROADS EARNED TOTAL
$51,000,000 DURING JUNE
Washington. Aug. 10.—The rail
roads of the country earned a total of
approximately fifty-one million dol
lars during the month of June, a net
gain of more than fourteen million
dollars over the net earning* for the
month of May, accord in gto reports
filed with the interstate commerce
commission by the carrier* and made
public today by the American Rail
way Association.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
SPEN IST HOURS
TRYINI D AGREE
ONGEII} 1L TAX BILL
House Re 1 * l to Concur in
Senate A *3 lent Providing '
Five Pei : Movie Tax.
OIL COMPANIES TO CONTEST
THE GASOLINE SALES TAX
General Appropriations Bill For
the Next Two Years Passed
and is Now Ready For the
Governor’s Signature.— En
actment of the State High
way Bill Also Completed.
(By Associated Press.)
Atlanta, Aug. 10.—With the general
appropriations bill for the next two
years passed and ready for th e signa
ture of Governor Hardwick, th e Geor
gia senate and house of representa
tives devoted the closing hours be
fore adjournment, due to take place
at midnight tonight, to tryi&g to
reach an agreement on the general
tax bill.
The tax bill had already passed
both the house and senate, but the
senate tacked on some amendments
which the houses refuses to agree to.
The senate amendments Included a
five per cent amusement tax, which
was the principal stumbling block in
the way of agreement during the clos
ing hours.
OIL COMPANIES TO CONTEST
GASOLINE SALES TAX.
The bill imposing a cent a ’ gallon
tax on retail sales of gasoline was
signed' today by Governor Hardwick,
and R. N. Reed, president of the Reed
Oil Company, gave out a statement
shortly afterward announcing that the
oil companies doing business in Geor
gia would immediately bring oourt ac
tion against this tax.
Pass Deficiency Bills.
Th senate today passed a number
df special house deficiency
Georgia Tech twenty-nine
dollars Cor last year’s deficiency. The
enactment of the state highway bill,
providing for the distribution of the
automobile license tax money among
th e counties according tjo state road
mileage, was also (completed during
t te day.
STILL IN SESSION
AT LAST REPORT.
The state legislature wa* still in
session when the last press freport
from Atlanta was received by The
News. Adjournment was scheduled
to have been taken at twelve o’clock
midnight, but it is possible that the
lawmaker* /remaned at work long
after that hour, by the old and well
known texpedient of setting the clock
back. At last reports the general tax
bill was the only legislation remain
ing to be with the five
per cent movi e tax as the chief obsts>
cle to an agreement. ;
FROM SIRE TO SON, >.i
OR 40 YEARS AFTER.
Sounds like a serial or something,
doesn’t it? But it lent, and It It
better anyway. It I* a skit or
erence to nearly half a century of
business integrity and business
achievement because of that in-
Yesterday The News had a word
or two to say on GOOD WILL and
what it means to a merchant
Right back comes a Brunswick
concern established forty yea's
ago in thia city by the father and
grandfather of the present own
ers.
Splendid and notable record isn’t
It, and it could only have been
won by hewing strictly to the line
that separates honesty and fair*.,
ness from the dubious and doubt
ful. Th grandfather earned the
GOOD WILL of the public, and
th e son and the eon’s aon havt
further cemented IL
The News carries a message to
day from a 40-year-old house. It
is a story of continued trust and
faith in them. Th e News Is a bus
iness getter and seller of proven
prime' worth. *
Remember, too, that evary little
wanted in Tha News has a mean
ing all ita own. *
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