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THE BRUNSWICK TIMES-CALL
VOLUME XL. NUMBER 127.
GREAT ENTHUSIASM AND FINE ORATORY
HARKED THE OPENING OF THE CONVENTION
BIRMINGHAM DELEGATES
SUBMIT EXCELLENT PROPOSITIONS
Tell of the Advantages of Their Respec
tive Localities
EITDJSI4STIC GATHEBINC OF REPBESENTATITE NEB
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Yesterday’s Session "Was One Long To Be Remem
bered. The Driving of the First Spike.
Visitors Royally Entertained.
Tne B. & P. K. R. Convention is on
—on in full blast.
Oa every train yesterday morning
came delegations frc m ail iloog tbe
proptsed route, and when ifce meet ns
Wfcs called to order nearly every ocuuty
from this great Soutn Atlantic t’e a p
water terminus to tbe iron and coal
fields of Birmingham was represented
by able and enthusiastic delegates,
eaob and every one of them eager to
get this great new eaten rise tbriugb
their respective cities and countiee.
Tbe convention, as bad been an
niunced, met in tbe Grand Opera
bouse at 9:30 yesterday morning, and
was called tr order by President Frank
D. Aiktn. The first business of the
convention was tbe e action of a perm
anent Cbairmar, Secretary and Assn
tant Secretary, arid resulted as follows:
Chairman—F. D. A k-n.
Secretary—C. D Otg.
Assistant Secretary— O. W, Denting.
Tbe t timers at onoa took their res
pective plaoes, and tbe routine busi
ness started off at if tbe aonveotiou
bad been in session for several days.
After tbe election of officers, Hon. J
X. dußignon, acting Mayo-, in
behalf of tl e City of Brunswick, in a
few slnqeat words, welcoMfd the
gees •te our oity. He vas f * lswei
by B n£ M. Mason, who, in b'< uiua)
grac ful mas Dir, weioomed tse dele
gates on behalf of tbe Brunswick
Beaid of Trade.
These two addresses of welcone
ware responded to by all of ibe visit
ing Majors, and some gems of oratory
har\
N xt came that disring <i<tn and g**D> le
jnan of tbe enterpriemg o>ty of Ame
loue-Judge Allen Fori who address
ATTENTION, DELEGATES!
All delegates to tlie Bnitiswiek <fe Biriringliam Con
vention are earnestly rt quested to assemble at the opera
house i romptly at 9:30 o’clock this morning. Kepoits ot
delegates will be concluded this morniug, aud permanent
organization effected. The business of the session will be
important, Frank D. Aiken. Chairman.
ed the convention for a half bou r , bis
subject being, “The 15‘uuBwiok &
Birmingham Rsil osi 4 ; Its Certain'y
and Importance.” Judge Fort’s ad
dress was a treat to the convention,
aud was well puoc'uated by applause.
He showed to his hearers what the
construction of this new road meant,
not only to tbe points wbiob it will
touch, but to t he Statr s of Georgia ane
Alabama —and, in f<c‘, tba entire
South. He said that it was bis honest
opinion that Ibis road was no fake, no
bluff, but certainty—bated on steel
rails and croast.ie*,
Af ertha addrers of Judge Fort,
there appeared upon the stage that
po’erprising, enthusiastic, hurtling
man of the hour —Co 1 . E C. Machen.
He s ood feeing uis audiei os for sev
en 1 minutes before he was able to ut
ter a word that could ba heard, for the
thunderous appl&ust ; but wbeD he
did start, he told them all aboutit, and
tbe Thibs-Call feels safe In saying
(bat when be finished, there was not a
uer on in tbe opera bouse who en er
tainrd tbe least doubt as to tbe success
of tbe Brunswick & Birmii gbsm Busy
Bee Line.
N*xt, by rrquest, Co'. W, A. Hemp
hill, of tbe Atlanta Conetitnion, ad
dressed tbe convention for a few min
utes, saying that, although the new
road would hardly pass through bit
oity, be, like many other Atlantaiana,
was much interested in tbs new line,
inasmuch as it would open up an ex
cellent territory, and every city in this
State would derive bem fits from it.
Col. Hemphill said wt ea be and a fen
other A laot.ai&ns stepped from tbt
dep t yesterday morning, s; me one
near by said:
BRUNSWICK, OA. FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25 1901.
‘•There are some Atlantaiar.s. 1 win
der if t hey Lre going to try f.nd get the
new r-r and to ruu tl r,<ugh the capital
cit ; ?”
‘•Now,’ 1 said tha Colonel, “1 would
just like to esy that some of those At
lanta newspaper artists can dtaw
direct line from Brunswick to Bir
mingham, and it will pays tbri ugh tbe
ceoter of Atlanta.”
The little juke was well received, as
was his entire address.
THE FIBS T SPIKE .
A few short talks were then made
by diff-rent members of the conven
tion, af er which ail delegnos and
hundreds of citizen*, lusded ly the
Marine Band, left fur ihe Union depot,
where a special train was in waiting to
carry them ta Ihe fair grounds, at
that point, there were many more
ei izens gathertd around the smarting
of tbe railroad, where the first spike
was to be driven, aid while tbe big
cannon boomed, end tbe masses y ailed,
Col. Maohsu, very gracefully, drove
tbe Drat spiks—a solid silver one.
Aoting Mayor deßigoou drove
tbe second and a delegate
from Birmingham the third, then
everybody, citizens, dtlegates, ladies
and children began te drive, and bad
it net rained just at that time, we cer
tainly thick that tbe rails would hare
been laid and plkd to the fear alia
•rotl'kf,
This was aa inoident that will long
be remembered by every one present,
and w prediet that witbm a year tbe
wbistiei of the B. & B. engines with
oar afier car of Alabama coal and iron
will coma over that sums tract laid by
these people, and tbat will be a happy
day for Brunswick and every point
between bare and Birmingham, and
for Birmingham as well.
NOW THEY EAT.
Immediately after tbe epike-diivin.
ceremonies, all the delega’es were in
vited into tbe main budding at tbe
fair grourds, where s first class lunch
and other refreshments were served,
whTe the Murine band disotursed
sweet music.
Coctiiiued on eighth page.
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EDWARD VII, TCPrn nr VWRLA'TT) and ET'T eror of itoia.
COLONEL MACHEN TO THE CONVENTION
Following i* tbs speech deliveri and by
Col. E. C. Maobeo to tbe Brunswick
and Birmingham railroad convention
yesterday:
Tou will understand that I am here
in a repressn'ativs capacity. Even
tbougb my associates in thlesn'orpriss
re not bare in person, each one of
them will be here in spirit, for their
• very feeling ie enlisted in the bul'di- g
of the road we are here to inaugrts .
At tbe threshold, I bi-g to tbsnk you
in their easae, as well as in my own,
fer your preeeaoe hire, which is ac
cepted as tribute to honest eudeaver
to add to the prosperity that is tioat
ing ell over the cou-.try. Your pres
enc 9 ind.ottes that you will bs in
beany sympathy with tbs enterprise
when put in sufficient fso’s to justify
the oo elusion tbat it will pro,reia
upon honeet lines.
There is no o her purpose than to
build this road aa its name indicate".
As to what ex-ot locution will b- giverf
fr, will be de’ermiued by the develop
ments either made during this conven
tion, or what will grow out, of it. This
convention was instigated amt gotten
up by the people of Brunsw.ok to test
he sense of the communities b, tween I
here and Birmingham, in ord-r that
they might answer the question at to
whs'ber this road was desired, and if
to, to get a practical dernoi stratum of
the fact. The enterprising people of
Bruoawiclt—which seems to include
avsry ma, woman and child In it—
da armined that they would suppls
aaant nature in putting Bruoswiok in
that position before the world where
aha justly bi longa. They ware told
that it would be impoaaibla logivea
d.Unite or intelligent tuiwar to inqui
riai for the location of the line until
a'ter the sentiment ef the interior
counties was known.
Our people are taking the risk of
there being a need for it. You are
tiere to answer whether or oot jcu
want It. My friends were good enough
to p’aoe a large amount of m„ney to
credit io trust, to be used in the pro
motion of the enterprise. Their in* I
struotioua to me were to do nothing
except for cash —to create no indebted
ness of any character; ard that after
they bad been assured of the friendly
cooperation of the people along the
line, they would supplement the trust
Imposed in me by furnishing addition
al money EUllioient to meet my needs, j
PRICE FIVE CENTS
So I said to the psople of Bruoswiok,
‘When you have gotten responses
from tha people of the up-oountry, I
will be able to report to my associates,
and I am sore that yon will not expect
me to answer before that tims.”
It seems that the people of Bruns
wick have devised the qulckra', surest
and most manly way possible to get at
such praotlnal conclusions as will jus
tify the early location asd the pushing
of the linu iato the back oountry.
Tm-y believe and with good reason
ihat this must become a great meeting
p lint between land and tea for a large
share of the commerce of the world.
It was but r aural that they should
take tbs initiative in it. They did so
by doiating from their luxuriout
abundance a magnificent water front,
including access to it, and a superb
body of laud of ample proportions in
the heart of their city, t 0 be employed
for depots, terminal', repair shop? or
anything else that would hast serve
railroad purposes, and, let me say to
you, gentlemen, they ti-d no strings
o it and attaohnl no oondit ons xeept
ihatfhe road be built. Intbatrerp c”,
Continued on eigb’h page.