Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1896-12-30
A LETTER FROM THE
CITY BY THE SEA.
Action of the Council on the
Real Estate Deal.
pa0}iBLY hOEE TRAINS TO PlEASLNIVILLE.
RAILROAD AND POLITICAL TOPICS DISCUSSED.
PROBABLY BIG HOTEL WILL BE BUILT.
THE "FIvE POINTS" OF ATLANTIC CITY
PURIFIED BY FIRE.

| The members of the City Councils have
not disappointed their friends, the tax
payers, BY their action on the site rec
+, commended by the City Hall Commits
sioners, and Atlantic City . interests ar,-
pear to be safe in their hands. I don't
want to question the integrity of either
| of the Commissioners or those members
Of the Council who favored their r.com-
mendatioD; but, with thousands Of
Others in this city, who pay taxes, !
fully agree with the majority of Councils
| when they decide this to be the wrorg
| time for lavish and possibly extrava
CANT expenditure. They did the wise
| and timely thing for which, I ON conf
dent, they will be sustained by public
opinion. The innuendoes contained in
some of the newspaper organs are
vaguely suggestive that the writers
thereof may themselves be what they
charge others with being; but the Coun
Gil need have no fear of pursueiDg q
straightforward course. If it can be
satisfactorily shown that it would be for
the city's best interests to adept the
COMMISSIONER recommendations, /
believe every member of the Council
would vote for it; but at present there
are to many possibilities of tuture legal
complications to make it safe to "tske
chanc. s" without further knowledge
upon the suhjrct.
The assembling of the legislature, a few
days hence, causes renewed discussion
concerning the County Seat removal and
the beli.f is quite general here that the
legislative action will be favorable. The
present term of the County Court has
added strength to the sentiment in favor
of removal, and judges, jurymen and
laym-n have added still another object
lesson to Jog their memories concerning
the many inconveDiences of Mays Land
ing. The PRESS and other newspapers
in the County have SO forcibly presented
the facts in the case there seems to he
but little real opposition. The only
wonder is there should be any; for it
would be great saving of money, IN the
end, to have the County Seat removed to
say nothing of the added convenienceF.
am informed that q prominent railroad
man has declared in favor of rapid
traDsit-or rather a much more fir, quent
transit-between this city and Pleasant
vile. He was hardly aware until told
by some gentle men from your town that
PIeasantvile has eighteen hundred in
habitants and only the through train
service to depend upon for transpOrta-
ton to Atlantic City. Your citizens
might have added that this city, with
it's twenty thousand inhabitants, and
one hundred thousand visitors, are just
as anxious for better communication
with Pleasantvllle as the "Off Shore
people are to nave increased facilities for
reaching Atlantic. have every reason
to believe that not msny weeks will
-lapse before we may have a very much
better and permanent train service
between Atlantic City and it's handsome
suburb across the Bay.
AS l stated in former letter the
Pennsylvania R. R, management are on
the eve of constructing large and hand
some station, and they hope to have it
-;shed by the commencement of next
fow days will determine its
the site is once