Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1896-12-23

The Pleasantville Press Telephone
Man" had another take interview with
several County officials in it's issue Of the
18th inst. upon the subject of our es-
teerned contemporaries nightmare. the
Removal Of the County Capital The
interview" was made up of the silliest
mess OF bosh that has ever appeared in q
County print. What the taxpayers of
Atlantic County demand is sound arRu-
ment and not rot, and we respectfully
direct our esteemed contemporary to
this f9ct. When the time is ripe this
journal will have something to say upon
the subject of why the remarks bic
proceeding of removing a County Capital
10 some other point for land boom pur-
poses, should not even he considered.
Mays Landing Record, Dec. 10. 1896.
We are glad to know that our contem-
porary is going to o''have something to
say'' upon such an important subject,
for it has never yet printed a line that
could be digniied by the name of argu-
ment. Hitherto it has always had tx
actly nothing to say in response to the
demands of hundreds of the leading
citizens of Atlantic County when they
have asked to be heard, or have re-
quested the County Freeholders to not
expend any more money upon the old
Comfy Buildings. The Record has
always dismissed the subject with
paragraph of ridicule, or contented itself
with a denial of official figures and
established facts. To people resident
here it is not necessary to deny the
insinuation of the Record that the
movement in favor of PIeasantville is
ouly for ''land boom purposes for
every body in this vicinity knows better.
Again we assure our bewildered and
frightened contemporary that those
most deeply interested in the project
have no land to sell, and are as con-
cientiously laboriug for what they
believe to be for the public good, as the
Record is frantically striving to retain
the County S at for private gain.
DOUBLE TRACK TO ATLANTIC CITY
1t is rumored that the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad has signed contracts for
double track to be extended to Atlantic
City from Berlin over one of its lines
operated under the name of the West
jersey and Seashore Railroad Company.
This is over the original bed of the Cam
den and Atlantic Railroad and will be
greatly appreciated by the public as well
as adding to the great convenience of
the railroad company. The completion
Of +ln..c tod 10 hn fn1 fn
sixty DAYS from date of commencement.
III his will shorten the time between
Broad Street Station and Atlantic City
at least thirty minutes. Many other i'm
proyementS are reported to take place
this coming year, among them being the
extension of the new ferries out to
Wardens lines in the Delaware River.
Holiday Tour to Old Point Conn
fort, Richmond and Washington.
For the approaching midwinter vaca-
ton season the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company has arranged another of its
annual holiday tours to Old Point Com
fort, Richmond and Washington. The
great popularity of these tours in past
seasons attests the high estimation i'll
which they are held.
Old Point Comfort as a fashionable
winter resort, and as a point of historic
interest needs no introduction to the
travelling public. Nor does Richmond,
the one-time capital of the short-lived
Confederacy. Washington, always at
tractive, will be made peculiarly SO by
the festivities of the holiday season.
Tour will. leave New York and Phila-
dciphia Saturday, December 26. Rates,
returning via Richmond and Washing
ton. $500 from New York, $500 from
Philadelphia; returning direct, $1,000
from New York and S14.OO from Phila-
delphia Proportionate rates from other
points.
For tickets, itineraries and other in.
formation,- apply to ticket agents, spe-
cial booking offices, or address Geo. w.
Boyd; Assistant General Passenger
Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadel-
phia.