Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1897-05-05
A Letter FROM THE
CITY BY THE SEA.
Real Estate Transactions
and Improvements.
FILLING IN" 10 BE CONTINUED.
PLEASANTvILLE REAL ESTATE ALSO BE-
ING SOUGHT AUTHORIZATIONS FROM
THE SPIRITS OF POLITICAL DoINGs, AND
THINGS TO COME FORETOLD.

ING SOUGHT INTERPRETATION FROA
THE SPIRITS OF POLITICAL DoINGs,' AMI
THINGS TO COME FORETOLD.
Inotice in Judge Thompson's inter
view with a Review representative that
he promises new bicycle track over the
Meadow Turnpike that shall be ul
with the times" This is entirely sat
isfactory, and the Co. can provide
such road with less cost for mainten.
ance than any outside company. Judge
Thompson will make himself solid with
the wheeling community if he will carr y
out his promise without delay which |
believe he will do as he is built that
way.
The city is yet well filled with visitors,
and all the big hotels are doing heavy
business. On Sunday the Boardwalk
was thronged with crowds Of promen-
aders although the number did not of
course come up to that of the great
parade on Easter Sunday. All the signs
seem to point to most the prosperous sea-
son ever known here, and if the weather
clerk only does his duty through July
and August, am positive that the Sep
tember round up of hearts and shekels
will surpass all previous records.
Real Estate is booming. Buyers and
renters are plenty, and property is
bringing good prices. Contracts are
being made, hear, to fill up the Meadow
lands to grade on the northwest part of
the City proper. That part that has
been rought up to grade has been sold
without difficulty and still the demand
is for more. 1 hear the Newell tract at
Baltic and Illinois avenues containing |
believe about seventeen acres is about to
be sold to some speculator who will fill it
in and put it on the market. This will
from the Inlet to the draw-bridge on
going right along. Some fine new
houses are going up there and hear of
large number of lots being sold at a
good price. By the way am informed
that a number of our local capitalists are
about making some large investments in
Pleasantville. The knowledge that you
are to have rapid transit all the year
around after the first of June and the
assurance OF the early removal of the
County Seat to your beautiful Town is
having it's effect, and people who have
money to invest see a good thing over
there. If your people would make an
effort to advertise their property for
sale, buyers would soon see thegreat ad-
vantages your Town possesses and
your present "boom" would be carried
right along. You want two or three
live men, such as we have over here, to
take hold for you. They would soon
show the great advantage you possess
in Bay and other privileges and then the
fun would begin. l see you have already
caught some of the men who know a
thing when they see it. Senator Thom-
as, of Pennsylvania among the rest.
Well they will never regret investing
their money on the Shore.
Politics are rather quiet just now in
consequence of the attitude of the Chosen
FrpehOlders who, it would seem, went
into the hospital for decayed politicians
after they laid out Anderson Bourgeois
in such great style over in Weymouth
Township. Some wicked people want
to insinuate that three hundred dollars
of Atlantic City capital was sent out for
the purpose of ''laying OUT this good
man. Anyway he was knocked silly,
and at last accounts had gone back into
a second trance, and for a time COM
municated with the outer world through
the mediumship of John Price who kindly
consented to act as chief interpreter of
"spook" messages. At this seance it was
foretold that Congressman Gardeners
farm must no longer be isolated from
civilization, and that the new road from
Mays Landing to Egg Harbor City
must be built without delay; and that
humanitarian considerations demand
that Gardner's terrapin should have
better facilities for exercise. Another
message declared that the City Comp
troller of Atlantic City was an ass and
didn't know how to make up financial
report that would suit people who most
wanted to have it suit them. Also that
the taxpayers were itching for another
opportunity to open their money bags
and dump the contents into the laps of
the good and true men known as the
Board of Freeholders. At this point,
Captain Bill Cordery interrupted the
spirit control, and being present IN the
flesh proceeded to declare that he too,
had recently been in trance and had
beard strange and marvellous things
while it lasted. 1t had been revealed to
him, so he said, that Joe. BOrton was a
hoodoo and that the Board of Free
holders Combine was stronger than ever
and could never be beaten. Ed. Wilson's
sickness, he said, was brought on by
partaking too freely of the "big eat
prepared at the Asylum by that world
renowned chef Tobias Mcconnell. He
came very near going on the long voy-
age, and was only saved from an early
grave by news being brought to him
that the Freeholders' Combine would
live forever, and that "Toby" Mcconnell
was q man after their own heart. Then
he settled back into q chair, and John
Price remarked, ''the spirits will now
give us another message through our be-
loved but knocked-out brother, Anderson
Bourgeois, for whose undoing l doubt
not some of you present have generously
contributed" "Ahl there" exclaimed
the spirit, II have been interrupted, but
1 am with you once again. Tell the in
habiuants of earth that all is not yet
well with the FreehOlders' Combine.
They think they have the earth and yet
they have it not. 1t is yet to be q game
of dog eat dog, and one Of these days
there will be revelation that will
astonish some people who least expect
to be astonished. Good bye. I'm gone. y
Brother Price then proceeded to explain
to the audience that communication was
cut off for the present, but that it would
be well to appoint a committee to watch
the Weymouth politician until he comes
out Of his trance. He is bright, sharp
sort of sman, and we can never feel
quite safe while hefs susceptible to infiu-
ence that we cannot control. That three
hundred dollars would be bad invest
ment If it should turn out that Mr..
Bourgeois after all was not dead and
was liable to tell things in trance that
he ought not to tell when thoroughly
awake. Then the seance broke up and
the Freeholders' Combine went into exc.
eutive session to determine who it,.waa