Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1897-04-14
A Letter FROM THE
CITY BY THE SEA.
Councils hook Eormard for q
Greater Ht1antie City.
MEMBERS 10 Be INDEPENDENT OF BOSSES. "
THE REVIEW 81 PETULANCE ACCOUNT
ED FOR-IF THE TURNPIKE QUESTION
COMES UP?-THE PROPOSAL TO FUR

The crowd of visitors still linger
here as ii desiring to remain perma-
nently We have had the greatest
Spring trade ever known before. and
ii the Summer travel is anything like
the present volume, Atlantic City
will stand out as the only watering
place in the country, where the ''hard
times" did not make itself felt.
Councils in anticipation of a
greater Atlantic City are planning
for better streets, and better every
thing else. No matter what the Re
view or any other disappointed Or
gan may say, our Councils are a
credit to the City, and will compare
favOrably with any in the country.
Every member is a business man and
has the respect OF his fellow-citizens.
The insinuation that these men have
boss" is too thin as the boys
say. That they are ''owned" by
anybody is a statement as easily re
futed as an assertion that the Review
never had a boss" The Councii-
men are men OF good, sound business
sense, and | could name, if / wished
to, three deals that a majority $.f-
them have been instrumental in de-
feating within the last three months,
that has saved quite big pile of
money to the taxpayers. Judging
them from the past | think they can
be trusted to defend the city's best
interests in the future, and that is
more than | could safely swear to
concerning some men who would like
to 'own" them if they could
AS l fOreshadowed, months ago,
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tendency toward a greater independ-
ence, and as a step preliminary to
that end, certain would-be-"
were ruthlessly pitched overheard.
These are the fellows who are now
doing the bowling about new
"bOsses," and who have induced
perhaps l should say ''ordered"-
Brother Shreve to fly the sOul-stirring
motto at the head OF his editorial
cOlumn-''NO boss can rule this
town" The Review ought not to be
censured, perhaps, for making an ef.
tort to be Independent, for it must
naturally feel a great sense of relief,
if it has really escaped from the
clutches OF its former boss" or
bosses" People here all understand
the situation thoroughly, and will
look very leniently for awhile upon
its daily exhibition of petulance and
chagrin. The only mistake the Re-
view makes is in constantly remind
ing our citizens of the cause of it's
soreness, and in assuming that men,
bers OF Conncil are as easily "bossed''
as itself. AS to the Councilmen, l
am personally acquainted with only
six OF them but by their public rec
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judging them in the light of events
and by their recorded votes upon all
public measure concerning the City's
welfare | believe them to be. hon
est, liberal-minded and intelligent
public servants. If they continue as
they have begun they have nothing
to fear. 1t is only because certain
people cannot order them about as
they would like to, and have the
orders Obeyed, that all this row has
been started of which we get the
froth only in each mornings Review.
Some OF the members OF the COr~
Gil, in their canvass, ran up against
the fact that there were some people
trying to defeat them who should
have been their friends. / hear that
some OF these same people persuaded
<ASSCllOly 0IIhSOu W UChC a
great interest in the passage of the
Turnpike bill so much SO that he en-
tirely forgot the wishes of large
number OF his tialeonstituents
who wanted him to favor the bill
for the removal of the County Seat.
If the pet Turnpike scheme ever
comes before the Council officially /
am OF the opinion that it will be duly
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money saved to the taxpayers.
The syndicate of Capitalists that
desires to acquire the water plant
was considerably in evidence last
week. They put in a good bit OF
time in trying to demonstrate to
Councilmen the great advantage to
everybody that was contained in
their offer to furnish plenty of good
fresh water. One OF the party said
to me that he was surprised to find
a body OF men SO well up in business
matters generally, and particularly
in regard to the details OF the water
service; but this only confirms what
have before said that they are
bright business men who know Il
thing or two outside the knowledge
gained from books. This town has
"
water question, and you can bet
that the Councils will go, in fact are
going, very slowly upon a matter OF
so much Importance.
l hear the Pleasantville Press,
complimented, on all sides, as a
bright newsy paper with special
features that make it attractive, and
l heard several say they wished it
could be removed to this City. Pro-
badly they didn' know that / was
the wretch who inflicted upon them
the weekly Atlantic City letter, else
they might have not been SO free in
their comments. | also heard some
gentlemen talk about buying it, and
| asked them if they knew it to be
for sale. They said they did not
know that it was, but thought a
purchaser could easily be found if it
was. | told them the Press had been
very successful during the short time
it had been in the field and that it
had bona-fide and dsteadily-increas-
ing subscription list, and that it was
alive and awake to the public inter-
est. AS matter of curiosity
ask ed if they were subscribers, and
| found that four out of five OF the
party were ON your list. This re-
minds me to suggest that you can
vass the City for subscribers, and
| believe the result would be satisfac-
| tory. / dish up these little crumbs
OF comfort, for goodness knows that
the Woodworking and conscientious
newspaper man, everywhere, get
plenty of kicks and is religiOusly
fouud fauIt with ARGU0