Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1897-09-15
A LETTER FROM THE
CITY BY THE SEA.
September's Tropie Heat
nengthens Out the Season.
lore ABOUT THE COUNTRY CLUB PROJECT.
THE TAX QUESTION FURTHER CONSIDERED
CITY POLITICS IN REFERENCE TO A CAN
DIDATE FOR MAYOR-ANOTHER OCEAN
PIER TO BE BUILT BEFORE NEXT SEASON.

lOnGed the season far beyond the date
set for it's close and while the mercury
hovers around the ninety mark people
are reluctant to leave the cooling ocean
breezes, and go back to the torrid at
mosphere of the inland cities. This
helps to lengthen out the season and
will put many thousand dollars in the
pockets of our big hotel keepers ard
Others who are dependent on the Sum-
mer travel. Everything points to better
facilities, increased accommodations,
and still greater crowd next year.
Our hotel keepers are talking of enlarg-
ing, building, or rebuilding, and they
may be depended upon to contribute
their share of cash and energy toward
the city's greater prosperity.
The railroads, fortunately, are all in
fine condition, well manned, and splen-
didly managed, and ready to do their
share of a still greater business. We
ought to have better streets, better ap-
proaches to the Boardwalk, more seats
along the Boardwalk, and a better
system of lighting. or the present sys EN-
improved. These improvements f.re all
bound to come, and it would be real
economy for the city to expend few
thousand dollars extra to bring them
about at once. The Country Club pro-
ject, of which the PLEAsANTvILLE PRESS
printed the first authentic news, is being
much discussed here and quite number
of our mOnied men are deeply interested
in it's success. Men like Frederick Hens
ley have taken hold of the enterprise and
it is bound to go. hear that plans are
being drawn for an elegant club house,
and also that work will be commenced
before many weeks on laying out,
levelling and grading the grounds. The
location is one of the finest along the
coast-with it's superb bay and it's GER
tainty OF catching the ocean bretz q.
understand it is the intention of Mr..
Hemsley and other promoters of the
enterprise, to make the grounds and ap-
proaches equal to the best in the State.
The location of the grounds is admirable
SO far as accessibility is concerned. 1t
v ill have communication by water with
Atlantic City, Longport and Ocean City;
by Turnpike Road from Somers' Point,
Camden and Atlantic City, and by rail
by way of the West Jersey and SeashOre
Railroad and the Reading system (At-
lantic City brancb). Both roads can
land passengers within q little more
than q mile at their Pleasantville
stations and the West Jersey can get
considerably nearer than that on the
Somers' Point branch. A line of coaches
from Pleasantville or branch line OF
road few hundred yards in length will
probably be the means of landing pas
sengers directly at the entrance of the
grounds.
The men who have this enterprise in
charge-and who may be depended upon
to see that it is carried forward to com
pletion are all leading citizens, self
made men, and some of them are
wealthy. Sometime / hope to print a
complete list of them; and at present
will name, besides Mr.. Hemsley, Judge
Joseph Thompson of whom as a Judge
we are all proud-Charles Evans, Presi-
dent of the Atlantic City National Bank,
Messrs. Leeds and Lippincott, pro-
prietors of Haddon Hall, Joseph Borton
proprietor of The Dennis and Hon. Ed
ward Lee, Member of Council and one OF
our largest contractors,
The tax question after all is likely to
be accepted as one of the things that has
to be met and adjusted upon the best
ments are made they all cost money, and
the Indebtedness has to be paid. All
things considered | think the tax rate
has been kept down to reasonable
figure, and that the howlers and
GROWERS will have to 60 out Of business
No one proposes to repudiate the city's
obligations, and the GROWERS, as vel as
other people, want all the public i'm
provements they can get. Every sensible
taxpayer knows that they cost money
and don't believe they are going to
irjure the city's fame and credit for the
sake of a few cents on hundred dollars
Atlantic City has tremendous future
growth and prosperity before it, but
both can be kept back by a niggardly
and fault finding policy in reference to
public improvements. Will such policy
pay?
As said in my last letter there is con
siderable activity in what my predeces
sOr, in these correspondence generally
alluded to or the ''Dumpmasters" anC
the Bread and Butter Brigade" Some
OF the big chiefs who have held good
places at the public crib for long term
of years seem to be on the warpath, anC
are hunting around for scalps unmindiu
of the fact that their own are in more
danger. They have not been seen tc
smile since the advent of the Combine
and there appears to be some great grie
weighing heavily on their hearts.
| have fairly straight tip that the
burden of their lamentation is theil
failure TO fiud candidate who car
wrest the Mayorality nomination from
Mayor Stoy. Sometime ago | heard il
was their determination to "dump" hin
for showing too much independence and
refusing to take orders" from long g-tern
officials and discredited politicians.
hear of q pow-wow, recently held at the
residence of big chief, at which this
determination was emphasized, and tn,
reason given was that the people wanted
the Mayor for another term. Of cours,
nothing of that kind could be tolerated
for what the people want is about th'
last thing that is ever taken into cOnsid
GRAFTON by the "Dumpmasters" B. ant
B. B. What they, themselves, want il
more to the point. This noble sentimen
was cheered to the echo, and the gray
haired veterans went into executive ses
sion to see how they could best encom
pass the Mayors defeat. Name afte
name was BROUGHT up and discussed, bu
none seemed quite potent enough t.
coDjure with in a political campaign
The boys who vote early and often-fo
a consideratiOn-were then sounded, an
their preference asked in regard to
candidate. From them it was discoy
cred that their favorite candidate was
two-dollar bill with the option of NAL
| ing it five in the event of lively contest
This 10 the situation up to date, and
again venture to predict the renomint