Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-03-30
A LETTER FROM THE
CITY By THE SEA.
The hate Election q Topic
for Reflection.
DISPOSAL OF THE CITY GARBAGE PLANT
THE FAILURE OF THE LEGISLATURE TO
PASS THE COUNTY SEAT REMOVAL
BHL-THE NEW MAYOR AND THE
WORK BEFORE HIM.

The late election has left behind it
much food for reflection. Perhaps
the most important to the taxpayers
is the new Council with it's recon-
struction of the Committees. The
people will watch with interest the
action of the new "Combine" toward
the long-needed new City Hall. The
city has been put to many thousand
dollars of needless expense on this
one want that should have been not
only built but occupied months ago.
Thousands of dollars has been
paid in rents. and other ex-
penses that good management
would have saved. But that be-
longs to the past and if the present
Combine expects to hold the
respect OF the people they will see to
it that there is no more unnecessary
delay on that line.
The action taken last week by At
tOrney Cole in taking the matter to
the Supreme Court only complicates
matters still further There seems
but one OF the two courses left for
Council to pursue. One is to recon-
slider their former action of buying
the Schauffier block and proceed at
once to build the City Hall on the
site they already have. This would
no doubt be the most popular move
they could make as the Schauffier
matter has never been popular with
the masses. l only have to refer to
the late election to cOrroborate this.
The other course is to reconsider and
repudiate every act that has been
naY.fo sx,t t1,a nHr ;cI, l..
commission and next year start out
anew all over again. To continue
under the present conditions only
adds injury to expense and expense
to injury.
The removal OF the garbage plants
another important matter and one
that Council should Immediately
take up and dispose of once for all.
The argument Of some people that it
must be taken away off-so far
away in fact that it cannot make
nuisance-is all rot. Every one
knows that if the crematOry is
properly constructed and properly
conducted that no nuisance will
attend it, even if left where it is now.
While the location never was
proper one, if it had been put up
on scientific principles and conducted
on that line no complaint would
have been heard. But it was not.
First it was stuck up in a place where
the trains with their passengers were
compelled to run right along side OF
it's walks and filthy surroundings to
the disgust of the hundreds and
thousands of passengers who were
treated to the disgusting odors. The
talk about keeping it away from the
dwelling houses is impracticable.
Everybody with particle of sense
knows that there is no place on the
island where it can remain Isolated
for any length of time. The building
of houses, even in these hard times,
gives assurance that the only sensible
thing to be done is to go out on the
meadows, away from the railroads,
and there erect modern crematory
and no more complaints will be
heard from the garbage matter.
The writer can show Committee
of Council q place, in the built up
portion of Philadelphia, where fifty
times the refuse of Atlantic City is
cremated and no complaints have
ever been heard concerning it. In
addition to all that, the refuse is
made to pay expenses and pay
handsome profit besides. Let Council
open their eyes and use q little
"horse sense and the great garbage
nuisance will be thing of the past.
Then lay the lOng-needed cOnduits,
and dispose OF the unsightly poles,
and the danger attendant thereto.
Let the Combine" show the people
that they are in business for some
bOdv beside themselves
Send the hungry hOrdes OF heelers
and grabbers to the rear and start
| in on clean business principles. Get
the streets paved as soon as possible,
and the people will begin to see
something for their money and the
new y'Combine' will get the credit.
The failure to pass the bill for the
removal of the County Seat, at this
session of the Legislature was
another mistake for Atlantic City, for
| this city is the greatest sufferer from
| the present location. Everybody
who has any business at the County
Seat knows the great loss of time
| and money that must be sacrificed SO
long as the County Seat remains at
| it's present location. The people
have walked up to this most impOr-
tant question and will hold to
| account the Instructors when the
proper time comes around. The
| interests of Atlantic City and the
| interests of the County are one and
| the same, and some thick-heads will
awake to that fact some of these
days. The bill should have been
passed and the buildings located
where they belOng-and where every
level headed man knows they should
gO-nOt only as matter OF con-
venience but also as an economic
measure. But we have been sjOllied'
ON the public necessities here, and
| the jolliers have apparently again
won the day on this all-impOrtant
public matter. There were parties
able, ready and willing to give us the
best of transportation and it was
known that they were willing to
guarantee that as soon as the bill
passed the Legislature they would
begin work. This would have opened
| up and made valuable thousands of
acres of land that at present pays in
| taxes almost nothing. 1t would
have made a market for all that
section from Somers. Point to English
Greek and SO on back to Mays
Landing. But the ssheelers' had the
call and they proved again their
ability to obstruct.
The new Mayor seems to be getting
along in good style. He sees his
+ opportunity and is no doubt taking
his bearings, before making his pur-
poses known. :, He has large field
to exercise in, and almost any change
will be for the better. He has some
good and efficient officers on his