, 1898-12-16

thC 0Dluo WOIhI 1IOl4' pIsoV|
to Ro$per day. When the men re-
O'Clock, un Monday morning the Su-
there, nor was his sub boss, &. Kohan.
For this reason some of the men did
not begin work, while others went to
unloading a car Of sewer pipe which
they had been told to do by Mr.. Rachor
on Saturday night, About 7.30 O'Clock
MIR. Rachor appeared, called the meh
together, and repeating over some fig
ures furnished him by Mayor Baker
relative to the cost of finishing the sew-
ers, in which he endeavored to show
that at the rate the work was then pro-
crossing the money provided by the
issue of the 5000 worth of Improve
ment certificates would be inadequate
to carry OF the work to completion. In
view of this he said that the wages
would be cut to $l.25 per day, stating
also that Italians could he procured
from Philadelphia to do the work for
that sum. After talking the matter
over the men decided not to work for
81. 25, and went home and waited for
the Italians to make their appearance.
Four of them came Oh Wednesday
ulOlIl1l1S , ld1ll. VII knIicOdD OlD
ing work on the sewers was resumed,
all of our home workmen returning to
work except three or four.
A new line of rubber boots and ladies'
sandals at Banks Shoe Store. II
Miss Lizzie Taylor is at Wildwood
Bazaar to remain over the holidays.
You can buy anything at Wildwood
Ilavaar from u na ln nf Gnan TN q Stnan.
ship ticket.
The first skating this winter was had
ON Magnolia lake last Saturday, Dec.
10, and has continued good this week.
Quite a crowd of young folks enjoyed
the sport last night.
We have 81, 800, also $1,000, which
we desire to place on good first bond
and mortgage in Wildwood. Reeve d
Marts. n
The price of labor on Five Mile Beach
has always been $1.50 per day, and the
cut of wages inaugurated by the Mayor
Of Wildwood does not meet with pOp-
ular favor. You can hardly find a
property owner here to sanction this
movement. Mayor Bakers excuse is
that the borough cannot legally raise
enough money to finish the eve this
winter and spring unless a reduction in
the cost is made somewhere. Coun-
Gilman Ryan does not favor the reduc-
ton to our men here on Five Mile
Beach, and called the Mayors atten-
ton to section Al of the 1897 borough
law, which reads as follows:
1.-The Council shall have power to is
sue improvement certificates, payable
within five years or less, with interest,
to the amount of eighty per centum of
the work done on any street, or
other improvement, when certified as
correct by the engineer in charge of the
work; and when the contract is fully
completed and the work accepted, the
Council may issue a certificate for an
additional ten per centum of said work
done, and in not less than three nor
more than six months after the date of
the acceptance of the work may issue a
fnal certificate for the balance due, un-
less some errors or defects i'll the work
shall have appeared, in which case the
certificate shall he Withheld until the
defect or errors are rectiiied to the sat
isfaction of the Council"
This section seems to give Council
almost unlimited power in raising
money for the purposes and manner
specified. OF course no one wants the
yrk to cJst uore chan Is reasonably