, 1902-07-04
Ordinance No. II.

An ordinance granting PERMISSION ana con-
sent to the Five Mile Beach Electric Rail-
way Company to construct, maintain and
operate a street railway upon and through
certain streets, avenues and highways in
the Borough of Wildwood, and locating
the tracks or rails and poles thereon.
Whereas, the Five Mile Beach Electric Rail
of the State OF NewBersey, having filed in the
office of the Secretary of State of New Jersey,
a description of the route of an extension or
new line of street railway, showing the ter
mini of such new line or extension, as follows:
Beginning In the centre line OF New Jersey
avenue, and where it is intersected by the
centre line of Pine avenue in the Borough OF
Anglesea, and extending thence with its sew
eral branches in a generally southwesterly
direction through New Jersey avenue, Penn
sylvania avenue, Atlantic avenue, Cedar ave-
nue., Schellenger avenue, Pacific avenue, no
aveD IRE, Spicer avenue, Holly Beach avenue
and Spencer avenue, and terminating at the
thorOughfare where it is intersected by Rio
&rande avenue and at the southwest side of
McCandless avenue in the Borough OF Holly
Beach City; together with a map eXh1bitlng
the same and the courses and distances there
OF, including in said description and map, the
streets, roads and public places hereinafter
named; and having by its petition and the
petition of a majority of the directors, accom-
panied by a map and description of the said
new line and extension of the said street rail-
way, so far as the same is included within the
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also the proposed location of the rails or
tracks and the location of the poles, applied
to the Council OF the Borough of Wildwood
for q location of its tracks and PERMISSION to
construct, maintain and operate such street
railway on the streets, avenues and pubic
places of the Borough of Wildwood hereinaf-
ter mentioned, and for the actual location OF
its tracks or rails and poles thereon; and the
said Council of the Borough of Wildwood hav-
ing by resolution passed the 10Th day of jan
uary, A. d. 1902, appointed and fixed a time
and place when and where the petition and
application would be considered, and all per-
sons interested in the said matters heard, and
notice of said meeting and hearing having
been published in the Five Mile Beach Jour
nal and the Five Mile Beach Sun, two news
papers printed or circulating in the said Bor-
ough of Wildwood, for at least fourteen days
prior to said meeting, said newspapers having
been designated by the said Council to pub
lish the same; and having been set up in i've
public psaces in the Borough of Wildwood to
wit: II. w. Ryan's store, Wildwood avenue;
Post Office, Pacific avenue; Casing, Atlantic
avenue; Cohen'S drug store, Pacific avenue;
Mrs. M. b. Seyern's, corner Maple and Pacific
avenues; for a like period, said places having
been designated by the said Council as the
places for posting said notices.; and the con-
sents in writing of the owner or owners OF at
least one-half in amount OF l1neal feet ofprop-
erty fronting on the streets, venues high
which consents are executed and a~cknowled-
ged as are deeds entitled to be recorded, hav-
ing been duly filed with the Borough Clerk of
SAID Borough of Wildwood, full and due proof
of all of which matters and things was, at the
time and place SO appointed made to the sat,
i~sfaction of the said Council, and the said
Council having heard the said Five Mile Beach
Electric Railway Company and all persons
Interested in the said applications or desiring
to be heard thereon, and no reason appearing
to the contrary:
Therefore, Be 1t ordained by the Council OF
the Borough of Wildwood:
Section /. That the track of the Five Mile
Beach Electric Railway Company be and the
same is hereby located, and the said company
is hereby authorized and empowered ana
given permission to construct, MAINTAIN ana
operate a single track railway OF the guage OF
five feet, with the motive power of electricity
over the route above referred to, so far as the
same lies within the Borough OF WILDWOOD,
that is to say, in, over and through SAID At
lantic avenue.
Section 2. The track or rails of the sad
street railway as above described SO lar as
within the limits ofth Borough of WILDWOOD,
are located as follows: On a guage OF nve 1eet
with the following described middle line:
Beginning in the line dividing the Borough
of Wildwood from the Borough of Anglesea,
said point being twenty-five feet six inches
enthusiastically from the northwesterly curb
line of Atlantic ayenue in the Borough OF
Wildwood, and extending thence along a line
twenty-five feet lSuipeneSGM
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