, 1904-10-12
.RFGIILAR MEETING OF
WILDWOOD COUNCIL
The Ordinance of the Five Mile
Reach Gas Company Passed
and Other Business
Transacted.
ITEMS Of INTEREST

The regular monthly meeting of the
wildwood Borough Council was held
IN Tuesday evening, Oct. IL, with all
members present except Councilman
Harris.
The minutes of last meeting, Sept.
26. were approved as read.
Collector VanHorn made the follow
ing report which was accepted:
Balance on hand Sept. 26, 1904, i32 OF
Ped Men. rent for July, Aug. and Sept, 10 so
naughters of Pocahontas to Sept. 5, 3 90
Raising tiagwalk, 10 w
469 50
Paid out.
- 81 70
Balance on hand, 1877 so
Proposed ordinance No. 81, granting
a gas franchise to the Five Mile Beach
Gas company, was taken up and
finally passed. This is the ordinance
which is backed by State Comptroller
| ]. Willard Morgan and Judge Il. H..
Voorhees,, being the ordinance intro
duced Sept. ID last. The ordinance of
the Seaboard Gas company, which is
backed by Messrs. Francis Asbury and
Chas. A. Reynolds, was also brought
up and at the request of Mr.. Asbury,
who was present, was not finally
passed, and is yet in the hands of
Council.
Proposed ordinance No. 80, relative
to the vacation of certain lands in the
park, which was printed in the issue
Of Sept. %, was finally passed, and a
resolution adopted fixing Tuesday,
Nov. Sth, the regular fall election day,
as the date to vote on the matter. The
notice of election is printed in another
column.
In the matter of acquiring ground
of Harry McClelland on Atlantic ave-
nue. for the widening of the street
Solicitor Zeller reported that Mr.. Nc
Clelland says he will accept $3.50 for
the 20 feet of ground from the north
easterly side of Pine ven 100 feet
along the ~southeasterly side of Allan
tic avenue, if the Borough of Wild
wood will put the avenue in the same
shape as the rest of the street, throw
ing the sand over on the lot of the said
McClelland, and will make the APP
proach to the boardwalk OH his side
of Pine avenue similar to those at
Wildwood and Maple avenues in time
for the season of 1905; said McClelland
will give proper papers dedicating the
ground to the borough for the purpose
OF uniformly widening Atlantic ave-
nue., and not merely for the purpose
of selling said ground; said described
ground comprising the northwesterly
70 feet in width by 100 feet in length
OF lot No. Is of block No. 4, Wildwood.
The proposition was accepted and
the solicitor was directed to draw the
necessary papers. Solicitor Zeller was
also directed to draw an ordinance
regulating the speed of the fred devils"
II Survey Map company submit
TED an estimate for an official map of
the borough on scale of 200 feet to the
men to be folded in manila cover of
sl,94O for 5000 copies. The maps were
not ordered and Solicitor Zeller adj
Vlsed Council not to go into the map
business at any such figures as these.
Alter paying the bills and t%ransacting
some minor business Council adj
lourned.
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A. Carson Warren, who spent last
summer at Wildwood as a newspaper
correspondent, has secured a position
IN Philadelphia, with Goodman &Son,
extensive publishers, as biographical
writer for the History of Greater Phila-
ueiphla.o Mr.. Warren is now inter-
viewing men prominent in the develop
neht OF the Quaker City, and is meet
1lg with great success. He will return
70 wildwood early next season to again
lNspfesent newspapers in Philadelphia,
NEW = York, P%ittsburg, Pa; Baltimore,
M; Newark and Trenton, N. j., so
snst wildwood will receive greater
pupplIlclty than ever, and what it so
flchly deserves.
Mrs. Anna M. Albright and family
Sde.ufhed to their Philadelphia home to-
way after spending the summer in
il a steam heating plant is being put
In me Sunset cottage on Oak avenue by
rlumoer l.. j. Mccormick. j. K.
w;er I'M family will spend the