, 1905-06-14
LARGE ATTENDANCE
AT WILDWOOD COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING LAST NIGHT
A Number OF Interesting Subjects
Come Before the BOr-
ough SOlOns

at wildwood in recent years was the
regular meeting held last night. The
solons were a little late in gathering
and it was nearly nine O'Clock when
Mayor Baker raped for order. Coun-
cilmen Cobb, Durham, Hamilton and
Harris were present, as were also So
licitor Zeller, Engineer Rice and Clerk
Dubois. The room was filled with
property owners and citizens, including
a number of ladies, who were interes-
ted in various subjects which it was
expected would come before Council.
These matters consisted of the report
noised about town during the past
week that Wildwood emu where it
crosses the railroad tracks would be
vacated by Council as a street and
closed to the public travel in order to
a covered platform from the present
passenger station across said street to
Oak avenue, the building of the APP
proach to the boardwalk at Pine ave.
nue., and the Board of Health matter
as regards plumbing.
The minutes of May 9th and 18th
were approved as read, after which let
ters were read from H. MoClelland, Mr..
and Mrs. VanHorn, Mrs. L.. Wick,
NJ. J. Halford, Cohen Bros, Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel Corle and Mr.. and Mrs.
iaffFnnn rnnIlnGfInO that tho
Pine avenue boardwalk approach be
built at once. This mass of commune
cations had the desired effect and
Council authorized the street committee
TO obtain bids and have the approach
built at once. The Board of Health
matter came as a surprise and is eX-
planned by the following cleverly COM
posed letter read before Council:
Wildwood, n. j., June Il, 1905.
To the Mayor and Council of the
Borough of Wildwood, N. j.
Gentlemen
The members of the Master Plumb
ers Association, of the Five Mile
Beach, after due deliberation and in
vestigation, have decided to place be-
fore your honorable body, certain con-
ditions which now exist in connection
with the department of the Board of
Health, and to expose to you some of
the inside workings of the said depart
ment, the existence of which w con-
slider detrimental to the sanitation of
Wildwood in its most vital parts, the
sanitary arrangements of our private
and public buildings. 1t is hardly
necessary to mention the universally
recognized fact that imperfect plumb
ing in the home, the hotel, and the
clearinghouse, is the greatest menace
to the public health imaginable, it is
the agent through which disease enters
our homes, it conducts disease germs
into places of amusement, into our
churches, and into the very center of
our families.
If our Board of Health be allowed
to drift on in the channels we now
find it, there will be no place where
we can go to in Wildwood with i'm
munity from the dangers of imperfect
plumbing, by allowing these condi-
tons to exist you leave this borough
open to epidemic diseases. One severe
epidemic would do more harm to
Wildwood than five years of adver-
Using could correct, the conditions re-
ferred to are as follows:
Ist.-Mr. John N. Reeve, secretary of
the Board of Health, is conducting
a plumbing business.
2nd.-Mr. Nelson Hays, inspector of
plumbing under the jurisdiction of
the Board of Health, being in the
employ and doing plumbing for and
under the direction of Mr.. John n.
Reeve.
3rd.-Mr. Frank Sheppard, a member
of the Board of Health, also en-
ployed by Mr.. John n. Reeve in the
capacity of carpenter, plumber, etc.
and doing plumbing as directed by
Mr.. John n. Reeve.
The trend of these conditions is
plainly evident, events are shaping
themselves into the ultimate control
of the Board of Health, by Mr.. John
n. Reeve.
We believe that the removal of the
old inspector of plumbing, Mr.. VIM.
Washburn, by the Board of Health,
was due to the efforts of MI. John n.