Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1906-09-19
THOMAS MARTINDALE MAKES THIRD
ANNUAL ADDRESS TO OUR CITIZENS
Public Meeting Held in Bakers Theatre Las
Friday Evening. He Gives the People
Many Very Good Suggestions


for his thoughtful liberality. The cor
certed singing on the board walk o.
Sunday nights came in for a warn
share of praise, and to increase TIE
effectiveness of the services in the fl
ture it IA suggested that the band
stand be placed on the eastern side d
the board walk and that a pavilion be
erected on the western side for the ae
commodation of the ever growing audi
ences and that a chorus of say thirtv
be formed to help to lead the singing
in conjunction with the band. y strong
appeal was made to encourage a move
ment for a free postal delivery and L
was pointed out that this would a v
the average visitor who did not have
their mail addressed to the care of some
II who had a box, at least an hour :
day in waiting for the sorting of the
mail and its distribution. And this
length of time wasted, together with
the positive inconvenience and hard
ship of waiting so long in an over
heated, overcrowded office was serious
menace to the popularity of the resort.
The Board of Trades work was favor
ably commented upon and a strong
argument presented for united action
in the expenditure of funds for general
advertising rather than for individual
effort in seeking for and obtaining pub
LEFTY. A real community of interest,
an unselfish bonding together of all
property owners to advance the COM
mon interests of the whole was the
only means of constantly keeping step
to the onward march of progress. We
deem it 'best to quote Mr.. Martindale's
words themselves in describing the in
adequate railroad service that is now
melted out to visitors and residents of
Five Mile Beach and the proper remedy
for the present situation. "Inow come
to the most important subject of all in
the list | have outlined for presentation
to you. The service rendered by the
West Jersey d Seashore railroad has
during the past season been grossly in
adequate and in the main very un-
satisfactory and SO much SO that with
out a very radical Improvement is made
in the service in the future we cannot
expect to hold u own, let alone keep
ing on making substantial increase each
year i'm tlir amount of bueiness lone
oyer the previous year. | do not place
the blame-as many dom the Shout
ders of Mr.. d. III. Lowell, the superin-
tendent, as / feel sure that he himself
has endeavored in every way within
his power to remedy the evils COM
planned of. The fault lies higher up
and can. easily be located at Broad
street. 1t is admitted by the officials
of the road themselves that Wildwood
gives them much more business than
Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Peermont,
Avalon and Cape May combined and
it must be assumed that the reason of
their gross neglect of. this valuable and
ever growing business is simply from
the fact that the West Jersey has a free
foot in the business. There is no COM
petition and therefore we can and must
put UP with all manner of ineonven-
fence. | am credibly informed that
while no written agreement exists be-
tween the Pennsylvania and the Read
ing systems as to the, Reading railroad
getting an entry to the island with its
rails, yet there is an understanding
that on account of a free hand being
given to the Reading in Ocean City
and Cape May by the Pennsy that the
latter road is not to be disturbed by
competition with its Five Mile Beach
business. This situation suggests that
a remedy can and must be found in
establishing competition. 1t is Won
derful what things a community ean
do to help themselves when they final
ly and earnestly set themselves to work
out their business salvation, Ioffer
you two illustrations out OF. the many
at hand in proof of this fact. Man
chester, England, is the seat of the cot
ton. manufacturing interests in the
"Tight little Isle" Manchester is some
thirty miles from Liverpool to where
the great cargoes of cotton were brought
to be forwarded to the spinners, bleach
ers, printers and manufacturers of the
former city. The dock. charges in Liv-
erpool were onerous, the drayage and
rail carriage to the factories equally SO
and to save themselves the Councils,
the citizens and their Representatives
in Parliament determined that. the
building, Of a ship canal large enough
to, allow steamships and large sailing
craft to be taken right up to Manches-
ter, without breaking bulk was their
only can of salvation. This was an
enormous project, physically and finan-