Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1907-02-06

any revenue from hackman or touring
coming in here from other
cities in the summer carrying pasen-
gers, cutting up our streets and get
ting out in the fall. Is there any
revenue derived from travelling mer-
chants, games of chance, amusement
halls, business men who open stores
throughout the town and along the
board walk in the summer for the sale
of soft drinks, postal cards, fancy goods,
etc., and then leave in the
fall without the town getting cent of
them. Scores of other cases can be
cited from which q revenue could be
derived. A word in conclusion, place
your name to your communications
and stop the cry of 'gangsters, graf
ters and tricksters' which will lead
strangers to think they will be robbed
as soon as they land in town. In the
words of Frank Hough, writing under
the non de plume of old Sport If
you can't boost, don't knock.'n
Charles Bridges, well known Holly
Beach resident, writes "The question
of consolidation seems to be one deep
ly agitating the minds of the people in
the boroughs of Five Mile Beach. The
proposition is one in which the people
should not, in my opinion, decide too
quickly. 1t may and probably will be
favorably considered sooner or later,
but it is question that should be deep
ly and thoroughly considered in all its
bearings before action is taken. There
are some things in its favor and some
against it, but it Is q pretty hard nut
to crack, besides it isn't ripe yet. The
old residents will probably remember
that each of the boroughs, like some
families, had their spats, trials and
troubles in the early days, but time
has rounded off the sharp corners and
rough angles somewhat and the
machinery works smoother now. But
suppose we consolidate the three
families into one greater new family
yes, and adopt the baby too-don't you
think they would find many new
sharp corners and angles that would
have to be ground off? Certainly I'M
less everybody have made up their
minds to be very good, and will do
their very best to promote peace and
harmony. 1t would be quite natural
that each of the old boroughs having
settled down into smooth running
policy would think its own methods
were best and each would strenuously
contend to maintain them. Then
there's that lusty baby peeping over
the Crest of the sand hills airily think
ing he is about as big as his Daddy
and he would want to have something
to say too. Each of the borougiis are
now prosperous and doubtless has for
mulated plans of its own which it is
ambitious to press forward to compile
ton. Until they have had time to do
so they are not yet quite ready for the
upheaval of an earthquake. We are
all very busy now, but two or three
years hence at the present rate of pro-
gress, there will likely be solid blocks
of buildings nearly all the way from
one end of Five Mile Beach to the
other, and we will then have some
where near population enough to en-
able us to be incorporated into re-
spectacle city. But what about a
name? Wildwood, young, sturdy, am
bilious and proud of its accomplish
ments-and justly so, has already got
a name cut and dried for us. But it is
a case of the youngest child Except
ing the baby.) choosing a name for
the greater family. There may be
some melody in the name Wildwood,
but there are those who think it
misnomer, as the pristine wildness has
long since disappeared. Some resi-
dents of Holly Beach think the latter
name far more appropriate, besides
their borough contains more than half
of the legal voters and population on
the whole Island. If either of these
names were adopted it could not help
leaving certain unpleasant feeling in
the minds of many because the name
of their municipality had been liter
ally swallowed by rival. Such a con-
dition, in my opinion, should be
studiously avoided. L would suggest
that each of the borough's consent to
sacrifice their local name and adopt
a different one. Not strange incon-
gruous one, but name that will be
appropriate, sound home-like, in which
we can all show an equal pride and
feel that none of us have been robbed.
The name Five Mile City will have
familiar sound, will be suggestive of
the old location as well as the measure
of our new city. And who will not
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