Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-07-10
BOARD OF TRADE IN
: MOST STORMY SESSION
Members Of New Jersey State
Firemen's Convention to Be
Invited 90 Hold 1915 Meet
ing In Wildwood. Mr..
HeEnIe Advocates
Municipal Pier
MEMBERS EXCHANGE PETTY REMARKS

One Oh the most strenuous meetings
in the history of the Wildwood Board
of Trade was held in the City Hall
last Monday night. From the opin-
ion gathered by the writer as a result
of having the pleasure of sitting in the
presence of such an honorable body
for more than two hours, we draw the
conclusion that there Is a certain
amount of forced good fellowship and
a lamentabie lack of harmony among
those present. Anyone of the opinion
that the meetings of the Board of
Trade are merely a matter of quiet
talk and careful consideration are en-
titled to another guess. The meeting
Monday night was as stormy as the
weather outside.
Messrs. johnson, King, Harris,
Heinle and Greaves were the principal
factors at the meeting. All through
the evening there was a rapid-fire ex-
change of compliments and the only
redeeming feature was the GOODNESS
and business tact of the secretary and
the straight forward business talk by
Nj. Heinle.
The meeting was scheduled for eight
o'clock but it was a half hour later be-
fore o. 1. Blackwell took the chair in
the absence of President p. p. Baker.
The minutes of the last regular meet
ing were read and approved. Roll call
was then read and the following mem
bers answered to their names: o. [.
Blackwell, Lynn H. Boyer, L. P. Con-
ey, H. F. Greaves, ]. Albert Harris,
c. Huebner, E. M. johnson, G. III.
Kurtz, F. L. King, Robert Pierpont,
G. H. Huppert, J. E. O'Daniel, M. b.
Reeves, George Shaw, g. N. Smith,
w. G. Todd, John Wright, ]. e.
Whitesell, S. A. Laning, Harry
Schwemmer, Charles L. Heinle and
f. e. Smith.
Five applications for membership
were then presented and on motion
the following were elected TO member
ship: Samuel Baron, e. b. Pagan, ID.
J. Woods, Charles l.. Heinle and Har-
ry Schwemmer.
John Wright, in charge of the excur-
sion committee, reported that the
Pennsylvania railroad would not run
an excursion from Trenton to Wild
wood on July 18th because they were
unable to supply accommodations on
that date, but that they would guaran-
tee Trenton passengers to get them
home even if they had to make up a
special train at Camden on the even
ing of July 18th.
It was moved by Mr.. Wright, Sec
onded by Mr.. Heinle, that the secre-
tary have an article inserted in the
local papers requesting everyone to
decorate on all special excursion days
and particularly on July 18th and
18th. Motion was carried. This ar
ticle in part will be found in another
column of this issue of the Journal.
Charles l.. Nickerson, chief OF the
fire department, then reported that in
talking with the committee of the
New Jersey State Firemen's Conven-
ton, he had learned that the senti-
ment was that Wildwood might be
the place for holding the convention in
1915 and that the place would be Sc
lected at the Atlantic City convention
in September, 1914. Mr.. Nickerson
stated further that the local fire COM
panies thought that the secretary of
the Board of Trade might send circu-
lar letters to the fire companies of New
Jersey inviting them here in 1915.
It was moved by Mr.. Huppert, Sec
onded by Mr.. Whitesell, that the sec
rotary invite the state firemen to meet
in Wildwood in 1915 with the New
Jersey State Convention, and mail
every company in New Jersey a letter.
Motion was carried.
Mr.. Whitesell stated that he would
print the circular letters when the Sec
rotary presented a copy. 1t vas
moved and seconded that Mr.. White
sells offer be accepted. Motion was
carried.
1t was then moved by MI. King and
seconded by Mr. Heinle that the Sec
rotary request Congressman Baker to
invite the Firemen's Convention to
Wildwood when they meet in Atlantic
City in September, and to act with
Mr.. Nickerson on that date. Motion
was carried.
Mr.. Whitesell moved and was sec
onded by Mr.. Huppert that the sec
rotary communicate with the presi-
dent of the Tall Cedars at Cape May
Court House, notifying him Of the
Tall Cedars' excursion to Wildwood
July 18th and requesting him to
every Tall Cedar in Cape May
tn meet with the wildwood