Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1914-11-27

The VITA WOOD Crest GOuucll blOnuh
evening all members were present and
Mr.. Rigor enlivened the proceedings by
making q vigorous objection 10 the iron
drain pipe which now lie In the street
ready to be laid. Council, or q COM
mittee of Council, ordered the pipe from
q firm in Ohio aud contracted with the
McLlnden company TO lay them. Mr..
Rigof claimed many Of the pipe were
of inferior quality and moved that the
contractor be instructed not 10 lay
them. Before the question was put
Mayor Baker explained that some of
the pipe first delivered were not up to
the standard, but that he understood
that they had peer replaced with good
ones, although he had not examined
them. Engineer Weir had passed
favorably on the pipe. MI. Rigor's
motion was lost, himself and Scamp
ton voting for 1t and Crane, Diamond,
James and Seward against it. Solicitor
Zeller joined In the controversy and
stated that the proceedings were regular
aud that 1t was proper for the contrac-
tor TO go ahead with the work. An
other matter upon which Council
divided was the employment Of an in
spector on the bulkhead work. Most
OF the lumber is on the ground for this
job and actual work on same is about
to be commenced by Contractor Nc
Linden. AS borough engineer, Harry
e. Weir will superintend the work.
The inspector Is to be paid out of the
engineers fees, which is on q percent
age basis. Mr.. Rigor moved that the
bulkhead committee, which consists of
himself, James and Crane, be author
lied to employ an inspector at a price
not to exceed 5 $50 per day. Some of
the members objected to the naming OF
the inspector by a committee Of Coun-
Gil, as did also Engineer Weir, who
stated that inasmuch as the pay OF the
inspector was deducted from his fees
he thought that he should name the
man, so that he could be sure to have
one to work In harmony with him.
Mr.. Rigor insisted that 1t was to the
best interest of the taxpayers for Coun-
Gil to select the inspector, and In this
contention he was right, as the ques-
ton of harmonizing with the engineer
does not interest the people who have
the bill to pay, The people want an
inspector that will be on The job and in
spect and not be afraid to condemn in
ferior material or workmanship. Any
body knows that knows anything
about the past history OF this island
that engineers have not inspected
and supervised as they should. The
people elect the Councilmen and they
look to them to safeguard their proper
ty and to do this they should select a
good mar as inspector and shoulder
the responsibility like men, keep an
eye on the work themselves and If In
their Judgment the inspector, or en-
gineer either, passes bad work, take
them to task for 1t. Mr.. Rigor's motion
was lost by the same vote as that on
the iron pipe and presumably the en-
gineer will select the inspector. 1t was
reported that the street arc lights had
been reduced from 36 to "a. The usual
monthly bills were ordered paid, but
some of them had to 60 over until jan
nary because Of inadequate %appropria-
lions. A bill for bulkhead lumber for
something like $4,000 was laid ove
until Wednesday night, so that mem
bers could inspect the creosoted lumber
which just came up from the south by
a barge. Improvement certificates will
be issued to pay for the bulkhead, but
as they have not been printed yet the
money will be borrowed from bank un-
til they are Issued. Collector Lare re-
ported that $44, 900 worth Of certificates
had been issued to pay for the Pacific
avenue paved street, Of which ST., 500
had been paid. The monthly report Of
the Collector read as follows:
RECEIPTS
Balance, October %, 1915 .................Sl ,60S.s8
Taxes, interest and costs...-..........-.. 3,29662
l-m-...si, sOOO5
EXPENDITURES
B1llB
Trust company.----..-~...- 100000
Interest and discount...-e.... S7.00
- S8,295.11
Balance on hand...~.....-..sl,eO 4 "a
Balance in Union Bank....~~sl, 2ss.9s
/" "rrust Co..........,- 357.72
Marine Bank......s 1928
Total. -. - 81 ,6O4.e4
The home Of John B. Erdrich at
Lavender road and Pacific Q is
being beautiied by a coat of paint at
the hands of Young and Seward.
The wildwood Crest athletic associa-
ton held a stag party at the home of
Chas. Rosskam on Crocus road on Tues