Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-01-29
WILDWOOD


The building of the proposed SlO0,00O
high school was again laid over two
weeks by the action of the city commits
sioners yesterday afternoon. w. II.
Bright, armed with petitions signed by
large property owners, placed a protest
before The officials, demonstrating
against the passing of the ordinance
as well as the ordinance for the repay
log Of streets in the First ward. Mr..
Bright ex planned hat Mr.. Ryan was
the manager of a corporation and he
a. a stakeholder of the said corporation
was asking the commissioners to take
the right steps In the reference to the
ex penditure Of large sums of money.
He further stated that all corporations.
at this time. owing to the general de-
preston had deemed 1t necessary to
retrench aud economize and he
thought that the City of Wild wood
should be the last one to indebt itself
wherein taxation would be increased.
Mr.. Bright also told the commissioners
that during the last two years. there
had been more appeals before the
County Board OF Taxation than ever
before. Assailing the question of the
resurfacing of streets, Mr.. Bright said
he had looked at the streets aud he
has made up his mind that 1t would
be in the nature Of q crime to repave
these streets and he thought the city
could not afford at this time TO take
any steps whatever along this line.
In closing his talk Mr.. Bright said,
ave trust you will act accordingly and
save US, the protestants, the expense
and trouble of exercising the referen-
dunn privilege" MI. Ryan stated that
it was not for the public TO decide and
as he understood 1t the public could
not act at all in this matter and further
stated that the schools were now over
crowded. Mr.. Ryan In his reply to
Mr.. Bright said that in taking up the
street question he thought instead OF
paying a thousand dollars a year for
street repairs, why not have 1t done
right and use that amount as interest
to carry the debt. Going further he
expressed his belief that the city owed
the First ward better streets, as 1t pays
as much taxes TO the city as the other
wards combined. After a thoughtful
period. the Mayor made a motion that
the petitioners be given ten days more
to get names and at the end OF that
time they would see what amount of
property vas represented by the
signers. The delegation of protestants
then left and the meeting proceeded.
AT this juncture of the meeting w. j.
HARRISON and s. Il. Dowler of the
Board of Education made their appear
ance and Mr.. HARRISON Immediately
addressed the commissioners. He told
the commissioners they had a right to
send those NUTS to the Board of Edu-
cation, as they intended TO build the
school and that the commissioners had
nothing to do with II except foot the
bill. He went on to say that nov was
the time to sell the bonds and to tell
Harry Bright aud the proiestants they
were barking up the wrong tree.
1t appears that the water company
cannot be blamed for having the water
turned off of the plug at the foot of Oak
avenue. The storm of q month ago
washed away the street around the
plug and 1t became necessary to turn of
the water to keep it from freezing.
Some Of the city employees knew the
water was turned off before the alarm
of fire was given and the reason why.
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