Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-01-08
wildwood Board OF Trade


The January monthly meeting of the
Board of Trade was held on Monday
evening with President Baker in the
chair. The roll was called and the
following members responded to their
names:
G. H. Huppert, F. S. Lloyd, H. F..
Greaves. G. W. Shaw, Chas. VanKatz,
Chas. r. Page, J. F. James, w. g.
Todd, Phillip Gould, j. e. Whitesell,
g. A. Norton, J. e. O'Daniel, George
N. smith, s. A. Laning, Frank g.
Smith.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved as corrected. Cor
re~spondence relative to a convention Of
the Knights of Maccabees, and the
Tall Cedars of Lebanon to be held here
next season were read and were referred
to the Convention committee with in
structlons to get busy and try and land
these two conventions for Wild wood.
A bill for cards for the 4th Of July auto
run was presented and ordered paid.
A bill was rendered by the Coombs
Lumber company for lumber pur-
chased by someone unknown, to be
used Ia a fireworks display. The bill,
which amounted to about $500 was
voted against by G. A. Norton who
said II we contract for fireworks 1t
means everything pertaining to the
ex Exhibition. Mr.. Baker stated that the
city or Board of Trade always did
furnish the lumber. Mr.. Norton then
replied that the board should then see
that the lumber was saved from time
to time aud not left upon the beach.
Mr.. Huppert then suggested the use
OF acquisitions or orders in purchasing
to be signed by the chairman of each
committee. Financial Secretary Todd
reported that he bad failed to collect
the dues for 1914 from about q MEM
bers. He was instructed to write them
a business like letter and If their dues
we're not paid by the next meeting
their names would be dropped from
the roll. Irwin f. Harris and VIM.
M. Beers were elected to membership.
The report of John Bright, Henry
Chalmers and Charles Page, Auditing
committee, was read as having found
the books of the board correct. A form
of bill was read, which was prepared
by o. I. Blackwell for presentment to
the Legislature relating to authorizing
the use Of a certain sum of money for
county advertising. A copy OF this
bill will be sent to the State Senator,
Assemblyman aud Senator Ackley.
The bill authorizes counties to spend
money for advertising not to exceed
two mills on the dollar of assessed
Valuation of the county. A letter
was read from the Pennsylvania r. r.
company explaining that 1t was inn
possible, for lack of space, to give
Wildwood an illuminated sign in the
New York Terminal. Mr.. Norton re-
ported that the Ways and Means com
mittee had conferred with City Com.
missioners aud had recommended the
ACCESSIBILITY of engaging a paid sec
rotary. He further reported that the
years. budget had given the board
So, 800 90 for advertising purposes and
81, 100000 for entertainment. This
amount, he explained, was about 5000
short of the moun needed. Mr.. Nor
ton went on to explain that the City
Commission had purchased 90, 900 book
let's with the idea that they were to
last two years. 85, 900 of these were
used last season, which makes a short
age of 10000 on this years booklets.
Mayor Smith, who was present on be-
half of City Commissioners, ex plained
that he did not see any way the board
could have more money, unless there
was money coming from some other
source. He explained that the city
spent a large sum of money namely:
State school tax ...... ST, $4,000
County tax.......... 28,85449
Local school taxi. 18,694.50