Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1915-10-15
WILDWOOD PAVING
COST TOTALS $4,000

me commissioners met yesterday
afternoon and conditions of the resur-
faced streets was taken up. The south
side of Pine avenue near the board
walk, also the south side of Schellenger
avenue it was stated is not satisfactory
and Engineer Weir was instructed to
supervise the whole work before final
payment is made. The sewage dis
posal contract was postponed for
another week. An ordinance Was
offered appropriating S10O, 900 for high
school purposes, by a coupon bond
issue, to bear interest at five per cent.
One per cent. of the appropriation,
raised from general taxation, will be
placed in a sinking fund and at COM
pound interest will mature the full
amount In forty years, says Commits
sioner Ryan. Commissioner Hendee
voted for the ordinance with the under
standing that he go on record as being
compelled TO vote as he did on account
of the order of the court, when person.
ally he was against it, because he
thought it was not a present necessity.
The clerk was authorized to subscribe
for the "American City, magazine. A
complaint was made that a light should
be placed on Montgomery avenue, be-
tween Pacific and the boardwalk, which
will be attended to. Commissioner
Ryan thought the electric light bill of
500 for the First ward fire house was
high compared with S13 at the Third
ward and suggested that more care be
taken in the number of lights used.
Engineer Weir certified that the cost
of the Kalbach street paving contract
was S39, 036 "A, which included compen-
sation to the Commissioners in making
the assessment. Robert Wright was
ordered to complete his contract under
Ordinances A and As, which was for
paving and filling in with sand a side
walk on West Montgomery avenue and
the boulevard. Mr.. Wright had laid
the paving but had never filled in with
sand from the house line to the curb,
tAClClOlC t1C OOLuLliDSIOlClo uCl11d1O
he do so within thirty days or the city
will complete the work and proceed
against his bondsmen for the costs.
Many families have left Wildwood
and Ocean City for Pennsgrove, where
work is obtained in the powder mills.
Carpenters by the score have obtained
work there and several Wild wood con
tractors are busy building houses there.
VIM. T. Garrison aud E. H. Randolph
spend most of their time there and
have been doing so for several months.
Mr.. Garrison has fourteen houses under
way and has signed up for a dozen
more, and is thinking of moving his
family there for the winter. W. j.
HARRISON has opened a store there and
is getting considerable business in
Pennsgrove, reports w. 81. Carr, whoi is
there representing HARRISON. The
Coombs Lumber Company is also get
ting considerable business in the way of
furnishing lumber and millwork.
Business is all done on a cash basis, it
is reported, and money is plentiful.
w. G. T. U. food sale, home made
bread, pies and cake, Saturday after
noon, Coombs block, Pacific and Oak
avenues. 4
Last Saturday j. Walker Clark pre-
scented the Journal with a peach grown
- h;o CarHon Of 100 Ha0fhar ronI
Wildw Crest, from a tree which
grew from the seed in three years. The
tree was full Of fruit of fine flavor.
This garden is one of the finest at the
Crest, one Of the beautiful features
being a hedge of hydrangeas 100 feet in
length. Mr.. and Mrs. Clark will re-
main here until after the November
election, when they expect TO take a
cottage at Pitman for the winter. Mr..
Clark is still in active business in Phil
adelphia, the book bindery business of
which he and his brother are at the
head having been founded by their
grandfather a century ago. The plant
is now working on an order of books
for Billy Sunday.
$4,000 to loan on first mortgage in
amounts of from 81 1000 to 81, 500 each.
Beecher-Kay Realty Co.
1t is suggested the Commissioners
should have kept the arc lights burn
ing on the boardwalk Saturday and
Sunday evenings while the weather
was yet good, as a number of our late
visitors and to~wnspeople would enjoy a
stroll in the early evening. People
living in the northern end Of the town
have, during the summer season, form
ed the habit of going to the boardwalk
In their stroll down town and then