Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1917-09-07
Chamber OF Commerce Meeting

NudnmDer Oh Meeting
The Third Annual Convention OF the
Cape May County Chamber of Conn
merce was held in the school audi
forum, Sea Isle City, on Tuesday, with
delegates from every part of the county
present. President Samuel P. Leeds,
Of the Atlantic City Chamber of Com
merce, together with John s. Weaver,
~Pleasantville merchant, Thomas Woot-
on, of Pleasantville. and Rev. DIR. ELL
wood. of Atlantic City, were present
and presented the claims of Pleasan T.
vile for the new State Normal school,
with the result that The following res
olution was adopted:
WHEREAS, there is soon to be
located a new Normal School in
South Jersey, and
WHEREAS, information reached
this Chamber that but two or three
towns originally aspiring for the said
school have any chance of securing
the same, none of these being Mill
Vile, and
WHEREAS, of the towns remaining
under consideration, for the location
Of said school, Pleasantville, in At
lantic county, would best serve the
interests of the Cape May county
scholars to said school and is a most
ideal location for the same for the
many reasons already submitted to
the State Board of Education and has
been endorsed by come of the cities
inICape May county, as the prefer
able location,
1T Is HEREBYREsoLvED, that this
Chamber heartily endorse Pleasant
vile ss the ideal location for the said
school, it being in every way fitted
for such location and hereby urges
those In authority to place the said
school at Pleasantville."
The chamber had previously gone on
record as favoring Millville for the
school. but it developed at the meeting
that Melville was out Of the, running
and was not being considered by the
State Board of Education, the location
of the school lying between Bridgeton
and Pleasantville.
President Clayton Haines Brick, who
had guided the destinies Of the cham
Der 80 successfully during the three
years of its existence, was reelected de-
spite his expressed desire to be relieved
from further service. William A. Half
fert was re elected secretary, as was ELI
Townsend, treasurer. Vice-Presidents
elected were Joseph G. Champion,
Ocean City; F. w. Speakman, Strath-
mere; r. w. Cronecker, Sea Isle City;
Gilbert s. Smith, Avalon; 8. E. Her
bert, Stone Harbor; Oliver L. Black
we'll, Wild wood; Luther G. Ogden,
Cape May, and Joseph Camp, of the
Pomona Grange.
F%reeholder Theodore DeBow, OF Sea
Isle City, stated that the Board of Free
4rofde1s had learned of g hearing - be-
held on Route 10, Of the Edge Road
Law, and that the board favored the
building of Route IA first. The former
enters the county at Erma and the
latter at Marshall's corner, near the Sea
Isle City turnpike. It was explained
by Freeholder John Fox, of Ocean City,
that the building of Route IA first,
would a vi the taxpayers of the county
many thousands of dollars for re-sur-
facing the main seashore road, as
Route IA provides for the paving of this
road by the State from Marshall's
corner to Cape May City. Upon mo-
ton of J. M. E. Hildreth, ofCape May,
it was decided that the chamber would
attend the hearing lin a body and urge
the building of Route IA at once. The
hearing will be at Cape May on Sep
TENDER 9th.
The afternoon session was not form
ally organized On account of the alb
sence of several Of the lower county
delegates. Those who attended the
afternoon session were served dinner at
the Bellevue Hotel, as guests of the Sea
Isle City Business Mems Association.
The next meeting will be held in
Avalon on the invitation of Mayor
Smith on Tuesday evening, October 8.
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