Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-01
ATLANTIC CITY MAY
GET AIR MAIL SERVICE
Praeger Assures Business Men
Shore Will Receive
Consideration
Atlantic City, June /.

Atlantic city, June j.
Atlantic City is to be considered in
connection with a branch line of the
aerial postal service from Philadelphia
to the shore if the present service be-
tween New York. Philadelphia and
Washington is extended. the Post Office
Department assured shore business men
in reply to a formal request from the
Chamber of Commerce.
Otto Praeger. Second Assistant Post.
master General, wrote Samuel p. Leeds.
president of the Chamber of Commerce.
as follows:
Your telegram of the gath instant,
addressed to the Postmaster General,
relative to the establishment of an aerial
mail route for your city, has been re.
ferred to this office. and in reply l
have to advise that. as there are many
details to be worked out before the
aerial method of transporting mail can
be considered a success, II is not thought
advisable to establish more than one
route. However, in the event this serN.
ice proves to be success, consideration
will be given to an extension of the
service to other cities.
George +. Kerr has been appointed
chairman of n committee to arrange for
a landing station here and to CO.
operate otherwise with the Post Office
Department in the event that the Phila-
delphia Atlantic City branch route is in
sttuted.
Fish Prices Leap
Shore prices for fish, now being taken
in large quantities by the nets here and
the pounds off Beach Haven for shore
markets have gone perilously near
profiteering limits. despite Herbert
Hoover's appeals and the creation of a
special commission by the New Jersey
Legislature to demolish a supposed
fishing trust" and bring prices within
reason.
Dealers demanded fifteen cents a
pound for founder. one of the com
monest variety of Jersey coast fish, and
eighteen cents a pound for sea bass, en-
equally common species. taken from pier
nets less than two miles from theiI
| stores and with virtually no cost for
! transportation. For mackerel the deal
ers made a prohibitive price of twenty
! five cents a pound so far as the average
| family is concerned.
Croakers. which the dealers refused
| to handle a few years ago, sold for
| eight cents a pound. and sea pike for
| five cents. because familities in modest
| circumstances were unable to pay more
The pier nets supply home dealers with
the greater part of their stock without
|
press companies for long hauls.
Philadelphia Idier in Jail
Fred Fuller. seventeen years old. ot
! Philadelphia, Il alleged to have boastec
! to policemen that he never worked
when they took him into custody on the
| Boardwalk as an "idler," under the
provisions Of Jerseys work-or-fight law
He was sent to jail to await a hearing
Notice has been served upon every
saloon and cabaret proprietor in the city
that the Government will prosecute them
to the limit of the law If they sell oil
e'Sn give drinks to any of eighty sol
diers who are to he sent here on June
II by the War Department to avail
themselves of Atlantic City's facilities
as a health resort. During their stay the
enlisted men will be the guests of the
community service committee. of which
Leonard D. Agar Ia chairman.