Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-10-11
Wildwood Board of Trade
in Monthly Session
Aside From Routine Business a Remarkable Letter
From Mrs. Norton Tended to Enliven the Pro-
ceedings. New Set of Bylaws Adopted

Baker had made his report and render
ed his little speech, he left the meet
ing. Next a communication was read
giving notice of an embargo in car load
lots, until further notice, of all ship
ments to Wildwood, Anglesea and the
Crest, except foodstuffs or perishsble
commodities. This embargo stops the
movement thither of coal, wood, lum-
Der, cement, gravel, or any other ma
terial usually transported in car load
lots. Notice of this embargo caused
considerable concern among the men,
bers of the Board of Trade, but this
was 500 allayed, when General Man
ager Evans @. Slaughter, of the Wild
wood and Delaware Bay Short Line
railroad company, took the floor and
explained that this embargo would not
affect any cars now running or re-
leased for running prior to the issuing
of the embargo. "And it may not last
long," added Mr.. Slaughter; "perhaps
not longer than a week or two" APP.
parently, the government has imme-
diate and pressing need for freight cars,
and this embargo, therefore, made
necessary simply for the ii nebeing.
Winter is quite a way off yet, and the
embargo will be lifted in ample time,
no doubt, to meet the winter demand
for fuel on Five Mile Beach.
And now the new golf links problem
came to the fore for discussion. The
committee got themselves into q "holen
last summe and now appealed to the
Board of Trade to help them out. 1t
had been planned to sell 400 golf men,
berships at five dollars each. This
would have raised a fund of $4,000, but
only IS memberships could be obtained
at the time, netting $3.50. More than
81, 200 has been spent so far on the new
golf course in North Wildwood. The
amount paid to Vincent O'Donnell, the
golf expert, was $3.50. Frank Mattera's
bill for putting the grounds in tempo
rary shape was $659.28. The commit
tee consisted Of six members, as fol-
lows: John Fl. Beecher, Palmer M.
Way, Robert g. Pierpont, H. NJ. Stan
ford, Charlie A. Norton and Robert
Latimer. To these men was delegated
authority to proceed with the selection
of a location for the projected golf
course; the preparation Of the grounds
and the choice Of an expert to aid in
designing and laying out the course.
The committees expenses, all told, up
to date, was $1217.C4. The bill in
CURED for work on the grounds,
amounted to 1858. %, as stated; and
Frank Mattera, who had advanced the
money for the labor supplied, was
present and anxious to be recompens-
ed. Considerable debate ensued after
the deficit was made known. All of the
speakers referred to the deficit as being
a moral obligation and urged the board
to assume the debt to preserve An I'M
sullied reputation. In reporting the
golf committee's deficit t. the Board
of Trade, Mr.. Kay appeared quite
screst-fallen" over it and said he had
been thinking 81 suggesting recourse to
that convenient makeshift-a note
but did not see just how a note given
by the board could be arranged SO that
any bank would~accept same for dis
count; for banks. rs q rule, do not do
any wildcat" business, and like to
feel sure that they're going to get their
money back. Finally A. @. Bailey