Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1918-05-10
CITY COMMISSIONERS
P~ROVIDEFOR BASEBALL
AZ Meeting Yesterday II was De-
clded 10 Repair Beach Base
ball Ground. Increased
Lighting for Boardwalk.
as the Wooden Way IS
Commencing to
Blossom
VARIOUS NEWSY ITEMS OF INTEREST

business in rapid order. The following
persons were present at different times
during the session: Solicitor Hand,
Water Superintendent Brown, Rufus
Collins, Mrs. Winifred Day, Mrs. Moul-
trie, Reuben Mount, Harry Weir, Geo.
T.. Porter, F. G.. Menamin, Clayton
Lowe and Albert r. Austin. Mr..
Mounts business before the board was
In reference to the feed problem-to
grain and hay supplies for the horses
in the city stables. MI. Mount says
corn is now selling at 81 % a bushel.
Ithad been up TO $3.50 not long ago.
The food problem for horses, cows,
swine aud poultry is truly a serious
one-almost as serious as the human
food problem. Mr.. Austin quoted pea
coal for city purposes at S4.75 per ton,
f. o. b. at the mines, no order taken Tor
less than a carload. Two carloads of
pea were ordered through the Austin
Co. for immediate delivery, and a re-
quest made for the submission by the
same company of best quotations fob.
mines, for stove coal and chestnut coal.
The price of pea looks inviting at the
source, but it costs nearly $500 a ton
to get it down to Five Mile Beach and
by the time it arrives, the figures look
like 1856 per ton, by car load. Clay
ton Lowe appeared with an earnest.
plea for the boardwalk business people,
asking for more light. Some ten or
twelve business places are now open
on the ocean front, and the only light
by night is furnished now by the moon
and the stars. Mr.. Lowe asked for
only a partial illumination of the
boardwalk at present, until the season
blossoms more fully. He explained
how several arc lights may be cut out,
and in lieu thereof a few incandescent
lights put in circuit. No more electri-
cal energy will be expended than there
is now-simply a shifting of the media
used to convert electric fluid into light.
Mr.. Hendee agreed to render the ser
vice asked for. Seven big arc lamps
can be cut out very conveniently and a
series of incsndescent lamps on the
arches along the boardwalk put into
use without any additional expense to
the city. Superintendent Brown re-
ported hat he had turned water ION"
in forty cottages in the past week; SO
people must be coming down.. Two
bids for painting city hall were presen-
ted, one from "A. III. Haney, the other
from A. X. Blinn. 1t was decided not
to open these envelopes, but to hold
the bidding open for one week longer.
After a number of bills were read and
ordered paid, George Porter had his in
ming ard things began to "warm up"
No matter chow stale, fiat aud un-
profitable" any other subject may be,
just let baseball be mentioned
and 10! the change! How those magic
words s'warm the cookies of our hearts"
and drive dull care away! 1t did not
need much ''pushn from George l.. to
get all the fans a-boosting after Mr..
Kay conveyed to the commissioners.
the progressive stand taken by the
Board of Trade at the special meeting
on Tuesday night, when ademand was
then and there made for the restoration
of the grounds and building. Pursuant
to this action of the Board of trade, the
commissioners directed Solicitor Hand
to draft an amendment to the approp-
ration ordinance for 1918, in a way to
take care of the baseball end of our
summer diversions, not to exceed the
stipulated sum o fSl20O. Manager Por-
ter management of same
team as last year, with the exception
of three Kelly, Loane, and Pick
up, all of these have been absorbed by
the Philadelphia State Pennsylvania,
baseball team. Porter says he has
three players equally as good, picked
out to take their places. Gilmore will
be here next Saturday, a week. 1t
will take a carload of gravel to make
the grounds satisfsc Glory. This base
ball magnetjustifies the national game
on the ground of the strong basic prin-
ciple of "the greatest good to the.great-
est number" The assertion of this
slogan for his cause, put Porter in the
front rank of promoters, and the COM
missioners could not help but yield to
such irresistible logic. All hats off to
Porter J. Fithian Tatem's name was
also invoked by City Treasurer Kay, as
publicly endorsing this sport at the
special Board of Trade meeting on the
9TH inst. With baseball assured, the
commissioners adjourned.
Cecil Brunell, who worked all win
ter for Wildwood Garage Machine Co.,
is now employed at the Baldwin Loco
motive works, Philadelphia.
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