The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-24
Along the Shore.

The Toms River Courier says, "that
as an example of war profiteering, the
rental of the Lakewood hotel as Gen
eral Hospital No. 8, seems to stand out
bold and prominent. The owners of
this hotel, the Resort Hotel Company.
who, according to the newspaper re-
ports of speech made in the U. S.
Senate some time ago, are getting a
rental of $4,000 for their property,
have appeared before the Ocean County
Board of Taxation with the assertion
that their hotel is'worth but $50, 900, in
that they appeal from the assessment
of 1925, 900, and ask to have the prop
erty rated at $50, 900 as it was last wear.
1t is understood that the company has
said in extenuation, that the rental is
not $50, 900, but $45,O 900. The property
was long boosted to have cost more
than million dollars" 1t includes
three full blocks, which if sold off in
building lots would be worth more
than $4,000, so Lakewood business
men are found to estimate, not count
ing the big hotel A $45, 600 or $5O, 900
rental would justify an assessment of
$3.50, 900 to 100000, especially when
there is that much real value in the
property.
The U. s. Navy, which has control
OF the Tuckerton radio station, has ap-
pealed from the assessment of $4OO. 900.
and asked that it he assessed at 1925
600. This plant was built by Ger
man company, subsidized by the Ger
man government. 1t was exploited at
the time as having cost two millions.
However, conservative investigators
concluded that the two millions was in
marks at about "a cents each, or about
5000, 1000 in our money, instead of 81,
100000 At the outbreak of the pres
ent war the plant was seized and oper-
ated by the U. s. Government In 1916
and 1917 the tax valuation was not
criticised by the navy department.
The officials of the Island Heights
and Seaside Park Bridge company fig
ure that the 'gasless Sundays" last
fall, begin ming Labor day and lasting
seven Sundays, cost the bridge owners
in tolls at least $1,000. This sum is
surely a conservative estimate, as the
Sunday before Labor day in an ordi-
nary year is the biggest day of the
season for bridge tolls. The receipts this
year will however about equal those of
1917, which was a big increase over
1916.
Before Judge Davis in the U. S.
district court at Newark, last week,
Mrs. Maggie Potter, of Toms River
was fined $25 for giving liquor TO SOL
dier. She said the soldier was friend
of the family and had been calling on
her daughter, Mrs. Reba Johnson, for
several months. He complained of
having cold at the time and she
gave him the drink, she said.
The Red Cross, aided by the good
people of Lakewood, is planning for
a real Christmas for the wounded men
at the general hospital No. 9, in Lake.
wood. The Atlantic Division of the
Red Cross will supply each man at
the hospital with candies and smokes;
the government is to furnish a real
Christmas dinner for them. In add.
ton the people of Lakewood, who
have been active in war work, includ-
ing Y. w. G. A., the Y. NJ. G. A., the
K. of G. and the Red Cross, and also
the County Red Cross, will see that
each of the II, 600 or more men in the
big hospital is remembered by some
kind of gift.