Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-09-12
WILDWOOD CITY
HALL JOTTINGS
Almost whole Town up in Arms
About DeplorabIe Garbage
Conditions

licked their weary way To Inc I'll marx
Yesterday afternoon, Septem Der lin,
before the Mayor said Handy: Meet
ing come to order"
There was only a limited Sprinkling
of invited and uninvited guests when
} the session Of the commissioners open
ed. but these had scarcely been seated
and drawn a god breath on that sui
try day, when troops of interested eiti-
zens came pouring in. Usher Joe
Brown was kept busy hunting up ex-
ira chairs for his overflow meeting,
and when the supply was finally ex-
hausted, he himself was obliged to
crawl up on the table where the law
books are stacked, and on which the
reporters write. Standing room was
actually at a premium. Everybody
present got the worth of their money.
There was amore fun than you could
shake a stick at" Those who missed
the tart and spicy things that were
said at this record-breaking sitting,
must feel like the boy did who slept
when a circus passed through his
town! 1t was remarked Tegretfully
Yesterday that Atlantic City people
were taking a fling at Wild woodruff
brig it the dirtiest city on the coast.
This hurt-and hurts still; but we've
got something on the queen resort in
the shape of rich, rare and racy COM
missioner meetings-full Of spice and
ginger.
September 18th has come and gone,
aud the 'expected did not happen"
The new board walk ordinance was not
damned through" for the very sim
pie aud satisfactory reason that there
wasn't any boardwalk ordinance to
jam through. 1t met the fate of many
other things in the "Poplars" and
went up in smoke-worse off in reali-
ty than was the Kaiser's "scrap of
paper" Solicitor Hand informed the
commissioners that it would now be
necessary to readvertise the "Notice of
Intention" and that the ordinance
cannot now be introduced and passed
on first and second readings before
Thursday, September 25th, at two
p. m. by the city clock.
The first tilt occurred yesterday after
moo when the Mayor objected to a de-
lay of Two weeks. He said one week
was long enough. He was impatientand
handled his solicitor roughly-told
him that be had been fooling around
for three months with this creation
aud was losing valuable time. And
the clock still kept on smiling. Solici-
tor Hands fighting feathers ruffied up
and he told his Mayor a few things he
fore the latter quieted down from his
meteoric burst of passion. Solicitor
Hand was plainly nettled at the May
or's effort to trample down the legal
barriers that hedge around the peoples
rights.
Laugh! and the world laughs with
your and many did laugh at yester-
days meeting. Mrs. Eva Wardell, of
west Bennett avenue, q Broadway,
New York, practitioner, was the inno-
cent cause of quite a lot of the merri-
ment. She was quite dignified and
serious when she got up to protest
about the overflow sewage near her
home, and the almost unbearable
stencil arising therefrom; but she soon
lost her gravity and was laughing as
much as the men. 1t certainly was
overwhelmingly amusing-indeed it was
a scream to hear DR.. Wardell score the
commissioners for imagining that 'one
inch'' or "two inch' pipes were to be
| classed as sewer mains. For three
years." she bitterly stated, "this I'M
sanitary mess has covered the ground
Zeal my home. How long are you
gentlemen going to permit this condi-
ton Of things to EXIST" she demanded
in an injured, but defiant tone. 1t was
pathetic to hear her plead that she
thought the commissioners should be
glad of a chance to be of service to the
people.
The Mayor is done forever with the
garbage removal proposition. He is
praying for the day to come when he
shall be relieved from handling the
''dirty mess" as he dubbed it.
John T. Byrne, OF skee-ball fame,
true to his word, revealed the identity
of the man the Mayor said two weeks
ago that we were blocking for"-the
man Of the hour-the man who offers
under a five-year contract, 10 remove
all garbage, both "wet" and "dry"-
free OF all cost to the City of Wildwood,
His name is MI. Stein, of 9th and
Ritner streets, Philadelphia. The May.
or suggested that we put Mr.. Stein Oh
the job quick, while he is III the no
tion Of it. Therefore a motion wa