Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-10-03

legally Tor the passage OF
any act, carrying an appropriation. A
majority representation is not sufficient.
A resolution was offered and carried
yesterday, authorizing the Mayor to
move the debris which has fallen or
has been dragged into Oak avenue
from the Poplars apartments. After
the street has been cleared up, a bill for
the cost of the labor is to be sent to the
owner of the ground on which the Pop
lars stood.
When City Solicitor Hand was so
eager TO find the Mayor and thus "start
the ball a%.rolling" yesterday afternoon,
it developed that he had something
up his sleeve" and that was why he
was itching to get the grist mill ago
ing. The particular card be was so
anxious to ''lay down on the table"
was a most drastic ordinance-num-
bered 81, creating, establishing and Or
daInipg attire zone or belt" of no mean
proportions. To some persons present
it sounded like one Of the zones of the
earth. This fire zone will extend from
Holly Beach avenue to Atlantic ave-
nue., and from Lincoln avenue to Pine
avenue. A supplemental zone will b.
bounded by Pine avenue on the south,
and by 26th street on the north. The
width of this secondary Zone or belt"
is to be 700 feet-that is, $50 feet to
either the east or west from a central
or meridian line running north and
south through the center Of Pacific ave-
nue., between the limits mentioned Of
Pine avenue and Goth street. In these
fire ''zones or BELTS" only fire-proof
buildings may be erected in the future
buildings Of brick, stone, granite,
marble or of cement or concrete. The
enactment of this piece of legislation
may work some hardships; but it will,
beyond doubt, go far to wards removing
a menace that seriously endangered
the city from time to time.
A resolution was passed authorizing
the engagement of Engineer L.. Nj.
Rice of Wildwood, to draw up a set of
plans to solve the problem of surface
drainage. The necessity OF getting the
rain water off our streets after heavy
dOwn-pours, is only n of our vital
needs, but it is a close second in im-
portance to the garbage nuisance. Mr..
Rice will be asked to design a jetty, so
as to drain the Pacific avenu river out
into ''the deep bosom of the ocean"
The jetty will probably be located off
Young avenue. "By-passes" for the
sewer mains will also claim his atten-
ton, and when all his plans are COM
pleted and put into a concrete form, we
should have a perfect system of drain
age and the flooding Of streets reduced
to a minimum. or course this system
of progressive drainage is going to cost
us something-may be as much as
$4,000; but it will be "worth all it
COSTS"
"And still there's more to follow"
Fifty thousand dollars will hardly suf-
flee to see US through for immediate
and pressing needs. 1t is going to cost
at least half that sum to settle the gar
bage question for all time in a modern
and strictly scientific hammer Science
points to cremation" as the only ade-
quate, sensible method-the fret cost
of such a retort being the greatest cost
and the cheapest plan by all odds in
the final reckoning.
An extension of the city's water sys.
tenn in North Wildwood is now asked
for by the Henry H. Otteps interests.
This must be done, and a second Gin.
main to Anglesea is also pla ned.
Here is more expense, and William II.
Boardman, of Philadelphia, consulting
engineer of our water department. has
been sent for to give US the benefit OF
his ideas in the matter.
Do bull frogs sing? D. j. Woods, of
the Sheldon hotel says they do, and he
testified to this fact before the commits
sioners yesterday. He said the bull
frogs sang so loud and so long in the
vicinity of his houses on Young we
nue., that he could not get to sleep un-
til the '.wee, sma hourso of the morn
ing. He gave this evidence to prove
there was a frog pond there, which the
Mayor tried to deny, but unsuccessful-
ly. We always thought that bull-frogs
croaked: "Knee-deep! knee-deep!'
but Woods says that's the way they
sing. So, let him shave 1t his own
way" The Mayor assured Woods that
the health officer was after the owner
of this alleged f%rog-pond property and
held out promises of abatement soon
twill it be the next week or the next