Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1919-11-28
DOifgS at Wildwood
City Hall

England pioneers.
t'It was In the bleak December"
1920, nearly three centuries ago, that
the landing of the Pilgrims took place
on the rugged coast of Massachusetts
under difficulties trying to.the stoutest
heart. Their self-sacrifice and courage,
and their devotion to a great principle,
has been wildly portrayed and COM
memorated by Mrs. Felicia d. Hemans,
whose glorious verses will find an echo
in the breast of every true American.
Everyone must feel the sublimity and
the poetical truth with which she has
invested the scene, and be impressed
by the lofty strain of sentiment that
dominates the whole. We quote a few
of the stanzas:
1.-THE breaking waves dashed high
On a stern and ~rock-bound coast;
And the woods, against a stormy sky,
Their giant branches tossed.
And the heavy night hung dark,
The hills and waters DER;
When a band of exiles moored their
bark
On the wild New England shore.
Amid the storm, they sang;
And the stars heard, and the sea;
And the rounding aisles of the dim
woods rang
To the anthem Of the Free"
The people of New England have al
ways been patriotic to the core. Bos-
ton was considered one of the cradles
in which the infant Liberty was rock
ed. and shoulder to shoulder the sterl-
ing men from New England went
through the long Revolution with the
brave soldiers from the sister colonies.
Speaking for the State of Massachu-
sets, Daniel Webster, perhaps her
most illustrious son, in his mastery
reply to SENATOR Hayne, of South Caro-
lima, referred with pride to the indomi-
table spirit of the people of New Eng
land in the following burst of elo-
quence:
"Mr. President, L shall enter upon
no encomiumupon Massachusetts. She
needs none. There she is; behold her
and judge for yourselves. There is her
history; the world knows it by heart.
The past at least is secure. There is
Boston, and Concord, and Lexington,
and Bunker Hill; and there they will
remain forever. The bones of her sons,
falling in the great struggle for Inde
~pendence, lie scattered on every field
from Maine to Georgia; and there they
will lie forever. And, Sir, where
American Liberty raised its first voice,
and where its youth was nurtured and
sustained, there it still lives in the
strength of its manhood and full OF its
original spirit" In the fervor of his
devotion to the cause of "Liberty and
Union" Daniel Webster was without
q compeer. He stood like a lion in de-
Tense of our Liberty and our Republic;
and on this annual recurrence of the
Thanksgiving time, let us all give the
need Of credit to his honored name
and to the deeds of the worthy ances-
tors he represented.
Because Thanksgiving day always
occurs on the last Thursday in No
vember the Wild wood City Commits
sioners invariably hold their meeting
for the last week in this month one day
earlier, Wednesday, which this yeal
fell on the 18th. The meeting was
slimly attended, and the session was
short, lasting barely 35 minutes. Nc
new legislation was proposed and 8
spirit of harmony for once prevailed,
possibly due in some measure to the
thoughts of the Commissioners and
others being focused on the subject Of
giving thanks to Providence for all Of
our manifold blessings, national, state
and local. Revenues for the previous
week were reported as follows: From
taxes and assessments $3,O2l 0S, watel
rents 1922 n. "Of again, gone again
service was reported by the water SUI
persntendent to have been rendered for
Al consumers last week, and "On again.
duty for but one. A letter was read
from Mrs. Ella Martin asking for light
at the corner of Juniper and Park ave-
nues. The request was referred to the
street commissioner, who in all prob
ability will see to it that the necessary
light is shielded on this su%ppliant, as
we'll as on all others who may seek it.
Mrs. Martin lives at 234 west Juniper