Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-04-30
City Hall Doihgs

d from marry j. cRoDer ana
Charles K. Hickey, of 307 Moraine
street. Brockton, Mass, making in
quiry as to the prospects at Wildwood
this season for the successful operation
of an airplane in passenger carrying
flights. The city clerk was instructed
to reply to this letter, by stating to the
applicants that the license for this
privilege is $25 and that owners or opera
tors of flying machines must find their
o wn landing places.
City hall affairs at yesterdays meet
ing, April Goth, presented quite a diff
ferent phase than was shown al the
last meeting. Yesterday the bragga-
docia element had vanished entirely
and nj Smith, Ryan and Hendee
money was in sight. Neither Joe
Brown nor anyone else displayed a
roll of the 'long green, " which ex-Clerk
Whitesell once declared "had decided
the elections here for the past ten
years" 1t was pretty generally con-
coded at city hall yesterday afternoon,
that nobody knows anything as to
hat the result of the Commissioners
election may be. AS n person eX-
pressed it: "Everybody's up in the
air." There are eight candidates now
in the field. Mr.. Leiby, the JOURNAL
reporter, filed his papers yesterday
morning and William Cole, in the
afternoon. 1t is q fight 10 the finish
now, Mr.. Leiby and Mr., Cole each
running strictly independent. 1t is up
to the voters. Their destiny is in their
own hands-for better or for worse.
Opportunity is knocking at our door.
Will we embrace it? or shall we let
opportunity pass u by? Opportunity
may not pass this way again!
City collections for past week in the
tax department were very light, being
only IN the sum of 1852 50, and the
$43S. 95. Our betting wafer superin-
tendent turned on water the past week
for 2S more consumers, and installed a
meter for the Service laundry at the
corner of Garfield aud Hudson ave-
nues. Mains were tapped and new
connections made in eleven instances
last week as follows:
On Magnolia avenue, east of OCean
avenue; Sehellenger avenue, east OF
Holly Beach avenue, Gus Nelson; 18th
street. east of Surf, F. o. DANIEL; 2lst
street, east of Pennsylvania, III. w.
Ross; Taylor and Holly Beach avenues,
Julia r. Miller; New York avenue,
near 18th street, H. H. Ottens, (5);
west Spruce street, Anglesea, No. 3l5.
Street Commissioner Hendee rspor-
ted that the public rest room on the
boardwalk at the foot of Andrew ave-
nue., will be open every Sunday, and
that the board walk will be fully illu-
minated Saturday and Sunday nights.
Reports now being all in new business
was taken up, the most important of
which vas the proposition to build a
public dock or wharf for the fishermen.
The city will buy lots Is, II, IS, 10 and
20, block SO. on Dock street, which
runs west along Ottens Harbor. These
five lots have a water frontage of 100
feet. The city already owns a front of
seventy feet there. The total frontage
will be 23O feet. This proposed new
city dock will adjoin the Wildwood
and Delaware Bay Short Line Rail
road dock at the location mentioned.
The fishing industry is increasing rap
idly and the congestion at this dock
has beeu serious. After Mr.. Hendee
had ex planned the matter and showed
the necessity for additional wharfage
facilities along the Harbor, it did not
take the other two Commissioners long
to fall in line and vote for the project.
That veteran fish man, Bank Director
John Taylor, was present yesterday
and helped to whoop the thing up.
Here's some progress of the real kind,
for fishing is one of our leading assets
one Of the golden eggs laid by the
goose, about which Caustic Soda speaks
so much. Above ali things we must
take care of our fishermen and u dsh-
ing interests, which next to our leach
is propably the biggest drawing caro-
we have. So we welcome the new fish
wharf with all our heart. A piece OF
financial legislation was next brought
forward. The second instalment OF
81, 902 Of bonus money for our public
school teachers must be met on May
LIST or shortly thereafter. As there are
no funds on hand available for the pur-
pose, a resolution was passed authoriz-
ing the issuance Of an emergency note
for discount, the proceeds OF which
will be used to pay the second install
ment of bonuses referred to.
G. V. Jackson, of Philadelphia, APP
neared before the commissioners to re-