Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-05-28
Base Ball Question
BATTLES City
Commissioners

The patient city clock had licked lite
weary way to 1873 last Tuesday alter
noon, May 25th, when Mayor Hendee
raped for order, thus announcing the
opening Of the second regular meeting
d. of the recently elected Board of City
Commissioners. The change of the
day of meeting from Thursday to Tues
day of each week was noted In last
weeks JOURNAL.
Alfred Winterburn, the newly ap-
pointed city clerk, had mis- first "try
outn at Misunderstanding and acquitted
himself fairly well, for In exactly 40
seconds after he began the reading OF
the minutes of the first regular session,
held on May goth, this task was finish
ed and the adoption Of the record i'm
mediately followed by unanimous vote.
Mr.. Winterburn was born in Oldham,
Lancashire, England, seven miles
north of Manchester, in 1886. He
came to America In 1907, landing at
the port Of Philadelphia. For about q
year thereafter he was connected with
the commissary department OF the
Railway Construction company, en-
gagged in the work Of building the
Grand Trunk and Pacific railroad in
Canada and British America. He saw
the first train to run westward from
Winnipeg, Manitoba. Mr.. Winter
burn came to Wildwood in 1912 and
cast his fortunes with the people here
by-the-sea. He was active, IN connec-
ton with others, in organizing Battery
d, Wildwood's contribution to the
military service OF the government in
the late world war. One Of Mr.. Win
terburn's brothers lost his life
in the service of the British army in
1915, at the battle of the Somme.
While Mr.. Winterburn was in service
overseas with Battery D his mother
died in his old home town of Oldham,
England, but his father is still living.
The first business to be taken up was
the consideration Of the skip-stop sys-
tenn as proposed by the management
of the Five Mile Beach Electric Rail-
way company. The reasons for asking
the city commissioners TO sanction the
plan were set forth in a letter, which
was read at last meeting as follows:
"ln order to assist our company in
maintaining schedule and to ave pow
er In the operation of the cars, we
would like very much to adopt a skip
stop service, and would ask the kind
consideration aud approval Of your
Honorable body. We have gone over
the matter very carefully and would
suggest your approval Of our stopping
of the cars at the follow wing streets only:
26th, Poplar, Magnolia, Maple, Wild
wood, Oak, Cedar, Schellenger and
Pacific, Lincoln, Garfield, Spicer,
Young, Baker, Montgomery, Burk,
Taylor, Rio Grande, Leaning, Hill
dreth and Crosse avenues" This letter
was signed by E. T. Nye, the snperin-
tendent of the company. Mr.. Nye
was telephoned for while the PROPOSE
ton was under discussion and soon
presented himself before the commits
sioners to personally explain the need
of favorable action. The object he said
is to cut down expenses by saving cur
rent, and to give better service. The
fewer the stops, the greater the saving
of electric energy, and the better the
time that can be made in the runs
from Anglesea to the Crest and vice
versa. Mr.. Nye further stated that
inspectors from the State Utility Com.
mission had been here and had gone
over the matter. The skip-stop as sug-
gested met their approval, as did also
the application of the company to the
Utility Commission for al increase of
fare to seven cents. Both of these
points will be decided at the hearing to
be held by the Utility Commission on
June 18th, at Trenton.
The Board OF Commissioners went
IN record as favoring the adoption of
the skip-stop system as outlined, also
the Increase OF rate OF fare to &c. The
city clerk was instructed to sem a GER
tilted copy Of the resolution passed to
this effect to the Public Utilities CONF
mission at Trenton. AS originally
drafted the skip-stop series included
Garfield avenue, but this arrangement
brought forth protest. Charles Albig,
Chris Scully, Joseph Empol and AL
bert r. Austin all spoke in opposition
to the elimination Of Garfield avenue
as a stopping point for the trolley cars.
1t was shown that this corner Is the
center of one of the busiest sections of
Wildwood, and that it is the nearest
trolley point from the base ball ground.
These arguments succeeded in having
Garfield avenue designated as a stop.
George L.. Stein spoke in opposition TO
the skip-stop system in general. JOS.