Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-03-05
City Hall Doings


the City Commissioners for the first
regular session of the month. Follow
ing the roll-call, the minutes of the
previous weekly meeting were read
and approved.
For the fiscal week ending February
Goth, the financial receipts were report
ed to have been 81, 1928 81 in taxes and
assessments and 81, 1896. SO in water
rents.
The water superintendent reported
that during the past week he had re-
paired n bursted service, set a No. 2
meter to the fire hydrant at the corner
Of Heather road and Park boulevard
for Theodore Mexican, for use in driv-
ing piling, reset a meter at Garfield
and Holly Beach venue for James
Robbins, changed a meter at Leaning
and Holly Beach avenues for the West
Jersey and Sesshore Railroad Co., and
made one new water connection at
Wild wood avenue and board walk for
F. II. Luff, proprietor of the new Wild
wood Excursion pier.
The city clerk now read her report
covering receipts for the month of Feb
ruary as follows: One public service
street permit was issued, for which the
fee vas S., two dog licenses were grant
ed, netting the city therefor 81. rs, total
receipts in the city clerks department
for last month were S. 6 The city
clerk next read the report submitted
by the city tax collector relative to
searches made by him during the
month of February. Thirteen searches
were made In all and the fees received
for this service amounted to $27. Two
searches were made for the West Jer-
sey Title and Guarantee Co., Ocean
City Title and Trust Co., four, Fidelity
Trust Co., of Camden, one, John
Bright one, William H. Bright three,
Palmer M. Way two.
The city electrician issued II certifi-
Gates in February and granted eight
permits. The sum realized for the city
thereby was $16.7 rs.
James g. Wigham, plumbing inspec-
tor, turned in SIS received by him for
three permits granted and two registra-
tons entered during the second month.
The cost of a registration fee is S..
For the same month the city build
inn inGnnnfnr icSIIod GiXtoan nnrn0ifa
and collected from the applicants for
the city a total of $35. He estimated
the total cost of the construction
by these permits at SIG, 245,
is the list of applicants:
Robert Foyle two, 1920; Mrs. Streator,
81, 200; F. E. Smith, 81 for moving a
house; Henry Schwemmer, 81 1000;
Robert H. Latimer, 81 ,400; Thomas
$500; Max Worobe, 81 900; J. J..
Leyburn, $50; Charles Croker, $3.50;
Louis Sagel, 5000; Linn Thompson,
$3.50; William Dubb, 1925; Charles
Glenn, two, 81 ,050, and Childs and
Frazier, $3.50.
Lie ICpOII " IL OotCl OO5lAh1 CktJ
auditor, was the last report to be read
by the city clerk. This report covered
the fourth quarterly audit for the year
1919. The auditors report included a
statement of the receipts and disburse-
ments in all of the departments at city
hall, from October 1st to December
:ooIx,afxya nho onont1 nfon rio 81 II,
mary is as follows:
Bal. on hand Sept. 80, 1919 S 60,028.61
Receipts from October l,
to December 81, 1919 100, 289. II
$3.50, 318. 3S
Disbursements for the
same period 5000, O56 6S
Bal. on hand Dec. 81, 1919 47,261.70
$3.50, 318.38
1t was stated that the cost of arc
and incandescent lights on the Wild
wood streets taken over by the County
Board of Freeholders, amounted to
SS3. "a per month. At last weeks
meeting q resolution was passed au-
thorizing and directing the city clerk
to send all bills for lighting these
streets, dating from January LIST, 1920,
to the county authorities.
The West Jersey Electric Co. pro-
poses to install an automatic device at
their plant to facilitate the unloading
of coal. To accomplish this it will be
to dig a pit at the corner of
Spicer and Holly Beach avenues, eight
feet long by six feet wide. In excava-
ting for this pit, the company will have
to tunnel two feet under the sidewalk
at this point. Permission was granted
the petitioner for the company yester-
day to do so, provided that iron grating
be placed over the exposed section, and
that all repairs be made to sidewalk,
will of necessity be broken while
Lz .r1AD.