Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-12-17
Commissioners at
Wildwood Take Up
a Varied Lot OF
Business at Weekly
Meeting

SlOueTS HshenlDleu III WSChiJ OOHSioFS
on Tuesday last, the 18th, the curtain
going up at l.30 p. ~. sharp. All oil
the preliminary arrangements had been
carefully attended to as usual by the
city clerk, and at a given signal by the
presiding officer the regular routine
line of procedure was entered upon
with alacrity. Some speed was shown;
you'll say, by the clerical officer when
it is stated that ia exactly five minutes
bv the town clock from the time be
began to read the minutes of December
9TH session, he had finished, and their
adoption followed Immediately without
a bitch.
The attendance was not up to normal.
Far from 1t. There was a reason. In
stead of being one OF those bleak De-
cember days so graphically referred to
by Edgar Allan Poe, last Tuesday
featured q vernal aspect, accompanied
by a torrential downpour for a short
period real noon, filling the cutters
aud making city hall almost mac
cessible to pedestrians without rubber
boots. Nothing daunted, the SUN
TRIBUNE reporter managed somehow
to get there, and called atten-
ton to her necessity for her making
wading provisions against the repeti-
ton of such a precipitation in the
future.
Reports being the first order of bust
ness, the clerk read the customary
statement, giving receipts in the tax
and water departments for the week
prior: Poll taxes, So; general taxes, $780,
$40. 65; assessments for sewers, curbs,
sidewalks and eraveling, 1851. 72-total
tax receipts, $50, 9SS 40.
Water rents collected amounted to
$500. 43; and % more shut-of requests
were complied with, for "winter is
coming" Five connections to the
city's water mains were reported to
have been made by the operating de-
partment: On Spruce street, Anglesea,
west Of railroad, for Robert Moore;
Twenty-second street, west of Surf
avenue, for d. F. II. Mcdowell; Third
avenue, west of New York avenue, for
Saul Johnson; Crosse avenue, west of
Pacific, for Fred Stocker; and on Wis.
terra rad, Crest, and Philadelphia
avenue, for Pasquale Ingenito.
Meters for third quarter of 1920 read
from T~wenty-sixth street to Sixteenth
street. Two leaking fire hydrants were
repaired.
A resolution was passed authorizing
the collector of water rents to credit
the account of Harry Sharp, of Angle
sea, in District No. l, in the amount Of
$3.50. II, for the reason of a foreclosure
and sheriff's sale of the property of the
above.
Ordinance No. 100 was now taken up
for final consideration and passed on
its third and last reading. 1t will now
he published according to law. This
ordinance provides for an appropriation
of 81, 500, to be used in installing a hot
water system of heating in the Fist
ward fire house.
A proposition was submitted to the
commissioners relative to making some
slight but ad vsntageous changes in the
stairways OF the First ward fire house.
These notifications were readily as
sented to by the whole board, but an
additional proposal to have the brick
work in the front of the remodeled
structure carried up as high as the
third floor did not fare so well. Archi-
tect Reeves was asked to state what he
thought the additional cost for the
bricks would be. He replied, "About
$780," The mayor and Commissioner
Bright favored the Improvement, but
the street commissioner opposed 1t, and
was understood to say that in his
opinion the $500 or 500 in question was
needed more urgently for use in other
ways than to be ''stuck on the front of
the First ward fire building" He was
further understood to say that he didn't
believe in too much s'gingerbread
work" MI. Reeves explained mat
brick facing to match is obtainable here
right now, out may be difficult to get
later on. He therefore favored the pur-
chase of the material at once. But
Commissioner Smith was obstinate and
sidetracked immediate action by pro-
posing that estim ates be asked for first.
A motion to this fleet was put through
unanimously. The matter will prob
ably come up for consideration again
on December 21st. City Treasurer Kay
thinks we'll of the designed addition,
and so expressed himself during the
discussion. No n will deny that the
appearance and usefulness of the build
ing Will be materially enhanced by
facing the entire front with brick.