Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-08-20

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discriminating against colored bathers
at the Garfield avenue ocean front. III
any section of the beach has been set
apart at any time for the use OF a por-
ton of our people this fact is not gener-
ally known.
After Richard Moultrie had been
heard ex-Water Superintendent Joseph
Brown advanced to the front once more
to ask the commissioners what plans
or arrangements they had in mind for
decorating the board walk with cedar
trees in preparation for the coming OF
the ''Tall Cedars of Lebanon" from
Philadelphia on Saturday, August 2Sth.
MI. Brown was informed that this was
a subject for the Board Of Trade to con-
slider. To that body he was referred in
J his efforts to provide for the purchase
and transportation of a sufficient num-
Der Of the evergreen trees to properly
grace the occasion. This was Mr..
Browns first appearance at City Hall
as a spokesman since his official de-
capitation in May last. He was as
sangulne and as hopeful as ever.
Reports were next in order. The
CITY clerk read the statistics Of the tax
receivers office for week ending Satur-
day, August 14th, as totaling $3,957 80,
and of the water department as
$2,034. O5.
Two new connections to our water
system were made last week. one for
Mr.. Gemmel, on the south side of Aster
road, west of Pacific avenue; the other
for M. d. Swisher, corner Rambler
road and Philadelphia avenue.
Commissioner Bright now made a
motion to increase the salary OF j.
Charles Each, street foreman, from $50
to $115. Commissioner Smith seconded
the motion after amending it to read
$40 instead of Sis. He said he
thought $110 was enough. The motion
was passed unanimously. The increase
will become effective September LIST.
City Treasurer Kay produced a letter
he had received from Yeo & Lukens,
of Philadelphia, in which the price of
q disbursement book for the use OF the
City of Wildwood was quoted at $48.
AS this price seemed to be satisfactory
to the treasurer and the others con-
cerned, the book was ordered.
A letter from Craythorn q Nicker-
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lineal feet Of concrete sidewalk or 800
square feet, on east Maple avenue,
four inches thick, with cement, sand
aud gravel mixed in the proportion of
one to elk, at 25c per square foot or for
a total of SIS. A letter from Thomas
Delaney, east Oak avenue, quoted $95
for the same quantity of work. The
contract was awarded to the first
named firm.
The business of the session was fast
drawing to a close when the street
commissioner drew from the relentless
pocket inside his coat, the following
resolution, carefully typewriter,
which he asked 10 have read:
"Whereas, at a meeting of the Board
OF Commissioners on the 18th day Of
May, 1920, the mayor was designated
the Director Of the Department of Pub
lie Safety, and as such was assigned
certain powers and duties as then de-
termined by the board;
Aud whereas, the morale of the
police department and the fire depart
ment, so, as aforesaid, assigned to the
Director of Public Safety, has been and
still is seriously impaired, by reason Of
which it appears to the Board Of Com
missioners that the public service
would be benefited by designating
that the Director of the Department of
Revenue and Finance be designated,
in addition, as the Director of the De-
partment of Public Safety, and that
the powers and duties of the Director
of Public Safety be assigned to the
Department Of Revenue and Finance;
Therefore, be it resolved, That in con-
sideration of the premises Oliver Bright
be and he hereby is, in addition to his
present designation as Director of the
Department of Revenue and Finance,
designated as the Director of the De-
partment of Public Safety;
And be it further resolved, That the
powers and duties Of the Department
of Public Safety be and they hereby
are assigned to the Department OF
Revenue and Finance;
Aud be it further resolved, That the
powers and duties of the Department
of Revenue and Finance be and they
hereby are determined to be in addition
to the powers and duties heretofore as
signed to said Department as follows,
to wit:
The said Department of Revenue
and Finance shall be and hereby is
ASSIGNED the direction and p0ntrol oyal