Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-01

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Pacific avenue during the summer. L
consider the congested conditions there
during the season as more dangerous
than on any street in New York, on ac-
count of the trolley line occupying the
centre Of Pacific avenue, which is a
narrow t%horoughfare at its best. There
is but a narrow margin on each side OF
the street car tracks. The policemen
who were on this street when l was
present had no idea how to handle the
traffic, and your parking regulations
for automobiles are wTetched. No
vehicles of any kind should be allowed
to park ON Pacific avenue. This should
be permitted ON the side streets only.
[ also call your attention to the
serious annoyance caused by some OF
the large trucks, operating without
mufiers or backing long distances with
muflers open, discharging smoke and
creating frightful noise.
More traffic should be diverted up
Holly Beach venue from Rio Grande
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gestion Of Pacific avenue. l do not
expect the impossible, but l feel sure
conditions may be improved if you will
only make an effort"
This letter set the men to whom 1t
was addressed to thinking, and Build
ing Inspector Nickerson vas instructed
to get busy at once to ascertain If the
exit doors on all amusement places
swing the right way. The mayor
stated that the traffic problem would
be taken up in due time and some
better system devised for next season.
This is one Of the biggest problems we
have to solve-the proper regulation of
traffic within our city: The speed side
of the problem should have special
attention. The violation of all speed
regulations the past season have been
positively fragrant and a menac to
life.
Resolutions were next in order. The
first one passed authorized the collector
of water rents to credit the account Of
John Stryker, of the Woodside Hotel,
on east Oak avenue, in the sum of
$2.0l, because of an excess charge 10
this extent arising from the over read
ing of his meter.
Two O'Clock p. M. last Tuesday hav-
ing been designated in the advertise
ment for bids on the $50, 900 boardwalk
loan, a motion was made and carried
shortly thereafter to proceed with the
opening of the bids. 1t was found that
only one offer had been received,
namely, from the Marine National
Bank and the Wildwood Title and
Trust Company, bidding conformity on
a $3.50 basis. Their joint proposal was
10 take the entire series of fifty bonds
at $50, 200, that is 5000 better than par,
and a check in the sum of 81 ,004 ac-
companled the bid as an evidence of
good faith, being two per cent. of the
face value of the bonds, plus the pre-
MUM offered.
Observation-Disclosures hattering offer
from our local institutions the commits
sioners were reluctantly compelled to
hold all bids open until after a decision
Is rendered by the Court of Errors and
Appeals for the State of New Jersey in
the suit of Gilbert H. Baker vs.. the
city of Wildwood. As will be recalled
by many readers Of the JOURNAL, Mr..
Baker brought suit some time ago In
the Supreme Court against the city of
Wildwood, attacking the validity Of
the $50, 900 board walk ordinance. Mr..
Blaker lost this suit, the Supreme
Court deciding that the ordinance had
been passed in a legal manner Mr..
Baker has now appealed from this de-
cision. Should Mr.. Baker win on this
appeal of course the bond issue referred
to would be Illegal and the loan could
not be fioated. The commissioners
passed a formal resolution, withholding
the awarding of the said bonds ''until
a decision is reached by the Court of
Errors and Appeals" 1t is probable
that this piece of litigation will come
before this court when it meets next
on the third Tuesday in November.
City Treasurer Kay now dropped a
bombshelI into the camp of the ma
jority combine, which must have made
the shivers run up and do wn the backs
of the obstructionists. He politely in
formed Commissioners Bright and
Smith that he felt 1t his duty to heed
the advice given him by City Solicitor
Hand to the effect that all city checks
must be signed by the mayor or other
such executive officer and the city
clerk. He further stated that until
some higher authority directed him to
DO differently he would continue to ac-
cept only such checks as were so sign
ed. He referred to the recent method