Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-09-17
wildwood Board of Trade
Met Last Night

wood Board of Trade was held on
Thursday, September 10Th, at $40
n. M. in the High school auditorium
with Vice President Samuel A LanIng
presiding, President Palmer M. way
being out of town. The meeting was
called TO order and the minutes read
and approved. The reports OF the COM
mittees was as follows:
Railroad and Transportation-he
ported having communicated with the
.Pennsy relative to having an early
train daily instead of Mondays alone
during the summer.
Board walk Committee-R
that the beach fires were a menace 10
the properties along the beach front.
The committee also stated that the
underwriters would call in the fire in
surance on the properties along the
beach front II the situation was not
remedied. The secretary reported that
Mr.. johnson had requested the City
Commissioners to appropriate sufficient
funds TO keep the beach clean and IN a
sanitary condition, and that II this
appropriation was made early In the
year, the committee could hire help to
keep the beach clean.
Hotel Communicable. Woods, who
is chairman of this committee spoke
of the efficiency of same, and was con-
graduated by Mr.. Laning. Mr.. Woods
also spoke of the ~uncleanliness OF the
beach, to which Mr.. Smith suggested
that if the committee made their COM
plants to the board with proper recon-
mendatious he would see that proper
procedure was taken.
Advertisement committee reported
that signs were found torn down along
the roadside to Wildwood. The City
Commission, in reply to a complaint
OF signs on the beach o~bstructing the
ocean view, replied that the city had
no jurisdiction in the matter, as the
signs were on private property. Secre-
tary COPYRIGHT Smith stated that it
was important to keep the beach front
clean and thought it should belong to
the city and insisted that steps be ia
ken to purchase the beach as a munic-
ipal park so that such objects may not
menace the view. Asbury Park owns
its ocean front and he said the longer
Wildwood defers this matter the great
er will be the cost. The report of the
secretary showed that $3.50 persons
asked questions and had been answer
ed at the Information Bureau on the
boardwalk. A motion was passed
calling upon the City Commissioners
to induce the menhaden fish plant to
take measures to stop the stencil
which menaces the lower part of the
island.
Another resolution was made to APP
point a committee of five to investigate
the gas situation, which caused so many
complaints this Summer. The follow
ing were appointed: Mr.. Pagan, chair
man; Messrs. Woods, Norton, Harris
and Murray. IE02 )
The secretary, Mr.. Smith, said he
supposed that'this condition was partly
caused by inefficient management, lack
Of capital, poor transportation of coal
from the mines, and~the grade of coal
bought in a take what you can get
market" and being a subsidiary cor.
porstion, the profits probably going to
fatten a parent company. Possibly il
the mains were cleaned out this condi.
ton could be remedied. Mr.. Smith
also stated that the transportation
methods improved about 40 per cent.
|, last month.
The last resolution passed was to re.
:. quest the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany to run a bridge train direct from
Wildwood TO Philadelphia during the
. summer months, to give the visitors
proper accommodation.
There are 100 members of the board
Fifty of these members were present.
Mrs. M. J. Jones was the only woman
member in attendance. The Rev.
Irwin H. Fisher, pastor of the BaptisI
church, was the only visitor present.
, The nomination OF officers will be
held at the October meeting.
There was no report from the treasu.
rer nor financial reports of any kind.
Building Association funds to loan