Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-10-01
"But the mill will never grind
With the water that is past.D

NAS "0N SH~N - H
This couplet from an old song has
been quoted and re.quoted again and
again to remind US hat time is con-
stantly moving on-and once gone it is
gone forever. Whether we conceive of
time as creeping, running, ii owing or
fying-the Indispensable fact remains
that "since fret the flight of years be-
gan, +" millions upon millions of years
ago, there has been uninterrupted con-
tinuity; and it is probably equally as
true, according to William Cullen
Bryant's lines in his little classic,
''Thanatopsis, =" that
"AIl that tread
The globe are but a handful to the tribes
That slumber in its BOSOM"
Thoughts like these sober us i'm
mensely and give added stress to the
importance of the department of time,
as so wisely provided for in that lucid
piece of legislation known as the
Walsh act, creating commission form
vi RONCIDD1Cllb III Vic 6lutC VI 4NO"
Jersey. Thus it happened that ad-
miring eyes were cast upon the Wild
wood city clock last Tuesday afternoon,
September %, when its gentle hands
admonished the three commissioners,
at I.30 o'clock, that the hour had ar
rived to open their fourth and last
session in the month of September,
1920.
A liberal sprinklipg of citizens en-
livened the occasion Curiosity was
keyed up to the top notch, and every
one present seemed to be looking for
something sensational to develop. In
this respect they werenot disappointed,
but the customary weekly grilling took
a new departure last Tuesday. Instead
of the mayor being singled out as the
centre of attack by the majority COM
m~issioners, the strong position held by
attorney Jonathan Hand must have
appeared vulnerable to them, and hard
pressure was brought to bear upon that
point In the line. Doubtless the mayor
felt relieved at this brief shifting of the
plans of the offensive, Notwithstanding
his evident surprise at seeing the city
solicitor forced that day to bear alone
the ''brunt of the battle"
After the roll had been called by
Alfred Winterburn he read the minutes
of the prior meeting. AS soon as the
last syllable of the city clerk had died
away Commissioner Smith moved that
the minutes he approved as read. Com
mi ssioner Bright seconded the motion
Then the roll was called. The vote
stood 2 for approval to l against it.
Mayor Hendee is supposed to have
voted no because he believed that some
of the business transacted at that meet
ing was irregular, out of order, and
illegal" He obviously had particular
reference to the passage by a 2 to l vote
of the resolution aimed at the taking
away of the mayors duty or right, as
prescribed by law, to sign all checks,
notes, etc., issued by the city Of Wild
wood. The resolution in question de-
signated that no money should be
drawn from either of the three city de-
positories except upon the presentation
of checks signed by the Director of
Revenue and Finance (Oliver Bright
and the city clerk, and accepted as thus
signed by the city treasurer.
After the minutes Of the previous
NJ Getting were disposed Of as mentioned
official reports were called for.
For the week ending September 21st
the sums handed by taxpayers to the
city collector amounted to $6,334.38
and the water rents paid in for the
same week footed up $465.81 The con-
sun ption of water here is fast dimin-
ishing. In the past week 80 less con-
sumers were reported by the operating
department of the city water plant.
Five new connections, however, were
made to the system as follows: On Six
tenth street, North Wildwood, west of
Maryland avenue, for J.. w. Powell; OF
Chestnut avenue, Anglesea, west of the
railroad, for II. FL. Ottens; corner Park
avenue and Primrose road. Crest, for
David McKibbin; on Park avenue,
south of Primrose road, for the same
person, and on Hand avenue, east of
Arctic avenue, for G. Schlect. All
meters in District No. 2 (Angleses and
North WiIdwood), were reported to
have been read for the third quarter of
1000