Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-11-11

me Price OF Jn1S new series OF lou
trip tickets is fixed at 500. The war
tax amounts to IS, making total cost
$108. The commuter may thus ride
for " cents a trip or for $1.44 a
round trip, between Philadelphia and
Wildwood. In consideration of the
low rate at which these Communication
books are sold, the use of same is
limited strictly to the purchaser and
are not transferable. That is why
they will be issued in Photographic
FORM"
The next letter to be read was from
L. M. Mutton, a captain of the U. S.
navy, stationed at the League Island
yard. This letter from the Command
ants Office, dated November 4th, was
sent in response to a request by the
Mayor of Wildwood for seaplane aid
in an effort to find the lost fishermen
who disappeared in the storm on
Monday, October 31st, off Anglesea
bar.
ut was with the greatest regret that
| found that we were unable to com
ply with your request for seaplanes to
assist trawlers to locate the bodies
and the delay in my reply was due to
efforts to obtain planes elsewhere.
The yard is not an operating base for
seaplanes and has no regular ~seaplane
organization. There is no enlisted
flying force at the aircraft factory
here nor attached to the yard, and the
one or two aviators on duty at the
aircraft factory do only such expert
mental flying as may be necessary in
the s~tep-by-step process of testing out
the products. An effort was made to
obtain service for you from other
sources, but without success.
with deepest sympathy for the be-
reaved families in their loss, l am,
yours sincerely, L. NJ. Mutton"
City Assessor William e. Forcum
wrote the Commissioners as follows:
81 would respectfully request you
to take some action (if you can do so
legally, relative to the practice of
replotting of lots in certain blocks.
The cases are numerous. Replotting
has been done by owners of property
and is still being done in entire dis
regard of the requirements of the Of
fetal map. A moments consideration
will show that such replotting of a
ranges the assessments, unless the as
SCISSOR has knowledge of the changes.
1t causes unnecessary work and leads
to mistakes in allotting assessments.
In my opinion this matter of replot-
ting is a disregard of the taxing laws
relative to official maps for taxation
purposes"
Mr.. Forcum's letter was handed over
to the city solicitor for consideration,
whose advice in regard to the irregu-
larity complained of will be given
later.
The following communication from
Willard Campbell, tax collector, was
now laid before the Commissioners:
81 hereby certify hat l have re-
ceived in full the total amount of the
tax sale certificate covering taxes for
1917 and prior years and also the
taxes for 1918; also all liens to date
(Which have been paid in full) against
the property located in block II, lot
II and part of lot IS, in the third ward,
City of Wildwood, and that it is right
and proper that an assignment of the
above certificate should be made to
Frank H. Camp, Cape May Court
House."
The city tax collector, in another
communication, informed the Commits
sioners that
"Since the certificates of tax sales of
the 1917 sale have been handed over
to attorney John Bright fol- foreclos-
ure, l will state that up to date va
rious owners of property, included in
the foreclosure list, have called at this
office and have paid back taxes to the
amount of SO, 1000. There have been
quite a few owners of property listed
in the foreclosure group who have
come in and have offered to pay GER
tain sums on account, with the pur-
pose in view of keeping their prop
critics out of the foreclosure proceed
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