Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-04-15
Cape May County Investi-
gators Report to Court and
Judge Black Directs
Grand Jury to Find
Indictments
Doings ofthe Wildwood City Commissioners

wood is we'll represented on the board.
Beside the two members, the county
engineer and the solicitor of the board
are North Wildwood residents. James
McLinden, Mayor of North Wildwood,
is county road supervisor, and the re-
port of the investigators shows that the
county paid McLinden $4,000 in 1918
and an equal sum in 1919 for work done
by him upon the basis of cost plus 15
per cent. 1t is also shown that Engi-
neer Rice collected over $27, 900 in fees
from the county in three years. Ro-
land Corson, one of the directors of the
Union Bank of Wildwood, is a MEM
Der of the grand jury, charged with
investigating county affairs. Another
member of the grand jury is Israel
WooIson, of Wildwood, automobile
truck owner, who has done much
work for the Freeholders In past years.
Two women are on the grand jury, one
from Ocean City, and n from North
Wildwood, the latter being the wife of
Albert Thompson, chief of police, and
daughter of Richard Rauch, for many
years a member of the North Wild
wood Council. Palmer M. Way, So
Iicitor for the Board Of Freeholders, is
a director and solicitor for the Union
Bank.
When the Wild wood city commits
sioners assembled last Monday after
noon they did not face as large an audi
ence as may have been expected, and
the meeting was devoid of anything
very sensational or out of the ordinary.
The financial report was read first,
covering receipts in the Office OF the
collector of taxes and water rents for
the second week in April: Taxes paid
in amounted to SIS $685. S; water rents,
$284.41.
The field crew of the water depart
ment was kept busy the past week in
turning on water for consumers, pre-
paratory to the summer rush and in
making extensions to the system. No
less than eighteen taps of mains were
made last week: One tap for the Wild
wood Bungalow Company, on west
side, and seven for H. H. Ottens, both
in Wildwood and North Wild wood;
three for Robert Bright, on south side
of Poplar avenue, just east of Ocean
avenue; on Tacony road, west of Hud-
son, for John Rosso; north side of Hill
dreth avenue, east Of Park Boulevard,
for G. A. Dye; north side of Garfield
avenue, west of Pacific avenue, for Paul
Scully; north west corner Rio Grande
and Hudson avenues, for Gilbert E..
Horne; south side OF Glenwood, west of
Ocean, for s. E. Lockwood; south side
of Glenwood, east of Atlantic, for
Elizabeth K. fancy, and corner First
and Pennsylvania avenues, for Fred
Sundi.
A communication from Pittsburg was
next read:"Iam a kindergarten teacher
in this city, and would like to do some
recreational work in Wildwood during
the months of July and August. Could
you refer me to the proper authority
for further Information? Thanking you
for your trouble, [ remain, respectfully,
Miss MARIAN KAMLER, $3.50 Nichol-
son street."
The city electrician notified the COM
missioners that owing to changes about
to be made at the Electric Light plant,
the fire whistle will be out of commits
sion for a week or ten days, unless the
city be willing to spend $75 or 500 to
install thirty or forty feet of high pres
sure pipe and supply several steam
valves, thus insuring a constant supply
of steam every day in the year, regard
less of future repairs or changes. The
/ city whistle Is to be hooked on to a per-
manent steam line. The work was
ordered to be done at once.
Willard F. Campbell, the city tax
collector, having carefully tabulated all
unpaid poll taxes andtaXes Oh personal
property for the years 1919 and 1920,
presented a list of same to the commits
sioners for their consideration. The
amount involved is about $1,400. A
motion was passed ordering the list to
be published.
A motion was passed authorizing the
publication of a Notice of Intention
that an ordinance will be introduced
for the establishment of q city police
court. April Goth is the earliest date
at which this proposed ordinance may
be offered for first reading.
The much talked of Municipal Me-
mortal building engaged much Of the
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