The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1921-02-05
SOUND REASONS GIVEN FOR
HAVING COUNTY SEAT HERE
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of the procedure necessary to the
change, the present location has re-
NAMED many years longer than it
should.
ut is my belief that with the aid of
Mays Landings new Chamber of Com
merce, it would be possible to replace
the county business in the Mays Land
ing buildings with some form of man.
ufacture or industry which would be
more directly beneficial to Mays Land
ing than the benefits it now derives
from the court buildings. l under
stand that the property now used by
the county reverts back to the original
owners, now an estate, when it ceases
to become operated for public county
purposes, and it is not unlikely that
these owners would favor the estab-
lishment of desirable industry. for
which the buildings are well fitted.
"At present Hammonton and Egg
Harbor residents, though relatively
close to Mays Landing, must if they
desire to reach the county seat by rail
travel over the Reading to Pleasant
vile, thence from Pleasantville to
Mays Landing by electric. 1t is pro-
portionately as unhandy for residents
from Somers Point, Absecon and in
termediate points, and much worse for
Atlantic City, Ventnor and other Abse-
con Island residents who constitute
the majority of those having to visit
the County Capitol.
For a great number of reasons
which l have heard them advance
many Atlantic City people have spok-
en- of the advisability of locating the
Court House, if changed, at Pleasant
vile, and if this should be the on
census of opinion of Atlantic City and
the balance of the county, there Ger
tainly are many substantial and justi-
fable reasons for making the location
Pleasantville.
First, and to my mind important,
is the accessibility of P~leasantville by
trolley and the several railroads, high
ways to every part of the county; by
trolley from Absecon Island, Somers
Point, Absecon and intermediate
points, direct rail from Hammonton
and Egg Harbor over the Reading and
direct rail from Mays Landing and vi
cinity by West Jersey Electric.
Second in Importance is the great
saving which the county can make by
locating the ley buildings on it's pres
ent property at Smiths Landing (the
lower section of P~leasantville) oppo-
site it's Insane, Aims and Tubercular
buildings. No doubt from a quarter to
half a million dollars can be saved by
using land it now owns or purchasing
the area which would be necessary IN
Atlantic City, the only other logical
location.
1.-THE county's farm which extends
either side of it's present buildings al
Smiths Landing would furnish an I'll
eXcelled opportunity of what to dc
with the county prisoners who could
be put to useful work tilling the soil.
"a number of lawyers have stated
that they would prefer the court house
in a quiet location, more conducive to
their concentration, than a site in the
center of a busy city with so consider.
able an amount of traffic about the
court house, especially in m
1.-THE Suburban and the Shore Fast
trolley would both convey Atlantic
City users of the court house buildings
in a few minutes right to the doors,
The Suburban passes over the Shore
Road in front of the present Asylum
and Almshouse, while the Shore Fast
Line has a station stop at Dolphin i'm
mediately in the rear of these build