Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-07-22
NILDWOOD'S new CITY COMMISSIONERS
WORK WELL TOGETHER IN FIRST MEETING
Start Administration By Giving Careful, Courteous Business
Attention to Matters That Have Long Needed
Just That Sort of Official Medicine
r~REAsURER's REPORT Of FINANCIAL STANDING

OJner sister resorts OF the county In a
schedule ranging from Z o'clock in the
morning until midnight, each day, we
are hereby urging you to amend your
present automobile, or jitney, ordi-.
nance, so that the Reliance Transpor-
tation Company, which now operates
about seven buses of good capacity
between Cape May and Wildwood, may
be given a license to operate in your
city.
This line has been operating in
Cape May since May, and has complied
with every request and necessity re-
quired of us; it has the financial back
ing required for good service, and ar
ries a very large amount Of insurance
to insure it's passengers a return from
any accidental damage which might
occur to them; it operates on a sched-
ule which is hourly between Cape May
and Wildwood from seven o'clock in
the morning until midnight, and a
two-hour service during the same
period between Ocean City and Sea
Isle City and our two resorts, and
promises, if it can do so, to run as
long throughout the autumn and win
ter as it can, and all winter if it is
possible to do so. All other lines u
ming between our resorts only run in
daytime, and then at such times as
they can get a load, having no set time
for leaving a given point in the two
cities, as does the Reliance Transpor-
tation Company buses.
1--WE, the Commissioners of Cape
May, therefore ask your honorable
body to consider this lines right to a
license to run through your city and
thus continue the good service it has
so far given the two resorts.
"In Cape May City we are exclud-
ing no one who applies for the right
to increase the travel between the two
resorts.
During the late unpleasantness be-
tween the former officials of your city
and some busmen, with which we had
no concern, we did refuse to grant
three licenses, pending their decision
as to buses from u city. That con-
dition has, happily, passed, and all
have been running since last Tues
day evening, without interruption,
much to the satisfaction of those doing
business between Cape May and Wild
wood.
Therefore, for commercial and
social reasons we ask you the favor
of granting our request.
Trusting that there will continue
to be amity between the governing
bodies of u resorts, we remain,
yours very truly,
"F. J. MELVIN, Mayor,
civilian R. SHEPPARD,
GEORGE P. WENTZELL,
Commissioners"
The advice of the city solicitor was
asked on the foregoing matter, and he
said that as Manager Willis, of the
Reliance people, had been arrested for
operating in defiance of the ordinance
by ex-Mayor Hendee and the matter
was before the Supreme Court, moth
ing could be done until word was re-
ceived from that body. After some
discussion it was decided to table the
matter until a writ of certiorari was
received from the Supreme Court.
The report of the city treasurer,
Robert ]. Kay, was read.
Mayor Smith instructed the city clerk
to give a copy of this report to each
of the representatives of the local
papers then in the room, and requested
them to print the same, which we do
herewith.
Wildwood, New Jersey, July IS, 1921.
dwood.
request 1 beg to submit the following
iation Accounts as of July IL, 1921:
Over
Orders Balance drawn
F.. 100000 S 100000
. 15,75O.OO 15,75O.OO
. 12,6 10000 7,S7.70 5,012.30
. 100000 100000 100000
i. II, 100000 5,339.24 5,660.76
. $4,000 1882 1,026.4S
. 1 100000 12,496.sS 1868
S,uUU.UU l,Oto.ll oOl.oo
10. 900.0 90 5,735.48 8,164.52
. 100000 2,S44.42 655.5S
. 100000 3.702.44 2,297.56
:. 90 100000 6,S01.07 13.19S.93
:. 100000 5,273.86 6,726.14
. 100000 1,S79.99 SPOOL
10000 1885 320.35
10000 117.00 $4,000
es 100000 1,508.50 1880
100000 2,028.39 971.61
i. 10,369.26 1~0,369.26
81 ,S75.6S {, 352.50 L ,523.18
:. 100000 100000
9,500.00 5.156.05 4,343.95
9,500.00 100000 5.500.00
67,SS1.72 S5,94O.47 S1.Ss1.2s
2,80O.0O 2.133.44 666.56