Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-06-10
D~AYLIGHTSAVING TIME
FOR CITY OF WILDWOOD
Commissioners Pass Resolution
Adopting Advanced Time to
Conform With Thato Other
Cities and Towns
RHOADS URGES BALL PARK

About forty people, including five
women, attended the weekly meeting
of the City Commissioners held in the
city clerks office in the city hall last
Tuesday.
The meeting opened as usual with
the minutes of the previous meeting,
as read by City Clerk Winterburn.
After reading the minutes Mr.. Win
terburn made his report.
Daylight Saving Time was adopted
and now Wildwood will be up to the
minute, along with Philadelphia and
our sister cities of the coast.
Charles Each, the chauffeur of the
city car, reported that the official ma
chine had broken a crank shaft, and
suggested that the city get a new car,
because he said the old n was so
worn out all through that it wasn't
worth the expense of repairing the
crank shaft. The matter will be taken
up by Commissioner Smith.
Edward Rhoads, the amusement
man, spoke for a baseball field. He
said that if the Commissioners would
put $500 of the $4,000 that it would
| cost to build the field on the beach at
Montgomery avenue, he would raise
the other $500 from the business men
of the town. He offered to start the
ball rolling" with a 500 donation him
self. He said hat he had received a
number of letters from the managers
of excursions who said that they
wanted to book their excursions for
Wildwood, but wouldn't unless there
was a place to play baseball. He
mentioned the Frankfort excursion as
one which had already cancelled their
date because of the baseball question.
After mutually passing the buck" the
three Commissioners agreed to appro-
pirate the necessary $1,000 to the
Board of Trade for advertising pur-
poses,' with the proviso that City
Solicitor Hand pronounced it a legal
transaction. Solicitor Hand will look
into the matter. f.
Lewis T. Stevens, City Solicitor OF
Cape May, spoke on the bus question.
He wanted to know what Wildwood
was going to do about it. Commissioner
| Smith answered him that we only al
lowed two lines, and that they could
not do a trolley car business" that
is, they must make no stops in Wild
wood except at their terminal. Mr..
| Stevens asked for the Commissioners
approval of the application for a per-
nit of the Reliance Bus Co.
B. C. Ingersoll reported on the ques-
ton of garbage collection, which he
has beer looking into. D. j. Woods,
of the Sheldon Hotel, rose to say that
he had beer getting very good service
from the man who holds the present
contract for garbage removal. After
being rather severely "heckled' he
| called for a vote by those present on
whether the present arrangements for
the removal of garbage were adequate.
Mayor Hendee told him rather heated
ly that is was his business to put any
questions to the people present and
would Mr.. Woods sit down" Mr..
Woods would sit down, and did so, first
requesting the Mayor not to "get gay"
Mr.. Ingersoll said that wet garbage
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garbage was piling up, and if they
wanted to scrap to leave him out of it.
Mayor Hendee spoke in favor of the
present collector.
A woman who came late spoke for
daylight saving. She was informed
that the bill had already beer passed.
For the benefit of those present, Alfred
Winterburn requisitioned Mr.. Kay's
chair and set the hands of the official
timepiece, hanging on the northern
wall of the city clerks sanctum, an
hour ahead.
Three advertising me from the
Philadelphia Public Ledger asked to
have the Wildwood advertisement in
creased to 800 lines. Mayor Hendee
referred them to the Board of Trade.
w. COPYRIGHT Smith told the Commits
sioners that they had already been
to the Chairman of the Board of Trade,
and that they had been sent to the
Commissioners. Mayor Hendee passed
the buck right back again to the
Board of Trade.