Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-07-08

maintaining of these roads. The
County Chamber of Commerce, Boards
of Trade and all citizens are invited
to attend this meeting.
A representative of the ]. S. Robe
son Co., Trenton, was heard a few
merits of a patent cement binder to be
used on gravel roads and the Board
will consider the material.
Mr.. Candy, of the bill committee,
asked that he be relieved of the chair
manship of the bill committee. Mr..
Young is chairman, but owing to his
illness the work devolved upon Mr..
Candy, the next man. Mr.. Candy gave
as his reason that he, as chairman of
the bill committee, is responsible for
the correctness of all bills coming
before the Board. In this capacity he
was indicted on several counts by the
Grand Jury on true bills of which he
knew nothing, but took the o. X. of
the member as sufficient guarantee of
it's being just. The Grand Jury saw
fit to hold the chairman for the cor
rectness of the bills, and on five of the
bills found last week by the Grand
Jury he was indicted together with
the member whose bill it was. Mr..
Koeneke, the next member on the
committee, refused to accept the chair
manship. Mr.. Camp asked Mr.. Ed
redge and Mr.. DeBow if they would
accept the responsibility. They both
refused. He then asked if any mem
Der would volunteer. No one offered.
He then stated that if it would be in
order he would be willing to accept
stated that he thought Mr.. Camp was
the logical man and he was backed
up by all members. Mr.. Camp was
named and Mr.. Koeneke, the remain
ing member, with Mr.. DeBow, make up
the balance of the committee. After
quite a discussion the meeting adj
journed to meet in Sea Isle City half
an hour later to take up the matter
of putting Lands avenue in shape.
After looking over the street and
conditions, the Board ~re-convened at
the city hall to settle the matter. 1t
seems that this street was rebuilt last
fall, but the weather coming cold the
tar-like mixture used did not seem to
act properly and work was stopped
upon advice of the engineer until
spring when the warm weather would
allow a better job. Edward Sutton, OF
Sutton & Corson, the contractors
seemed to think the job is complete
as it is, but agreed to put another tor
coating of thin asphalt which would
act as a binder to hold the material
together. He was ordered sometime
ago by the Board to proceed and finish
the work, and when two blocks had
been covered with the thin, oily sub
stance that made life miserable fol
all in that neighborhood, Mayor Fitch
ordered the work discontinued. The
contractor claimed that there would
have been no trouble and the covering
would have been absorbed in a short
time by the other street material, but
for the heavy rain the day it was put
on and following days. After con
siderable argument on both sides MIR
Sutton agreed to place the thin coating
on another block as soon as the wea-
Their seemed favorable, leaving the
street crossings either open or COY
cred with sand and allow it to lay two
or three days in the warm sun and see
if it would be absorbed as they claimed
it would. If so, the street is to BIZ
done hat way. If not, the work will
be stopped again. The meeting theI
adjourned.
A special meeting of the Board was
held in Sea Isle City on Tuesday o.
last week to attend to the financial,
matters which needed attention before
July LIST. At this meeting JOSEPH
Camp, of Pierces, Middle Township
was elected vice director to succeed
James F. Eustace, resigned. At the
meeting in Sea Isle City last Tuesday
Mr.. Camp announced that Mr.. Ludlan
would succeed Mr.. Eustace on all COM
mittees on which the latter was serv-
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