Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-09-09
CITY COMMISSIONERS
IN REGULAR SESSION
Games of Chance to Be Tabooed.
Kalbach Bill Again Before the
Body. New Uniforms for
the Police officers
H NEWS

Mayor w. COPYRIGHT Smith pre-
sided at the weekly meeting of the
Wildwood City Commissioners, Tues
day afternoon, and Commissioners
CARL and Taylor were present, as were
also City Treasurer Kay and Solicitor
Hand. After the reading of the min
utes by Clerk W~interburn, a letter was
read from Stanley M. Kalbach, who is
now located in Baltimore. He made
another of his many appeals for a
balance of $500 claimed to be due
him for sewer work in 1917. This is
a legacy from the old administration
and it is a hard problem for the new
n to know how to solve it. After
some discussion it was referred again
to the solicitor, who said he had
written many letters to Kalbach de-
claring that the claim against the city
was not a just one. The disposition
of the city officials seems to be that
the claim will not be paid unless or
dered to do so by a court of law. E. S.
Culver announced that he had built
two stores along the new boardwalk
and urged the commissioners to have
water and sewer pipes extended there.
A number of citizens complained again
about the smoke nuisance from the
Pennsy engines in the Holly Beach
section. The building inspectors re-
port for August showed 33 permits
granted for new buildings, their esti-
mated cost to be $140,2 02. The fees
received for same was $149. This re-
port was signed by Charles L. Nicker-
son, who resigned at the request of
the new mayor. The-report of the city
electrician, Warren Kalbach, showed
that 81 electrical permits had been
issued and SO certificates. Plumbing
Inspector Wigham reported 16 permits
granted with fees of $36.25. The re-
port of A. Heinrich, of the operating
department of the Wildwood City
water works indicated 8 new connec-
tons, 35 non-registering meters re-
paired, 8 leaky meters repaired, 6 in
spections for leaks. Tax Collector
Campbell's report showed collections
of SO for poll taxes, $16,742.96 for
regular taxes on real estate, $254.30 in
terest on same, $3.50 costs. Dis
counts amounting to $113.66 were al
lowed for the payment of taxes in
advance. In the water department,
Collector Campbell reported collecting
50, 084.85 for private water service, So
off and on fees, $104.50 tapping fees,
miscellaneous rent SIS, PEN
alties $136.10. Bids were opened for
furnishing suits of clothing for the
police, and the award laid over until
the next meeting. Bids were received
from E. Sommer, East Burk avenue,
Roland Corson, Heating and Tenen-
baum. Two other bids were thrown
out because of a disregard of the pub
lished terms. Mayor COPYRIGHT
Smith brought up the matter of safety
devices for hotels and boarding houses
and asked for a ruling from the legal
department as. to the use of rope lad
ders. There is an intimation that
some house owners have been har-
raised by statesmen from firms who
claim that their material must be
bought to comply with the law. House
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scare them, and no doubt the new
Mayor and Commissioners will make
it a point to get the law on the SUBJ
ject for the benefit of taxpayers. On
the boardwalk gambling subject the
Mayor made the following motion
which was passed unanimously: "That
no games of chance, contrary to law,
will be tolerated in the limits of The
City of Wildwood, and should any
game be licensed under subterfuge,
said license will be revoked at the OPP
ton of the Commissioners" In a
discussion of this subject it was in
timated that the mercantile license
ordinance would be taken up earlier
than usual and the changes threshed
out so as to be ready by the first of
the year. Adjournment came a little
before Jour o'clock.