Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-04-08

diemisSing the Dill OF complaint"
Thus Mowitz's suit, ct al, was lost
and our famous board walk case decided
iu favor Of the city and the intervening
defendants.
With the board walk case decided
and the new proposed sea walk well
under way the city commissioners are
now at liberty to concentrate theil
minds upon the latest project, namely,
that Of undertaking the erection of a
combined municipal and memorial
building. Prominence was given to the
matter at last Tuesdays regular meet
ing, April 9th.
1t was nearly las O'Clock before the
mayor called the meeting to order; but
once begun some interesting business
was transacted, and the hands of The
city hall monitor pointed to the hour If
three lefore a motion to adjourn was
made.
Tax receipts for the week previous
amounted to So, 166. 81; wafer rent re-
ceipts were $685. 6.
Spring and summer consumers OIL -four
limpid water output are becoming more
numerous daily. No less than thirty
requests were made the past week to
let in the liquid that Railways seeks its
level and which so eminently con-
duces 10 the keeping of level heads;
and would you believe it, nj less than
IS new taps of mains or connections to
oursWild wood water system were made,
thus rapidly increasing the number Of
water consumers. Mains were tapped
at the following places: On Buttercup
road for JoserMA. SIMMER; on Stan
ton road for David Hammond; on
Taylor avenue, west of railroad, for
D. NJ. Woolson; o. Taylor avenue, east
of railroad, in two places, for J.. r.
Mellor; on Baker avenue, near beach,
big apartment house for Patrick Boyle;
on Burk avenue, east of Pacific, for
Frank P. Thurman; on Chestnut ave-
nue., Anglesea, near Delaware avenue,
for d. Salveson and John Landman,
respectively, and in nine places for
IL. II. Ottens in his several bungalow
sections. Monthly reports were next
called for. The building inspectors
report for the month of March showed
that 80 building permits had been is
sued and that the value of the opera
tions aggregated $74,485. The fees re-
csived for these permits counted up $72.
The city electrician granted 43 permits
aud collected ST.. so in fees. The plumb
ing Inspector granted q permits and
received therefor in fees $6S. Dog Ii
censes paid in, So "a; receipts for per-
miIs to dig open streets, $50; rent Of
lodge room, L. o. o. F., for three
months, $25; L. q. o. F. (Ses Shell
Eucampment), $3.50, and Degree of
Pocahontas, $25-total receipts for last
month, $145.I4.
Communications followed the read
lag of reports. The irrepressible Frank
b. Cooling, of Philadelphia, for the
third time in weekly succession ad-
dressed a letter TO our Solons. This
time he grew a bit sarcastic. The alleged
e%ncroaching or overlapping of lots on
Taylor avenue, near board walk, is
enough to irritate the most equable
temperament. Here Is what Mr. Cod
ling had to say this time:
GAS a taxpayer and a member of the
corporation Of Wildwood city, 1 have
twice asked in reasonably plain Eng
fish: ~ What basis does the city of
Wildwood now accept as. the starting
point for survey and measurement of
lots? (2) Has the original base of
measurement ever been changed?
IF we (mesning himself and the
stockholders of the Mansvunk National
Bank are to get nothing but evasive
answers to our plain questions we shall
take up the matter with Senator w. H.
Bright, whom we know, and who will
get us some sort of definite answer
The city of Wild wood probably knows
it is somewhere on the map; and if it
does not know where it measures from
and declines to answer a stakeholder in
said corporation, in reply to pertinent
questions, il is fully time for us to
know that such a state of affairs ex-
ists.n
The commissioners took umbrsge at
the tart tone Of this missive, and at the
suggestion OF .ex-Mayor Smith a motion
Was passed directing the city clerk to
mail the letter back to the sender, as
much as to say: 'Take that for an
answer" From a side remark made by