Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-11-11
Young Man Heads
Wildwood Board
Of Trade
Address of Samuel P. Leeds, of
Atlantic City, Much Enjoyed

Wednesday evening in the high school
auditorium with President Heber
Crane in the chair. Close to 200 peo-
pie were present, many of them ladies.
Mayor COPYRIGHT Smith was at the
s~ecretary's desk as usual. After the
business of the meeting Samuel P.
Leeds, president of the Atlantic City
Chamber of Commerce, addressed the
gathering. Mr.. Leeds anne fresh
from a recent victory In his home
town, when he was reelected presi-
len of the Atlantic City Chamber of
Commerce, after the politicians had
put up a hard fight against him. He
won by a vote of 374 to 121 for his
opponent. Mr.. Leeds and his family
were among the pioneer hotelkeepers
of Atlantic City. He told of the early
struggles of his town to p%rolong the
season after Labor Day and the eff
forts he put forth to induce the rail-
roads to cooperate in continuing the
express train schedule. Thirty years
ago Atlantic City had the same prob
lens to solve that Wildwood has to-
day. He told his hearers to perse-
we're and they would win, for their
greatest asset was one of the best
stretches of Atlantic coast beach in
the country. Mr.. Leeds is a sociable
man and after the meeting adjourned
many persons had a pleasing hat
with him. He asked the help of Wild
wood in having the inland waterway
deepened in order that yachting might
be encouraged. His talk on different
subjects was greatly enjoyed. He is
a very progressive man and is the
owner of one of the largest hotels in
Atlantic City.
After Mr.. Leeds finished his adj
dress, the annual election of officers
was held, when a president, three vice
presidents and a board of governors
consisting of twelve members were
elected to serve for the coming year.
H. Foster Goslin, a young Ia rs
years of age, was elected president.
He is a young fellow full of pep and
ginger, a son of Thomas S. Goslin, who
came to Wildwood from Woodstown
dDOuL ~ years dSOs yOhh6 h1dh
graduated at the Wildwood high
school in due course of time and then
spent a couple of years in the Whar-
ton School of Business in Philadel-
phia. He came home and put his
heart and soul in his fathers lumber
business at Wildwood. The result
has been that the T. S. Goslin Lumber
Company is doing an enormous bust
ness in Wildwood and vicinity and
has a system of bookkeeping that is
almost perfection. This system COM
prises bookkeeping machines of the
latest patterns. 1t is expected that
the young man will put in board of
trade work the same energy that he
has displayed in business, and that
he will develop an organization that
can be a great benefit to this com-
munity. 1t is believed that he has a
board of governors that will stand
back of hin and imbiDe some of his
energy and modern business methods
that will prove very helpful to the
business interests of the island.
Charlie A. Norton was elected first
vice president, John B. Wright, sec
ond vice president, N George K.
Sinnamon, of the Breakers hotel at the
Crest, third vice president. The IL
governors elected were Alexander
McMurray, C. Howard Topham, Jed
Dubois, Alfred Winterburn, D. J..
Woods, Commissioned Ralph CARL,
Charlie A. Norton, John E. O'Daniel,
l.. S. Caldwell, Miss Rowena Pierce,
John B. Wright, John K. Sinnamon.
The voting for officers was done by
ballot and was as follows:
President, H. Foster Goslin. ....... 80
First Vice President, c. A. Norton. 78
Second Vice President, John B.
Wright 70
Third Vice President, George K.
Sinnamon III
Board of Governors
Ralph CARL ..79
ID. j. Woods
John B.. Wright. II
L. S. Caldwell. 10
G. Howard Topham SO
Alfred Winterburn SO
]. E. O'Daniel. ...... &c
Miss Rowena Pierce SO
George K. Sinnamon .............6 go
Jed Dubois so
A. D. Austin. .29
C. A. Douglass. pr
Mrs. H. H. Tomlin. ...25
Lydia j. Mech. pa
Frank D. Colson Pa
william C. Todd. .22
Mark B.. Reeves
E. B. Pagan
TO THE VOTERS OF CAPE MAY
COUNTY
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