Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-03-04
CITY Hall Doings
Continued from page l

INSTALLATION OF huultlODdi MINUS anu
pipes, with the various plugs and
necessary accessories, connections aud
appurtensnces thereto belonging"
The new proposed taxi ordinance was
supposed to come up this week, but its
introduction met with another reverse
Attorney Way, representing the Wild
wood Hack Drivers Association, pre-
sented to the commissioners the ordin-
ance, as now completed, to meet the
wishes Of his client. He hoped it
would also be satisfactory to the city.
Two new provisions have been incor-
porated. O0e limits the number of
licenses 10 be granted to taxi drivers to
forty, and the other clause restricts the
issuance of q license TO any applicant
until thirty lays have elapsed from the
date at which the application was
made. Commissioner Smith asked
Mr.. Way if the commissioners have
the power to so limit the number Of
licenses issued. The attorney answered
in the affirmative. To make an appli-
cant wait thirty days for the granting
of a license after making his applica-
ton was another feature of the ordin-
ance as drawn that looked questionable.
The upshot of the matter was that no
attempt was made to pass the measure
at this session, and 1t was laid over
until mex week.
Mayor Hendee announced that Ed
ward s. Graham, of Philadelphia, en-
tered upon the garbage removal con-
tract promptly on the morning OF
March Ist. Mr.. Graham's contract
covers a period of five years, and the
sum bid was SOL 800.
When communications were called
for the clerk first read the following
from the Supreme Court:
"We being willing, for certain rea-
sons, to be certified of a certain ordIn-
ance of the city of Wildwood, adopted
February 10Th, 1921. and known as
ordinance No. ITO, providing for the re-
moval Of the board walk from a portion
of Atlantic avenue, do command you
that you certify and send to our J Justices
of our Supreme Court, at Trenton, on
the 18th day of March, as well the said
ordinance with all things touching and
concerning the same, as fully and en-
tirely as they remain before you, to-
gether with this, our writ. hat we may
cause to be done thereupon what Of
right and according to law and justice
ought to be done.
WITNESS, Hon. Williams s. Gummere,
Chief Justice of our said Supreme
Court, this 23d day of February, in the
year of our Lord nineteen hundred and
twenty q G. l.. Cole, attorney.
Enoch l.. johnson, clerk"
Commissioner Smith made a motion
that this summons be received and
filed, and that John Harris, of Camden,
be employed to defend the suit. Mayor
Hendee objected to employment of out
side counsel, but was outvoted on the
roll call.
The clerk made it known that seven
petitions had been received by him,
containing the names of 178 citizens.
He said he had gone over the registry
lists and found that % of these regis
trants were not entitled to sign any of
the said petitions. These papers, there
fore, contained only 156 valid sigma
lures. There were 1858 votes cast at the
last general municipal election. To OBJ
tain a referendum on any measure the
law requires the submission of petitions
containing not less than Is per cent. of
the number of votes cast at the pre-
ceding general municipal election One
hundred and thirty-one signers, there
lore, is the minimum number required
at present TO make such petitions eftec-
live.
The petitions read as follows:
"We, the undersigned, being electors
Of the City of Wildwood, do protest
against the passage of an ordinance
known as Ordinance No. ITO, for the
removal OF the boardwalk nom Lin
toln to Montgomery We
request that the question of the passage
and operation of said ordinance be sub
mitted to a vote of the people, as pro-
vided in Chapter 22l of the laws OF
New Jersey for 1911" No action was
taken on these petitions at this
meeting.
The clerk next read a communica-
ton signed by E. Yenney, chairman,
and Harry S. Dry, secretary. 1t read
as follows: ''The outcome of the in
dignation meeting held by the citizens,
has shown their intention Of having a
new board walk. A resolution was
voted, almost unanimously, that the
citizens back up to the limit the city
commissioners in acquiring q new