Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-04-01
City Hall Doings
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A~SS0c1at10ny al d meebinB hOlu WI
March 23d, the secretary was authorized
to request the city commissioners to
instruct the city clerk to send the
names OF all persons applying for
hacking licenses to the secretary Of the
above association for the purpose of
investlg alton, and also in order to have
the applicants join our association"
This communication received scant
attention. The extraordinary demand
it contained riled COMMISSIONS Smith,
and he gave vent to the annoyance he
felt at what he considered an unwar-
ranted intrusion into the license affairs
at city hall. The r, quest made in the
letter was therefore ignored.
Principal tanning Myers, Of the
High School, came under the calcium
at Tuesdays meeting when a letter
from him was read concerning base
ball. We quote a portion of it: 1.-THE
boys of the High School petition your
honorable body to grant them the ex-
elusive use Of the beach baseball park,
If it be within your jurisdiction, from
now until the close Of the present
school year" The principal Explained,
in presenting this request, that "the
high schools of Cape May county have
organized for the seventh year a base
ball league. Our High School is in the
league and desires 10 make q good
showing" The commissioners gave
out the Information that the city does
not have jurisdiction over these
grounds, being private property. The
commissions of streets slyly remarked
that the city had Jurisdiction ver the
grand stand; but the use Of The grand
stand without the privilege OF playing
on the grounds would not get them
very far in the way of training to meet
their antagonists. Some one suggested
that the boys s'go ahead aud use the
park any way, until stopped by an in
junction"
The last communication to be heard
was that from G. A. Norton, agent for
the estate of q. A. Andrew, the owner
OF blocklNo. 173, in the Second ward,
bounded by Park. Boulevard, Arctic,
Young and Roberts avenues. Mr..
Norton has re-plotted this block in lots
of different sizes to what is shown on
the official map. A map showing the
new plotting was attached to the COM
munication. A resolution was passed
approving this map and authorizing
the county clerk to file same in his
office. In this new plo ting the block
contains two lots 40 by 100, four lots
80 by 100, two lots 40 by 80, and four
lots 80 by 90-tweIve lots in all.
The State High way Department has
fixed the following wage scale on road
work, to wit: Labor, 40 cents per hour.
Teams, 40 cents per hour.
The County Board of Freeholders has
also adopted the same scale. The
Vile wood city commissioners will for
mally adopt the same schedule of rates
at their next meeting.
s'Question having arisen as to the
compensation to be allowed members
of district boards of registry and cleo
ton, in cases where more than one day
was found to be necessary to make the
house to ho0se canvass" the following
from the opinion rendered recently by
the attorney general may prove in
s~tructive: members of district boards
of registry and election are to receive
$40 per day for each registry day; and
that the term 'each registry day is to
mean the registry days fixed by law;
and further, that the members Of such
boards, in making canvasses, are per-
mitted to take additional days in which
to complete the work, but this is merely
d matter of convenience to the officials
for which they are not entitled to any
additional compensation"
The foregoing opinion vas announced
at the commissioners meeting.
A resolution was now passed direct
ing the city solicitor to notify the West
Jersey and eashore Railroad Company
to place safety gates respectively at the
Oak avenue aud Rio Grande avenue
crossings. A similar notice will be
served on the Wild wood, Della ware Bay
and Short Line Railroad Company,
directing that safety gates be placed al
the Park Boulevard crossing.
Many complaints having been re-
ceived at city hall that Contractor
Graham, Of Philadelphia, is not hand
ling the garbage proposition to the
satisfaction of the people, a motion wa
passed calling upon the city clerk te
notify Mr.. Graham at once that he Il
not complying with the terms of tht
contract. Some n was understood t.
say that this contractor had only ont
wagon on the job. Should he not clean
up the city within a very short timt