Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-12-02
No Change in Site of
Wildwood Memorial
Building
Original Deed Still Holds Good

Perish the doubt! Chase the ru-
mors! Relieve yourself of any belief
that the present Commissioners in
tend to give up the site of the Memo
rial Pier and move it to the First
Ward. They never intimated or said
they would it and all reports to
the effect that they contemplate such
a move are absolutely untrue.
The resembling of the 100000 bond
issue originally intended for the erec-
ton of this memorial pier was made
necessary because the Commissioners
found it impossible to build a portion
of the sewerage system on the newly
opened tract in the second and third
wards without releasing this money.
The bond issue had never been sold,
but it counted against the city's bor-
rowing capacity just the same.
To erect a Municipal Memorial Pier
and then have no available funds to
build a sewerage system to it would
be the height of folly. 1t would be
like putting the horse before the cart.
Common sense dictates that the erec-
ted buildings on this new section
be given sewerage and drainage.
Therefore, the Commissioners are
planning to do this IN the near flu
ture. There is a regular legal pro-
cedure necessary and they will fol-
low the method as prescribed by law.
There is a vast amount of work to be
lone in this new section, elaborate
plans, showing the necessary work be-
ing prepared by Harry Weir. Lackof
funds prevents the Commissioners
from doing all of this work this COM
ing spring. The receiving of the back
taxes will enable the city to reduce its
outstanding indebtedness and increase
it's borrowing capacity. Without money
big improvements are difficult to at
tain. In time all the improvements
will be made.
The real estate men who have sold
sites and buildings on the superstition
that the Memorial Pier was a sure
thing can go on telling their prospec
tive customers that the City of Wild.
wood will erect a Municipal Memorial
Pier on the site dedicated by the Beach
Realty Company. The gift was a gen.
erous one and the present Commits
sioners, like their predecessors, real
ize this. The present Commissioners
hope to build a Memorial Pier II a
worth while one on the original site.
1t is their aim to have the city build
it and own it and have supreme charge
over it, debating how it shall be built
and who shall have space in it. Be
ing a city-built structure, the taxpay-
ers and citizens should own and con-
troll this right and SO should posterity.
AS the city never received the
| eight or more thousand dollars from
the Wildwood Athletic Club, the re-
scinding of the original bond issue
will enable the members and trustees
of the Athletic Club and the members
and trustees of Byron Pennington
| Croker Post 1S4 to decide what to do
with that $4,000.
We favor a Memorial Pier-to /be
municipality owned and built. We
favor the original site and intend to
retain it. To change it would be dis
crediting the business men who have
sold locations on the strength that the
pier was to be built on the original
site and an injustice to the men and
women who have purchased sites to
be near it. The original site is still
the favored location.
We are proceeding now to rescind
the bond issue so as to issue bonds for
the sewerage development. By so do
ing we do not relinquish the citys
right to the location as decided by the
Beach Realty Co.
Let no one tell you otherwise! Get
behind us, we need your support and
cooperation.
w. COURTRIGHT SMITH,
Mayor.
RALPH L. CARLL,
Commissioner of Finance.
ALFRED TAYLOR,
Commissioner of Streets.