Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-11-25

were granted 10 ALBERT GelSennOHeI
Maple avenue West of Hudson avenue,
$500; F. Ritter, East Andrew avenue,
S275; ]. Bowers, East Andrew avenue,
$3.50.
The total estimated values for the
new work now under way or soon to
be begun is therefore seen to be
/ SS9.17O. A number of permits were
given to do repair work; but we have
only taken note of major operations.
When the subject of communica-
tions was reached, it was learned that
the city clerk had only one to offer
from Mrs. Drake. us East Juniper
venue which he then proceeded to
read:
81 wish to call your attention to a
leak in the water meter at the o
address. 1t has been leaking for more
than a year. l had Mr.. Wigham, the
plumber, to look at it a year ago this
last summer He told me it was the
duty of the city to repair the meter.
| then. personally, reported the matter
to City Hall, but nothing was done.
This summer l had Mr.. Sem, another
plumber, to look at the meter. He told
me that he would report the leak to
City Hall, but no notice was taken of
the application for repair. My neigh
bors have been complaining to me all
the time about this leak. shall ap-
~preciate the service very much If you
will stop the leak before freezing
weather sets in"
Mrs. brakes request was acted
upon at once. The superintendent OF
the operating department was notified
same day to remedy the defect COM
planned of.
Money makes the mare go" is a
trite old saying; but it contains a
nugget of truth. Money also makes
City Hall affairs go; and when the city
t~reasurer's' balance becomes too low,
borrowing is ~resorted to. This was
the case last Tuesday, when a resolu-
ton was passed authorizing the issu-
ance of a temporary improvement note
in the sum of $4,000, payable on de-
mand. with interest at the rate of six
per cent per mum. The resolution
stated that this note is drawn in an
ticipation of the issuance of water
bonds under Ordinance No. ia, and
that the proceeds of said note be used
in paving for extensions to the water
plant of the city. This note is to bear
late of November 22d.
Another resolution was passed
adopting and confirming without al
teration the certified report lin writ
ing and accompanied by a map of the
commissioners of assessment, pertain
ing to the assessments of the benefits
received, separately, by the owners OF
the several lots of land, for the cost
OF improvements, by the construction
of cement cutters in and along certain
streets, emu or sections of the city,
lying between Schellenger and Crosse
venue and between Holly Beach and
Atlantic n
All legal requirements have now
been complied with in regard to the
improvements made by the. city to the
properties specified, and the appor-
tionment referred to above will form
the basis for distribution of assess
ments and costs among the various
owners affected.
Not long ago by request of the City
Commissioners, w. c. Todd, secretary
of the wildwood Board of School Con-
troll, submitted to the former body a
statistical table, showing approx
mate cost of conducting the Wildwood
High School for the past five school
years A school year begins on July
1st of any given year and ends on
June 30th of the succeeding year. Thus
the 1920-21 school year ended on June
Goth last. During that year the total
cost of maintaining the high school
was SIG, 315. The cost for each pupil in
the high school during that year was
$145.23 The salaries paid to the
teachers in the high school amounted
to $13, 245. Total enrolment of pupils
in high school that year was 1873;
number of. graduates 81. The number
of high school pupils received from
districts outside of Wildwood was AZ.
The tuition fee for these outside pupils
was 500 each.
In the grammar schools, for the
same year, SCI pupils were enrolled.
The total enrolment of pupils in both
high and grammar schools was 994.
The cost of conducting the grammar
schools was $5O,545. The cost of con-
Quoting all schools, exclusive of the
bonded debt, was $69,S6O. Under the
bonded debt the cost of education for
all pupils, the last school year, was
$14,930, thus making the total cost OF
maintaining the Wildwood schools
that year $S4, 100. The appropriation
received from the state that year was
about $4,000.
The cost of educating each high
school pupil is figured at $145,2S; of
each grammar school pupil $53.70.
The tuition fees collected the past
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