Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1921-06-17
COMMISSIONERS MEETING
COMMISSIONER SMITH RESIGNS

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1 sembled to hear the commissioners
meeting last Tuesday. 1t was OBJ
served, by those who had eyes to
notice such things, that Commissioner
Smith was not present in his accus-
toned place at the Mayors left; in
fact, as there is so much of Commits
sioner Smith to be absent, his absence
was quite conspicuous.
The city clerk announced that
Commissioner Smith had resigned at
eight o'clock Saturday night, June IL,
1921. He read Mr.. Smiths official
resignation, which was worded as fol-
lows:
Wildwood, N. j., June IL, 1921.
: To the Clerk of the City of Wildwood,
County of Cape May, State of New
Jersey:
I hereby resign as Commissioner of
the Department of Streets and Public
improvements, Parks and Public Prop
erty, in accordance with paragraph
No. 6 of the Walsh act, approved April
Is, 1915, to take effect Immediately.
(Signed) F. E. Smith,
Commissioner.
Mayor Hendee moved that the resig-
nation be accepted, and Commissioner
Bright voted AYE"
A letter was received from Mr..
Wadhams asking why he was fined for
parking his car without lights, when
he was the only one who had been
tagged" for that offense in Wildwood.
Mayor Hendee instructed the clerk to
file the letter.
A letter from w. COPYRIGHT Smith,
secretary of the Board of Trade, ask
ing that the City Commissioners close
all games of chance on Sunday so that
the barking of concession men should
not annoy the promenaders IN the
boardwalk, was also filed for future
discussion.
Mr.. Graham, who holds the on
tract for garbage removal, was present
with his counsel, to inquire into the
complaints lodged against his service.
Mr.. Hand pointed out that while the
winter population, when Mr.. Graham
took over the job, was only 5000, the
summer population of Wildwood is be-
tween seventy-five and a hundred
thousand, and that therefore more
teams and men would have to be put
on in order to keep up the proper
standard of service. Mr.. Graham rose
and said that so far he had heard no
other complaints than those from Mr..
Clegg, the garbage inspector, and that
if there was any person in the au-
dience who was not getting proper at
tention in the matter would they
please tell him. Nobody spoke. Mr..
Hand suggested that Mr.. Clegg take
Mr.. Graham around and show him the
cause for complaint. A. w. Johnson,
the Pacific enu barber, reported
that the dry garbage in back of the
Dare block had not been cleaned up
since Cleanup Week. Both Bright,
and Hendee said a word in Mr.. GraS'
hams favor.
A petition signed by residents on
Crosse avenue requested the Commits
sioners to place an arc light on the
corner of Pacific and Crosse avenue
and another on Crosse venue between
Holly Beach and Pacific The
petition gave as a reason for the need
of light the fact that while the Crest
cient light and street lamps had not
been placed at the points mentioned,
but that since the demolition of the
arch the people had been left in dark
ness. City Solicitor Hand was in
structed to look into the matter on
Commissioner Bright's motion.
Requests for bus lincenses were
tabled. Ordinance No. 121 was read
for the third and final time and passed.
Commissioner Bright moved that Or
dinance No. 1913 be read for the third
time. Mr.. Darnell, representing the
South Jersey Transportation Com
pany, asked the Commissioners to limit
the bus lines to two, on the grounds
that there is only enough business to
properly support two companies and
that if more were allowed to come in
they would cut each others threats,
and then we would have no bus lines
at all. Mr.. Kay said that if the lines
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vent them from getting together and
fixing prices. Mayor Hendee sug-
gested that they kill the ordinance al
together and start a new one. Mr..
Darnell came back in rebuttal at Mr..
Kay, and the ordinance was read for
the third time.
A lady asked for a street light be-
tween Lincoln and Montgomery ave-
nues on Atlantic avenue. The matter
will be Investigated.
A letter from F. A. Durham, brick
layer and contractor, who also ap-
peared in person, alleging hat Chin
neys in recently built houses do not
comply with the building laws, was
read. He said that a great many of
the chimneys were built without a
terra Gotta lining, which prevents fires
from that source. Mr.. Nickerson, the
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