Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-05-19
Board of Trade
Meeting

Another n of those live wildwood
Board of Trade meetings was held in
the high school auditorium on Thurs
day evening of last week. President
H. Foster Goslin and Secretary W.
COPYRIGHT Smith engineered the af-
fair to a nicely as usual, with a lot of
willing lieutenants at their elbow. At
every monthly meeting they make it
a point to have one or more out-of-
town speakers, which tends to make
things extra interesting. The speaker
on this occasion was DR.. Thomas
Headlee, of Trenton, state entomolo-
gist, who has been in charge of the
mosquito determination bureau for ten
or more years. DR.. Headlee was an
accomplished speaker on a subject
that might be termed dull, although
the matter of doing away with the
mosquito does not meet with the de-
rision it once did. By the persistent
study and work of men like DR.. Head
lee the people are being educated to
realize that possibly mosquitoes in a
great measure can be eXterminated.
His address was preceded by moving
pictures bearing on the subject. At
this meeting the attendance was extra
good, 300 or 400 probably being pres
ent, many of them being ladies pres
ent for the first time. Answering the
call for reports of committees, George
K. Sinnamon, chairman of the hotel
committee, urged hotel owners and
renters to dress up for the season and
make things attractive for the guests
that will soon be coming to Wildwood.
His remarks were timely, extremely
so, and should be needed. John B.
Wright, chairman of the convention
committee, spoke of being in Camden
recently and of having people there
congratulate him on the way Wild
wood was doing things, and especially
the plan to run a special train over
the Delaware River bridge to Broad
street station and holding a banquet
at the MISREPRESENTATION Hotel in
Philadelphia on the evening of Friday,
May 10, 1922. He said the affair was
causing Wildwood to be talked about.
A number of West Jersey and Seashore
Railroad officials were present, being
pifoted to a front seat by Station Agent
J. F. James. They had spent the day
at wildwood and were footsore and
tired from tramping over the Crest and
Two Mile Beach, figuring how to take
care of the traffic which is coming to
wildwood this summer. The party in
Guided Superintendent Garrigues,
Freight Agent McCabe, Messrs, Blu
chanan and James Murphy. Court
right smilingly stood 'em up in a row
and introduced them to the audience
and they blushed like school girls. In
their addresses they told of plans to
improve the running time to Wild
wood this summer. One of them also
said it did not seem advisable to u a
Sunday excursion from New York to
Wildwood. President Gaslin an
nounced that rs members had been en-
rolled since January LIST, and that the
Wildwood Board of Trades total mem
bership vas now 206. City Clerk AL
fred Winterburn, chairman of the En-
tertainment Committee, told of plans
for Decoration Day, stating that the
Legion would take an active part IN
the days exercises. Upon motion of
Mr.. Winterburn the chair was author
lied to appoint a committee OF three TO
| assist the City Commissioners in es-
tablishing a beach front line. 1t was
announced that this committee would
be named later. Senator Bright was
called upon and responded in his
usual happy vein. To him was given
the task of presenting the Bellevue
Stratford banquet matter and Urging
the sale of tickets for same. He was
equal to the occasion and his humor-
GUS remarks brought applause from
the big audience. The Senator is
president of the Lions Club, a booster
and good fellowship organization
which originated in Texas and has
spread over the country. He stated
that the Lions Club of Wildwood had
endorsed this banquet movement as a
mighty good advertising feature for
wildwood and when he said every
Lion and Lioness was going on that
special bridge train the audience fairly
roared. A letter was read from E. L.
Nye, manager of the West Jersey
Electric Company, to the effect that
the company was arranging to de-
crease it's rate for incandescent light
ing. A pleasing feature of the even
ing was two violin solos by Mrs. Harry
Weir, accompanied on the piano by
Miss Alice Hendee. Before her mar
riage Mrs. Weir was an instructor
in the University of Oklahoma. The
usual lunch was served.