Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-07-14
BOARD OF FREEHOLDERS HELD
MEETING

Cape May Court House on Tuesday
afternoon. Every Freebooter "a
present and Director Charles e. Eos
ter presided County Solicitor Palmer
NJ. Way and County Engineer r. Fen
dali Smith were also present. The
members of the Board were very
frothy over the contractors delay in
finishing the repairs on the Corson's
Inlet bridge and opened the business
with a discussion of the issue.
Freeholders William Stein and ". J.
Chadwick both reported that the
bridge was still being used by auto
mobiles, despite the order of the
Board that it must be closed. Mr..
Stein said that there was a Waterman
and an inspector on the bridge and
yet the autoists were permitted to go
over it. Mr.. Chadwick asserted that
the motorists even went so far as to
cut the ropes which were hung across
the bridge and that the signs at
Thirty-ffth street, Ocean City, had
been removed. 1t was even insinuated
by several members that the watch
AAAth was iAo A6lh5 a Ollldil 6uu "
each automobile driver he allowed to
go over the structure. The bridge had
been ordered closed to traffic al a
recent meeting of the Board.
William A. Thompson, of Strath-
mere, and a group of resident citizens
were present to find out the situation
in regard to the closing of the bridge.
Mr. ThANaAa@, -1sI kL4A - "
would ruin the business in that To-
cality and asked that the ~Freeholders
keep it open if there was n way in
which it could be done. Freebooter
Norton was of the opinion that the
bridge should be made impossible by
the Board. He said that the only way
to do this was to stretch large chains
across both ends of the bridge, make
someone definitely responsible for it's
staying closed. Mr.. Norton finally put
his opinion in the form of a motion
which was seconded. The Clerk said
that the people of Sea Isle City do
not want the bridge closed and Free
holder Anderson said that to close the
bridge would only strengthen the de-
termination of Contractor Corson not
to play square. The motion of Mr..
Norton was carried and the contractor
will be instructed to put on a night
shift and Use proper apparatus to
hasten the repairs to the bridge.
Mr.. Norton reported that the Bor-
ough of Wildwood Crest wants the
county to take over Philadelphia AVE.
nue.. The committee which held a
joint meeting with the Wildwood Crest
Council recommended that the county
take over the street as soon as it is
graded. Specifications were submitted
for the building of a brush jetty to
protect the fill at Turtle Gut. An adj
vertisement will be made for bids to
be submitted August 1st.
Solicitor Way said that the county
would get their strip of land along
Two Mile Beach as soon as it can get
the location. The original plans for
the road on Two Mile Beach are to be
secured from former Engineer Lean
ing Rice containing Sections l and 2
of the Cape May to Wildwood road.
Freebooter George McNeaI presented
a petition from 16 taxpayers in the
vicinity of the bridge who asked for
electric lights to be placed along that
section. Mr.. McNeal stated that the
property owners had paid for wires
which were run out that way and
recommended that six street lights be
placed along the roadway. He was in
structed to find out the cost of the
installation of the lights and report
at the next meeting.
Freeholder Chadwick, of Ocean City,
said that he had received complaints
from residents about the dusty condi-
ton of the road from Seventeenth
street to Twentieth street and from
Twenty-ninth street to Thirty-fourth
street. He said that he had a tidy
balance left of the appropriation for
his section and asked the sanction of
the Board to place a preparation on
the road that would settle the dust.
Mr.. EldTedge, of Cape May, said that
the government was repairing the
jetties at Cape May and that the con-
tractor who was doing the work was
carting his gravel in ten-ton trucks.
The bodies of these trucks are not
tight and as they drive through the
streets of Cape May they leave a
stream of pebbles on the road. Com
plants have been coming to him from
owners along Beach avenue. He
asked the Freeholders to support a
resolution that would make the con-
tractor abate this nuisance. The reso-
luton was passed.
Mr.. Norton reported that the Wild
wood Gas Company was beginning to
with residences along Park
boulevard, Wildwood Crest, and made
a motion that the company be made
to come before the Board and make
satisfactory arrangements before max
ing any more taps. His motion was
sustained. The clerk was instructed
IN write tn the railroad ask