Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-05-05

Mercantile licenses paid. $4,000
Dog licenses paid ......... 1.76
Permits to open streets. 1880
License plate ............ .25
AoIdl .S697.01
In April the city tax collector made
Al searches and collected for this SER
vice the sum of $77.25 from the follow
ing applicants:
James A. L. Harris, s; William E.
Zeller, Z; Robert Bright, 2; John
Bright, 1; William H. Bright, 5; Pal
mer M. Way, q; o. I. Blackwell, Z; E.
M. Johnson, 1; w. S. Darnell, /; Jesse
D. Ludlam, 1; Real Estate & Search
Co., 2; West Jersey Title & Guaranty
Co., 1; Ocean City Title & Trust Co.,
1; Land Title & Guaranty Co., 2.
For the second half of April Water
Superintendent Archer Henrick re-
ported 19 taps of water mains for these
new consumers:
A. A. Fox, Orchid road, West of
Pacific avenue.
Margaret Arkwright, corner Forget
liz - AONo III l. dClllC dNGHut
B. j. Schweitzer, Rosemary road,
East lof Park boulevard.
Joel Carey, Rio Grande avenue West
of drawbridge.
Mrs. S. E. Page, 4O6 West Burk ave.
J.. "A. Bowen, Baker avenue, East of
Pacific avenue.
Mrs. E. Fannie Toy, 227 East Young
avenue.
E. S. Culver, Lincoln avenue, East of
Ocean
Wildwood Bungalow Co., Wildwood
avenue, West of Hudson avenue.
Wildwood Bungalow Co., Lake ave-
nue., West of Susquehanna avenue.
David McKibbin, Wildwood avenue,
West of Park boulevard.
Martin L. Kirkpatrick, Poplar ave-
nue., East of Pacific avenue.
Mrs. Harriet Moffit, Roberts avenue,
East of Hudson avenue.
Wildwood Bungalow Co., Poplar ave-
nue., East of Park boulevard.
Charles Karst, Twenty-second ave-
nue. West of Surf avenue
James Schofield, 311 West 18th ave.
E, Kraft, 1907 New York avenue.
J&Allen, 1909 New York venue.
Miss Brandt, Walnut avenue East
of Milroad, Anglesea.
The week beginning Monday, May
18th, was designated as Cleanup
Week." and the Mayors proclamation
on this important matter was ordered
published in all of the Wildwood news
papers.
The salary of the assistant city clerk
has been raised, beginning May LIST,
from $40 to SIS.
Ordinance No. 142, known as the
mercantile tax ordinance, was taken
up on third reading. When the Mayor
asked if anyone present had any OBJ
jections to offer to it's passage, R. w.
Ryan arose and asked permission to
state his objections to the article in
one of the sections, where a tax of $50
is laid on department stores. He
claimed hat this was unfair and ex-
cessive, and presented arguments to
sustain his objections to paying a fee
of $50. He thought that a license of
$25 would be more equitable. The
Mayor explained to him that the mer-
camille tax schedules had been looked
at from every angle and all features
carefully weighed. The Commission
ers had decided that the fee of $50
for department stores should stand.
There being no other objections, Mr..
Ryan's request for a modification of
the terms of the ordinance was over
ruled and the ordinance passed by
unanimous vote. In ten days hence its
provisions will become effective.
One new ordinance was introduced,
No. 143, by the provisions of which a
franchise is to be granted to the Wild
wood and Delaware Bay Short Line
Railroad Co., to construct a branch or
to the fish wharf on Ottens Har-
Dor. One objector to this ordinance
appeared in the person of Benjamin
Butler, a s~torekeeper in the vicinity of
the dock. Mr.. Butler was represented
by counsel, S. Rushing Leap, of the
of Leap, Sharpless and Way. Mr..
Buffers attorney put up some very
strong and plausible arguments as to
why this franchise should not be
granted. The Mayor conceded that
theoretically the reasons given by At
5orney Leap were sound and valid; but
that as a temporary makeshift and in
their efforts to cater to the demands of
the fishermen, the Commissioners had
to put the ordinance through.
One communication had been re-
eeived by the Commissioners, from the
persons who had signed a petition
4 couple of weeks ago and presented
to the Commissioners. This pc
.ition urged the Commissioners 20 re-
strain Max Baker from erecting a
slaughter house on the plot OF
ground at the corne of Montgomery
md Holly Beach avenues.