Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-12-15

Following the annual custom of sub
hitting a yearly report of the various
departments of the Board of Trade
office, I will endeavor to outline the
general work of committees as we'll
as the working of the Board of Trade
staff.
Through the courtesy of the city
officials the Board of Trade has again
had the use of the City Hall for its
winter headquarters. In May we
opened our boardwalk office and kept
it open until the last of September.
The details of the various celebra-
lions, like Memorial Day, Fourth of
July, and other big days of outings,
were handled in the Board Of Trade
Office with the assistance of commit
tees formed from the Board and the
organizations coming here.
The advertising inquiries received
during the year were greater than
any other year since the incumbency
of the paid manager. Our advertising
brought us queries to the extent of
1882 during the summer, of which
were for hotels, 504, real estate $50
and general, 328. The number of quer-
les and questions asked the Informa-
ton Manager, Mr.. Myers, were greater
than other years, primarily because
the place is now known as a mecca
for visitors desiring information and
because we have the data for any n
every kind Of question pertaining to
the resort.
The office has been favored in hav-
ing for over two years Miss jeanette
| Clarke, and l personally want to men,
ton the fact publicly so that some lit
tie gratitude of good and efficient SER
vice may be shown by the Board. We
also had Miss Esther Stein during the
past summer and she left in the fall
to go with a local firm. Her work
was entirely satisfactory.
During the year $4,000 booklets were
sent out and it was necessary to order
$1,000 more recently to reach the pres
sure for greater publicity which all
the organizations of Five Mile Beach
are helping to get.
The Thirteen Points
At the beginning of 1922, on the
advice of our able president, H. Foster
| Goslin, we adopted a thirteen point
program and a number of them have
been brought to a maturity. We nave
been favored by having these thirteen
points endorsed by the Byron Penn
ington Croker Post, A. L., No. 1874,
Lions Club, Civic Club, North Wild
wood Civic Association and Hotel AS
ISOLATION and other organizations OF
the Island. This is a great achieve
ment to have organizations in the
same city backing a similar platform
of accomplishment. Only recently a
faring headline article in the Public
Ledger was published acclaiming the
fact that a number Of organizations OF
New Orleans we're backing a similar
program for the southern city. This
is considered a great achievement, and
il is. However, Wildwood was just
one year ahead of New Orleans. We
began our program in 1922.
Conventions
We have had during the past sum-
mer the P. O. S. of A. convention for
three days, many of those attending
the convention remained a week, and
according to many of the communica-
tions sent the Board of Trade it is
safe to state that the members of the
order were highly pleased with the re-
ception given them here. Through
the efforts and cooperation of the va
rious organizations we have landed
six conventions for next year, and
when l say we, l mean Wildwood. The
State Hotel Association Convention,
State Movie Mems Convention, State
Legion Convention, Ladies' Auxiliary,
Odd Fellows and Daughters of Re-
becca. This is quite a record and 1t
is we'll to state at this time that it
behooves us to consider well the cree
ton of a modern hotel and to plan
for a convention hall for gatherings
of this kind. 1 would suggest that ii
he municipality considers erecting
such a building that it be constructed
so as to accommodate music and con-
yentions. Otherwise there will be
confiction when conventions come
here and the concerts are on.
When the booster banquet of the
Wildwood Golf Club was held at the
Bellevue-Stratford Hotel last winter.
officials of the West Jersey and Sea-
shore Railroad promised that theiI
system would be electrified from Mill
Vile to Wildwood, and while we have
been after them since then, it now
becomes our bounden duty to urge
every taxpayer, resident and visitor
to get behind this appeal to get the
road electrified. A few days ago
wired Mr.. H. H. Garrigues, superin