Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-05-26
Notes From
Wildwood City Hall
BY A. F. LEIBY

20. terribly proud was Miss MacBride,
The very personiication Of pride.
AS she minced along in FASHIONS tide,
Adown Broadway-on the proper side
When the golden sun was setting.
There was pride in the head she carried so
high.
And a world of pride in the very sigh
That her stately bosom was fretting:
A sigh that a pair OF elegant feet,
Sandalled in satin, should kiss the street
20. terribly proud was Miss MacBride,
Proud of her beauty and proud OF her
pride,
And proud of fifty matters beside.
That wouldn't have borne dissection;
Proud of her wit and proud of her walk,
Proud of her teeth and proud OF her talk,
Proud of knowing cheese from chalk,
On a very slight inspection.
proud abroad and proud at home.
Proud wherever she CHANGED TO come,
When she was glad and when she was
Proud as the head of a Saracen
Over the door Of a tipping shopt
Proud as a duchess, proud as a fop,
Proud as a boy with a brand new top,
Proud beyond comparison
1T seems a singular thing TO say,
But her very senses led her astray
Respecting all humility
In describing the excessive vanity
OF a Broadway belle the poet SAKE des-
ignated the substance of this remark
able composition as "a Legend of
Gotham" and legend it is! A reason
able amount of personal pride is al
Iotted to each and every one: it is only
extremists who incur disfavor, as in
the case of Miss MacBride.
Next to personal pride m civic
pride-a topic claiming much attention
these days; and even here in Wild
wood it is this problem which is CIV
ing our Commissioners more concern
than any others. How to make the
whole city and the beach front beauti-
full is a constant source of anxiety
with them. This was demonstrated
again most clearly last Tuesday after
noo May 23d, when the Commission
ers met at 2 o'clock (swift time) to
hold their fourth regular weekly meet
ing for the current month, when a big
delegation of citizens confronted
them to protest against the continu-
ance of the baseball park in its pres
ent location on the beach front; also
to register emphatic objections against
the granting of a permit TO anyone to
erect a chicken slaughter house or
poultry house on any territory east
of the railroad. Many women were
seen among the throng of directors
to these two alleged %nuisances; ay' and
one more-that of the alleged nuisance
said to exist at the Laning Crystal Ice
Plant-where an unmufled exhaust
valve, it is claimed, is getting on the
peoples nerves." All of these dis
turbing factors must be eliminated, it
is declared, in the onward march to
reach the goal of the city beautiful.
Quite a bit of flirting has been going
on lately by the Wildwood Board of
Trade with the Gothamites. More
patronage from the commercial me-
tropolis of the western world is court
ed by Wildwood's boosters: hence the
urgent necessity of s%prucing up. so as
to be able to cater consistently to the
exacting tastes of the New Workers:
but before we invite too many elegant
feet. ~sandalled in satin or fine Nor
Deco, or better still, in Russian calf
to kiss our streets"-good common
discretion would indicate a policy to
have the city's chief thoroughfares
in the very pink of condition. No city,
with pride, would tolerate such a hor-
rible botch as was made in the patch
ing of Holly Beach avenue. recently,
in the vicinity of the West Jersey and
Seashore station. and everybody is
wondering if the Commissioners were
b%ewildered when in a p%erfunctory
hammer, they instructed the city clerk
to write the superintendent and thank
him for such a nightmare job? Wait
10 heal the comments when dainty
sandalled feet are forced this summer
to scramble Ger this stony street, ere
they may reach our silvery strand
The Commissioners instruction TO the
railroad company explicitly stated that
the paving controlled by said company
should comport with the adjoining
city paving. Either the railroad of
fcials do not know the meaning OF the
word comport or else they have de-
family ignored a very proper request.
If obliyious to the city's rights and
interests, one would think that they
would at least have some regard for
the travelling public whose liberal pa
tronage to this point should be a mat
ter of congratulation to the West Jer-
sey and seashore management.
The city's financial thermometer
took a big drop this week. Last weeks
receipts were over $4,000; this weeks
receipts barely reached one-ffth that
high mark:
Poll taxes paid. ......... S23.00
Property taxes paid -. 7,445.47
Interest on taxes....... S.44
costs Luz
Assessments ............ 14.13
Total tax receipts ....$7,492.04
Water receipts .......... 330.6S
Total revenue for per-
vious week .S7,S22.72