Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-04-07
The Lions Reared at Hotel
Brighton Last Friday MIGHT

The Charter Booster Banquet Of ~.
Lions Club of Wildwood at the Hot,
Brighton, Friday evening, March o.
1922, was a roaring success. Fron,
soup to nuts (and there were man
present. every minute was filled wifi
pep. Fifty-two members and tbois
wives participated in a rip roaring ev
hibition that showed local and imnor
ed talent to an advantage. Senate,
William H. Bright acted as toast
master. There was a fine array of tal
ent. Lieut.. H. G. Nilsson, an oversees
man, spoke in an enthusiastic and
patriotic manner His recital of an
Flanders Fields the Poppies Growp
ELECTED rounds of applause from tbo
10 members and guests. w. W
Hemphill, president of the Lions Club
of Atlantic City, who presented tbe
charter, spoke of the Greed of Lionism
and when he said Liberty, Intelligence
Our Nation, Safety, he told the story
in full.
When the evening of song and talk
merriment and laughter was comin0
to a close he asked the opportunity of
saying just a word. 81 came to vour
city a stranger, l have spent an even.
ing l shall never forget; such enthu.
siasm, such display of communitv
spirit, it has never been my privilege
to see. 1 compliment you on possess
ing it and hope to live to see the day
when Atlantic City can show it in the
same way as Wildwood" Tremendous
applause greeted this splendid ex.
preston. Harry R. Hickok, lieuten.
ant-governor of the Kiwanis Club Of
Pennsylvania, from Pittsburgh, spoke
of the love for ones community, that
organizations of this kind promote.
How men learn unselfishly to give Of
their time and means to make their
and our community a better place
to live in.
Rev. James H. Clarke, in a witty
way, preached a sermon that reached
the heart of everyone; not only that.
but gave to those present an oppor-
tunity to see a minister who was a
real human being. One who could
join in the laughter and merriment
and one who could contribute to it as
witness when he told the story of the
coal miner whose wife had died. Say,
that was when the gales of laughter
went oYer the top with a surge that
set the banqueters on end. 1t was a
night that will be long remembered.
Senator Bright outlined the compre-
hensive plan for a Greater City. He
said the business men of the city must
go forward. The procession is moy-
ing in the direction of a greater city,
a city that will start at Hereford In
let and run to Cold Spring Inlet, that
will be a ten mile beach front instead
of five miles. That will be bounded by
the Atlantic Ocean in front and the
Inland Waterway in the back. A city
that will contain within it's area An
glesea, North W%ildw0odS Wildwood,
Wildwood Crest, Two Mile Beach, west
Wildwood, Grassy Sounds. Then the
ares would be sufficient and the popu-
lation great enough to demand a post
office building costing a million dol
lars. We then could ask the State Of
New Jersey for an appropriation for
an Armory where conventions could
be held. Our hotels would then re-
main open not three months in the
year, but from six to nine months,
thus enlarging the opportunity for
work and bringing within our borders
not only welcome visitors but the help
to service. This would give substan-
tial backing to the slogan, 25, 700 popu-
lation by 1926. With all this activity
we can go to the railroad systems that
of the SIS grade crossings, by having a
Grand Central Station and using the
present railroad tracks on Holly
Beach venue by connecting them up
at both ends of the island with the
present trolley line, thus giving the
Greater City a belt line trolley for the
whole island, removing the menace OF
the steam trains. 1t will furnish trans
portation to parts of the island not
served now and increase the value OF
every property west of the railroad
These three great enterprises would
be provided for by federal and state
government, and the railroads and our
work as citizens would start at once
to provide additional facilities for
financing the tremendous volume OF
construction work that will follow
More banks and building and loan as
sociations would be underwritten. II
is an open fact that the money is avail
able now to put at least two banks into
being. With this comprehensive pro-
gram ahead of us, let us use every
organization to bring this Greater CITY
into being. We owe it to ourselves
and if we, the Lions Club, lead the
way, everyone will follow.
The orchestra served throughout the
evening to bring into being a spirit Of
melody. Everyone sang the old famll-