Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-01-27
Of North wildwood. 1t ran thus;

wood City Council, held Friday, n
ary goth, l was authorized to notify
YOU 10 place the necessary number OF
fire hydrants on Nineteenth ven
between New Jersey avenue Cthe rail-
road and Surf avenues"
The completion of the work OF I'M
bedding a new water main on TINS
street was noted at the point where
the water report was given. The re-
quest made by North Wildwood for hre
plugs to be installed along this line
was referred to the superintendent Oh
the operating department.
Under date of January goth, irving
Fitch, of Sea Isle City, clerk OF the
Board of County Freeholders, wrote in
this wise:
ION the 5th inst. you addressed a let
ter to the Board of Freeholders in ref
erence to improving Park boulevard
wildwood, between certain specified
streets, which letter l brought before
our Board and l am instructed to in
form you that this matter has been
under consideration since taking up
the 1922 budget. A sum of money has
been allotted to do certain work n
arrangements are being made by the
freeholders of your city"
Just how much work in the way of
improving Park boulevard the Free
holders nave in view, the latter did not
state. The reply was not satisfactory
and the Commissioners did not hesi-
tate to say so. Since the county tool
over Park boulevard a year or more
ago very little has been lone toward
making that wide street an ideal
stretch of highway. Keen disappoint-
ment has been felt by-many citizens of
Wildwood who had expected big de-
velopments after the county author1-
ties undertook to make this wide We
nue. and a section of Twenty-sixth I've
nue. part of a great highway leading
from the mainland. The city clerk
was instructed to write again to the
County Board to ascertain definitely
what is proposed to be done this year
on said boulevard.
The city electricians opinion having
been sought by the Commissioners as
to the best location for a fire alarm
box on the West side, near Ottens Har-
Dor, this official replied as below ap-
peareth:
"At your request l have looked over
the section you refer to and would
make two suggestions:
% If the fire alarm box you pro-
pose to set up in that vicinity is in
tended to be for the benefit of the fish
ermen principally, I would say that it
should be located at the corner of
Montgomery and Susquehanna ave-
nues. :.
(2) But if you consider, also, the
properties lying East of the fisher
mems dock, then 1 would advise you
to have the alarm box placed at the
intersection of Montgomery and Hud-
son avenues-a distance of 900 feet
from the dock.
Signed Warren Kalbach,
City Electrician"
Mrs. E. Wiler, 304 East Poplar ave-
nue., corresponding secretary of the
Five Mile Beach Humane Society of
New Jersey, sent a letter to the Com
missioners aimed, ostensibly, at one
particular boardwalk amusement
where pigs instead of men or boys
were released from their environment
whenever baseballs hit the targets
were dumped, unceremoniously, along
our boardwalk into deep pools of
water; but that was before the time
of the organization of an association
on this five mile beach, looking to the
prevention of cruelty to animals or to
mankind. The performing pigs last
summer attracted extraordinary at
tention. Indeed, the Pig Slide was
classed by some shrewd observers as
one of Wildwood's leading novelties.
That booth was crowded often as
much as were some of the booths
operation. The Commissioners are re-
quested to ban not only the pigs but
all performing animals.
81 was asked at our last meeting,
on January 10th, to write you and re-
quest that you do not allow perform
ing animals to be exhibited on the
boardwalk hereafter. There had been
numerous complaints made to our So
ciety last summer about the pigs.
We hope you will give the matter
your kind consideration, and oblige,
Yours very respectfully,
1.-Two Mi1n Dooah IJ,.oo-o C.o:A-x
of New Jersey,
Per Mrs. E. Wiler, cor. secy."
A letter from Norman Grey, presi-
dent of the Wildwood Gas Co was
dated the goth inst, and the reading
of it must have caused some of the gas
consumers present unbounded joy
turning the winter of their discon-
tent into glorious summer" Listen
to it:
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