Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-03
Award Con-
tract for Stretch of Road
above Court House
North wildwood Files Protest Against
Central Avenue

The Board of Chosen Freeholders'
meeting at Cape May Court House on
Tuesday. February 21, 1922, awarded
the contract for the hard-surfacing OF
the Main Seashore Road north from
the Stone Harbor Turnpike to the
Sutton and Corson Company, Ocean
CITY. This work is to be done under
the state reimbursement plan, whereby
the county finances the contract and
is later paid back from state funds,
under the Edge Good Roads Act, the
Main Seashore Road being part OF
Route IA which is to be eventually en-
tirely hard-surfaced.
The contract let on Tuesday will
provide about half way to the Avalon
Turnpike, a distance of about three
miles. and when completed will make
a concrete road all the way into Cape
May City. The paving as far as Cape
May Court House was completed last
year.
The bids were made on a basis of
percentage of the estimated cost of the
work, as figured by the County Engi-
neer, the bids being for a certain per
cent above or below his figures. The
total bid was Sis, 776.42, which was
underline engineers estimate.
There were seven bidders, the three
lowest being William Eisenberg,
Woodbine, at 99.9S per cent; E. A.
Corson, Ocean City, SO per cent; SUIT
ton and Corson Company, Ocean City,
97.75 per cent.
Roads in Bad Shape
The Road Committee looked glum
when the time came for its report, and
che report was that the roads through
out the county were, generally, in
rotten condition. This, it was ex-
planned, was due to the freezing of the
gravel, then the snow and rain and
thaws, which have made the roads
more like an inferior grade of molas-
SEES than highways for travel. A pc
tition was filed signed by the citizens
of West Wildwood asking for relief
from it's road conditions, and the Road
Committee stated that cinders were
being placed in the most impossible
places on all the county roads, and as
soon as Mother Nature sent sufficient
sunshine to dry out the roads, they
would be scraped and conditioned.
The Bridge Committee reported sew
eral pilings and supports of the Leon
ard bridge, on the Avalon Turnpike, to
have been washed away, making the
bridge dangerous for heavy vehicles.
The committee was directed to make
repairs.
Two hundred and seventy-five resi-
dents Of North wildwood (Anglesea)
filed a petition requesting that the
Board remove the concrete curbing
placed on Central avenue (Which was
intended to be used for a grassnlot in
the center of the street with drives on
both sides) and to pave the entire
street instead. The petition stated that
the center-piece takes up so much
room that there is non left for travel,
and that two cars cannot pass each
other in the street without danger.
Mayor w. COPYRIGHT Smith, of Wild
wood, stated that Wildwood concurred
in this resolution with its neighbor.
No action was taken.
Ask for Oil Remedy
A resolution was adopted by the
Board requesting state and federal
regulation of the practice of ocean
steamers dumping refuse oil into the
ocean. This oil often washes upon the
beaches and cause great discomfort
to bathers and is a to fish and
water fowl. Federal aid has already
been sought, and the evil was made
the matter of a recent Congressional
hearing in Westinghouse Isle
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