Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-01-13
Notes From
Wildwood City Hall
Bv A. F. LEIBY

ner, once in every t~wenty-four hours
and makes a complete revolution
around the central sun in three hun
bred and ~sixty-fve and o~ne-fourth
days. To these dual motions of our
planet-long since regarded as estab-
Ished scientific facts-this author has
given poetical expression in one of his
shorter compositions, "Loeksley Hall"
Not in vain the distance beacons.
Forward, forward let us range;
Let the great world spin forever, down
the ringing grooves of changei
Through the shadow of the globe, we
sweep into the younger day:
Better fifty years of Europe than a
cycle of Cathayi"
How wisely for US are all things or
dered in nature: Without the diurnal
rotation of our globe it could not be
said: "And it must follow as the night
the day" for there would be no days
or nights; and if the earth did not
make its journey round the sur there
would be no years and no change of
seasons-aIl of which considerations
furnish much food for thought and
speculation. What would this world
be like, anyway, without calendars or
any need for same?
As to the probability of this great
world spinning forever, producing
eternally the beautiful phenomena of
day and night and ringing always in
the grooves of time, the wonderful
changes of the seasons-that is a
question on which human opinions
would divide. By way of encourage
ment, science tells us it has been spin
ming thousands upon thousands of
years in the past, but attempts nc
positive predictions for the future.
As to the poets opinion that to live
fifty years in Europe is better than to
live a whole cycle in Cathay, that is a
question also open for discussion. 1t
must be remembered, too, that Tenny-
son gave utterance to that thought
long before Europe was nearly torn to
pieces by the most horrible and most
r~eprehensible occurrence ever dream
ed to be possible on this smoothly
spinning world. Compared to parts
of Europe during that awful and in
sane tragedy, crude Cathay must have
seemed, to many. like a heaven
Last Tuesday afternoon, January 10,
when the wildwood City Commission
ers assembled for the second regular
meeting in the new year of 1922, their
thoughts must have been running
somewhat parallel to the almanac or
calendar, for one of their number was
heard to remark that it was "a lovely
day" which it was in fact-almost
spring-like-if it be permissible to ap-
ply that adjective to such a rare day
in January-or to any day. 1t was
suggested then and there that the
word would be more correctly used
if applied to persons and more par
ticularly to one certain grand division
of person. This disposition of the
matter met with general appreciation,
midst smiles and bushes.
Meeting will please come to order"
said Mayor W. COPYRIGHT Smith, in his
most amiable mood, at 2.05 sharp, by
the hands that keep tab on the fight
of time at City Hall. The clerk called
the roll: Here, here. here; three
NAC HC4S q AZ r. ~
sion. Then the clerk bounced upon
the minutes he set down upon the big
book after last weeks meeting, and he
dangled them before his auditors for
some minutes. At 2.OS he rested. After
the Mayor had requested that a slight
correction be made in the minutes, as
read, they were approved by a unani-
nous vote.
At this point a break occurred in the
proceedings. Captain Frank Downs,
president of the Union Bank, was seen
making his way up to the legislative
headquarters, TO make known his
wishes. He had come to take Alfred
Taylor, the director of streets, up to
the bank as the annual meeting of the
directors was being held that after
noon and Mr.. Taylor's presence was
desired for a short time. The Mayor
ordered an intermission of fifteen
minutes.
B. c. Ingersoll, city health officer,
who was present on an important mis-
sion, improved this shining oppor-
tunity to introduce to the Mayor two
lads, each about 16 or II years of age.
One of the boys, Norman Wilson, gave
his address as Alb West Burk avenue;
the other one, Joseph Brown, said he
lived at 429 West Burk avenue. The
charges preferred against them by
Officer Ingersoll had reference to vio-
lations of orders from the State Board
of Health that claiming and fishing is
prohibited in Post Greek, a stream ad-
jaeent to the city's western border.
The alleged offenders had been seen
taking clans from the infected area
They said that none of the clans pro-
cured by them had been used for food,
but only as bait for fishermen. Mr..
Ingersoll replied that no clans are to
be taken from the forbidden waters
for any purpose whatever. He said
the law is very explicit on this point
that neither for food or bait or for any