Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-02-10
BOARD OF TRADE MEETING LAST
NIGHT

The February meeting of the Wild
wood Board of Trade was held last
night in the high school auditorium
with President Foster Goslin in the
chair and Mayor w. Courtright Smith
as managing secretary in his place.
Although the early evening promised
snow or rain, there were about 100
present and the usual keen interest was
manifested. The secretary reviewed
the activities of the committees and
the various adjuncts of the board dur
ing the past month, which led the
young man in the chair to remark that
somebody was very much on the job.
1t was announced that the Society of
Friends from MoOrestown had decided
to go to Indiana for their annual out
ing in July instead of coming to Wild
wood. Various committees reported.
c. Howard Topham reported that 1000
road signs had been ordered which
will be put up all over New Jersey,
pointing the way to Wildwood in miles.
Also signs to be attached to autos and
sold to auto owners reading wild
wood" Orange and black are the
colors selected for these signs. S. A.
Lanning announced that the next
County Chamber of Commerce meet
ing will be held at Court House on
Thursday evening, February %. The
special topic for this meeting will be
agriculture, and this subject will be
in charge of j. A. Stackhouse, the in
dustrious and capable county farm
agent employed by the Board of Free
holders. 1t is desired thGt a good
delegation go to the county seat on
this date. While Mr.. Lanning was
speaking on this subject he was halted
by the chair as a courtesy to the mem
bers of Croker Post, American Legion,
who entered the room in a body amid
applause by the Board of Trade mem
bers. Mr.. Laaning reviewed the activi-
ties of Senator Bright at Trenton and
referred to the provisions of several
bills introduced by him this winter.
Mayor Smith said that he had the
pleasure of sitting beside Assembly
man Kay in the Assembly Chamber at
Trenton last Monday night, and that
he was impressed with the knowledge
displayed by Mr.. Kay on each bill that
came up, hat he had studied same and
could explain the provisions of EACH.
D. ]. Woods reported progress on the
golf course, and that there were only
two or three more bonds to sell that
Annhn6in6 tho frnn fUp-UnQT mnmhpr-
ship clause. Financial Secretary Win
terburn read a report showing a mem
bership of nearly 200. A petition adj
dressed to the Cape May County Board
of Freeholders was read by the secre-
tary asking for the removal of the
flower beds and cement coping in the
middle of Central avenue in North
Wildwood and urging that the street
be paved or graveled as soon as the
county was in financial shape to do it.
Miss Eva P. Woodward, of North Wild
wood, and a member of the Wildwood
Board of Trade, spoke for the petition
and urged that it be endorsed. 1t al
ready contained the names of many
individual members of the Wildwood
Board of Trade, who were interested
as taxpayers in the upkeep of this
street. Miss woodward pointed out
the enormous expense of maintaining
these flower beds and grass plots and
how the wide street was ruined by the
Freeholders in allowing such a narrow
space for autos and other traffic. She
told of a lot fronting on this street
being offered free to the City of North
Wildwood upon which to build a fire
house, but that it could not be used
by the fire trucks because of the fool
1sh arrangement of this street. Mr..
Lanning suggested that the board go
slow in this matter and urged that it
be referred to the local Freebooter
members. Thomas S. Goslin promptly
arose and said he did not agree with
Mr.. Lanning and thought action
should be taken at once and the pc
tition endorsed. The secretary read
from the bylaws that it was a proper
matter to come before the Board of
Trade. The petition vas then en-
dorsed with Mr.. Lanning as the only
objector. 1t was announced that the
Pennsylvania Railroad contemplated
running daily excursions to Wildwood
from New York next summer, COM
mencing July 9th. The board recon-
mended that such trains leave New
York at 6 A. M. instead of midnight.
The meeting was addressed by Rev.
John R. Hart, director of the Christian
Association activities at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, who turned out
to be a college chum of President Cos
lin and a school mate of R. G. Latimer
in Philadelphia, the speaker making
the amazing remark that Latimer had
advised him studying for the ministry.
With these surroundings the speaker
said he enjoyed every minute Of his
stay at Wildwood. His hearers agreed