Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-03-17

A. G. Mitchell, superintendent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad lines in New
Jersey, treasured the Commissioners
in his latest communication that their
request for the removal of the oil
storage house from the vicinity of
/ Taylor avenue and the railroad shall
be carefully looked into; also that the
paving around the Wildwood avenue
station shall be undertaken soon; but
nothing was said in this letter about
the company's conclusions in refer
ence to the Commissioners request
that safety gates be placed at dan
serous crossings.
Harry E. Weir, the recently APP
pointed city engineer, wrote the Com
missioners as follows:
81 am enclosing you a plan of the
survey made, as per your request,
which shows the error in each block,
regarding the Location of the new
boardwalk from Cedar to Montgomery
avenue. l made a very careful sur
vey, having been assisted by Elmer J.
Sinnamon and E. B. Middleton"
Discovery was made a little while
ago that the new boardwalk is out OF
line. Mr.. Weir claims that the di-
vergence amounts to nearly 2 feet at
some points. l.. M. Rice, the engineer
in charge when the walk was con-
structed, says that the maximum OF
divergence at any point is one foot and
eight inches. In a communication TO
the Commissioners, he frankly stated
that he is unable to determine how
this divergence from a straight line
occurred. Using the center line OF
Pacific avenue as a base, Mr.. Rice ex-
planned in his letter how he had maze
three measurements from Pacific ave-
nue. oceanward a distance of l,305 feet.
He measured on Montgomery, Garheld
and Schellenger avenues. h DIS
lance measured was presumed to take
him to the westerly line of Beach ave-
nue., but on making measurements
again since completion of boardwalk
he finds the walk is out 1906 feet and
s inches at Cedar avenue and up TO
the present time is unable to account
for the error made in running the n
He remarked that he had no evidence
that contractors did not follow the line
as given them.
The Commissioners have now re-
quested a combined survey to be made
by MI. Weir and Mr.. Rice, to ascertain
how the ~inaccuracy occurred.
The Mayor expressed the hope that
the local newspapers will give due
publicity to this matter. He said 1t
was important that the people should
know all about this state of affairs be-
fore it be too late to remedy the fault.
A communication from E. T. Nye,
superintendent of the Five Mile Beach
Electric Railway Company contained
very gratifying information:
beginning next Saturday, March Is,
we shall give the people of Five Mile
Beach a four-car schedule, a car every
Is minutes from any point along our
line. We are doing this to show
appreciation of the travelling public"
The last car for Anglesea on Satur-
Qdy uISuI Will lCdNO HAAUNOON ~ -
midnight until further notice.
After all of the communications had
been heard the Commissioners pro-
ceeded to the opening of bids for the
supplying of a fire escape on the first
ward fire house. Three bids had been
solicited, as follows:
From the John Baizely Iron Works,
ia South Delaware avenue, Philadel-
phia; William l.. Noe Co, I'd, Oxford
and Palethorp streets, Philadelphia;
and Brownworth and Co., engineers
and contractors, 1911 SAMSON street,
Philadelphia. The bids submitted
we're, respectively, 1925, $429 and 1878.
The first named competitor being the
bidder, the contract was
awarded to the Baizely company at the
offer of 1925. This price includes de-
livery, erection of the escape and
painting of same.
One new Ordinance was introduced
asst Tuesday, No. 1879. This Ordinance
embodies the provisions of the new
,rafic code, deliberately prepared after
much thought and consideration. The
text of this new Ordinance may be
on another page of the Journal.
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