The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1922-02-25
ABSECON NEWS

at CollinSswood last Wednesday.
\ special meeting of the Chamber
OF Commerce will be held in the Coun-
ell Chamber next Monday evening,
Feb. 27. at which time all members
are urged to be present.
Walter Hackett is about again,
after being confined to his bed sew
eral weeks by illness.
John Hackett, of New Road. has
been on the sick list two weeks.
d. Tilton Boice is slightly improved
from his critical illness of the past
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Mattson, Jr.,
entertained her brother, Albert Strick-
land, of %Brooklawn. Washington's
Birthday.
Tillman Johnson has a new Ford
sedan.
Mrs. Arthur Butler left on Washing
tons Birthday for Detroit, to spend
three weeks with friends.
Miss Alice MacIntyre, of Whining
ton, is spending an indefinite ~sojourn
with the Madden family on Church
street.
Miss Hannah Madden entertained
the Absecon Art Club members at her
home last Wednesday afternoon. Fol
lowing the n~eedlework period, refresh
ments were served. Present were:
Mrs. A. L. Hammell, Mrs. R. l.. Bah
cock, Mrs. George Conover. Miss 10
rine Voice, Miss Annabel Babcock,
Mrs. Samuel Johnson, Miss May Cor
derry, Mrs. r. A. Elwood, Mrs. nj. NJ.
Mrs. James b. Townsend,
Mrs. William B. Smith, Miss Alice
Maclntyre and the hostess.
Subscription Campaign Started
BY Fire Company for
Apparatus Fund.
Realizing they are not to receive
any financial support from City Coun-
ell members of the Absecon Fire Com
pany have started a subscription cam
paign with which to raise funds for
the purchase of more modern appara-
tus. They would like to buy a new
Ford ton truck chassis on which they
would mount two pressure chemical
tanks of 35 gallon capacity each, and
the required amount of pressure
chemical hose.
The subscription blanks which they
are about to circulate set forth the
following statements:
Benefit of Absecon City Volunteer
Fire Company No. l.
Whereas, The Absecon City Volun-
teer Fire Company is in SORT need of
funds to prosecute the enterprise in
safety to the public; and
Whereas, We deem it of the utmost
Importance that we should have more
efficient fire-fghting apparatus. we
tIAraF~,I ,,h,n,;hA >, H., 10000 ~
posite our names.
Headed by Chief Kesler a commit
tee of the fire company visited the
Amatol Arsenal on Monday for the
purpose of inspecting the government
f%re-fighting equipment. They did not
select any OF the Arsenal apparatus,
however, as they report they did not
see any that would fill the present
need here.
Council Hears Mater Complaint;
Passes Financial Ordinance
Finally and Receives
Report of Auditors.
City Council met in regular session
last Tuesday evening, one night ear
lier than the usual time on account
of Washington's Birthday, with the
following members present: Mayor
Mattson, Councilmen Craven, Henry,
Roger, Reilly. Townsend and Hender-
son and Clerk Johnson.
The financial ordinance for the year
1922 carrying a total of appropriations
amounting to ~S27,394.74 was passed
unanimously on third and final read
ing.
Mr.. Henry reported in detail on the
poor and u~nsanitary condition of the
city water, particularly at and near
the dead end of the pipe lines, where
it is without means of circulation, and
hence becomes discolored in the
mains. He stated that at such loca-
tons the water is a to health
and is not fit for domestic purposes
nor household use.
Mercantile Tax Collector Thomas
Draper, Jr.. declared the condition
could be remedied if the water com
pany would connect their pipe line at
the dead end of one street with the
main at the dead end of another
street, and so on throughout the town
where the described condition exists,
thereby eliminating the cause of the
trouble and giving the town a water
circulating system that would prevent
at the dead end of the
mains as at present.
Following a lengthy discussion on
the subject Mr.. Henry's motion pre-
vailed that the City Clerk be instruct
ed to compile the facts in the case
and to send the letter of complaint to
the Public Utilities Commission with
the object of having the conditions
remedied.
Mr.. Draper reported he had collect
ed a little more than 5000 in 1922 mer-
tax, which he could turn over
to the City Treasure at any time.
The City Auditors, Antinoph and
Glassman, of Atlantic City, were pres
ent and submitted the report of their
audit of the city's financial accounts
for the year 1921, a copy of which will
be filed at Trenton with Commissioner
of the State Department of
Municipal Accounts.
They delivered Tuesday night the
books for the several city Off
Gals, by means of which the new dou-
BILE entry system of bookkeeping, or
dered by Council two months ago, will
be installed. It is said to be designed
to promote accuracy and efficiency,
and to show a clear, yet detailed &C
count of all transactions in all the