Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-04-28
Urge Haste on
Anglesea Road

A large delegation of Wildwood and
Anglesea citizens went to Court House
Tuesday afternoon to urge greater
haste in the building of the Anglesea
road off shore by way of the village
of Grassy Sound, which was COM
menced over a year ago. The gravel
road from Anglesea to Grassy Sound
has been open for travel for a year,
and work on the land side to connect
Burleigh with Grassy Sound has been
going on steadily, but the type of
bridge and abutments over Grassy
Sound channel have not been decided
upon and proposals for the bridge
have not been asked for. Robert
Bright, solicitor of North Wildwood,
led the delegation and announced the
reaso for it's appearance before the
Freeholders. Other addresses were
made by R. C. Latimer, president of
the Wildwood Golf Club; S. A. Ian
ming and Senator w. H. Bright. All
of them were insistent that haste be
made on the project so important to
Five Mile Beach. cat present there is
but one vehicle road off the island"
said Mr.. Lanning, land it would be a
calamity if that road should have to
be closed for repairs" He spoke of
the enormous amount of traffic over
the Holly Beach bridge in winter, not
to speak of the summer business. So
licitor Palmer M. Way, of the Board of
Freeholders, was asked to explain the
legal situation of the matter. Mr.. Way
said the work on the project had been
delayed in order to get rights of way
for the bridge. He said that he learned
last November that these rights of
way had not been obtained, and said
he advised the Board of Freeholders
not to ask for bids for the bridge until
such right of way had been obtained.
He said he started searches at once in
order to find the of the mea-
dow land affected, but that it was a
very tedious task because they were
so scattered and in some instances the
owners were unknown. However, con-
demnation proceedings have been
started, and application has been made
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three commissioners to fix the COM
pensation to be paid by the county to
the various land me This petit
tioss, Mr.. Way said, would be heard
before Judge Black at Mays Landing
on Tuesday, May 9th. County Engi-
neer Fendall Smith explained that he
had been working faithfully on this
project all winter making surveys to
determine just the location of the
lands so that the wners of same
could be located. The engineer said
the type of bridge to be built had not
been decided upon, so that he was not
in a position to advertise for bids.
He also said that the state highway
department had declined to approve
one set of plans for the bridge sub
mitted by the county, Senator Bright
urged immediate action by the Board
of Freeholders because $4,000 was
in jeopardy. He said this sum is to
be furnished by the state and federal
government toward the bridge project
and would lapse in June. Freebooter
Irwin Eldredge, of Cape May, and other
members took exception to Senator
Bright's intimation that the job was
being wilfully delayed. They said this
was not true and that as soon as the
right of way tangle was cleared up
they would vote to carry on the work
with all possible speed. When the
hearing was finished the Wildwood
delegation was assured by Director
Chas. E. Foster that everything pos
sible would be done to hasten the COM
pletion of the road, following a motion
made by Freebooter Elmer Hewitt, of
Anglesea, that certain preliminary
steps be taken at one so that when
the solicitor said, go ahead" all the
data and information would be at hand
so that proposals for bridge could be
asked for without delay.