Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-06-23
G%ET-TOGETHER LUNCHEON
HELD BY BOARD OF
TRADE

Board OF Trade during the past year
was the Get-Together Luncheon which
was held in the Hotel Brighton on
Tuesday evening. The spacious dining
room was filled to capacity with mem
bers of the organization, their wives
and many prospective members, who
were no doubt convinced that the
Board of Trade is a live wire organi-
zation.
The trade members surely had lots
of pep and kept the Wildwood City
Band and Buds Orchestra busy every
minute playing classical and popular
airs and sang the Wildwood song
many times with much enthusiasm.
The splendid community spirit which
has been so evident during the past
year was more plainly demonstrated
than ever before. Even the stranger
could be seer trying to learn the
wildwood song in order to show that
he was one of the large crowd of
boosters.
H. Foster Goslin, president of the
Board of Trade, was the POSTMASTER,
and told of the several important at
tainments made possible by the Board
of Trade since the last meeting. He
spoke of the laying of the track to
Turtle Gut and the new trains that
would run to Wildwood. One train
will leave Wildwood at $50 P. M. and
go to Millville, where connections can
be made to Philadelphia, arriving at
11.3O. The same train will leave
Philadelphia at 1890 and arrive in
Melville at 11.50, making connections
for Wildwood, arriving at Las A. M.
This will make it possible for Phila-
delphians to come to Wildwood at
night and have all of the following
day for pleasure. They a return
home late in the evening. President
GosIin also told of an excursion train
that would be run to Wildwood from
Philadelphia with Anglesea as the
first stop. He then called on Mayor
w. COPYRIGHT Smith to speak. The
Mayor had intended to leave for lake
Hopatcong early in the evening, where
he is going to make an effort to bring
the Movie Mems convention to this
city next year, but was persuaded to
remain for the luncheon. He was
later taken by automobile to Atlantic
City where he boarded a train for
Lake HopatcDng.
The Mayor was greeted with ap-
plause by the ladies and visitors, and
the singing of 1.-THE Old Gray Mare
by older members of the organization.
Mayor Smith said Wildwood was a
beautiful spot and it was up to the
Board of Trade to sell it to the world,
and that the executives chosen by the
people were helpless unless given the
support of the citizens. In speaking
of the new night trains to be put on by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
the Mayor said, 1--WE are not ~favoring
the Reading or the Pennsy. What we
want is good service. The culmina-
ton of the thirteen points will be due
to you cooperation and efforts"
The next booster called upon to
speak was Senator William H. Bright,
who has been a t~ireless worker in the
creation of the community spirit and
era of good feeling that now exists.
Senator Bright is ever an optimist,
and his talk was full of enthusiasm
and hope for the development Of
Wildwood. '"The day for small town
talk is past" said the Senator, "and
it is our bounded duty to iron out
the wrinkles in our community, not
try to make more. Let's get behind
every movement for improvement so
that our children may receive inspira-
ton from our action. The biggest as
set that the people of Wildwood can
have is to show strangers that we are
generous and gentlemanly foil"
President Goslin reported that seventy
new members had been taken into the
organization since the first of the year
and that the membership now totaled
2OS. He announced the plan for Dol
lar Week, which will be held by the
American Legion. The L~egionaires
hope to sell 5000 tags at 81 each dur
ing their drive. The president called
on John B. Wright to tell about the
trip to Lake Hopatcong. Mr.. Wright
SdlQ LudI InS WlluWOO0 oClCSoNSH
numbered "a, a large majority over
any other delegation in the state. He
told of the way in which Mayor Smith
sold" Wildwood to the convention
and brought the convention here for
1928.
A feature of the evening vas the in
PRODUCTION of the new official Wild
wood song, I'm Wild About Wild
wood" The words of the song were
written by Harry Heating and the
music was composed by Edward Nor
ton and David Morrison. H. e.
Rhodes, of Philadelphia, a singer of
much ability, taught the song to the
gathering, who readily learned the
tune. The song will be published and
sold in the music houses throughout
the United States.
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