Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-08-04
Wildwood Board
of Trade in
Session
Good Committee Reports and
Hotel and Electric Line
Projects Endorsed

The August meeting of the Wild
wood Board of Trade was held last
night in st. AIMS Auditorium. 1t was
known as Cottagers' Night and a
special invitation was extended to cot
tagers and taxpayers and to the Civic
Club. Shortly after the hour of eight
when President H. Foster Goslin
called the meeting to order the at
tendance seemed to be somewhat slim,
but people kept dropping in until there
was a pretty good audience, and as the
hour wore on the interest and en-
thusiasm increased and the outcome
was a very profitable meeting. There
were some new faces noticed in the
audience as Managing Secretary w.
COPYRIGHT Smith read the minutes.
c. Howard Topham, chairman of the
Advertising Committee, gave an ex-
cellent report of the work done by that
committee. He said that for the first
time in a large way Wildwood had in
vaded the advertising field in New
York City, where $4,000 had been
spent this season. In speaking of
base ball the chair announced that
the Board of Governors had arranged
with c.. Howard Topham to manage
this feature of entertainment on the
new ball field out on the meadows in
the vicinity of Young and Susque-
land has been filled in and graveled
and made into a pretty fair ball field.
City Clerk Winterburn gave al excel
lent report IN activities at Blesse
Haven. At present there III ten
wounded soldiers in this haven at the
old Holly Beach Yacht Club building.
John B. Wright reported for the con-
vention committee, telling of the va
rious conventions obtained for 1928
and of his hopes for landing the Ma
tional Horseshoers' Association. Mr..
Woods reported on the Wildwood 1S-
hole golf course now in operation on
the main seashore road and asserted
that it was the finest on the Jersey
coast. Miss Mech spoke on music,
and William Lipkin, the new owner of
the Ocean Pier, spoke about a new
hotel and how to get it for Wildwood.
He exhibited plans of a hotel to cost
about $500, 900, and stated that a cash
outlay of $100,0 900 would bring such
a hotel that would be under regular
standard management. Mr.. Lipkin
said of this sum he would put in
$25, 900. First mortgage bonds would
be issued under the Straus plan. E.
w. Straus & Co. is a big New York
financial house with a record of 40
years in business and never losing a
dollar in interest or principal for a
client. Now that MI. Lipkin has
moved in the hotel matter it behooves
the people of Wildwood to come for
ward and assist in procuring for Wild
wood n of it's greatest needs, a first
class up-to-date hotel. Mr.. Lipkin can
count on the hearty support of the
Journal, and we hope that he will not
let up on the proposition until same is
realized. The meeting endorsed the
hotel project. A man and wife came
to Wildwood a few days ago from
New York for two weeks and left the
next morning because the hotels here
did not suit him. The Journal "a
furnish information in this particular
case. President Goslin said the Wild
wood Board of trade membership now
was 21S. Mayor w. COPYRIGHT Smith
addressed the meeting and touched on
many matters of interest and told of
his great appreciation of a letter from
the Civic Club commencing his efforts
in suppressing gambling on the board
walk. The Journal also takes this
occasion to commend the Mayor and
his two fellow city commissioners for
their action. Go to it, COPYRIGHT,
there are lots of people admiring your
courage and many of us are good sized
taxpayers, too, and we pledge you our
support. Lieutenant H. S. Nilsson was
to speak on the proposed cleo
trio line to connect Wildwood with
Wilmington, Del. He is associated
with E. T. Nye and others in the
Colonial Power Company to build this
line. The meeting endorsed this
proposition. Ed Morton, the Crest cot
and Nixon circuit actor, sang the
Wildwood song, assisted by Bob Lati-
ner and others, and then same the
address by Charles Carroll,
president of the Universal Publishing
Syndicate.