Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-01-13

ont a Scar schedule for Five Mile
Reach. in an effort to determine
whether this would pay financially.
We find that the people have, ap-
oarently appreciated this arrange
ment by the riding they have done
We are ready, therefore, to advise you
that the present schedule will be con-
tinued throughout the winter, and we
hope that this service will do its
mart toward increasing business in
wildwood for others as well as for
ourselves"
New business was the next order
of procedure.
The city clerk was authorized to is
sue four jitney licenses for 1922: TO
Samuel Harris, Jr, Samuel P. Harris
William Harris and Howard B. Christ
man. A fifth application for a 1872
iitney license was made recently by
Oscar L. Hitchner, of 214 West Glen
wood avenue Thirty days must
elapse after an application is pre-
sented before a license a be granted.
Ordinance No. 129 was taken up and
passed on third and final reading. TINS
Measure provides for a main n
sewer on Atlantic avenue and an IN
tercepting trunk line sewer on Splcer
n extending from Park boule-
ward to Atlantic mi 1t carries
an appropriation therefor of S29,OOU.
Ordinance No. $50 was also passed
on third and final reading. 1t provides
for the laying of a system OF brancn
sewers from Atlantic avenue to Beacn
avenue and on Ocean avenue.
To finance the improvements con-
templated by the provisions OF this
Ordinance, temporary improvement
notes will be drawn later to cover the
cost and expense thereof.
One new Ordinance, No. 131, was IN
troduced and passed on first and sec
and reading. 1t will o be published
according to law and remain on file
in the city clerks Office for two weeks.
On Tuesday, January oath, this Ordl-
nance will be taken up for final read
ing and passage.
BY the terms of this Ordinance a
series of five bonds, bearing date OF
February LIST, will be issued, to be
known as assessment bonds. The
amount proposed to be raised by this
bond issue is $~2,243.52, representing
expended by the city in con-
structing cutters on certain streets in
the second and third wards. The
money had been raised, temporarily,
by the issuance of improvement notes.
From the proceeds of this bond sale
these temporary notes will be paid off.
In another column of the Journal
may be- seer the full text of this new
Ordinance, No. 131, changing the form
of indebtedness by the city from notes
to bonds.
Some one having spoken of the
wildwood school buildings are being
''yeritable fire traps the Mayor, as
head of the department of public
safety, addressed a letter to Fire Chief
Nickerson, urging him to make an i'm
mediate inspection of all the ycnoof
structures. This he did on Thursday,
January 5th, taking with him on his
rounds His Honor, the Mayor, Super
vising Principal Henry C. Chalmers
and Edward NJ. Johnson, ST., presi-
dent of the Board of School Control.
Fire drills were called for in three OF
the four school buildings. There were
290 pupils in attendance at the high
school that day. At a given signal all
of these were marshalled, drilled and
marched out into the streets in one
minute and forty-five seconds.
Four more No. 2 soda and acid
chemical fire extinguishers, of the pa
troll pattern, each of 3-gallon capacity,
will be installed in the high school as
an extra precaution.
At the Andrew avenue school a lit
tie army of 376 children were marched
down and out in one minute and
thirty seconds. The iredrill there
was pronounced to be equally as good
as at the first named school.
A fire alarm box has been ordered
to be placed on the third floor of this
building and a general cleanup of all
WdoLS mdtSLldl III anu dEOUuu Sdlu
school was requested to be put in
operation at once. Four more 3-gal-
Ion extinguishers will be installed
there also.
At the GIenwood avenue school
house the rooms were emptied in one
minute and 20 seconds, $50 pupils par
ticipating in the picnic-iust fun for
them. Two more extinguishers recon-
mended for this department and also
two more for the brick school build
ing on West Spencer avenue near
Park boulevard.
Wooden stairways are said to be in
use in one or two of the school build
ings. These should be displaced at
earliest possible date with iron stair
ways. San ounce Of prevention is al
ways worth a pound of cure" The
fire escapes on both of the wooden
buildings are said to be in good con-
dition and adequate.
The fire chief has recommended that
a fire alarm box be located at the cor