Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-01-20
Notes From
Wildwood City Hall
By A. F. LEIBY


Last Tuesday afternoon, the 18th,
the Wildwood City Commissioners met
for the third time in the first month
of the new year. AS proof of the in
creasing Importance they attach to
days and dates, it is relevant to note
that two new large calendars, for 1922,
have been hung upon the walls in City
Hall, where only one hung before. The
larger of these two calendars-at least
two feet square-adorns the eastern
side of the Commissioners room, while
the other, not quite so big, hangs close
by the city clock or the northern par
tition. Both calendars are printed in
distinct letters and figures, easily seen
from any part of the chamber. The
border of the smaller calendar is UNI
usually attractive, being of that rich
red shade known as vermillion.
Scarcely a meeting is held when it is
not necessary to refer to the calendar
in fixing dates for legislative and
other purposes; hence it looks like
the part of wisdom in giving these
useful charts a conspicuous place
among the mural adornments.
AS before mentioned in these col
umns, there would be no days to note,
no months, no years, were it not for
the fact of the earth's daily rotation
and annual revolution. Like Tenny-
son, one of our own American poets
has alluded, in happy style, to the
manner in which the day breaks, as
the world rolls around. The story of
the Birds of Killingworth," as related
in "Tales of a Wayside Inn" furnished
the vehicle for the poets thought:
"Think of your woods and orchards
without birds!
OF empty nests that cling to boughs
and beamsi
Think, every morning, when the sun
peeps through
The dim, leaf-latticed windows of
the grove,
How jubilant. the happy birds renew
Their old, melodious madrigal Of
love!
And when you think of this, remem-
Der, too,
IT'S always morning somewhere;
ANU dOONC LAC a dhCAAlA6 OOObAAAOhO0t
From shore to shore,
Somewhere, the birds are singing
evermorei"
Unless the earth rotated the CONT
nents could not awake, one by one,
with the day and with the birds,
whose habitations in the tree tops,
even," the poet says, "are half way
houses on the road to heaven" What
a monotonous world this would be
without calendars, without years,
months, days, minutes and seconds;
and what a dreary abode it would be
without the feathered songsters, as
Longfellow points out in the charming
tale referred tot We have much to be
thankful for, midst some things de-
plorable in this wonderful world; so
as long as the continents keep on wax
ing and the birds keep on singing, cal
endars will likely be kept posted in
j city hall.
1t was 2.20 before the Mayor said
last Tuesday: Meeting come to or
der" When the roll was called the
responses thereto were varied this
week to-: Eyes, yes, yes" beginning
with the Mayor, whose name is always
pronounced first, that of the Commits
sioner of Finance next, and the street
directors last.
This brief formality ended, the
Mayor requested the clerk to read the
minutes of the last meeting, in prepa-
ration for the reception which the
Commissioners and other auditors as
sumed a listening attitude at once.
The minutes were adopted as read
and then the clerk hurried on to lay
reports before the Board of Commits
s~ioners. No financial report had been
furnished at the January 10th meet
ing; thus a revenue statement cover
ing a period of two weeks prior was
presented at this weeks meeting.
Amount received for taxes. .$6,362.98
Amount received for in
tereSt l,246.33
Amount of costs .......... 6O.95
Amount received for poll tax LOO
Amount received for assess
ments 41O.61
Amount received for in
terest .................. 1905
Amount received for costs 1855
Total tax and assessment
receipts .$S,19777
Water Department receipts:
For metered private service $3,353.34
For tapping fees .......... 600
For off and on fees ........ 22.00