Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-30
LIGHT COMPANY ENTERTAINS
ELECTRICIANS

"A meeLlnS anu uluHer
was held on Tuesday evening, March
9th, by the electrical contractors of
Five Mile Beach and the West Jersey
Electric Company at the Douglass
Hotel. The opening address was made
by H. G. Doughty, manager of the
West Jersey Electric Company, on the
safety measures now being enforced
by that company and how best to eli
inmate the hazardous conditions that
now exist on Five Mile Beach which
are a enace to life and property Of
the general public and to the en-
ployees of the company as well. While
some of these innovations may seem
new to Wildwood they have been tried
in much larger cities and have been
found entirely satisfactory to both the
company and property owners as we'll.
R. E. Swift, commercial manager of
the Atlantic City Electric Co., gave a
short talk on the many improvements
about to take place not only on this
Island but in all territory covered by
the Atlantic City Electric Company.
Mr.. Swift surprised those present by
showing a moving picture of property
of the various electric companies he
represents in South Jersey. Starting
at the flying station in the Inlet at
Atlantic City and showing the famous
boardwalk with it's many hotels and
up the ~thoroughfare to the Atlantic
City Electric Company's power house,
showing the coal conveyors where
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conveyed to the coal bunkers on the
roof of the power house without the
aid of human hands, from there it
flows by gravity to the. massive 10000
horse power boilers, which are con
trolled by automatic stokers. The tur-
bine engines were next shown, where
enough current is generated to supply
the whole of South Jersey twice over.
When alterations are completed about
July LIST the plant will have an output
of 81, 1000 kilowatts. The high tension
line extending from this plant to
Ocean City, with a+syiew of many cot
tages in that resort. The phenomenal
growth of the company was then
shown on the screen, the high tension
LIN DOiu5 0AlCAQSu HUH OCSdA OlIy
to Somers Point, Linwood, Mortified,
Pleasantville, Absecon, Conoverstown,
Port Republic, Ocean Vile, Tuckerton
Wireless Station, which has the larg-
est structure in the U. S. and second
to Eifel tower, of Paris, the largest
structure in the world, and then to
Tuckerton. To insure better service
q ca0nnd avfanciOn no oddnd Ouar
this route to insure service at all
times and in case of accidents. The
company's next extension was made
from Absecon to Amatol and her to
Hammonton. The latest extension
made is the high tension line from
Ocean City through Marmora, Ocean
View, Sea Isle City, Cape May Court
House, Rio Grande, and into Wild
wood-by-the-Sea, Americas most pro-
gressive summer and winter resort.
A view of Wildwood b~luebirds was
shown. AS this picture was taken in
winter no other views of Wildwood
were shown, but during the coming
season the company has contracted
for many beach scenes, pictures of the
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hours and much money was spent to
produce this very educational picture
which is to be shown in moving pic
ture theatres throughout the United
States. After the picture was shown
refreshments were served, not forget
ting the many good smokes. When the
refreshments were over a meter panel
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ors. This panel, the latest thing in
safety and service, was explained by
c.. r. Doble, meter superintendent of
the Atlantic City Electric Co. In the
future Five Mile Beach homes will
install this safety device which is n
of the many improvements to be made
here. The West Jersey Electric Com
pany is now working on improvements
that will run into thousands of dol
lars, proving their faith in t~he~future
development of this growing COM
munity. O.. r. Davis, superintendent
of construction, and L.. E. Rice, gen
eral superintendent of the Atlantic
City Electric Company, then answered
questions as to how these new i'm
provements could be best carried out.
An interesting and entertaining time
was had by everyone. Among those
present were H. c.. Doughty, L.. E. Rice,
0. R. Davis, c! R. Doble, T. B. Akar-
man, r. E. Swift, G. w. McManus, J..
R. Stimmel, P. Esling, F. Grosh, War
rem Kalbach, V. Braidwood, William
Kalbach, R. S. Dye, G.. A. Dye, F. G..
Cole, R. B. MacColloch, w. S. Malt
man, Jos. E. dwell, Jr., E. Perkins,
R. D. Whitaker, John J. McNutt, M.
Hamilton, W. F. Yorker, R, J. T. Car
ter, H. W. Corson, S. H. Ritch, B. G..
Baker.