Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-04-27
COMMISSIONERS MEETING
(Continued from Page One)

NOOulluuGu lIOm d6O OAOJ
"The proposed ordinance is almost
an exact copy of the ordinance now in
effect in Atlantic City and has been
approved by the master electricians
whose signatures appear below.
1--WE trust that you will peruse this
ordinance carefully so that you may
be in a position to PASS upon it intel
ligently at the earliest possible date,
as it is our desire to have same oper-
alive prior to the opening of the COM
ing season."
This petition was signed by w.
Frank Yorker, B. G. Baker, John j.
McNutt, w. d. Kalbach, r. J. T.. Carter
and Murrell Hamilton.
The receipt of the ordinance and the
petition proved acceptable to the Board
of Commissioners and they voted to
authorize the city clerk to set in mo-
ton the machinery necessary to put
through this piece of legislation. The
first step in the procedure is to pub
Iish a notice of intention that such an
ordinance will be introduced on a GER
tain date and this was done this week.
Electricity being the fastest force
known to science, every phase OF this
wonderful fluid holds fascination to a
degree beyond expression. 1t has
been said that we are now living in
the electrical age and that notwith-
standing the marvellous achievements
to the credit of scientific Investigators
and inventors, still greater surprises
for the future are predicted. 1t is
claimed that the rate at which cleo
tricity flies is 225 900 miles per second,
practically instantaneous.
Another subject to engage the time
of the Commissioners was that Of gas
another present day household ne
cessity. The gas question has been a
vital one here in Wildwood for a num-
Der of years, as every citizen knows.
Complaints against the quality of the
gas furnished and of lack of efficient
service were at one time almost un-
limited; and with it all for some
reason or other the Wildwood Gas Co.
did not seem to be in a prosperous
condition-far from it-and this cor
poration fell behind in the payment
of it's taxes to such an alarming ex-
tent that the city, in self-protection,
was compelled not long ago to fore
close on the gas plant buildings and
ground on which they stand. AS stated
at the beginning of this article, the
total amount of the judgment in final
decree rendered, including interest
and costs, was $7,613.49; but that sum
did not represent all of the taxes
0wod hy fbiC 0n0nnanU IN the RifV
In addition to the figures quoted the
Gas Company owes:
Gross receipts tax, with in
terest, for 1921 ........ $662.S2
Gross receipts tax, with in
terest, for 1922 ......... 3,2SO.S7
Franchise tax, with inter-
est. for 1922 ............ 4,296.S3
Total gross receipts tax and
franchise tax due .....$8,341.28
The total Indebtedness of the Wild
wood Gas Co. to the city for taxes OF
all kinds to December 81, 1922, is,
therefore, Sic, 954.77. A proposition to
pay up all of these taxes by August 1st
of this year has been made by the Of
fiers of the company to u City Com
missioners. The matter was laid before
them by John Bright, special attorney
for the city in foreclosure proceedings
on tax sale certificates held by this
municipality. The proposition met
with favor in the Eyes of the Commits
sioners and a resolution was passed
reading like this:
Whereas, the Gas Co. is DESTROYS of
paying to the city the amount of said
decree with interest and costs and to
have said decree %re-opened; and to
make a satisfactory adjustment or set
Element of the amount due for fran
chise tax and gross receipts tax; now
therefore be it resolved that John
Bright, solicitor of record in said case,
be directed to consent to an order be-
ing entered in said case for the open
ing of said Decree"
The payment of the sum Of $15,-
954.77 on or before August LIST has
been personally guaranteed by Nor
man Gray, president of the concern.
When Attorney Bright was sounded as
to the suficiency of the guarantee he
pronounced it gilt edge. He said Nor
man Gray's name is good for a million.
Until Mr.. Bright impaired to us this
illuminating bit of information very
few Wildwood people knew that Gray
was so we'll heeled as that.
A petition bearing the signatures of
rs citizens and property owners liv-
ing in the vicinity of West Roberts
avenue, West of Arctic avenue, re-
quested the Commissioners to lay
sidewalks on both sides of Roberts
avenue, westwardly as far as the Com
missioners may deem advisable.
Favorable action was taken on this
petition and arrangements will be
made to carry out the wishes of the
petitioners as soon as possible.