Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-03-16
Wildwood City Commits
SiOnerS Still Confronted
With Second Ward
Beach Front Tangle
Wildwood Tax Rate is $4.O2, "a Cents
Lower Than Last Year

month of 1923 the Board of City Com
missioners sat at Wildwood City Hall
last Tuesday afternoon, March 18th,
to transact, as usual, the current
weekly business. This process is
gone through with for So consecutive
times each year, weekly meetings be-
ing mandatory under the provisions of
the Walsh Act, creating commission
form Of government in municipalities
of New Jersey.
Last Tuesdays meeting having been
the eleventh one in the new year it
may be useful to take note that more
than one-ffth of the annual cycle has
already vanished. So smoothly and
so steadily do the wings of time watt
the denizens of this globe on their
destined end or way that what is now
the new years span shall soon be far
behind, as this great world spins for
ever down the ringing grooves of
change, according to the wish ex-
pressed by Alfred Tenyson, once
po%et-laureate Of England.
In the arrangement of the present
calendar, 81 days have been allotted
to the month of March; six other
months have the same number of days
and parceled put among four more of
the lunar periods we find each one of
these with 80 days to it's credit. The
second month alone contains but
% in fine, til leap year gives it 20; u
when the proposed new system shall
,,,ro LAon ocfoh1iChnd nn6 q 1R-mnnth
year, long the dream of scientific men
and women the world over, shall be
an accomplished fact, then all of the
months will look alike to us, each one
possessed of foul weeks or eight and
twenty days. The first day of each
week shall be Monday, the seventh or
last day of each week, Sunday, all OF
which seems to be very logical and
practical.
The Liberty Calendar Association of
America is the name of the organiza-
ton in this country, formed to aid, IL
possible, in pushing to passage a bill
introduced in Congress to bring about
this desired reform of the calendar.
1t is aimed to put the new time sched-
ule into effect in 1928. The last ma
tional convention to discuss calendar
reform convened in Washington, d. c.,
on February z, 1922, under the aus
pices of the Liberty Calendar Asso-
citation of America. Similar organiza-
tions composed of astronomers and
other scientific minds exist in other
countries. If a change is to be made
it must be by agreement between
nearly all of the nations.
In opening the second March ses-
sion of the Commissioners the Mayor
tapped twice, rather vigorously, upon
for this purpose his little mahogany
gavel, which lay close at hand and
which is so attractive to the eye.
Silence ensued Immediately at exactly
2.13 o'clock by the encircling hands
of the staid and standard city time
piece, ever ticking, softly ticking on
the wall.
The preliminary features of the roll
call and the minute reading exercise
covering the transactions of the week
previous were soon out of the way
and then reports were called for.
The total amount of the weekly
financial report was almost equally
divided between the tax office receipts
and those of the water department,
being $702.41 in the former and $85O.64
in the latter, total for the foregoing
week, 81, 553.05.
The weekly report of the chief of
police enumerated that 10 officers had
beer on duty the past week; calls to
central headquarters made by patrol
men, $50; four arrests had been made
of persons charged with selling intoxi-
eating liquors contrary to law; one
arrest for disorderly conduct and one
arrest for resisting a police officer.
In making the foul raids where in
~toxicating liquids were alleged to have
police force was aided by a detach-
ment of state troopers.
One monthly report was heard, that
of the city clerk, covering monetary
transactions in his office for February.
The amount received for mercantile
licenses, street permits and rent of
third ward fire house hall totaled
$478.52.
Communications next claimed the
attention of the Commissioners. The
clerk had two to offer. The first one
was from City Clerk George E. Sheer,
of North Wildwood, setting forth that
the city council of that municipality
had passed a resolution On March 9Th,
making a request of the Wildwood
Water Department that fire plugs be
placed at the following points: On
18th avenue, between New York and