The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1926-05-14
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as was predicted, the boom con-
tinues to increase. From the ear
Hest days of real estate develop
ment along the shore, men have
said that the price levels had
been reached and a reaction was
due. Instead of a reaction, the
advance in prices has never been
more than temporarily halted and
at no time has there been any
thing like a decrease except pos
sibly in isolated instances.
The reasons for this are prob
ably two fold. The first is that
resorts along the coast are com
paratively young. In fact it has
been only within the past fifty
years that there has been any
general custom to summer along
the shore. There have always
been hotels where visitors were
entertained, but all-the-season
cottagers has been a custom that
has only recently become popu-
lar. The second reason why there
has never been a slump in sea-
shore values is the amount of
available ground is small. Far
sighted investors readily saw
that the time would come when
shore front land would be occu-
pied and that the time is nearly
here. There is little land left
for more development. Already
the filling in of the meadows back
of the various resorts has begun
because of the scarcity along the
sections carer the beaches.
Municipalities are not author
lied under the law to contribute
to the decoration of the graves
of soldiers on Memorial Day, the
Wildwood Crest City Council has
been informed by its solicitor.
Under the law the decorations
must be paid for by the Board of
Freeholders out of county funds.
Few people are aware of the
amount of detail work that must
constantly be attended to by
members of the Board of Free
holders, and especially by the
| chairmen of committees. Allan
tic county is a big institution and
the business of conducting all it's
many departments is one that
calls for considerable personal
time and effort, to say nothing
of ability, on the part of those in
whose keeping this work is en-
trusted. One of the busiest men
is John B. Tomlin, chairman of
the Road Committee, most of
whose time is taken up by the de-
mands of his position and the
time and effort he devotes to
this job-for it is a real jobs
not realized by many members
of the Board themselves. The
criticism that attends work of
this kind is only a small part Of
the difficulties encountered. Few
men of ability could be found
who would sacrifice their time
and efforts for such unremuner-
alive public service, and Tomlin,
under whose guidance Atlantic
county's roads have been devel-
oped wonderfully the last few
years, deserves the highest praise
that can be bestowed for his un-
selfish, efficient service in this
ofice.-Mays Landing Record.
Founder of the winter variety
is now at it's height. Oddly en-
ough, there fish bite most freely
when the season for them is near
ing it's end and when the sum-
mer founders appear.
This delicious food fish, the
equal, in the opinion of many, of
the famous English sole, began
to take the hook freely about two
weeks ago and they should con-
continue to do so with equal free
dom to the mi6dle or latter part
of May. Then, with the warming
of the water, the winter founder,
which is a lover of cold water,
will slacken their feeding and
either get into deeper water or
bury themselves in the bottom
where it is cooler.
The best fishing grounds for
winter founders are in little Egg