20 Herald - Lantern - Dispatch 18 December '85

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Lawyer Eric D. Gaver who has offices at 20 Decatur St.. may or may not have a piece of city history he would be willing to give to someone who would properly appreciate it. It'a shed about 10-by40 feet in size which sits on Gaver's farm in Cold Spring which is believed to be possibly the sole remaining building of what at one time was the Cape May Reading Railway Station on Beach Avenue, just below Grant Street. "It's no thing of beauty, and 1 can't verify the history of it," said Gaver Gaver is intrigued by "the heavy, notched beams" of the interior, which, unlike the rest of the structure, are in "perfect" condition. Gaver uses it for storage, but it's in the way of a barn that he hopes to build. Gaver is willing to give it to anyone interested in preserving it. "But not be chopped up and used for firewood," he I said. "I can do that myself."

THE ON-AGAIN-OFF-AGAIN renovation of the city's Convention Hall is off again. City Council last week rejected the second set of bids received for the work. City Solicitor John Ludlam said the city only has limited funds for the job, and hasn't been satisfied with the prices they have received. UNCERTAINTY about whether the city had sufficient funds to install water and sewer pipes on Vermont Avenue, between Massachusetts and Pittsburgh Avenue. brought Village Greene developer Jack Needles to Council's work session last week. Needles said he has sold 17 houses on the street which he must have completed by next March. City Engineer Bruce Graham had told Needles that the sewer and water work might be delayed because of a lack of funds. But Needles said the city informed him the next day the work will be done in time to permit completion of the houses. COUNCIL IS WEIGHING a request from the state Department of Environmental Protection to set aside 400 square feet of wetland to compensate for the loss of wetland area resulting from construction of the new Elmira Street bridge. City Tax Assessor John Dollinger suggested that instead of taking the parcel from land the city owns near the Public Works Department complex on Canning House Lane, which once was a dump, the ground be taken from an area south of the old Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines tracks which the city owns, and which is partly wetlands. That way, Dollinger said, the risk of residues from the dump leaching into Cape Is-

land Creek could be avoided. LOWER CAPE MAY Regional School Board has increased the tuition rate for Cape May Point students to $3,500 for the coming year, an increase of $200. A.V. BUSINESS Telephone Systems of Cherry Hill has been awarded a contract to convert rotary phones at Lower Cape May Regional High School to pushbutton models at a cost of $29,700 The work will be done while the school is closed for the Christmas holidays. JOHN W1LSEY. a Cape May resident who teaches physical education at Richard M. Teitelman School, has been appointed to coach the new surfing team at Lower Cape May Regional High School at a salary of $800. WHAT'S IN a name? Under a new ordinance that Cape May City Council is expected to pass that will classify civil service jobs. Jerry Inderwies will no longer be assistant superintendent of public works. He will be Public Works Assistant Superintendent. "WE'RE GOING to widen it at the top so St. Nicholas can come down. I've gotten nothing in my stocking but coal in recent years," joked Jay Schatz when asked about plans to revamp the chimney at The Abbey. Schatz and his wife, Marianne, have received appro^ val of the Historic District Commission to build the chimney of their bed and breakfast inn at Columbia Avenue and Gurney Street up to the roofline, and top it off with chimney pots threefeet above the roof. It had been capped, and the change will restore the flue to its original form

NEIGHBORS OF the Schatzes, John and Rita Tice, of 30 Gurney St., have been approved by the historic commission to replace roof shingles with cedar shakes. THE HISTORIC commission has given the green light to Lenore Marino, of 1205 Washington St., to build a new second floor dormer, put a new roof on her house, change the rear deck railing, and combine two chimneys into one. OTHER APPLICANTS who have had proposed changes approved by the historic commission include Blanche H. Pratley and Thomas M. Cook. Pratley, of 1207 Lafayette St., plans to install vinyl siding and trim to her house and garage. Cook, of 277 Windsor Ave., literally plans to raise the roof in rebuilding a stormdamaged garage. The work includes installation of a new overhead door, a new side entrance, and new footing. CAPE MAY'S Jane Entriken, who has been working as a substitute teacher at Lower Cape May Regional High School, is one of two Special Education aides hired for the school. The second is Jane Jackson. Aides are paid $6,000 a year. Entriken and Jackson will be compensated on a pro-rata basis for the balance of the school year. STUDENTS AT Cape May Elementary School are learning humanitarian concerns as well as the three Rs. For Thanksgiving, they brought in enough canned goods to make up four food baskets which city Red Cross workers distributed to needy familes. Now, under a program coordinated by teacher Frank Pilling, they are collecting toys which will be used to help brighten the holidays of disadvantaged youngsters

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