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COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMBtCF IS A LIVE-WIRE ORGANIZATION

CHAMBER IMPORTAhT FACTOR IN COUNTY’* LIFE DURING PAST gFEW YEARS; NOW IN IT* FIFTH SUCCESSFUL YEAR, AND ACCOMPLISHING GREATER THINGS THAN EVER; ISSUES MONTHLY BULLETIN.

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Grxnd». Cold Sprliuc and Tackaboe. The brarh delegates are froco Peek’s Be»-b. moiprlsiBK Orean City; Lud-

't Beach, eompiisiag Scrath*Mre and Sea liie City; Sereo-MUe

ProtabJy no one factor haa played such an Important pan In the derelopzaent of Cape May County in the past few yean as the Cape May County Chamber of Commerce, a body compw•d of all the Boards and tradee^and other dric and a*rteultural orpanm

Uo&s of the Oonnty.

* Once a month meetings are held rarloua pam of the County and representaUre* from aU aecUon. dlacrss frankly and tearleaaly those things that are for the of the County as a whole, and each of the fifteen eftiea and boruuths that make

up iu population.

The Cape May County Chamber of Commerce was organised in February 1414. mod during iu five jean of ac tlvity has so grown and derekiped and spread iu influence and doctrine of County coodfellowxhip. that today It stands one of the moat powerful and

unique Institutions in the State

JCerer before has such an enthusiastic body o. men from month to month, year to year, with unabated interest, coining from distant points, in the moat severe winter weather, over deep ratted, frozen roads, at times almost ImpasuMc. owing to weather conditions, for-lbe sole purpose of meeting together In a body and diacusal&g things that will advance Cape Hay County. The high type of manhood

exemplified In the members

th, pin. •P'-Pt-P Mppoc a Oct,. CTO. VlCTPCTOJ,,. TO a. ooour. -rtlm. TO PCTCTPCT lb , CTO1PTO « Comn.CT, that the united body can and does ex- . ■ _ _ __ «n in hnportaiit matters, it rapidly he- ?! CU 7coming a snore and more important

factor in the County's life. Membership in the Chamber is c

stltnted of the delegates of the dric ganiaations of the County. Ei beach, of which there are five, are titled to a npresentation of six delegstea. named by their local organlzaUooa and each township Is entitlM to a Ilka number of delegates. The Grange delegates are apportioned one to each subordinate Grange. Palermo.

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CORSON’S INlfT BRIDGE TO BE OPENED ON MEMORIAE

and the County Board of f

The Corson‘a Inlet Bridge, as »t«i« bridge la popularly known, rsprsquau

- of the

bridge and road conatructian. The

| bridge is thirty feet in width, m * H a mile In h-nnh vhteh mb

CLAYTON HAINES BRICK. C1,T Bo * rt nt T ^ serving hi. fifth tVnn s PrasideBt of the Qspe May Count) Chamber

• say “may be“—a few

without the portals of our seaafaore paradise who have not bad the good

fortune to know “Joe.’

Mayor of Ocean City, one of the i ountr't largest contractors, and all ■round good fellow, Mr. Cbami loi u one of the poaaeoaiona. of which Cape

May Coo in y is proud.

Mr. Champion's latest contract is the building of the Conan's Inlet bridges, which are to be dedicated and formally opened on Memorial Day. an operation Invo) ring over fSOO.OOO.

ou. Wildwood and Wildwood and Cape Island, comprising Gape May City and Cape May Point. In addition to this representation, the Mayors of the various municipalities are honorary members, as is the Director of the Board of Chosen Free-

holders

The accomplishment, of the Cham her during the five yean of iu too many to attempt to . *rate. but nrobably the greatest work one has teen since the Wkrr.nment control of railroads. ' a somewhat near peace-time rate of fare to and from PhtLdetphia. and to bring about the continuance of the regular daily summer excuraUns. ‘ at an almost pre-war rate of fare. The Chamber celebrated Its fifth birthday, bigger, better anj stronger than ever, and now issues each month an official Bulletin, in which Is chronicled the doings of the organization during the month

CLARENCE O.rLETZKUS. Clanoce O. Letxkua. of the contracting firm of Seaman and Letxkus. of Stone Harbor, is one of the Ctour.ly's

Letxkus

years ago. and a few years later j Partnership with Uoyt' Seaman erly connected with the Stone Harbor Terminal Railroad Company, and bought the lumber business of Coombs, at Ninety-sixth street. Stone Harbor. Later the contracting business wac entered into, and one of tbe first venof the new concert, was the Invention of a patented concrete bulk . . n “ mb ' r of *Mch have been Installed throughout tbe county. Mr Letxkus is Borough Collector of BtonMHmhor.* » member of tbe Sinking Fund Commission of that P|*ce. and U prominent and active in the civic and political affairs of the

PLANS ALREADY UNDER WAY FOR A GALA CELEBRATION UPON THE DEDICATION AND OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE FlRBT LINK IN THE ALL-RESORT BOULEVARD CHAIN OF ROADS AND BRIDGES: TO BE MADE A COUNTY-WIDE CELEBRATION.

Tbe first link in Cape May County’s chain of roads and bridges which will

eventually connect up each of the re-

sorts of Cape May County by what sill be known as the All-Resort Boul<vard. will be officially opened and dedicated on Memorial Day, with

tbe biggest celebrations ever known j tj » ml je in length, which two o the County. 'of rihdf connect it with two Tbe roods and bridges will connect bridge*. A thirty-foot span draw over

the channel of Corson's Inlet will be operated by the latest type draw machinery. and a modern and up-to-date bridge lender's home is built on the

bridge itself.

Tbe traveller from Atlantic City, or farther north can come down to Cape May County via tbe Longport bridge from South Atlantic City to Somers Point, thence over tbe Ocenn City bridge to Ocean City. Here the new Corson's Inlet bridge will be traversed to Sea Isle City, and ere long the traveller will continue by way of the Townsend's Inlet Bridge to Avalon and Stone Harbor, and by tbe Hereford Iclel bridge to Wildwood, thence by fndre to Cape May City, tbe soothermost resort In Cape May County, and the sou!bermost point of the a»-i- 0 f

New Jersey.

Already the road on tbe Avalon aide tbe Townsend*! Inlet proposed structure is built to the water's line, while on toe Cape May connection, the road has been extended from Wildwood (’rest well across two mile beach toward Cape May. Work on the connecting bridges was halted during the general stagnation of resort business during the last year of th.* war. and

I T, rv,V. < l, 11 ‘ ■— a

LCTHER C. OGDEN.

County.

PromiiM at Lumber Dealer of Cape i the prohibitive coat and scarcity of

May City, and Chairman of the material*.

Transportation Committee of —. the Chamber of Commerce. E- RILEY MIXNER.

E. Riley Mliner, of Goshen, general

contractor, was the builder of the roads connecUnj the three Strath-*

mere to Ocean City bridges

by a direct route, the resorts of S<« Isle Cit). Strathmere and Ocean City \ r, ?“ Coraoo's Inlet, and the waters of Weakfisb and Middle Thorough

■n'l will mark tbe opening of the

fim of a aeries of similar roads and bridges that will eventually connect racb of the resorts of the County v 1th the other by a direct route across the

■ arious Inleu of the County.

The arrangements for the celebration are being undertaken by the Young Mens Progressive League, of Orean City, who are enlisting the aid of the Cape May County Chamber of

that time Mr. Hixner biu^undertakeu

safully cr ’ "

, —■.-—■■MX completed several Important road and bridge contracts ter Cape May County. Doubly ..~— r which are the Slone Harbor and Avalon bridges Mr. Mlxner has bees awarded, only two weeks ago. the reconstruction of the Ocean cUy tnrapike bridge, and is now at woik on a stretch of concrete road work In the

1 lower section of the county.

EVERTON A. CORSON Formerly of the Sutton end Coreon Co. General Contractor

739 Asbury Avenue Ocean City, N. J.

Phone 33

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED

STREETS SEWERS BRIDGES BULKHEADS ROADS CONCRETE WORK

Anything and Everything No Matter How Large How Small or Where Located

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‘Alvtayt on the Job "

ELECTRIC SERVICE is Uncle Sam’s greatest aid in his effort to bring the World up to the 1919 Goal!

Not «], Bl« Brotroro but Better Broloe, Coeduloro-b,,,,, IJv . Corot,TO. .TO Hitrhrr drUhetTO^re .from, E1 „ t , k gjj for. the « lu fret, rhurier U,.„ TO* „„„ ^ ^ ^ inimcxlisle. moat efficient, source of wpply—Hsctridly. M»UJ e»or..od phjuTOI Bu ., ^ Time involved mast be lessened— Facilities for producing, transporting and nlarinw moditiew must be augmented- P rom ' By the use of Electric Service* " b — - — Wa for th« b nothto, u.t „ unit errollv ood thoroortl, —. , ^ tine end hbor ea ElertHr .Service. ” , “* 1 ' food

Ocean City Electric Service of Atlantic City Electric Co.