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Ocean City Sentinel OCEAN CITY PRINTING AND PUBLISHING CO. HOWARD 8, STAINTON. Prwiden! I Jurrr F. Slanton. VlH I|nMn< . M N ' S" ST1 B - J 1.EW1S L. BARRETT GnT Bu-ipt-. MonuM-' ' ruWiil-d ««k!» m Sanuiw. ?<«-74< A .kury Av»m». Orrtn Ci-r. N. I Td«t 1»S~» ( * Ifiia Coat-onr worn «ka 'W' M "l"*1 lo .u, .,11 b, ' imHiiUa onbr 9**r ik. Mm of wriwv. u TV. , ""j^'Lork^prompIll 6o» *-* *vrTKnprd . '• ■ \-v — — i THURSDAY. JANUARY 2 «, 1022 Enurml « 0* mm •' I N. J- " «««J «<*■• W«gj , THE SENTINEL I. no at the foBoiriwi n*w« .rami- B OCEAN CITY t WM. F. GARDINER, MO Ai«n Amuf. - K. C. BLSHAY. 1K4 A»burr A«*a<» SOMERS POINT, N. J. LINGO R.EUASON, >> V.« Jrrmr Ave. aa4 8ho^ R~4 ATLANTIC CITY TICKET owes. SHORE FAST LIME. VI r- ^ L swartz Ngys.OT^,^^i;,^rroM- : " ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. g MLI.HnU.FJt al^WEST. W ill Cratrnl ^ MIAMI, FLA. L C. COHEN. Hill Bono*. ti THE BRIDGE MUST BE FREE * The path of the_ Chamber nf Com- ^ merce Committee appohite.1 at the an- ^ r.ual meeting la*t week to get action ^ on the automobile bridge free toll ^ question i« a dear one and not hard to ^ xee. It lies straight aero-.- a barrier ^ to Oeean City's growth and those who want the barrier raaed can easily And the path. c An act of the General Assembly of New Jersey, approved last April, em- ^ powers the State Highway Commission to "enter into agreements and terms with the owner or owners of q any security or securities on or held ^ against any such toll road or toll . bridge." This legislation was supple- ^ mental to the act of May, 1920. au- ^ thorizing the State to "acquire by gift. ^ devise, grant, purchase or condemna- ^ lion" the Ocean City automoBile a 1'rf.lr,- t Proceedings could be started at once under this act to condemn the bridge ' ^ if a suffieent body of public sentiment supported that step. The com- ^ mittee of the Chamber of Commerce., lands today as the interpreter of that public sentiment. No one in the community of Ocean City has the slightest uncertainty as to what that senti- 1 f raemt is. But condemnation proceeilings under the State's power of domain would j, o unnecessary and uncalled for if the j, State Highway Commission could be I presided from its strange inertia to r perform a plain duty which has been ^ placed before it in the simplest form j of statement by the Attorney General « ..f New Jersey. a Why does not the State Highway Commission act? , We have no gift of intelligence for t answering riddles and it is difficult t" j interpret motives, disagreeable even to 1 attempt it. But the Chamber of Com- 1 merce Committee and those associated J with it cau seek an answer to that t query. It should be very simple. On last July 18. the Attorney Gen- < oral of New Jersey transmitted to the I State Highway Sommisslon a compact ' " legal embodiment of It's powers under , which it could proceed to lift the tolls , from the Ocean City automobile v- bridge August I, 1921. The commission referred this communication to the bridge committee composed of Col. Walter P. Whittemoie, chairman; John Ferris, Geerge Paddock and A. R. L. Doughty. In August the bridge committee sent engineer* to survey the bridge prop^ erty and in November' the engineers file I a report with the committee. And there tha trail is lost. What became of the report? The records of the Rtate Highway • Comm:-*ion tio not disclose, so far as any one at Trenton can iBacWnr, that the bridge committee ever mgne a report. And therein lie.- the status quo. The Chamber of Commerce Committee and its associates can move that status quo. or at least throw a ray nf light On why it remains stationary. "The Attorney General's -latemonto^ the legal powers of the HfcTmny Commission umier which it could have proceeded at once to have the Oeean City automobile bridge freed from tolls cm last August 1 was thi«: "That the sum of $62,500 1-e set aside by the Treasurer of the State of New Jeesiy for the warrant of this proposition and tp be' turned over to the said Ocean City Automobile Company when an agreement by said rnm-

| pany arid said State Highway Commission has I men made as to the purchase price of said toll road ami toll bridges sai-l price not to exceed #262.900. "In the agreement setting forth the purchase price the sai-l sum of $452,900 -hall be credited am' the balance— f the purchase be paid with the first adr-. ilitional moneys available, amounting to not more than $100,000. and by paying a further sum not exceeding llOf}.000 after July 1,1922. "That on July 4, 1922. the balance , of the purchase price >»e paid, which . balance shall lie such sum as .-hall tie ' due after deducting the sunt of $62.1-00 1 ami said first payment of $100,000 front the purriUPMLfirice. "That th/-um of $162,000 shall he paid from Jthe moneys derived from the M«.t«V"'VeWrta..£intd>w-the fiscal year i-c ginning July 1. 1921. leaving • balance' only as a remaining obligation after payment of said sum of $162,900 in the present fiscal year. "That on August 1, 1921. in case of the execution of the said contract, the State HighVay Commission shall take possession of sai-l toll road and bridge.'* 1 The powers and procedure of the State Highway Commission were thus legally set before that body to I*transmitted in the form of a resolu- ! tion to the officers of the bridge company for their acceptance. Whether 'that has ever been done is for jljP* bridge committee of thy Highway ^ Commission or the q0cer* of the company to teH. All trace of subject vanishes within the pale of State Highway bridge committee of which Cononel Whittetnore, of SussA County, is chairman. It L« for the Chamber of Commerce "to delve it out. The urge is there. The pressure of sentiment is behind it. The public senses the unmistakable advantage of a free automobile traffic way into Ocean City unobstructed by the barrier of toll*. It is easy to recall the impetus given to building activity immediately following the completion of the Shore Line Electric Railway into 'City in 1907. It is reasonable expect a similar spurt to 'ollow the abrogation of the tax on automobile traffic. _ The city has that thought in ^ . It is for the Chamber of Commerce Committee and organizationallied fith it to convert this vision into fact. FOSTER A VISITOR Known to Loral Residents As "Dad" With Film Co. Maurice I- "Dad" Foster, wellto a majority of the winter residents of Ocean Pity, was in town Monday on a business trip. He is representing tlie Absequam Film Corporation of Atlantic City, who have studios at 2010 to 2220 Biaine avenue. Mr. Foster stated that the -tudio was equipped to make sets representing any part of the world. Representatives of the corporation will shortly make a trip through Cape May County for the purpose of spotting locations for the filming of new 1 pictures. Major G. W. B. Whitten, of - City, is the secretary and It is possible that he and I Braen, an experienced director, will be in the party that make, the trip. "Dad" Foster, when he is making . Ocean City hi? home, took an active , part in amateur theatricals ami wa> an eitrl in a minstrel show given by the Young Men's Progressive league, thai r still holds the honor of being the best - «how ever given in Ocean City. - Mr. Foster ha.- many friends heri . who wish him the very best bf sue- ( cess with the Ahwquam Film CorkVeHN'S apartments Ground has been broken by the L Leslie Headlc.v Company for the erec I tion of the stores and apartments- o - Walter H. Kuehn at Eighth street an- , Atlantic avenue. The first floor of th- ! building will be of hollow tile anstucco, with two stores and an officfor Mi. Kuehn, who is now one o Ocean City's realtnaar* The secony floor will be of frwwfr and wHI be uses as apartments, it ' ' BUII.DS APARTMENTS } The L. Leslie Headl«jr Company i ^ building two two-family apartment on Ocean avenue between second an- '* Third streets for Thomas W. Mnulc ii Mr. Mould is contemplating buil-liii; several more apartments which h ,V says are of a better type. They wil "Tic placed on the market for sale a ' fr-t -as cumpfeUst. SMITH AND DENNIS BUSY 1,1 Smith and Dennis, contractors, ar building a two-family flat on Asbur c; avenue between Thirteenth and Foui teenth -treets for Joseph Gilford. The . are also building a dwelling in. th rear of 812 Wesley avenue for Rohei E. Lee. In a-idition to work alread Be startevl the firm is figuring on a nun n- her of new contracts.

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-•* DRY ERA LOWERS DEATHS. ,11 Pittsburgh's Mortality Rate Perceptial bly Dimtmshea in Two Years. According to officials ol ihe Health lie I lepamnent of Pittsburgh that city JS I his year will experience the lowest death rate in its history ^nd prot.ibl Pr 1921. showing that 6.171 deaths have gisL-cn report —i ' roni all . iu- - -n Pij:iSreh thus t|,u jear. I- -- than l>' ij 191*. «• CommaD-l-r Evangeline. Ihwth or! »f the Salvation Army in her n-c-m an af ntwl report says. "Our social secret* ^ lies state that drunkenne- - ..niong the' r.ien frequenting our hotels and Indus '".trial homes lias almost iti-api-eared: that men who previously had not ence ough money to pay their w.,y :rom cne day to another now have money, ijn the hank. In one ol our hotels ° , there are loo men with bark --counts "'of considerable amount- who previous of to prohibition could not keep a dollat ; to for twenty-four hours." r William an-i Samuel t'hlWs' ol Ihe, umous chain of Childs' restauranja ' v say. |n the American Magazine lot j n" November. "Prohibition has raised out of sales. Lots of men who used to drop • In Into cafes for a glass of beer and a , light -lunch, now visit the restaurant* j Also when the day's work i/ over * they are more likely to take their fam le Hies lo dinner. They have more mon ey lo spend and fewer outside influ i k >xtces lo distract them. Hven beforr- ; ™ rational prohibition cany- in. we no Meed these tacts as the various states, "s went dry." / WILL ATTEND BANQUET The Atlantic City Kiwanis Club will join with the new Ocean City Kiwanis Club on ..February 9. in a booster dintier forj Ocean City in the Manufacturers' ' lub. Phila-lelphia. A special train will leave here at 2 o'clock in the afternoon bearing the clubmen on their jaunt, returning from Broad rn street at midnight. V- Q , ^ USHERS REORGANIZE |r. Next Monday night the young men as of the First Methodist Church, of this ng. city, will hold a meeting lo reorganize the Ushers' Union, on The Sunday School Board of the pe First Methodi t Church will hold a yt- meeting on February sth. 3 p- — — — 3| PERSONALS J. Frank Van I^er, one of Ocean ive City's leailing summer cottagers was ®* down over the week-end from Philadelphia. stopping at<4iis 1-aurel Rose 181 cotUgc. ert Mr.-. W. I.. Paneoast has returned to Phila-lelphia after a pleasant visit tre to her mother, Mrs. Thomas ls-ach. Ce" Mr.-. William P. Rickey, of Trenton, °r" who has also been a visitor at Mrs, Leach's home, has departed for a trip to Florida. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Norcom entertained Dr. an-l Mrs. ('. W. Friday vc~ and son*, from Philadelphia, over the °f week-end. lml Mr*. I.. M. Cresse has elosevl hei ,l"' cola go at Eighth ami 'Central avenue and will spend the winter at Ambler Pa. Miss Annie l.utz, of Philadelphia, i- , spending a few weeks Jverc with hei ***' cousin. Miss J. HigginlKitthnm. Mr. an-l Mrs. R. W. Edwards, ol Ocean City, were in Philadelphia lasi week stopping at the Bellevue-Strat-ford Hotel. nt^ Harol-I Paris, associate-l with tht *J'j realty office of John J. Foster, spen-Wedncs-lay in Philadelphia, lie ' = William H. Oldfield Interior Tile Work j 912 Central Avenue ,ui . OCEAN CITY, N. J. the / Her: Est i male* Furnished j Phone, 229-J t

FOStER'S NEW OFFICE Realtor John J. Foster expects ti- occupy his new office, .ill Eighth {«treet on Saturday. This is the office h ' formerly occupie-l by the* Western • j Union Telegraph Company, it ' " . ==_ I

CARD PARTY Tlie Women's Auxiliary of Morgan- , Ranrk Post, American Legion, will . ■ give a curii party and -lance in the g-a.-t room of the Progressive League on Monday, February fith.

SURF LAUNDRY ^ f 929 Ocean Avenue Phone. 139-J Ocean City, N. J. e- Good Work. Quick Service, all Work done on Premises , Please Give 11* a Trial a (LOSE!) UNTIL SEASON OF 1922 Orubb Brothers Building Contractors 1 JOBBING A SPECIALITY <>09 Third Street, Ocean City, X. J. < Telephone 437-R if A Satisfied Owner Owns a 2 Family Apartment TWO FAMILY APARTMENTS are the best kind of investment - 1 properties in Ocean City. Right now there are some excellent " propositions that are offered for sale, uncomparable to anything . similar here in price, terms and location. AU of them are new - and offered for sale at prices showing very satisfactory returns on the money invested. TWO FAMILY APARTMENTS, Third and Ocean Avenue, five ... rooms and bath each floor, size 22 x 34 feet, ten foot wide porch, ' brick foundations, papered throughout and finished inside in white and mahogany; will rent for $900. Price $fi,000. TWO FAMILY APARTMENTS, Frist and Atlantic Avenue, six rooms and bath each floor,size ft x 44 feet, lot 46 x 76 feet, wide porches, brick foundations, room for double garage; rents in for $1,100. Price $7,500. TWO FAMILY APARTMENT, Atlantic Avenue, between Moorlyn Terrace and Ninth Street, brick construction throughout, ' seven rooms and tile bath each floor, built in tubs, inside entrances to both apartments, large lot. The upkeep on this apartment will be almost nothing for several years. Provision made to install heating plant. Price $13,500. For further information apply Any Realtor in Ocean City I I I ■ ' one eleven ■■■ cigarettes s III ■ . iMi? ']} Gentlemen • Made to SuhYourTaste We have for yeert ceiercd to the cigarette 0f wnokerv of America. ^ Wt With tkit eiperience. we created One Eleven - at- "II I" -"Made to Suit Your Taate."of the world's three greatest cigarette tobaccos — the I -TURKISH, for Aroma fnt I — VIRGINIA, foe MiMnett I -8URLEY. for MeDowneu Wa named them One Eleven— the eddreu of our sp- home office. We are proud of their iuccett. Have You Tried Them ? 15^20 *111

" | Do Yon Know i That Head Chains and Girdles are to be very popu- j { lar this Summer? Also that you can reproduce the j I most exquisite ones in wax ? , " We will teach you how free of charge. LOLA M. TOWNSEND H AN DIE SHOP I 756 Asburv Avenue Ocean City, N. J. i i— -i CHAS. D. SAMPSON j Stoves, Hardware, Oils, Roofing 408-10, Asbury Avenue OCEAN CITY, N.: J. I 4 ......... CLEAN AS YOUR HOME OCEAN CITY STORAGE CO. Warehouse, Sixth and West Avenue FURNITURE BOUGHT AND SOLD Automobile Freight Service Between Oeean City, N. J. and Philadelphia. For ratea apply Ferguson Express, 313 Eighth St., Ocean City, N. J. — fhaoa 372-m Philadelphia Office, 713 Spring Garden— I'honr. Market 501 1 Automobile Renovatin "The Shop Complete" BODY WORK TOPS UPHOLSTERING W INDSHIELD "GLASS FENDER WORK TAINTING of the better kind Weseoat Co. Albany Avenue Blvd. and Winchester Telephone 561 ATLANTIC CITY REAL SERVICE Weather Strips Stop those heat leaks ; save fuel and stop draughts. I have in stock either moulded or felt weather strips. Easy to put on. Makes doors noiseless. Step Ladders Just to remind you that you can get that handy Step Ladder ■in just the size you need.* Townsend's Lumber Yard Eighth St. and haven Ave. OCEAN CITY, N, S.