Hf." M;IJ IIJ jgppr? • — - m u^1 ^ Ocean City Sentinel

VOL XLII No. 31

OCEAN CITY, N. J., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1922

1 -I. —7 Pric9 Three Cents

Young Mens Progressive League Buy Ten Eyck For Permanent Headquarters THE PROPOSAL RECEIVED WITH ACCLAMATION, WHEN SUB- r M1TTED AT SMOKER AND ENTERTAINMENT HELD AT LEAGUE ROOMS MONDAY EVENING

A rhiladelphian was recently] • heard to remark, "Ocean City is in the ill roes of big events." Every day brings some new evi- i dence, strongly corroborrating the insertion. The past year has been j ; a year of big enterprises. An un- ' | bounded faith in the future of : Ocean City, anil ,thfc spirit of ad- , , venturer appears to have taken ] complete possession of the people, i It is only natural and inevitable , that a body of men, constituting , the Young Men's Progressive Lea- , pur, an organization which has : always l«en actively identified, with every movement of public ad- | vancement, should have become infected by the spirit of the times, as was very clearly evidenced at : their meting on Monday evening. , Arrangements had been made, for a Rally Smoker and Entertain- ■ ment. The officers were anxious to secure a large attendance, and - an announcement was given out,! that a matter of supreme import- 1 , anee to the League, would be brought up for consideration. I . It transpired that the advisability of the League, acquiring a per ■ manent home in the city, in short; a properly equipped and conducted club house, had been long brooding in the minds of many of .the mem- j bers ,nml at the meeting held Mon- j day evening, a definite and well- ; considered scheme, for the pur! chase of the Ten Eyck-Lorraine ! Hotel, and its conversion into a league Hall was submitted. Bertram M. Darby undertook to i [II ace before the members, the fi-] nancia! aspect- of the undertaking.! Mr. Darby's statement evidenced i much patient thought, and investigation. No detail had been for. gotten. On the one hand he pre-] aented a liberal approximation, of| the expenses which would be incurred, in the management and up- , keep of such an establishment, and on the other .to counterbalance, he ' gave a conservative estimate ofj the possible revenues. Aiuirew C. Boswell, City Solie-. itor, was enthused over the project to a degree somewhat unusual in a lawyer. Generally of a calm and cc n.servative temperment, living daily in a world of stern facts and law-, and always, by reason of their inside knowledge of such enter prises, somewhat sceptical of paper ! schemes, lawyers are not given to revealing great enthusiasm. It speaks volumes for the feas-j ability of the project therefore, and for the probatality of its sue-; cess that Andrew Boswelio should have been, ,to use a phrase com-j mon in Die science of salesman- . "hip. ,-o completely sold to the pro- . posed league Home. M r. HosweU declared that in the project, the Young Men's Progressive league, had within their, reach, a golden opportunity, to. render a service to -the community,' which would be of Wider influence] than any thing it had ever attempted. I I The purchase of the Ten Eyck-' Lorraine Hotel, and its conversion] Into a well-equipped end conducted. It: club house, was precisely the kind | uf work for which the .League was founded, and for which it stands.'

' I The establishment of such a socs ! lal community center, was more- < over one of the greatest needs of i - . the city. ( - Mr. Boswell referred to the' i >: boy; of the community 1 • growing tinto manhood, who hail ' i f > absolutely no place in which they t ' could meet and spend a leisure [\ t hour, with jctean and innocent { • aniusement. .'He referred to his ! I : own son as 4 typical example, and I said he was looking forward to the | ' day, when he could introduce his 1 v ' son into membbership with the j \ • League, if only for the recreation- j c al advantages the League offered. ' • - In a properly conducted League j > | Home, the youth of the city could J t ' meet for amusement, and while so | , doing, have their Interests aroused , > in matters of civic good and ad- , ' vancement. 5 George Plaut, Freeholder Chad j ' wick, Elmer Jackson Pearl, Lcroy 'j Howe, and others joined in the dis- , "j cussion, ail without exception ex- , - pressing their unqualified approv- ( j al of the project, - ( ' ; In brief, approval and perfect i ( ' harmony reigned supreme, and not-, 1 a dissenting voice was heard. Bcr f ' tram Darby voiced the sentiments : , ? of the meeting, when he declared , - ; that the League had come to the i . ' i lace in its hisWry. when it could' ] stand still no longer. tl was im- ( ~ i perative that they should move for- , 5 ' ward, and' take a big step in ad- ( 1 vance, in conformity with the progress and advancement the city , 3 was making, or be content to go j - i backwards and stagnate. j . • j Finally it was decided that the ( i Executive Committee of the Lea- j r j gue, should retire to deliberate | ( " I further over the proposition, and , ] r i report later during the evening, 'j In due season they returned .and , r( strongly endorsed the scheme. The , - 1 information was volunteered adlo, j J that the nine members of the Ex- ( 6 , ocutive present, were prepared to i f[ subscribe $1200 .towards the enter- , ! prise. "l In pursuant of the recommenda- ' ( t tion of the Eexecutice Committee, ( 11 1 the Young Men Progressive Lea- j d guo went on record, committing ' j < itself to the purchase of the Ten t d Eyck-Lorraine Hotel, and its conf, version into a League Ilfcll. The ( ~ , Executive, Committee was further < r | given plenary powers, to prepare { > all details for the financing of the ! project, and to make all arrangej menis for the transfer of the prop- I erty. The Ten Eyck-Lorraine, accord- J d ing to the statements of those who i" I have given the matter thought, is ! admirably constructed for coirver- '• | sion into an establishment, such as the League proposes to do. It is; e centrally located, of prepossessing - appearance .and commodious. Very ' fj little expense, comparatively speako, jng will be entailed in making it ' V an ideal headquarters, and a social • ] center, for the numerous activities t- 1 of the Young Mqp's Progressive' I League. [-] o n Mr. -end Mrs. Charles H. Kelk I d will leave Ocean City within a few ! d days for St. Petersburg Florida, ' s where they propose to spend the 1. 1 winter at their cottage there.

All Must Be Sold We mufl vacate, and we offer a complete stock, no old flock, nothing imported for the sale. SHOES and HOSIERY lor ALL THE FAMILY CLOTHING for MEN and BOYS : . Cooper-Bennington and Duofold Underwear Sweet-Orr, Headlight, Cantripum Overalls # Everything marked in plain figures at great reductions Tables, Showbench, Shelving. Safe, Etc., for Sale Granville H. Steelman j 831-833 Asbury Avenue j .

Work On Construction of Ocean City Country Club i Golf Course Progressing ! WILLIE PARK, WORLD-FAMOUS GOLF ARCHITECT AND HIS ASSISTANT. MR. SALZ, WILL RETURN TO THIS CITY DURING LATTER PART OF WEEK

• Bearing in mind what the Golf ; ■ j Course, in process of construction j i ' at Somers Point, will mean to ] City, what a valuable asset ! ■ it must inevitably prove, in the ] ' - future development of the city, it ' I ! highly gratifying to know that j ' the work is progressing rapidly, : ; with every indication that the first ; . will be ready for playing j i the time originally intended. i 1 . With the Golf Course ready, t1 1 1 problem of extending the season i (will be forever solved; Ocean City i will have its autumn clientele, . looming in immediately after the !j In fact with hotel aceommoda- ' I tion; of metropolitan standards of !, ' ! excellence available, and the Golf ' Course, "there is no earthly reason why Ocean City, should not in the course of a year or so, devclopc an all-year-round resort. ! ' For the past thirty days, a large number of men, under the direction and supervision of expert engineers, have been busily engag-, : cd on the course, to the end that j " by this time, all the preliminary | j work has been completed. " . " | The property known as the ' ' i Ocean City Country Club, is assuming quite a different aspect. jjTbe rough tanglewood has U> a extent disappeared, and the outlines of the course, are qppear- . sight cvgn to the eyes of the uninitiated. As previously announced, the ] work of laying out the grounds ' has been committed, into the expert hands of the premier golf ar- ' chitect in the world. ' 'j Willie Park is acknowledged by ! ' all, to have no equal in this de- ' ' part ment of endeavor. The assurance that the Ocean 1 1 City Country Club links, will be '•as perfectly constructed, as it is ' 1 humanly possible to have them ' ' j constructed, lies in the fact, that 1 1 Willie Park has a world reputa- ' ' I tion to maintain. 1 Under no circumstances whatcould he afford to lay out a i ■ faulty oourse; as a matter of fact i ' | is expected logically of him, that ( • !his last effort, must be superior i ' any previously attempted. i Willie Park has laid out over , ' thirty-three coursesrin the United I States, and thirteen or more in < 'Canada. < 'j England, Wales, Scotland, Ire- i

fi land, -France, Autria, Holland and i ' other countries contain imperish- i > | able monuments, to his skill as a i t Golf architect. ; : Mr. Park, together with his as- i t j sistant Mr. Salz, arc expected to \ 1 j return to Ocean City, during the , 1 latter part of this week. The pre- I t ; iiminary work of clearing the [ 1 grounds done, Mr. Park will re- i i main here, until the layout for the i Courses is' completed. i 1 While in Ocean City Messrs ■ ' Park anil Sals, will be guests at i ' the Plymouth Inn. ! It is very evident that the pro- ' motors of the Ocean City Coun- ' try Club, entertain no doubt rel- ' Native to the success of the enter- 1 f prise. They have entered into the ' i project with an ambitious pros gram. Mr. Park's present contract ' ; with the promotors, includes the 1 1 i laying out of thirty-six holes, or t 3 two complete 18 hole courses, the | - first of which will be ready for;! t play, by the coming season. j' " ; Should the Club develops no j 1 ' i more of the resources at its com- j • >' maud, -Ocean City will enjoy facil- j j ities for golf playing .unequalled j I ' in the State of New Jersey. ( i Already Mr. Park has outlined ' i ' tentatively twenty-seven of theji ' thirty-six holes, comprising the,! two courses, and a careful tudy of ; ! ' his w,ork, only serves to emphasize j i S more clearly, the skill and genius ; i of this famous architectural wix- 1 , J ard. | ■ The developement of the pro- ] . ject Is being watched eagerly by j many localities outside of .Ocean ! ] t City. Atlantic City, and Philndel- ] , . phia a remanifesting the greatest] interest in the scheme, particular 1 , 1 ly the former resort. , , ; Its alert and enterprising lead- j b ers, men who have made their city ' , y the playground of the world, arei t not unmindful of the benefits to be , ■ derived from such a Club within ' ; easy distance. However, while prepared to ] • t share it recreational advan- i t tages. Ocean City must not fail to 1 t capitalize for its own profit, an . r asset of unestimable social and 1 1 financial worth, lying at its own , < p doors. ' The completion of the i first course, in readiness for the , ( i coming season, should begin a new j , epoch of unparalelled devclopc- . ■ ment, in Ocean City. ,

McLaughlan-Conver Tract Operation Is Attracting Outride Men and Capital rc t OVER $300,000 WORTH OF LOTS HAVE BEEN SOLD THE 1 I OPERATORS WILL IN NEAR FUTURE BEGIN WORK OF j RECLAIMING AND LAYING OUT THE LAND 1 ' — ! i

j One of the healthiest and mosti c ] hopeful featyres, in the McLaugh- 1 i lan-Conbver Tract developement, is , , the amount of outside capital and : ! brains, it has been the means of importing to Ocean City. * Business men, and men of for, tune, who hitherto had not set foot1" in this section of the State, and to whom the name of Ocean»City signified no importance, are being heard of almost daily, making exhaustive enquiries concerning the boom, which through the opera- i tion? of Messrs McLaughlan and Conover, is receiving wider public-ity-Mian perhaps anything else in the ijistory of thAdty. Money talks; and the prospect of, makinj^moneyisj the strongest^ There comes a time in the history of every community, when it must receive a liberal infusion of new blood, new brains, and new ' capital, or stagnate. ] It was so in the history of Atlantic City .for a concrete example, j Outside capital and brains made ] Ventnor. This is not speaking ! disparagingly of the men and I leaders, who had pioneered Die | fortunes of Atlantic City, up until I the developement of Chelsea and ] Ventnor. , It signifies no more, than that j those had particularly exhausted • their resources. Their money had ! ] been invested, and tied up so to] I ! speak. At the psyahological momLent ,new capital, and n*w- men,!

1 1 with new ideas, appeared upon the ' - 1 scene, and the developement which 1 3. immediately followed their coming 1 j gave the dt ynew birth. I f Investors who had expected no ' more than mhdest returns on their i - investment, made large fortunes i trover night. New developements i 0 enhanoed the value of older prop- , - erties a hundred fold, and, to use g a phrase culled from Mr. Cotter ; ;- Morrison, the pubLidst-financier, ; e "white elephants became mighty i i- accommodating and useful beasts ; 1 of burden." . " To all indications this very desii- i a able thing, is being brought about through the operations of the Mc- i f , Laughlan-Conover Tract. To the ] t • extent this is true, will the present . ; boom continue; and it may ex-en- , r tually prove to be that Messrs Mct Laughlan and Conover -have, by < f the developement of the Garden v Tract, done for Ocean City, What Mr. McLaughlan did many years r ago, for Atlantic City in .the rec -• lamation of Yentnor. e It is gratifying therefore, to g learn, that the sale of the lots is d progressing well. The movement e is" still in its infancy, yet over I il $300,000 worth of land has been d sold. j In many instances moreover, lots .t have been resold over again, at a d very handsome profit within a few ■ d days. ' o The offices of several local real- 1 i- tors, appear to have been hives of ! t.j Continued' bn Page Eight '

One Week More And Then Ocean City's Celebrated • Hallowe'en Festivities I THE CARNIVAL PROVING TO BE A MEDIUM OF WIDE PUBLICITY TO OCEAN CITY. SEVERAL LARGE DELEGATIONS FROM OUT OF TOWN EXPECTED

I The Hallowe'en Carnival, arranged for Saturday October 28, under i i the auspices of the Young Men's 1 League ,is proving - a medium of wide ,and val- j > uah!c publicity to Ocean City. : It emphasizes the fact, that the - season in Ocean City is] ! not at an end. For some unatS- ■ countable reason, it is assumed] s that all amusement and entertain- ; ment ends in a seashore resort of! i comparatniely small size, with the] t advent of September. Consequent- 1 I ly, it has come in the nature of a ] big surprise, in many sections to] . that as late as All Hallows'. . Ocean City proposes to hold] . one of the greatest events of the ] . year. Great credit is due for this pubt lidty, to the Shore Fast Line Conr . j pany, and the Pennsylvania Rail- • ] road Company. . Through the kind offices of Mr. - MacMillan, posters announcing Die i Carnival, are being distributing all > ] over points touched by the Shore - ! Fast Line. - j The same is true of the Pen'nsyI I Ivania Railroad. The local agent, j George W. Reed, has been in com1 ! muni cation with the advertising ; ! department of Jhe company rftnd ^arrangements have been perfected I j by means of which posters, and t other literature, appertaining to 3 1 the Carnival, will be displayed anil ' distributed, wherever deemed ad- ! vantageous for publicity. - 1 To all indications the forthcomj ing Carnival, presages to be the I I largest and the most interesting ' ; ever attempted. ' i The trapshooting in the morning " to be conducted under the direct ] sup- rvision of the American Leg- " ion, promises to attract a large ' ' number of marksmen into the city. The football game in the after ! I noon, between the Ocean City High; ' School eleven, and their old rivals! i from Pieasantville High benool, I > will unquestionably be an interest- ] - and spectacular event. i > It will be remembered that last] ' ! these two teams were in the I final struggle, for the Class C ' ] Championship of Jersey. ' By reason of the fact, that this ' i game has been included in the pro- ' I gram of Hallowe'en-festivities, and ' will doubtless be attended by a ] record number of spectators, it; may be expected that both teams j will rise to the occasion, and give' as fine an exhibition of football, I as ever seen among teams of like! age and experience. , Plans for the evening Carnival, and Parade, arc near completion I All activities will be centered on] Asbury Avenue, between Sixth and j 1 Eighth Street;. This particular section will be] ; lavishly illuminated, and decorated for the occasion. Three first class | bands have been engaged, and until 9 o'clock, when theGrand] Parade will be formed, the Avenue ] , will be a scene of revelry, fun and i frolic. - . Masqueraders in fantastic and fancy costumes, will be given full > license to exercise their mirth; r making talents ,to the best advans tage. Those who have a wish to ! dance, will be accommodated with ' ample music. : At nine o'clock share, the Par rade will form. ThW yenr jhe , route is strictly limited, to Yhe discovering Sixth to Twelfth ' Streets, "wMfHie^counter march. judges will be located at dif- - forent convenient places. t This year also the form of reg- - istrstion, has been very much stm- ; plified, and need cause embarrass1 t j — j ,

r ment to no person taking part. All r 1 required is that the participants, s ' should seek information as to the g ; division in which they are eligible I- to enter, and receive a number for ; the purposes of identification, e ; For the convenience of all, three s ] places have been arranged, one at Lthe Pharmacy of Dr. J. Thornley i'TIughe^, the second at the Raed i- j Hardwaba Store ,and the third, in f J the offices jof Frank E.Darby, reale j tor. J " A Carnival of the magnitude,! 1 ; cannot be staged without tonpider0 j able expense. The Young Men's '* i Progressive League, has made 1 d itself responsible for the enormous 1 e amount of work entailed, with no ] hope or expectation of receiving r any pecuniary benefit. In fact, the members all are contributing libi" eraliy to the project, in addition to the time and energy they are '. devoting. e What benefits there are to be J derived from the Carnival, will be e shared by the community at large, consequently the Young Men's - Progressive League, believes the ^ project deserves the financial supr port of the community. A number of merchants, and , professional men, have already . subscribed generously, others may] yet do so. Last jrihr one little fellow of] 0 tender years, showed precisely the ' spirit -needed, to make the Cami-] val a success. The little chap, manifestly enthused with his errand, r tailed at the office of one of the p men in charge of affairs, and ? handed him a nickel, as his donation towards the fund. A nickel Z will not go far, nevertheless it bet tokened a spirit,, which older and r rieher folks might emulate, e Any person desiring to eontrib- '. j ute to the fund, may hand the - same to any member of the loabj gue, call at the offices of Uje Dis i rector, Leroy HoiCS~t7i— Waiter H. | 1,1 Kuehn, Chairman of the Finance! ;- ! Committee. The Sentinel wU! be ' | glad to receive the smallest do- ; t j nation to the project, e It is understood, that several j- * I very handsome floats will partic- ] ; ipatc in the parade. The Chamber! s of Commerce proposes to have one : r which will be a credit to the city. ] . ill It should be explained perhaps,! 3 ! that all motor or horse driven I ' ; floats may er.ter in the parade. s] Instead of a cup, the premier " prize, for the best fancy dressed '•] organization, will -be a beautiful, e I Wcstmenister Chimes Clock, to \ I 'the value of $65. A more desirable trophy could; 1 ; not be conceived, an ornament that ! 1 ] would adorn any Club-room in the land. The quarters of the hour,, e ! are warned, upon a set of most . I musical chimes ,and the hour in , R addition chimed upon a separate ] , j ; gong. The tonal qualitfes of the j ! chimes aer wonderful, and sweet 6 j beyond description, j Again, instead of a cup as pre: viously decided, the first prize for , ' the Best Fancy Dressed Individual ; or couple, is a handsome 14 carat , I white gold watch, to the Vaiue of , 1 i $30. Should the winner be a lady, 1 she may select in preference a 0 very beautiful gold Elgin wrist ! , 1 watch. i The first pris* for the best',. " Comic dress .will be a Gold Evgr ® sharp set of chaste design, r Three prizes for the Best Dec!t orated Window: first, a silver cup; , u second, $6.00; third, $2-50. Other '- prizes are as hitherto announced, i , Every effort is being made to j - induce keen competition and to , r make the Carnival as spectacular] r as is possible.

Rough Riders Of Round-Up ! No. 5 Lasso Bunch Of Raw Tenderfeet, Near the Ranch i - i t li f DEAD MEN ARE LED DOWN THE BEANY PATHWAY BAPTIZED t WITH OTTO dc MORGUE. AND GALVINIZED INTO LIVING NICE MEN ji

, With a ringing whoop of "Atta.i , Boy," the clanging of vindictive ' i spurs, and the rapid detonation of i , . deadly 45s, the Rough Riders of] f Up Uo. 6, mounted their j j bound -for a- secret reiytexvpus.

. : somewhere in the wilds, in the : ] ; vicinity of Odd Fellows Hall, | j ] Atlantic City. Arriving at the Raneh„ their , ' joy and glee knew no bounds, i Continued on Page Eight , I

First Act In The Street Improvement Program Is Staged By Commissioners I- THOMAS R. FORT, PRESIDENT OF THE OCEAN CITY TAX- . PAYER'S LEAGUE, PRESENTS THE APPROVAL OF THE LEAGUE TO THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE ii HEARING ADJOURNED TO NEXT MONDAY e W. S. SCHERMERHORN, PRESENTS PETITION OBJECTING TO c PAVING OF FOURTH STREET. CITY TREASURER r REGRETS IT WILL NOT INCLUDE»H1S PROPERTY

*! The calmly sedate and dignified ¥ atmosphere, of .the City Commisd j sinners Room in the City Hall, was n . on Monday last very much di.turbed and perturbed, when the proposed program of street im- '• j provement, came up for presen- " ! tation and hearing. Notices of in8 ] tention had-- been published and B distributed by mail, informing ■ s • property owners in the affected 0 , areas, that the City Commission- ? ers were contemplating the pre- ! s sentation of an ordinance to the r purpose, and quite a number were : 1 present to offer both support and 1 s objection to the proposal. W. S. Schermerhorn appeared, e among the objectors and presented c a petition, signed by two-thirds of !> the property owners affected, pro8 testing against the paving as cone templated by the Commissioners, i r of Fourth Street. i Mr. Schermerhorn summarized his objections upon the following ■ * grounds. Speaking from his ex- ' ' perience of an asphalt surfaced 1 road, in the City of Camden, the ' ! speaker claimed he preferred a ' e ] gravel road under any consideration. During the hot days of ] r Summer, an asphalt surface be- : ' came unsufferable hot, and emitted 1 I a very objectionable odor. He ' cite<l an incident of one lady, who ' had positively refused to purchase 1 property, for whiah she had prac- 1 ]" tically contracted, when informed ' that the Commissioners were con- ' tern plating re-surfacing the road ^ with asphalt. ' * The persons who would benefit ] from paved streets, Mr. Schermer ' horn continued, were motorists. If 1 " I they desired pavsif streets for sj their particular benefit, they 1 _ I should pay for them, or the city 1 j at large, and not the property « J owners who preferred the streets 1 ] as they were, and asjpd for no ' "! change. This was precisely the ' r | attitude of the people of Fourth ! i Street whose names he presented t " ! with the petition. < ' If the Board of Commissioners j 1 j desired to have Fourth Street 1 paved, the city should defray the ' r expense, and not the property ' owners who, did not desire^ it ' 'j Furthermore Mr. Schermerhorn ' 3 declared, that in their present 1 scheme of defraying the cost of ' 1 paving the suggested, streets, upon 1 an. assessment basis, the Board of ' s ] Commissioners were making class I r distinctions and introducing class ^ 1 legislation. ' Asbury Avenue had been paved 3 j entirely at the City's expense and 1 ■ ' the benefited property owner* 1 had potheen assessed on cent Why should the people of Fourth ' :] Street be differently treated? ' r Fourth Street property owners had 1 had to pay their quota, of the cost « t of pavitig Asbury Avenue, and f now were asked to. pay for the S • paving of their own street 1 1 In answer to Mayor Joseph G. ! ' Champion, Mr. Schermerhorn stated 'ate . that the petition he pre- ( sen ted. represented two-thirds of t " the property owners on Fourth i Street. Thomas R. Fort Jr., President i : of the Ocean City Taxpayer's Lea r gue, who had traveled from Phila- i dolpt.i- to be present at Ike bear- i > ing. rose to support with ail the c ' emphasis ^he could command, the r , program of street improvements, s ; as outlined by the Board of City 1 I Commissioners. j I ! In his judgment, Mr. Fort de- i ! dared, it was the most statesman- \ like' movement the Commissioners i had ever attempted. Improved, r hard-surfaced streets constituted I the greatest asset to any dty. Gravel streets belonged to an r . i age. which Ocean City had left o I (far behind. Speaking as an old a 'summer resident, and a property o owner, Mr. Fort welcomed the op- u 1 portunity to pay for the paving of , ii fhe street passing his residence, if jonly as a means of escaping the n perpetual dust when the roadway's ' was dry, and the puddles of mud a • j there came a shower or rain. t The i.nprovgmc-.t:- contemplated ; f r would entail certain assessments ; . upon the adjacent properties, he'.t but they would enhance the •

I value of the properties so improv- • ed, that much, and considerably A gravel street, could not by e any misuse of language, be called - a permanent street Ocean CSty - today, is not what it was when - the streets were first laid out | Ocean City had reached that Z stage in its developement, when 1 its problems were no longer of the - villtge variety, but rather eity . - problems. t In contemplating any improve- . mer.ts therefore, they should | adopt a comprehensive and farsighted program, and build not , for the eity which now is, biff that 1 which Ocean City seems destined f to become in a few years hence. He, Mr. Fort, was looking for- - ward to the day, when every street , in the city would be hard-surfaced, and lit up by night, equally as I well, if not better, than Asbury j Avenue at the present time. What 1 hq aspired to be was a consteue-' 1 tionist in the real sene, and what . he hoped never to become, was an i obstructionist. Speaking for the Taxpayer's j League, of which he is President, . Fort volunteered the informaI tion that the executive committee , considered the program con- ) templated by the City Commis- , sioners ,and had authorised him . to voice there on Monday, their ] unqualified approval and end^Jpe- - ment. 1 Elmer Schauta followed Mr. Fort with a protest representing the t property owners, residing between . Seventh and Eighth Streets on f Ocean Avenue. It was discovered however, that . the Cit7 Conmlssi oners were not r contemplating paving that , section of Ocean Avenue, and that i the statement to the contrary, had , erroneously included in the . notice of inteqtion. i Whereupon City Treasurer ClarI cnte Scull, registered another form of protest, declaring that in his i the proscribed portion of ; Avenue, should by all means i paved. As a matter of fact the traffic on Ocean Avenue, was greater , than that on Atlantic Avenue. . there were more permar nent. all year residents located on ] Ocean Avenue, than there were on • Atlantic Avenue. As one of the , property owners of that section, , he fully anticipated it was the _ " Commissioners' intention, to pave I the street there, and would gladly * I his quota for the odavntages . , he wouM gain. Several communications were ; , read by the Secretary, one from E. M. Sutton, President of the ] I Chamber of Commerce, heartily ; endorsing the movement. 1 It should be added that Mr. • in his protest from i Fourth Street, was strongly sup- j . [fvrted by Mr. Kayes. •" i>' Mayor Champion and Director v ; Campbell, who undertook to . ' answer the objectors, ilesired to i assure them, the Commisionefa, . 4 would not spend the city's money | ; injudiciously or thoughtlessly. The Board of Commissionera » 4 • given the outlined scheme of - 5 • the most careful * J i consideration. From time to time, the Commie- «j , sioners were assailed on every . J • hand, with' the vleroands f-.r im--(provements. There was no limit j3j in v fact to the appeals, pro- |j - viding the city paid the bills; but i immediately the subject of aaseea- ^ , ment was broached, protests were I heard. Ocean CUy was behind" esery * resort on the coast, in the matter .9 of paved stre^ The Commis- '-ffl sioners had long realised the need t ^9 of such, but had been financially . unable to consider the undertak- 4 ,lng. I Nor could the city undertake . 3 _ street improvement, except on an .j assessment basis. At the present . 9 time It cost the city practically "J 1 j $30,000 to keep the street* in retarvt] when the dty would be com- Jj