/~)VOL. 15, No. 43.
VENTNOR NEWS, VENTNOR, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J„ MARCH 22, 1922.
Two Cents pee Copy
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School Movies
^ Make Big Hit
Ventnor Parent Teachers •
Association Has Reached Success
in Effort to Give Children “
fine Entertainment
I’m beginning to figure that I
•'am nothing more than <an over
grown kid. Should I ever grow
up and begin to act like a man
of my age and bald station there
probably would be‘a lot of sur
■ prise for everybody. '
For instance, on Saturday
night last I journeyed down to
the Troy Avenue School with the
object of securing some data for
a story about iiow the Ventnor
Parent - Teachers Association
carry on their work of interest
ing and instructing the school
children. It was intended that
I should get some salient facts,
jot them down, and, from them,
elaborate a news article which
would pay proper respect to the
splendid work being done by the
men and women of Ventnor for
the kids.
And what happened? I blow
into the Troy Avenue School
auditorium filled with dignity
and purpose just in the middle
of a mighty funny moving pic
ture comedy reel. Like the
other kids there I became deeply
interested in the probable out
come of the general mixup in
which I find the hero, or what
ever they call the fellow who
gets the stuffed club and other
hppurttenances of reel comedy.
Consequently, I have only a few
moments left to gather facts
about how the Ventnor folk
have made their Parent-Teach-!
ers organization and work known !
throughout this and other states!
—how they really have attained
fame for the success of their
efforts.
But, at that, I found out quite
a lot. Talking to Mrs. Charles
Boone Hobart, President of the
Parent-Teachers, I learned that
the Ventnor spirit is and has
Aspn behind the project of mak
o3g the school a civic centre ever
since the organization was
started, t '■ . ,
'•’ Like Miss Anna - Williams,'
President of the Ventnor School
B°p>Tj£, and others who are work
ing /^Aard to. make Ventnor
schools recognized for their real
worth, Mrs. Hobart is very mod
est about the attention which
has been drawn to the work of
the Ventnor Parent-Teachers'
Association. She admitted what
I already knew—that educators
and educational bodies all over
the state have taken notice of
the good work done here; that
the methods used in Ventnor
have been given the compliment
of imitation, and that the work
really is successful. . .
Those now at the head of the
movement for interesting the
school young folks in the better
things give a lot of credit to
those who have given aid. They
speak with real gratitude of Mr.
I*. Mortimer Lewis, Atlantic City
and Ventnor moving picture man,
maybe better known to a lot of
ui as “Mort” Lewis, Mr. Lewis,
it appears, supplied the first films
for the school movies at his own
expense, even going to the length
of taking them from his own
.reels to assure that the Ventnot
folk had, early and fine showings
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New Sewer
For Margate
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Commission at Meeting Also Orders
Preparation of New City Build*
tag Code. To Name Life
Guard Later
As a prelude to the improve*
ment of Ventnor Avenue by the
county authorities the Margate
City Board of Commissioners on
Monday afternoon authorized
City Engineer Rightmire to pre
pare plans and specifications for
the laying of a sewer main from
Fredericksburg Avenue, the
westerly boundary of Ventnor
City, to Mansfield avenue, the
easterly boundary of Margate
Park. City Clerk Gertzen was
authorized to advertise for bids
for the work as soon as the city
engineers has completed the plans.
It is hoped that bids will be re
ceived on April 3 in order that the
contract can be awarded and the
work begun before the construc
tion of the highway is commenced
by the county. The distance is
approximately 4100 feet.
Building Inspector George Webb
appeared before the solons and
asked that a number of amencf
ments be made to the building code
to take care of modern methods of
construction. The Commissioners
decided to draft a complete set of
changes and action will be taken
at a subsequent meeting.
Commissioner Amos Bateman
stated that a number of tax
payers had called upon him With
the request that the time of hold
ing meetings of the Commission
be changed from 4 P. M. to 7.30
P. M.. Many years ago the solons
.held their meetings in the evening
but owing to the general demand
for sessions in the afternoon the
change was made. In view of the
limited number of taxpayers re
questing the change the Commis
sioners decided to lay the matter
no the table.
No action was taken on a re
quest made in communication
from the Margate City Chamber
of Commerce asking that con
sideration be given the matter of
having a life guard stationed on
the beach at Kenyon Avenue
during the coming summer. The
matter will be taken up when the
beach force is named.
On request of William H. Car
roll & Co., Ventnor Realators, the
Commission instructed' the city
,engineers to fix the grade and
street boundaries on Iroquois and
Jasper Avenues between Atlantic
and Ventnor Avenues. The com
,puny’s plans to finance a building
operation in that section.
Mrs. McClain Asphyxiated
Mrs. Annie McClain, wife of
George McClain, chief engineer
at the Ventnor City water works,
was taken to the Atlantic City
Hospital on Monday afternoon,
after efforts to revive her with
a lungmotor had failed. The
woman died as the result of
asphyxiation.
Mrs. McClain was found in the
bathroom of her home, 105 North
Cornwall Avenue, at 2 o’clock and
word was immediately sent to the
firehouse. Firemen Sharpe and
Price, accompanied by Thomas
Newell, responded with the lung
motor apparatus. First aid
methods were applied but with
out avail.. Mrs. McClain has
been iu ill-health for some time.
Deliveries at any time desired!
daily and this insures Ventnor!
householders the best service for;
all kinds of sea foods, if orders
are given to the CHELSEA FISH
MARKET, 2707 Atlantic Avenue.
Phones—Bell 2180 and 2181;—
Advertiaiitoenfc. • ; ’ii'.'-I’-'i
OUR NEW FEATURES THIS WEEK:
My Trip Abroad
by Charlie Chaplin
The First of a Series of Letters Written for the Ventnor News
What Well Dressed Women Will Wear
By ANNE RlTTENHOUSE
Margate Bars
Motor Campers
—
Declaring the “squatters’ sum
mer camp” to be a nuisance the
Margate Commissioners voted
Monday unanimously to bar from
the city itinerant tent dwellers,
directing City Clerk Gertzen to
post signs bearing the legend j
“Camping Prohibited” oil all
streets along the beachfront in
the upper section of the city. The
action of the Board is in keeping
with the decision reached by the
Chamber of Commerce at its last
meeting when resolutions oppos
ing the beach camps were adopted.
Commissioner Charles Hart spon
sored the resolution to bar the
campers.
City Clerk Gertzen was in
structed to advertise for bids for
a carload of 4-inch iron water
pipe to be used in extending mains
in various parts of the eity due
to the unprecedented building
boom, - '/’i ^ -i.SsiasMi, ;
Tax Assessor Gertzen reported
the collection of■ $8600 in de
linquent taxes, the payments
having been to clear title oh
various tracts of land which have
come into the market for desirable*
building sites.
The Commissioners approved
the figures determined upon by
the Board of School Estimates for
the annual budget. The amount
asked for the public schools for
the coming year is $6300.
Contractor Norman N. Gale, of
Ventnor City, was granted $2000
as partial payment on his con
tract for removal of cottages on
Ventnor Avenue, made necessary
because of the contemplated per
manent improvement of the high
way by the county from Ventnor
City to Longport.
Discuss Paving in Committee
Common Council met as a com
mittee of the whole on Monday
evening and discussed various
matters to be formally presented
at the next regular meeting on
March 27. While no action was
taken it is understood that the
plan to pave certain cross streets
will be carried to a conclusion
and that the placing of all
streets in passable condition will
be provided for. A large batch
of bills were checked by the heads
of the various committees.,
Gala Evening
for Trade Board
■ The Ventnor Board of Trade
has announced the Annual Ladies
Night for Friday of this week at
the Hotel Chelsea. President
Thomas Sheen and his committee
have been working energetically
to make this the big event of the
Ventnor season and have received
over two hundred and fifty ac
ceptances from the members.
E. J. Cattell, statistian of
Philadelphia and famous after
dinner speaker will be the guest
of the evening, there will be danc
ing in the music room and dance
specialties by Mr. and Mrs. De
Cardo. A collation will be served
by the hotel. Friday night will be
a memorable occasion in the an
nals of the Ventnor business or
ganization.
Veteran Oat lor Council
W. Preston Crook, past com
mander of the local American
Legion Post, is being groomed by
a large coterie of friends for the
Republican nomination for Com
mon Council.
The term of Carleton E.
Adams, present member from the
'First Ward, expires on Decem
ber 31st
Mr. Crook has been a resident
of Ventnor City for many years
hnd has taken an active interest
in civic affairs. As head of
James Harvey Post, No. 144,
American Legion, he identified
himself with a number of move
ments of a semi-political nature
which had for their object the
further progress of the resort.
As toastmaster at the American
Legion banquet, given in honor
of Mayor Brehman, Mr. Crook
won merited approbation because
of his manifest ability as a pub
lic speaker. - "
With a record of overseas serv
ice with the American forces
during the World Wat, reflecting
extraordinary ability along ex
ecutive lines, Mr. Crook is con
sidered as thoroughly capable of
undertaking the task of legis
lating for his home city.
Members of the American
Legion are said to be back of his
candidacy to a man.
' Councilman Corkran Contributes to Ventnor
Boys Band
.Councilman H. W. Corkran has presented his check for $15
to swell the amount being collected through the Ventnor News
for the sum needed to assure professional instruction to the Boys
Band of Ventnor. Along with his check the city official sends his
best wishes for the success of the first musical organization of the
kind in Ventnor. _ _ .
This week the leaders in the Parent-Teacher Association and
others interested in making the Ventnor Band a fine body of
players to represent the resort in the Atlantic City Fall Pageant
and other big public affairs will start a campaign throughout
Ventnor to secure the $500 needed to give the Band lads proper
instruction. Those interested are urged to help the cause with
any sums from a single dollar upward. Sums received to date are:
' Councilman H. W. Corkran..... i.... .$15.66 . ‘
' Mayor Amor W. Brehman. 25.00
' Mr. and Mrs. George Bell Wilson...... 10.00
i>,;... \ Ventnor News,. ..................:. 25.00
No Penalties
For Mason
Board of Health Fails to Verify
Early Reports of Failure to
Collect Garbage
After a public bearing, lasting
nearly three hours, the Board of
Health on Monday evening de
cided that while some evidence
of irregularity in collection of
garbage had been shown insuffi
cient testimony had been adduced
to warrant the imposition of fines
specified in the contract between j
the city and Joel Mason, the con-j
tractor, who is under bond, but j
who effected an agreement with j
Max Schulz, of Cardiff, to make
the two weekly collections speci
fied. The latter is the actual
garbage collector.
Complaint had been officially
filed by Councilman Ralph G.
Brooks, chairman of the Sanitary
Committee of CouncU, a total of
57 specific failures to collect hav
ing been presented.
James Phillips, employed by
the Sanitary Committee as gar
bage and rubbish inspector, testi
fied to having made inspections
in various parts of the city, and
claimed that the contractor had
failed to make the required num
ber of visits. Notice had been
sent by the secretary of the |
Board of Health to each of the;
57 persons set forth in the blan- j
bet complaint, but only one
appeared. Letters were received
from half a dozen, 'but in each
case insisted that they did not
wish to register a complaint
Howard E. Moore, 5402 Vent
nor Avenue, whose name appear
ed in the list presented,
personally appeared, but stated
that the contractor had never
gone longer than five days with
out collecting refuse from his
home.
■City Solicitor Westcott ap
peared as counsel for the Board
of Health, while W. Elmer
Brown, Jr., represented Max
Schulz, the contractor.
C. S. Coles presided at the
hearing, other members of the
Board in attendance including
iW. Shaffer Smith, Dr. Homer I.
i Silvers, Adolph E. Apel and
James G. Scull.
The names of Conncilmen
Carleton E. Adams and William
Bach appeared in the list of those
alleged to have complained, but
neither appeared at the hearing,
although they were both present
at City Hall attending a com
mittee meeting of Common
Council.
Letters were read from S. R.
! Moss, 102 S. Baton Rouge Ave
|nue, and Theodore Drake, 109 S.
Baton Rouge Avenue, but in each
case they stated that they had no
complaint to make, the latter
stating that during the period
specified in the notice the collec
tions had been made twice within
the week as provided for in the
contract. -
Now a Citizen
Included among* the many
former subjects of other coun
tries who were awarded citizen
ship papers by County Judge
Robert H. Ingersoll recently dur
ing appropriate exercises at the
Atlantic City High School, one
Ventnor City resident received
,the coveted document,' which
makes him a full-fledged Ameri
can citizen. The “newest citi
zen” is Antonia Caravello, of 107
| Cornwall Avenue. ■» ■
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All the News" S§
At a Glance
Summary of Interesting Events te
City, State and Country V''
By Bessie Marshall Walker
Russia wants the other nations
to pay her piper.
Whist! The little folk are
abroad. A spook, a spirit, a
fairy, etc., has mysteriously hung
a rejected picture on the walls
of the exhibition of the Society
of the Independent Artists at the
Waldorf.
Spooks figure prominently in *'
metropolitan papers. We might
as well have one in the Ventnor
News.
Not even East Africa is free
from agitators. When an Indian
agitator was arrested there re
cently, the natives resisted and a
number were killed ‘before tile
mob dispersed.
Chandi has been sentenced to
six ’years imprisonment. The ap
pointment of Viscount Peel as
Secretary of the Indian Commis
sion foreshadows a more rigorous
policy in dealing with India.
Philadelphia is rising early
and staying late to prove its en
thusiasm for itself. This has
been boost Philadelphia week.
The Fassisti are arming bands
of women to safeguard Fiume.
These armies of women will soon
be an old story.
Such quantities of platinum ,
are being found in Albania that
the prestige of the Ural Moun
tains’ supply is seriously affected.
Without awaiting the ratifica
tion of the Shantung treaty, ne
gotiated during the Washington
| Conference, the Japanese have
< issued orders for the evacuation
of Shantung. Would that Wash
ington could act as expeditiously.
Crippled beggars hired at $3
a day and a little whiskey, netted
John Stefan, of Brooklyn,*a very,
comfortable income.
St. Patrick’s Day brought no
disturbance in Ireland. The re*
cent upheaval in Limerick was
so unpopular no new move on
the part of the de Valera forces
was attempted. Can one believe
the report of the growth of the
Treaty sentiment?
Capt. Amundson is taking pre
cautions against-sun stroke next
summer. His expedition to the
Arctic starts June first.
Germany is not the only nation
in despair over paying her debts.
Every country in the world bears
a like burden. ; ;
The Volstead Act as a law
seems more or less a. failure
when we find it necessary to
make treaties with foreign coup- a
tries in order to enforce it. $16
The situation in South Africa
j is less grave. Government forces
| have taken control since martial
law was proclaimed and bombing
planes have relieved the besieged
with food and ammunition! Gen
eral Smuts has personally taken
charge of the situation. The
strike which has lasted sixty
seven days ended midnight of
March 8th.
All the reports of speeches in
the Senate on the Four Power
Treaty show that the issues are
Democrat vs. Republican. The
treaty itself or what it can do
for the world is of no moment. 'J?
Barring unforeseen incidents,
ratification Of the treaty is as
sured. The test vote was 55-30.
A new objection to prohibition:
“I do hold that the total ab
stainer is imperfectly equipped
for high literature because high
literature, both in its creation
and fuH enjoyment, demands
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