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Mice Fond of Music |
Science Now'Claims!
The Musical Mouse Trap Would
Take an Honored Place in The
Niche of Fame and Soon Rid
Ui of These Pests
By a Veteran Scribbler
A scientific writer comes forth
with the statement that mice have
a passionate fondness for music.
This dees not at first appear to be
anything more than trivial, yet,
looked at through the monocle of
science, it suddenly looms on the
primrose rim of the horizon of do
mestic economy as a piece of in
formation for which all house
holders should he duly grateful.
If mice are really fond of music,
there is an independent fortune
awaiting the man who will invent
a small music box which, when
wound, will run all night. Such a
contrivance, attached within an
ordinary trap would attract the
mice to it with rare hypnotic
power. The expense of cheese
would thus be saved, and the mu
sical mouse-trap would take an
.honored place in the niche of
fame, beside the spoon hook, which
requires no bait, and the decoy
duck, to which the power to quack
would be a quite superfluous ac
complishment. If mice are fond
of good music it is eminently
proper to assume that they are
not favorably impressed by music
(Continued un Page 31)
No Night Revelry
On Yentnor Beach
Rigid Rules Now in Effect Will
Prevent Wild Beach Parties
Along Strand — Complaints
Have Been Made
After several complaints had
been registered a"bout the conduct
of parties held on the Ventnor
strand at night, Chief Frings of
the Police Department, has issued
strict rules concerning beach
parties and has ordered all officers
to see that the affairs are orderly
and in keeping with propriety.
It is understood that on several
occasions parties have been held
which kept up lengthy sessions
until three o’clock in the morning,
disturbing the neighbors in the
vicinity of the beach. According
to a number of the life guards, the
mornings following some of these
revels, hootch bottles and import
ant parts of feminine clothing
have been found in the tents or
on the sand.
The new regulations forbid any
persons giving a beach party un
less their parents who must be
thirty-five years or more of age.
(Continued on Page 31)
Fire Company Meets
The Volunteer Fire Companj
of Ventnor will hold a meeting
this evening in City Hall for the
purpose of drilling and the studj
of the latest tactics used in fire
fighting.
YELLOW CAB Company. Mar
6000. Quick Safa Service—Ai»
Today’s Editorials Page 9
ABOUT THE CASINO
A GOOD START
BOARDWALK AND BENCHES
SAFETY FIRST
YACHT RACING
A
LEST WE FORGET
INFLUENCE
Those Funny Little Expressions
Those Trick Phrases
Have you ever wondered how
they originated?
JEAN NEWTON
famous newspaper writer has made
a study of these words and phrases
and will each week tell in the Vent
nor News “How It Started."
Exclusively in this newspaper she
will give the origin and history of
the phrases you’ve all used for
years. See Page 25.
Swimming Pool
Being Planned
Herman Loeb Sponsors Move
ment for Natatorium to be Lo
cated on Ventnor Beacb
Herman Loeb, noted business
man of Ventnor, was scheduled to
address a meeting of the Board of
Trade last evening on a public
swimming pool to be located along
the Ventnor beach. It has been
: vividly brought out by Mr. Loeb
j that such an addition -to the city
I would be an excellent advertise
| ment and would cost very little to
construct and maintain.
J The project sponsored by Mr.
Loeb has already received the en
dorsement of other leading men
of Ventnor, including Carleton E.
Adams, Amor W. Brehman,
Charles Beyer and many others.
It is hoped by Mr. Loeb that
enough interest can be aroused in
the project so as to get work
started soon enough to have it fin
ished by next summer. He said
that at a rough estimate he’did
not think it would cost more than
$10,000 and that the interest to
be paid on such a loan could easily
be defrayed by money derived
from swimming instructions.
It is the plan of Mr. Loeb to
situate the pool,on the beach at
(Continued on Page 30)
Yentnor To Have
New Bathing Beach
Ordinance Providing for Acqui
sition of Lafayette Avenue
Land Passes on Third Read
ing Without Opposition
Insuring for residents of the
extreme lower beach an open
bathing beach, the passage last
Monday night by Common Coun
cil of Ordinance No. 13 provides
for the acquisition in fee simple
by Ventnor City of lands imme
diately adjacent to the ocean end
of Lafayette Ave., at a probable
cost considerably less than any
other open beach heretofore ac
quired.
Prior to the vote on third read
ing of the measure an oppor
tunity was afforded the public to
speak for or against the ordi
nance. Although several taxpay
ers registered a protest two weeks
ago, none appeared on Monday
night.
Submitted last month the bid
of the Hill Dredging Co., for the
filling of lands along the lower
beach was rejected by Council,
and new bids ordered advertised
for to be submitted on August
11. Council fixed the time for be
ginning the work September 15th.
Chairman Adams of the Pier
Committee announced that new
benches would be installed on the
pier this week.
(Continued on Page 31)
Deliveries at any time desired
daily and this insures Ventnoi
householders the best sendee foi
all kinds of sea foods, if orders
are given to the CHELSEA FISH
MARKET, 2707 Atlantic Avenue
Phones, Bell—Marine 2180 and
2181.—Adv.
Sewerage" Charge
Denied by Adams
Declares a Morning Newspaper
Gave - False Report About
Drainage from Ventnor Pier
—
Carleton E. Adams, chairman of
the Ventnor Pier committee of
council, in an exclusive interview
with a Ventnor News represen
tative, stated a few days ago that
the report published in a morning
paper about sewer from the Vent
nor Pier being drained on the sur
face of the ocean is not true. He
further made known that the
washroom now being installed on
the end of the pier is not yet com
pleted and has not even been used
In answering the accusation
that the pipes would not meet the
specifications of the Board of
I Health, Mr. Adams replied that
I they certainly would. He ex
! plained how at present the work
1 Is being held up for lack of funds
' caused by insufficient appropria
! tions, but that when more money
! was obtained for the pier the
I plumbing would meet all requjre
! ments and until such a time the
washroom would not be used at all.
He also stated that the installation
of the comfort station had en
tailed more expense than had been
originally figured.
Mr. Adams was at a loss to
understand how it could have been
that bathers were alleged to have
complained about sewer washing
ashore from the pier since ab
solutely no use of the washroom
has been made.
5“* There is little hope of getting
the work completed before next
summer, according to Mr. Adams,
but he said that when the work
was finished there would be com
pliance in every respect to the
specifications of the Board of
Health and every possible con
sideration for the bathers in that
vicinity.
Margate Mayor Raps
Local Health Board
Mayor John L. Risley Declare*
There are Stagnant Frog Ponds
in the Center of Margate
Mayor John L. Risley, of Mar
gate, at a meeting of the commis
sioners last Thursday afternoon,
gently rapped the Board of Health
of that city when he said, “I do not
think the local Board of Health
is acting as severe as it should.
This is a ten million dollar city,
yet there are stagnant frog ponds
in the center of it and lots all over
being used for public dumps.”
This comment by Mayor Risley
came during a discussion of the
way people .have been throwing
ashes, papers and all kinds of
debris, upon the private lots in
the city of Margate. Complaints
were also made by the city clerk
and other persons present of frog
ponds in front of their homes
which they asked to have filled in
as soon as possible. Though no
action was taken, the matter will
probably be referred to the Board
of Health at the meeting of the
commission next week.
Mayor Risley stated he had .been
watching for the offenders who
were daily dumping trash within
the residential sections of the city.
He believed that it must be done
on the sly at night. “It is cer
tainly up to the citizens of Mar
gate,” he said, “to keep their eyes
open in order that we may stop
this objectionable practice. Every
I one in this city should have enough
j civic pride to keep it from being
littered with paper and all kinds
of rubbish.”
During the meeting the possi
bility of adding another approach
to the Boardwalk was discussed.
Action was held over until the fol
lowing week when certain financial
reports necessary for the con
struction would be accessible.
Ventnor Women Leaders In Hot Clash
Over New Citizenship School Project
Mrs. O. J. Hammel, Advocate, and Mr*. Anna L. Williams, Opposed,
Sharply Refute Each Others Ideas of Political Instruction
For Voters in Ventnor
The Ventnor League of Women,
headed by its president, Mrs. O. J.
Hammel, is arranging to have a
Citizenship School in the Atlantic
City High School the latter part
of August for the purpose of edu
cating the voting class along
political lines. Though open to
both sexes, yet it is especially in
tended for women. Noted speak
ers on politics and economics have
already been secured to address
the sessions.
Mrs. Anna L. Williams, former
president of the local Board of
Education and president of the
Women’s Republican Club, de
clared a few days ago that such a
school is an insult to the intelli
gence of Ventnor women and as
such an insult meets with her
keenest disapproval. It is her con
tention that women have already
educated themselves politically by
reading newspapers, current
magazines and generally keeping
up on civic affairs since getting
the franchise. She said that she
believes this school is unnecessary
and unflattering inference of
ignorance.
Another objection Mrs. Williams
found with the School and the
League is their non-partisanism.
“I feel that any organization
should take a positive stand either
for or against an issue,” stated
Mrs. Williams. “I can not ap
prove of a medley of opinions, and
conglomerate arguments. One
should either be a Republican or
a Democrat, or if one chooses, a
Socialist, or whatever party one
may think best. But this non
partisan attitude is certainly not
going to make better politics.”
Mrs. O. J. Hammel answered
this statement of Mrs. Williams
by replying, “I too believe in a
definite party adherence, but be
fore one can take such a stand it
is necessary first to give a careful
study of the policies and histories
of both parties. And that is the
purpose of this Citizenship School
and the League of Women
Voters.”
In refutation of this argument
was the remark made by Mrs.
Williams that enough years had
already elapsed since women had
received the franchise to learn all
about the parties if they were in
terested in affairs of government.
She also brought out the idea that
women who had not been in
terested enough to read and learn
about politics as presented in the
paper and current literature
would not bother to attend any
course on political enlightenment.
(Continued on Page 30)
RICHARD SWIFT
Commerical and service manager of the
Atlantic City Electric Company who has
engineered the local detail work inci
dental to the “Home Electric” exhibit
on the Million Dollar Pier.
Home Exposition j
Opens In Resort
Unique “Home Electric” Exhibit
Now Featured on Million
Dollar Pier
Elaborate ceremonies topped by
a banquet at the Hotel Ambassa
dor • marked the formal opening
of the third exposition of the j
modern American home on the
Million Dollar Pier on Saturday'
night.
The exposition, which is the first
to be given under the auspices of
the American Art and Industry
Foundation, is being staged under
the direction of E. Conrad Ekholm,
of Ventnor, who managed the
previous exhibitions held on the
pier in former years.
Christened by little Miss Betty
Rice with sea water brought up
| from the briny deep by Miss Olive
Filer, swimming champ of the
Ambassador Swimming Club, in
the glare of the largest electric j
globe in the world, an immense
30,000 watt bulb that illuminated
the pier and the sea for miles,
the National Home Electric was
thrown open for inspection on Sat
urday evening.
The “Home Electric,” a distinct
feature of the exposition, is lo
cated on the pier at “4 Atlantic
Ocean” being the only other house
in the country besides Captain
Young’s residence, “2 Atlantic
Ocean,” to bear that particular
number.
This exhibit, a modern two
story $15,000 home, full size, was
designed by Really & Thompson,
architects, to show how to plan a
home, and won the first prize
among 5000 plans submitted by
architects awarded by the Light
(Continued on Page 31)
To Shoot New Hook and Ladder
Photographs of the newly ac
quired hook and ladder truck
added to the equipment of the
Ventnor fire department will be
taken at 4 o’clock next Friday
afternoon at the municipal water
works plant on Cornwall Ave.
Mayor Marston and members of
Council and city officials will be
present to witness various tests
to be made. The aerial exten
sion ladder reaches to a height
of 75 feet and will be of ample
length for use on the largest
building in the city.
Benches on Margate Walk
The most recent improvement
on the Margate esplanade is the
addition of benches which were
all completed a few days ago.
These benches, made of heavy
wood, are placed at frequent in
tervals along the boardwalk from
one qnd'of the city to the other.
Race For Mayor Hf
Gets A New Twist i
_
Robert W. Bartlett, Banker Son
of Council President, Flashes
Into Ventnor Limelight as
“Dark Horse’’ Candidate
For the last forty-eight hours,
there has been an underground '■*
rumor in Ventnor that in the
event of Mayor Almerin Marston
adhering to his original deter
mination not to accept another
term, Robert W. Bartlett, son of
Ex-sheriff Bartlett, now Presi
dent of the Ventnor City Council,
will run in opposition to Carleton
Adams for the mayoralty of Vent- ;J@|
nor.
Mr. Bartlett has been a lead
ing citizen of Ventnor for many
years, has been identified with a
number of the largest banking in- V1
terests on Absecon Island and is
not only well known but very
popular, and would prove a for
midable candidate if he should- de
cide to run. ■ .5
At the time of going to press,
Mr. Bartlett, when interrogated
on the subject, would neither con- J
firm nor deny the rumor, but in
well informed political circles it
has been persistently reiterated
that Mr. Bartlett would be a can
didate. ; Se
Council Reappoints
Zoning Commission
Troublesome Ventnor Ordinance
Will be Revised — Bids Re
ceived for Painting of
City Hall
Held in abeyance several
months pending a conference of
representatives from various mu
nicipalities throughout the State
called to determine the logical
course of procedure consequent
to the passage by the legislature
of an act legalizing several fea
tures of zoning laws passed by
some cities and declared of no
effect by the Supreme Court, Or
dinance No. 7, fixing the boun
daries of zones for residential
and business properties, was
:aken from the calendar by Coun
;il last Monday night.
Resolutions were adopted pro
riding for the appointment of all
:he members of the Zoning Com
mission appointed last year by
the Mayor and empowering them
to draft the necessary measure
ivhieh will conform to the statute
as passed last March. While
there will be minor changes it is
anticipated that the findings of
he commission and the zones es
tablished will be adopted by the
:echnically new commission. This
action, it wras explained by City
Solicitor Westcott, was made nec
assary by the provisions of State
aw. It is expected that the or
dinance providing for the zoning
af the city will become operative
(Continued on Page 31)
Clarence C. Chester Dies
Confined to his bed only three
days Clarence C. Chester, build
ing inspector of Margate City,
died last Wednesday evening at
his home on South Sumner Ave.,
having attained the age of 58
years. The funeral took place
last Saturday, interment having
been made in Philadelphia. De
ceased was a member of Atlantic
City Lodge of Elks. His widow
survives.
VENTNOR TRUST COMPANY
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