Ventnor news., February 25, 1925, Image 1

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Herzberg Abandons
• Big Hotel Project
But Benjamin Franklin, Proposed
$10,000,000 ’Walk Structure
Finds New Promoter
Joseph Herzberg of New York
City has abandoned his plans for
the erection of the proposed Ben
jamin Franklin Hotel on the
beach front between Providence
and Boston avenues, but the proj
ect will in all probability be
taken over by other parties and
pushed to completion on a scale
commensurate with that designed
by Mr. Herzberg when he entered
into negotiations for the purchase
of the site from Richard B. Mor
rell a few months ago.
The planting of “for sale”
signs on the plot, which covers
an entire square along the Board
walk, running back to Pacific ave
nue, led to reports in real estate
circles during the last few days
that it was to be divided up into
building lots. From an authorita
tive source information has been
forthcoming that lots are to be
sold only on the Pacific avenue
side, and that the hotel, which is
to contain approximately 1200
rooms and cost about $10,000,000,
will run back 300' feet from the
Boardwalk.
If the project in which new
capital has been enlisted goes
through, the hotel will be the
largest of its type in the country.
From a banker who has been
active in the negotiations from
the beginning, it was learned yes
terday that the chances of the
success of the project are better
how than they have been at any
time since the enterprise was first
broached.
Furniture Seized In
. High Priced Cottage
Constable Appear* With Attach
ment After Tenant Obtains
Lease at $500 Monthly
Within two weeks after a
wealthy Philadelphian and his
family had moved into a cottage
on Aberdeen Place, in Chelsea,
for which he is paying a rental
of $500 per month, a constable
appeared on the premises armed
with an attachment on the fur:
nitnre, the use of which had been
included in the lease. Laboring
under great stress the wife of
the Philadelphian called up Chief
Frings of the Ventnor Police De
partment, asking advice as to
what course she might pursue in
the absence of her husband.
She was told to take the mattei
.up with the Atlantic City police
and did so, but reports have it
that the constable was adamant
and enforced the authority con
tained in the court order by re
moving the furniture from -the
handsome cottage which was tc
have been occupied indefinitelj
by the Philadelphian and hif
family as a seashore home. This
is the first step in a peculiar cast
which is destined soon to be airec
in the courts, according to th<
police.
Deliveries at any time desired
daily and this insures Ventnoi
householders the best service foi
all kinds of sea foods. If orden
are given to the CHELSEA FTSB
MARKET, 2707 Atlantic Avenne.
Phones, Bell—Marine 2190 and
wffm 2181.—Adv.
Pickard Taxis—Mar. 3113—Adv
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Mayor Bader’s Political Future May
Hinge on Outcome of Lippman Fight
If He Persists in Promotion of Police Captain to Inspectorship,
Ward Leaders Would be Expected to Unite Their Forces
Against Him in the Event That He Sought Re-Election
Future Uncertain
For N. A. Sanitarium
Mis& Anna Van Valkenberg and
Present Staff of Nurses Will
Resign June 1
A great deal of uncertainty
seems to surround the future of
the North American Sanitarium
in Ventnor since the recent sale <
of the Philadelphia newspaper
jvhose name the institution bears.
E. A. Van Valkenberg has retir
ed from the directorate of the .
newspaper to take up scientific
farming at his home in Pennsyl
vania, and whether or not the
new owners and management of
the North American will take as
active an interest as he and his
associates did in the institution
at Victoria avenue and the beach
is a matter that is causing a great
deal of speculation.
It is reported that Miss Anna
Van Valkenberg, a sister of Mr.
Van Valkenberg and for many
years the active head of the
North American Sanitarium, is to
resign that position on June 1.
With her, it is rumored, will go
the staff of five nurses now em
ployed at the institution. There
are about 40 ' children at the
home, all under treatment for
bone tuberculosis. There was
a report current some time ago
that !3. M. Braunstein, former
shore merchant, was to take
over the maintenance of the in
stitution, but this proved to be
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Heat and Caretaker
For Casino Opposed
Citizens and Officials Declare
Proposal Would Involve
Unnecessary Expense
The proposal to keep the Vent
nor Casino open during the
winter months, install a heating
apparatus and employ a care
taker does not seem to be re
ceived with any great degree of
favor among prominent taxpay
ers. They contend that the heat
ing of tlje Casino and the employ
ment of a caretaker would be an
unnecessary expense, since resi
dents and visitors promenade the
Boardwalk in winter only when
the weather is fine and then find
the pier • 'benches comfortable
through the heat engendered by
the sun’s rays.
Nor is there sufficient demand,
they assert, for the use of pier
comfort stations to be used dur
ing the winter months. Even in
Atlantic City, it is pointed out,
where visitors flock in large num
bers during the winter, these
stations are more a luxury than
a necessity and are used by only
a small fraction of the people
frequenting the Boardwalk. The
money that would be expended in
this direction, they state, could
be used to far better advantage
in the construction of comfort
stations at the two bathing
beaches.
VENTNOK TRUST COMPANY
4% Oa Tine Deposits
Safe Deposit Boms —Adv.
In the widespread discussion
throughout political circles re
garding the deadlock which has
arisen over the appointment of
Captain Samuel Lippman as
police inspector, chief considera
tion is given to the effect the
outcome of the battle may have
>n the political future of Mayor
Edward L. Bader. If* the mayor
persists in his determination to
lame Lippman, many of those
vho are well versed in Republican
Organization affairs express the
)pinion that the ward leaders now
solidly aligned against Lippman
vould retaliate by throwing their
'orces against the mayor in the
ivent that he again sought public
jffice.
But those who know the mayor
jest are emphatic in their asser
;ion that he loves nothing better
;han a fight, and would willingly
;ake his chances with the voters
ind against the ward leaders if
t comes to a showdown. Edmund
0. Gaskill, Jr., leader of the First
Ward, appears to be the wheel
norse of the opposition to Captain
jippraan. John Murtland, Fourth
Ward leader, is said to have been
Inly half-hearted in his opposition
to Lippman before he left recently
for a tour of the South, but since
his return, rumor has it, Gaskill
has swung him over to the ranks
of the irreconcilables and he is
now an outspoken foe of the move
ment to promote the traffic police
captain.
Britt Allen has dropped out of
the picture since the mayor, at a
conference nearly two weeks ago,
protested to Enoch L. Johnson
against the presence of Allen at
the assemblage. Robert M. Johns
ton,, Second Ward leader, is said
to continue hostile to the selection
of Captain Lippman. Whether or
not the deadlock is responsible for
abandonment of a southern trip
planned by Enoch L. Johnson is a
question to which no reliable an
swer is forthcoming. The rebuke
administered to Allen at the con
ference in City Hall recently is
believed to have forced him defi
nitely out of the running as a
candidate for leadership in the
Third Ward, and the rank and
file of the police are said to have
expressed great glee because of
the incident.
Many of those prominent in the
councils of the Organization are
of the opinion that the mayor
would be absolutely safe, so far
as his political future is con
cerned, in defying the ward lead
ers and forcing Lippman’s ap
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Harvey Post To Honor
Former Mayor Marston
Hon. Almerin Marston, former
mayor, will be the guest of honor
at the annual banquet of James
Harvey Post, No. 144, American
Legion, the tentative date for
which has been fixed for Wednes
day evening, April 15, at one of
the beachfront hotels. Speakers
of national prominence will make
addresses, and various novelties
will be introduced. Dancing will
conclude the evening’s festivities.
LeRoy Berglund is chairman of
the general committee in charge
of the affair.
Can BURKARD COAL CO.
-— Marine 7900-Adv.
CAPTAIN SAMUEL LIPPMAN
ibout whose proposed appointment as
police inspector a bitter political battle
is being waged
Coast Journey Looms
For Wonder Mermen
Project Launched by the Ventnor j
New* Meets With High Favor I
Among Swimming Official* j
—
The proposed trip to California
of the Atlantic City High School
launched by the VENTNOR News,
is fast becoming a probability
with the encouraging replies of
Dr. Francis B. Coll, coach, and
E. E. Hippensteel, faculty ad
visor. . In view of the fact that
California houses some of the
speediest scholastic natators in
the world,- followers of the resort
aquatic marvels are anxious for
a dual meet with the pick of the
coast amphibians.
The Ventnor News is now in
direct air-mail communication
with E. D. Grace, executive sec
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Firemen Worth $30,000
Annually To Ventnor
They Prevent Losses Approximat
ing This Amount Each Year,
Asserts Frings
• Whether fire losses occur in
their home communities or else
where throughout the country,
property owners have to assume
their burden of the cost, Harry
H. Frings, Chief of Police of
Ventnor, informed the members
of the Atlantic County Firemen’s
Association at their meeting in
Margate City recently. Chief
Frings is vice president of the
associations* and the meeting was
attended by delegates from prac
tically every community in the
[county. The volunteer firemen
[of Ventnor, he"declared, are sav
jing the taxpayers not less than
$30,000 a year.
“Remember that every dollar
(lost through fire is a loss beyond
recovery and that you and I must
pay our share of the same in one
way or another,” said Chief
Frings.
“It does not matter where the
fire loss is, here in your home
town, in Philadelphia or Chicago,
we all have to pay. It may be
through insurance rates, through
direct taxation or through loss
of material, for what is burned
ceases to produce for civilization.
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AUSTIN COAL CO-Mar. 11-Adv.
YELLOW CAB Company. Mar.
6000. Qaick, Safa Sarviea—JUr.
Veiled Charges in Winchester Avenue
Criticism Hotly Refuted by Officials
Emphatic Denial Made That City Is In Any Way Responsible for
Crooked Thoroughfare, And Sources From Which Charges
Originate Are Accused of Ingratitude
From property owners in whose -
behalf the city has expended 1
considerable money within the ]
last two or three years and used
its good offices with the owners
of adjacent land to prevent the
obstruction of their view of the i
Thoroughfare and access to it at
Victoria avenue, comes now a
veiled attack on the city adminis
tration in the form of a published
statement regarding the “tortu- :
ous windings” of Winchester
avenue. The newspaper screed
is written with a palpable effort 1
to represent Council as being
responsible for the present condi
tion of Winchester avenue, de
spite the fact that those respon
sible for its publication know
only too well that neither the
present nor past administrations
have had anything whatever to do
with the matter.
Members of Council and city
officials freely concede that Win
chester avenue is all that the
article in question declares it to
be, but they are emphatic in
their assertion that it would have
been much more tortuous and
winding, and would have been
blocked off entirely at one point
were it not for the precautions!
' taken by Council. Winchester
; avenue was laid out, they declare,
1 by development syndicates long
1 before Ventnor was incorporated
: as a city, and a section on which
residences now stand was at that
time covered by the waters of
Inside Thoroughfare. j
This section lies between Little
Rock and Nashville avenues,
across from which in the
Thoroughfare lay an island. After
its purchase by a land develop
ment company this area was filled
in. The chief irregularities in
the street line now run between
■ Frankfort and Surrey avenues
end have been occasioned through
the policy of individual property
owners in laying out streets in
a manner which they considered
to their best advantage, before
the city had become incorporated
1 end was able to assert any author
’ ity in the matter.
> The strip between Surrey ave
! nue and Little Rock avenue on the
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avenue was held as a building site,
under the same conditions as
surrounding property, and even
tually came into possession of
George H. Earle of Philadelphia.
A considerable portion of it had
been swept away through the
action of the tides and Mr. Earle
applied to the Riparian Commis
sion for extension of his riparian
rights so that he could build out
into the Thoroughfare.
Opposition developed when it
became known that Mr. Earle
intended to erect a combination
boat house and residence and
members of the Riparian Com
mission came to Ventnor to ad
just the matter. The oppositior
came from property owners or
IS A BOY’S FUTURE
WORTH $10 TO YOU?
It Is far better to contribute $10
now towards fitting the younger
generation for the duties of citizen
ship through the medium of Boy
Scout training, than to pay the same
amount in taxation later for the
apprehension and prosecution of the
boy after he has gone wrong. There
are 4,600 boys eligible for the Boy
Scouts in Atlantic City, and only
700 are enrolled. Enlist In the Boy
Scout movement. It is an invest
ment that pays huge dividends.
itadio Is Breeding
Social Revolution
lew Habits Are Making Home ■
Surroundings More Important,
Says Noted Economist
“Radio is rapidly changing our
ives and habits as a.nation,” says
Soger W. Babson, the statisti
:ian, who sees much more than
sntertainment or even education
in the millions of radio re
ceiving sets scattered throughout
America.
“The great basic Law of Action
ind Reaction which governs our
social and economic worlds is seen
ince more in the development of
radio broadcasting and recep
tion,” he says. “Emerson called it
:he Law of Compensation. Nature
employs it to keep things in
balance. America has always
been a home-loving nation but
we may say that we have been
more home-loving at some times
than at others.
“The coming of the automobile
changed our lives. Quick and
relatively easy transportation
widened our horizons. We had
held pretty much within a radius
of five miles; suddenly our in
dividual world is expanded to a
radius of fifty miles. Our daily
world has been increased tre
mendously and we changed our
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Margate City Planning
Bulkheads and Jetties
Mayor Risley and Associates in
Commission Are Endeavoring
to Secure State Aid
Safeguarding of the two-mile
stretch of beach fronting Mar
gate City by a comprehensive
system of modern bulkheads and
jetties against erosion by stop|p
tides and ocean currents is con
teipplated by Mayor Risley and
his colleagues in the Margate City
Commission, and efforts are being
made to secure state aid for the
big project.
During the past two months the
Cbmmissioners have held fre
quent conferences and several
personal inspections of the beach
front have been made, with a
view of determining the best plan
to adopt. The Commissioners
have visited various seashore re
sorts where jetties have been in
stalled and'have sought the advice
of engineers conversant with
jetty construction and devices
designed to cause land accre
tions.
Mayor Risley is hopeful of an
early consummation of the plans
in order that the city may secure
the benefit of great’er bathing
beach areas during the coming
summer. The limited number of
ocean front blocks still open and
the high costs of acquiring them
have caused consideration of the
alternative plan of making beach
on the outside of the Boardwalk.
A general park deed plan under
which the city would control for
all time all lands seaward of the
Boardwalk has been generally
accepted as the more beneficial
to the city in the years to come.