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VENTNOR, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1925 Three Cents per Copy
Vol. 18 No. 45
Fend Among Firemen
- Stirs Magate City
Battle Over Dual Membership
Results in^ Resignations From
Pioneer Organization
Resignation of H. Norman Mc
Connell as secretary of South At
lantic iFire Company, No. 1 last
Wednesday night brought to a
climax the question of dual mem
bership in volunteer fire com
panies in Margate, several mem
bers having recently affiliated
with the newly organized Mar
gate Fire company to which a
charter has been granted by the
secretary of state.
It ap(pears that opposing fac
tions in the pioneer organization
have been at dagger points for
several months and the break
came when a new organization
was formed. When it was learn
ed that members 'of the old com
pany were on the roster of the
new company objection was rais
ed to the dual membership.
John Strotbeck, secretary of
Margate Fire Company, announc
ed his readiness to resign as a
member of the old company, but
Horace Keene, whose name ap
pears on the charter of the new
ly organized unit and who was
present at the meeting of the old
company, did not state his posi
tion.
The new company, having con
formed to the requirement of a
city ordinance governing the
fire department, is said to be
legally made a part of the fire
fighting forces of the city.
Both companies 'have elected a
chief, Stephen Hackney being
the veteran head of the old com
pany, while his son, Albert Hack
ney, was made chief of the new
organization. It is said that
Stephen Hackney is also a mem
ber of the new company. Under
the law there can he only one
chief engineer and the, question
now arises which one will ulti
mately head the department.
“Amusements” Strikes
Oat Into Other Fields
Publications Duplicating Atlantic
City’s Famous' Booklet Will
Be Issued in Other Coast
Resorts
Impressed by the great success
attained by “Amusements” since
it was established in Atlantic
City eight years ago by the late
Charles Scheuer, hotelmen,
merchants and residents general
ly of resorts up and down the
New Jersey coast have entered
into negotiations with The
Amusement Publishing Company
for duplicates of the valuable
little booklets in their various
communities. In response. to
their requests there has been
organized the Inter-City Amuse
ment Booklet Corporation, which
is to issue publications of the
same type as “Amusements” in
Aabury Park, Wildwood, Ocean
City, Cape May, Long Branch,
Deal, Allenhurst and Spring
Lake. A booklet is also to be
published in Miami, Florida, by
this corporation next year.
The Inter-City Amusement
j7-ooklet Corporation is composed
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FOR SALE
‘Beautiful Pedigreed Chow
Puppies—Four months old
MRS. G. S. DOUCHERTY
27 N. North Carolina Avenue
Former Mayor Marston May Be Drafted
In Contest For Councilman-at-Large
Movement With ThU Aim in View Launched by Leading Citizens
of Ventnor After Councilman Hiram Steelman Positively
Refutes to Make Race
ALMERIN MARSTON
Legislature Scored By
Republican Women
U. S. Senator Edge and State
Senator Mackay Blamed for
Failure of Law* in Interest
of Women and Children
Declaring that the recent ses
sion of the New Jersey State
Legislature has done less for and
has been more indifferent to the
special interests of women and
children than any previous Legis
lature in many years past, the
New Jersey Women’s Republican
dub, in sessions held last week
at Camdefi and Passaic, placed
the responsibility for failure to
legislate in the interests of
women and children squarely on
the shoulders of U. S. Senator
Walter E. Edge.
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Steelman Will Preside
At Dinner To Marston
James Harvey Post Will Honor
Former Mayor of Ventnor at
Hotel Chelsea Next
Wednesday
Capt. Hiram Steelman, chair
man of the finance committee of
Ventnor Common Council, and
first commander of Atlantic City
Post, No. 2, American Legion, will
be the toastmaster at the testi
monial dinner to be tendered Hon.
Almerin Marston, former mayor
of Ventnor, at the Hotel Chelsea
next Wednesday evening. Capt.
Steelman served with the 112th
Heavy Field Artillery during the
World War and is a well-known
counsellor-at-law.
Indications point to a large at
tendance at the banquet, which is
an annual affair with James
Harvey Post, No. 144, of Vent
nor, which also sponsors this
year’s affair. Hon. Clifford R.
Powell, speaker of the House of
Assembly and popular in state
Legion affairs, will be the prin
cipal speaker. The committee in
charge, headed by Le Roy Berg
lund, also hopes to secure a
humorist of national reputation
to make an address. Dancing will
follow the dinner.
THE LITTLE ROCK INN, 6218
Atlantic Ave. Nep. 1260. Vent
nor’s Exclusive Tea Room—Adv.
Former Mayor Almerin Mars
ton, who made an enviable record
as Chief Executive of Ventnor
during the two years preceding
the election of Carleton E. Adams
as his successor, will be drafted as
a candidate for councilman-at
large at the June primaries, if a
movement launched by many of
Ventnor’s leading citizens during
the past week attains its objective.
The chief handicap the men be
hind the movement expect to en
counter lies in getting the consent
of Mr. Marston to make the race.
If he consents, there is no doubt
in their minds that he will win by
a decisive majority, no matter who
may be his opponent.
The movement to nominate Mr.
Marston as successor to Joseph R.
Bartlett got under way as soon as
Councilman Hiram Steelman of
the First Ward emphatically an
nounced that he would retire from
politics at the end of his term this
year. It was hoped that Mr.
Steelman would continue in public
life because of the excellent record
he had made as chairman of the
finance committee of Council, but
he is positive in his assertion that
his law practice demands all his
time and attention and is firm in
his refusal to make any further
sacrifices.
The same forces that centered
upon Mr. Steelman to make the
race for councilman-at-large are
now rallying behind the standard
of former Mayor Marston, and
strong pressure will be brought
to bear upon him to enter the pri
maries. Mr. Marston’s business
interests are of such a nature as
also to entail sacrifices in the
event that he comply with the
wishes of his friends and sup
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Bridge To Brigaitine
Rushed To Completion
Filling in of Swamp Land on
Brigantine Side 1* All That
Delay* Formal Opening of
Span
The Atlantic-Brigantine Bridge,
connecting Absecon Island with
Brigantine Island, is completed
and only a swamp now separates
the end of the bridge from Brigan
tine. Vehicles are now able to
traverse the full length of the
bridge, but the swamp land has
not been sufficiently filled in as yet
to let them make a complete trip.
This*, work will have been done
a week from today, the date set
for the formal opening. From
Maryland avenue, where the
boulevard starts, to “The Circle”
in Brigantine is two and one-half
miles. The bridge is 1,760 feet
long, and 30 feet wide. There
is a drawbridge in the middle,
the span of which has a clearance
of 75 feet, and is 16 feet above
water. Steel girders and paling
support the structure.
Toll charges will be collected,
and have already been an
nounced. They run from five to
ninety cents.
In line with many other con
struction activities looking to
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AUSTIN COAL CO.-Mar. 11-Adv.
Can BURKARD COAL CO.
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Schools Will Close For
Easter Holidays Today
The public schools of Atlantic
City and Ventnor will close today
at noon for the annual Easter
vacation. Students will report in
Atlantic City for study at the con
clusion of their last vacation for
this term Tuesday morning at
8.55. The Ventnor schools will
also reopen Tuesday morning.
Gaskill Alone Bars
Lippman Selection
Former Prosecutor and First
Ward Leader Holding up Pro*
gram for Police Improve
ment
Except for former Prosecutor
Edmund C. Gaskill, Jr., Republi
can Organization leader in the
First Ward, opposition to the ap
pointment of Police Captain Sam
uel Lippman as one of the two
inspectors to be named under the
police reorganization program
has practically disappeared, ac
cording to well authenticated re
ports in political circles. But
Mr. Gaskill is said to be as firm
as ever in his objection to the
selection of Captain Lippman and
plans made by Mayor Bader for
increased efficiency in the police
department are held in abeyance
as a consequence.
The deadlock in the appoint
ment of the inspectors is causing
some concern among those who
had hoped that the Mayor's plans
for improving the efficiency of the
department would be enforced be
fore the opening of the summer
season, and they are reported to
be chafing at the delay imposed
by the hostile attitude of one man.
Gaskill is opposed to Lippman
because the latter supported the
Bacharach cause in the Commis
sion election last year, but why he
should persist in his hostility
when Mayor Bader, more directly
concerned, is favorable to Lipp
man’s selection for the post is a
question that is frequently asked,
but not yet satisfactorily an
swered. Captain of Detectives
James Malseed ha3 practically
been decided upon for one of the
two inspectorships, but no action
is expected to be taken in his case
until some settlement is reached
in the fight that is being waged by
Gaskill on Captain Lippman.
Shore Enters Lists For
College Athletic Meet
Princeton-Cornell-Oxford-Cam
bridge Track Competition
M»jr Be Staged at Airport
July IS
Atlantic City’s athletic field at
the Airport may be the scene
of the Princeton-Cornell-Oxford
Cambridge track meet on July 18
of this year.
Carleton E. Adams, a Princeton
alumnus; Ralph Harcourt, Wil
liam Massey, Jr., and Albert T.
Bell made a trip to Princeton last
week, and told of the facilities this
city had for the staging of such
an event.
They received no definite an
swer, but the Princeton authori
ties apparently did not forget
about Atlantic City, for there was
a committee from the Tigers here
over the week-end, headed by
Trainer Fitzgerald, who has
charge of the track team. They
visited the Airport, and made sev
eral favorable caauneats.
Colgate Support Of Senator Whitney
Assures Hot Primary Fight On McCran
Political Arch Foe of Senator Edge Enter* Actively Into Fight to
Wre*t Domination of Republican Forces in State
from Ventnor Man’s Grasp
j - ,
Former Senator and Attorney
General Thomas F. McCran, U.
S. Senator Edge's candidate for
Governor, is not to have the
walk-over at the June primaries
that his supporters had hoped
and predicted for him. Col.
Austen Colgate, political arch foe
of Edge and all that Edge stands
for, has entered the field not as
a candidate, but as a supporter
of Senator Arthur Whitney, and
even though McCTan, with Edge’s
backing, emerges a winner at the
primaries, he will at least know
that there has been a fight.
There is a large element in
Atlantic County none too favor
able to Senator Edge’s domina
tion of State affairs, and Me
dian's liberal views on Volstead
ism is certain to alienate many
others in this neck of the woods.
If Whitney stays in the fight he
is sure, with Colgate’s backing,
to cut quite a figure in South
Jersey and will be able to muster
no little strength in other parts
of the State.
A month ago it appeared that
McCran would have an easy time
of it, but the entrance of Colgate
into the fight on the side of
Senator Whitney has consider
ably changed the complexion of
affairs. Whitney has wealth and
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Two Agencies Seeking
Liquor Fonnd Ob Jetty
Chief Frings, Unwilling to De
cide Disposal of Contraband,
Refers Question to Judge
, Smathers
A conflict of opinion has arisen
as to the disposal of the cham
pagne, . whiskey and rum dis
covered by Chief of Police
Frings and his men at the ocean
end of the Washington avenue
jetty on Tuesday of last week.
Since the removal of the contra
band to the City Hall in Ventnor,
where it is kept under lock and
key, claim; have been made for
it by both the county and the
Federal enforcement authorities.
Chief Frings refused to assume
the responsibility of granting it
to either claimant, referring the
question for solution to County
Judge Smathers, but no decision
has as yet been rendered. There
are thirty cases in all, made up
of 24 cases of champagne, 4 cases
of Canadian Club and 2 cases of
Jamaica rum. They were found
floating around in a basin at the
end of a jetty, and were pre
vented from being carried out into
the surf by a series of pilings
placed a short distance apart.
The prize was brought ashore
in a boat commandeered by
Motorcycle Policeman McAnney
after it had been cast upon the
beach. The boat, it is believed]
was being used to bring the in
toxicants ashore from a rum
runner off the coast, and pursuit
by the coast guards is believed to
have been responsible for its
abandonment after the wet goods
had been cached.
YELLOW CAB f nmpa*j Mar.
6000. Qalafc, Safe Swri— JUr.
VENTNOR TRUST COMPANY
4% Ob Time Deposit*
[ Safe Deposit Boaa* A4w
ROBERT W. CROMLEIGH
R.W. Cromleigh Wins
Trade Board Medal
Enthnsiutic Worker Brings 56
New Members Into Ventnor
Ciric Organization During
As a reward for the keen in
terest he has displayed in the
Ventnor Board of Trade and the
hard work he has done in be
half of that civic organization,
Robert W. Cromleigh has been
awarded a medal offered by Allen
B. Endicott, Jr., president of the
Board of Trade last year. Mr.
Endicott, who preceded J. S. West
cott as president of the Board,
offered the medal for the indi
vidual who would secure the
largest number of new members
between August 31, 1923, and
August 31, 1924. Mr. Cromleigh,
with 56 new members to his
credit, was far in the lead of his
fellow members. He has been a
member of the Board for two
years and is one of its most en
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Atlantic County Trust
Soon To Ha?e New Home
Will Be Reared on Site of
Schuldenfrei Department
Store, Purchased for
$255,000
The structure at Virginia and
Atlantic avenues occupied for
many years as headquarters for
the Schuldenfrei Department
Store is to be converted into a new
and magnificent home for the At
lantic County Trust Company.
The trust company is prohibited
by law from purchasing the build
ing, but it has been bought by
Warren Somers, Elias Rosenbaum
and Richard Bowen, who will turn
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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, BaD—Marine 21 SO and
2181.—Adv.
Da REEDS CUSHION SOLE SHOES
SeheUcnberg’a, 1208 Atlantic At*—Adv.