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VENTNOR, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1926 Three Cents per Copy
Vol. 19 No. 43
Councilmen Discuss
Streets And Lights
Ventnor Officials Will Use “Tar
via” on City Streets—Lighting
Committee to Try New
Diffusion Plan
Permission was granted by
Ventnor Council, last Monday
night, to the Lighting Committee
to make use of eight metal light
ing standards now stored at the
municipal water plant in making
experiments in lighting Ventnor
Avenue between Newport and
New Haven Avenues. The cost
of the experiment is not to ex
ceed $250. Chairman Jenkins is
making an effort to ascertain the
best method of diffusing light on
the main driveway of the city,
with a view of making the in
stallation found most suitable
general throughout the city.
Ordinance No. 5, providing for
the installation of concrete gut
ters in a score of streets, was
passed on first reading
Mayor Adams communicated
officially with Council, touching
the readiness of Margate City
officials to join with Ventnor of
ficials in a plan to permanently
pave Fredericksburg Avenue, the
dividing line between the two
municipalities. The matter was
referred to Chairman Haines of
the Street Committee. Bids will
be received by Council on April
12 for the furnishing of not less
than 10,000 nor more than 30,
000 gallons of “Tarvia” or its
equivalent for the improvement
of city highways.
Ordinance No. 3, known as
the Appropriation Bill, carrying
budget figures of $553,070.64,
was passed on final reading.
Council ordered City Clerk
Reppetto to readvertise for bids
for the filling of lands on Ventnor
Heights and also for the construc
tion of approaches to the Board
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Morris Guard Volunteers
To Celebrate Anniversary
Seventh Annual Reunion to Take
Place at County Game Pre
serve on April 3rd
Twenty - seven years have
passed since the “boys of ’98”
were mustered out the service,
and on the occasion of the
seventh annual reunion of the
Morris Guards Volunteers, offici
ally known as Company P, Fourth
New Jersey Volunteer Infantry,
the surviyors will be the guests
of Hugh S. Anderson, well-known
local business man. The veterans
of the Spanish War, who repre
sented Atlantic City in the war
which made Cuba free, will gath
er on Saturday evening, April
3, at the Atlantic County Game
Preserve, near Estellville. The
date is most convenient to the
anniversary of April 6, 1899,
when the local contingent was
mustered out of service at Green
ville, South Carolina.
Captain S. Stanley Grove is
president of the reunion associa
-> tion and will preside at the ban
quet. Lieut. Joshua S. Jagmet
ty, who served with the Atlantic
City company and afterward was
commissioned in the Regular
Army and served in the Philip
pine Islands, will also be among
the honored guests. Tribute
will be paid to General Lewis T.
Bryant, who commanded the
local company when it entered
the United States service and
was promoted to the rank of
major while in the field. General
Bryant died two yearB ago.
NEW NEWSPAPER PLANT SECURE FROM WEATHER BY END OF WEEK
An additional force of bricklayers was added to the large corps of workmen employed on the construction of the new plant of the Atlantic
City “Times/* at North Carolina and Caspian Avenues and the Absecon Boulevard, last week and by the end of this week the structure will be entirely
closed in with windows in place and the exterior walls and roof completed. Inside the structure pipe-fitters, electricians and carpenters are hard at work.
Machinists are now assembling the giant newspaper press and other mechanical material will be installed this week. 10,000 square feet of wood block
flooring is now being laid and there will be close to ten miles of pipes installed in the building on its completion. These include electrical conduits,
steam pipes, water pipes and gas lines. There will be no overhead wiring thruout the building, all electrical lines being laid beneath the floor or in the
walls or ceilings. This is but one of several building innovations provided in the plans for the home of Atlantic City’s new daily newspaper.
(Photo by Fred Hess & Son.)
Art Exhibit To Open
In City Next Month
Art Association Will Bring Ex
hibition From Philadelphia for
Free Display on Boardwalk
James C. Rogers, president of
the Atlantic City Art Association
recently formed in this city for
the purpose of arousing interest
in art and the establishing of an
Art Center and sponsored by
many people of prominence, an
nounced last week that an ex
hibition of art objects, paintings
and sculpture will be exhibited
during the first three weeks in
April, at Georgia Avenue and the
Boardwalk, under the auspices of
the Art Organization.
The entire exhibit of paintings
and sculpture, which has been at
the Art Club in Philadelphia, dur
ing the past three weeks, is to be
brought here.
Space has been obtained on the
Convention Hall site and alter
ations and improvements are now
being made in preparation for the
arrival of these art treasures.
The paintings and -sculpture
are the work of an association of
ten Philadelphia women whose
skill has received the highest
praise and commendation from
art critics thruout the country.
Admission to the exhibition
will be free and it is expected
that it will give a great impetus
to the movement for the estab
lishment of a permanent art gal
lery, worthy of the city, some
where on the Boardwalk, for the
continuous free exhibition of
paintings, sculpture and other
works of art.
Spring-Time Is Clean-Up
Time for Ventnorites
The Ventnor Board of Health are
now busily engaged in their annual
“clean-up” of the city. They re
quest the co-operation of all resi
dents and business men in carefully
tying bundles of rubbish, etc., so as
to assist the collectors in every pos
sible way.
The Ventnor Fire Department are
co-operating and all vacant lots are
being burned clear of weeds, old
grass and rubbish. Every effort is
being made to remove accumulations
of old papers, rubbish and trash
which have gathered during the
winter months so that the city will
present a spick-and-span appearance
to Palm Sunday and Easter visitors.
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 At
lantic Avenue. Phone, Bell—Marine
2180 and 2181.—Adv.
Representatives From So. Jersey Towns
Meet In Organization Dinner At Elks’
Business and Professional Men Gather to Discuss Broadcasting
South Jersey’s Advantages to the Nation—Mayor Hetrick, of
Asbury Park, States He Is Back of Movement Because it
Will Benefit Entire State—Prominent Speakers
Endorse South Jersey, Inc.
Business and professional men,
leaders in their home commun
ities, from every part of South
Jersey gathered around the ban
quet table last Saturday evening
in what was probably the first
meeting of its kind ever held in
the State. The affair was the
organization dinner of the South
Jersey, Inc., and was held for
the purpose of co-ordinating the
progressive forces in the section
for the development of a Bigger
and Better South Jersey.
Leaders of the different coun
ties and principal communities
combined to hear reports of what
has been done and what is yet to
be done by the South Jersey,
Inc., organization in telling the
world of the advantages of this
section.
To itemize everyone present
at the dinner is impossible, be
cause of lack of space. Close to
two hundred attended. A few
of those seen amongst the crowd
were: Walter J. Buzby, Wm. S.
Emley, Frank P. Gravatt, John
Murtland, Victor S. Fisher,
A. Conrad Ekholm, of Atlantic
City; Mayor C. E. F. Hetrick,
Asbury Park; Mayor Herbert
Willis, Long Beach; J. F. Ste
phenson, Vice-President'*- Lake
wood National Bank; Hon. Harry
E. Neumen, Judge Common
Pleas Court, Ocean County; City
Commissioner Balph Carll, Wild
wood; John H. Beecher, Presi
dent Wildwood Board of Trade;
A. L. Kiel, President Long
Beach Bd. of Trade; Gilbert E.
Smith, Avalon; Wm. Kennedy,
Secretary Camden Chamber of
i Commerce; Col. D. C. Collier,
' and other officials and civic or
ganization representatives from
every section of Southern Jersey.
John Gregg Paine, attorney
for the Victor Talking Machine
Company, of Camden, acted as
toastmaster of the evening. As
the closing course of a tasty din
ner was being cleared away he
opened the meeting with a short
review of the organization and
VENTNOR'S MOST POPULAR FLACH
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plans of the South Jersey Asso
ciation. He stated that the idea
had been borne by real estate
men last December, but that the
benefits to be derived by such
an undertaking -would be enjoyed
by transportation companies,
public service corporations, I
banks, great industries, farmers ■
and every citizen of South Jer- j
sey, so that today the idea of
South Jersey, Inc., was not a
real estate problem, but was a
problem of vital importance to
South Jersey as a whole. For
this reason, he stated, South Jer
sey, Inc., should have the sup
port of every element. “No sec
tion in the country has more to
offer the nation than we have
here,” he concluded in his intro
ductory remarks.
Toastmaster Paine then intro
duced L. D. Odhener, the field
secretary of the South Jersey
organization. Mr. Odhener out
lined the possibilities and the
plan of the association. He ex
plained that it was to be a com
bination plan with every city
and town in the section having
a part in its activities. This, he
explained, would be accom
plished by having a board of di
rectors, composed of sixteen
members, working with a direc
tor general. A chairman will be
appointed for each county. These
will be divided into four groups,
each having a publicity director.
Representatives of each phase of
business and industry will be on
these committees, thus making
the South Jersey, Inc., a com
munity affair, with every com
munity represented therein.
Buzby Favor* Plan
Walter J. Buzby, former mem
ber of the State Highway Com
mission and prominent Atlantic
City hotelman, was next called
on. He stated that he sanctioned
every phase of the work as out
lined, particularly the publicity
angle in placing South Jersey
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Hundreds Visit New
Bank on Opening Day
Pacific Avenue National Bank
Exceeds Expectations in De
posits for First Day
The start of a new chapter in
the history of Pacific Avenue’s
transformation from a residential
section to the resort’s second
principal business street took
place on Monday when the Pacific
Avenue National Bank, located at
Pacific and Mount Vernon Ave
nues opened its doors for the first
time.
The new financial institution,
the first to be located on this
street and the fourteenth bank
ing institution in the city, is the
consummation of all that a mod
ern bank should be. The idea of
the Pacific Avenue bank was first
conceived, according to H. W.
Hemphill, president of the or
ganization, in November of last
year. In December a charter was
granted and a search for a suit
able location begun. The building
formerly occupied by the Bell
Telephone Company was selected
as an ideal site and negotiations
for it were started.
Work on the alterations of the
building began on January 20th
of this ye'ar. The completed
structure was ready for occu
pancy on March 20th. Within
two short months the old build
ing was transformed into a mar
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North Jersey Resort in
Newspaper Price War
It se'ems to be the habit, and
a very bad one, for some news
dealers in the Jersey coast re
sorts to overcharge customers for
out-of-town and even for local
papers. A crisis has been
reached in this matter at Asbury
Park, by a ban being placed on
six newsdealers of that resort by
three New York dailies, the
| “Daily News” and the “Daily
! Mirror,” tabloid sheets, and the
“American." These three papers
sell for two cents in New York
and the set price, within a radius
of 200 miles, is three cents.
The Asbury Park dealers under
ban have been asking four cents
for the papers, stating that they
can’t make a living profit selling
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VENTNOR TRUST COMPANY
4% on Time Deposits
Safe Deposit Boxes— Ady.
Action Likely Friday
On School Addition
Joint Meeting of Council and
Board of Education May Be
Held to Discuss Troy Avenue
School Charges
Action is expected to be taken
upon the proposed erection of an
addition to the Troy Avenue
school building at a meeting of
the Ventnor City Board of School
Estimates to be held at the school
building on Friday evening.
Mayor Adams, who is the pre
siding officer of the board, has is
sued a call for a joint meeting of
the Council and the Board of
Education with a view of reach
ing a decision on the plan to en
large the present structure. Plans
and specifications prepared by
Architect Howard A. Stout will
be at the disposal of the mem
bers of the board.
Bids were received by the
Board of Education several weeks
ago for the work, the combined
bid of three contractors for four
phases of the improvement hav
ing totalled $347,486 for an ad
dition of eleven class rooms and
a new auditorium.
It is reported that several mem
bers of Council have expressed
themselves as favoring the erec
tion of a separate building, be
ing opposed to making additions
to existing structures, it being
contended that more class rooms
could be provided and a better
building erected at less cost than
would be involved in extensive
alterations necessary under the
proposed plan.
The members of the Board of
School Estimates includes Mayor
Carleton E. Adams, Councilmen
Isaac B. Sweigart and William
Bach, and Mrs. Isabella Thomp
son and Guy N. Grover, repre
senting the Board of Education.
Military Officials To
Attend Legion Banquet
Annual Affair to Have Prominent
Guest* of Honor of National
Importance in Military Circles
Advance sale of tickets for the
annual banquet to be given under
the auspices of James Harvey
Post, No. 144, American Legion,
of Ventnor City at the Hotel
Chelsea on April 8 indicates a
record attendance.
Rev. Gil Robb Wilson, of Tren
ton, noted aviator with the Amer
ican forces in France, and popu
lar public speaker, will make the
principal address. Rev. Walter
Bruggeman, pastor of the Vent
nor City Community Church and
chaplain of the Post, will preside
as toastmaster. Post Commander
Samuel J. Shuttleworth will also
speak.
A feature of the affair will be
the public presentation of Past
Commander jewels to the men of
the Post, who have served as com
manders. They include Byron
Jenkins, W. Preston Crook, E.
Bertram Wright, Joseph D. Far
rington, Douglas D. Besore, W.
W. Brittain and Carl M. Voelker.
Among the prominent guests
expected to be in attendance are
Colonel Edward B. Stone, com
mander of the 114th Infantry,
N. J. National Guard; Past State
Commander Leonidas Coyle, of
Trenton; State Commander
Frank Matthews, of Palmyra, and
Capt. Dallas R. Alfonte, U. S. A.,
winner of the Distinguished Ser
vice Cross.