Feb 1927 - On-Line Newspaper Archives of Ocean City

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%,s WHAT'S O0HE
*'; 111 J-*nd the Union -«~
. road has retched Ben ton. ryywji-
Ktof, Jw that distant point/ «n
- f. eaatorq youth. in Msrd of healti.
Is Maid. Hanutt t n Omasa,
J(6» Ja warned of Sentan's wild-
..naai. A stylishly dramed and
tKuuttful joung women, with
! pretty blue eyes, attnsta him. Re
' ta julonUhed at tn taking a
4rtot of brandy biton Br^iraW,
~" i brskemsn tails him (he hM
1 her nan" is Benton,
explained.
"High and dry? By golly,
hen Beaton's the ticket I
•ire high, and sure dry,"
He leaned over the Hide ate
and gaitd ahead, -gydn
night."
As I left she station dining
[roam J found rile lady of the blu.
eyes strolling alone upon th
I civilly
MHWI, AMt and fell ttt IratJr"
£•£•*»*• braliMian went oni "But,!" 11111 be
Lord, that WU no great flgfsr.
i;»FMNe her* don't Band on cer«-
«nonT In Uuse nattcn. Every
V^jiljUfe alxiveboant. Haada so
ttetatile until time to draw
lino draw quit*
pJltfOTTl],
'You are rather alow in
I, sir," .he llghUy acei
"We might have breakfast 1
ssmttl"
Plead guilty, madam,"
"Slit the next me
|y privilege,"
inner, ytyi; at
M.
Ihe
"All
Qhuy
. Hli iasgiuce m a Ilttli too
'§Mua for me.
•,"H«r iHlstuuid Is In bujlnouf
i - "Budnasf •• Hi laid a linger
ffifUMMM «l* BOH, and
Swjlt]*, "IM b« yJAl And good
fcurfoon. Art you nnT-
,- Are you oaf"
• I OB?" I repeated. "On
be damned!" be roundly
ltd. ABd_"f«,.,s „«,
• aulet little .mile with
'And stiff thM you will
iome."
"Of course," she laughed .hart
ly. "leqton Is now 'honie." We
If. lenten ii now home."
have moved ao frequently that
nave grow coil iilm.nl „„
have grown
(lice
'I judge Hen that you af
I'eoneeeled, as may happen, will
- flexible buiilneai," I haiardud,
"There ia money In follow! nfi
the railroad, and that in our
present life," ihe said frankly.
"A town ipringg up, you know,
at esofl terminus, booms aa long
at the Irelght and
' My lady drew back
declined rfce "mnilc"
"Tliank you. I ilo not drink,
"What?" His time siifFeiiHi
"The hell you gay, Ilsve a umll
you pilgrim j fef If you lion's-.
"Trftin's,*!arllng, Jim," »he in
>"p*s9r>d uhappfy, v ''If you want
gt^t iiiHisfil you'it
hurry."
The bell was ringing.
, ^eftgers were hurrying. It
by |he rorniii.:|or« about:
'board!"
Without another word the lady
j ~-wl for the ear steps. 1 m\*
fellow on** flrffi look an
•rce left him. The Irain
d as I, jump*! on flic rn,;tr-
•at ear and the conductor ami
irakeniah liaiiied thy iife*y U'Uuw
aboarcl.
My lady wan ensconced,
"Dill thi.y get Jim? • ,he In-
julrwl,
"By the scruff of til
Vou know him""
He's from Benton. 1
' »"*
.,, Of ton saltkeKii aUall
, ftToHnf you—eh; No* I
Italia you af a sysiea. tali,
JMca MM null wtiu you
nag,"
,' Wr In my own fashion,
, I nbuked, "Ana tie ],d»
— tor dlKuBlon b,i9mn
u my ai-
Is only
KtMM with tn
,»"">• ITIBBM, "NO
. iJoUodefl, Mlrtsr Wlgrlm.
,-iUt-Mt in good enough
«:*JM. I oaiy iirn to H
-•Htp, »w!" And ta
W« w to «« a*
•t,JWlneji"
pajHenger.
o^ a audnttuili»hnl fli'lcl
KnuJa, ClittUin Cubs beat the
Cfiinilfn flrlblilerri ^4 to 21 anti
wont jnio iinflispuijd pn^i-Htdmi
of .flrsft place In liir; Huuth JivrHi'y
The
throng. It was fcn
Ward Beam
Is Not Wanted
By Civic Club
Present Petition To Com-
rniisionen Objeetinf To
Daily Dozen Initructor
The busloat gection of tbe en
ire resort today hi the IMvlera
raet. Gradually thia traet, whkh
as a vaat meadowland ft ynaj
.go, its assuming the appearance
/liirli clie developen have
lanned.
The Riviera tract, which ex-
endi! from Eighteenth Street to
werily.elghth Street, from Bay
venue to the bay was purchased
.bout a year ago by the Ralph L.
heater, Inc, St hi the largest
levelopment of Its kind to he at-
tempted in the resort.
Last May when the trait n
placed on the market the UrM
section was quickly uuld In block
iotg. The first section extends
from Eighteenth Street to about
Twenty.second Street,
Two dredges are now in opera-
tion filling the tract. Already
350,000 yards of sand haa been
tranafernd front the bad of the
hay to the tract. The first sec
tlon has been entirely ailed as
far as Twenty-Brit Street.
100 Un Working
development streets, sidewalks
and curbs are being laid out In
the section that has been tlllod.
B
The dispute as to who will
haic charse of the publicity lo
lh.> rmuro -was settled Mondfr
when a resolution was adopted
by Commlaslonere Campbelll
(l
Boblnson placing the pB>llp^|fil
expenditures and the engag|ns,pr '«
a publlolty director In the ha^J»:?M
of the entire board, ,,'.--, ucPi"' 8
In put years Mayor Chatnjilo^
handled the publicity, though J«it
year Commiulonera BoblnBOn W)4 /
Onrnpsell queatianed hll
sole atithopity In the matter.
The resolution waa lntradusea?
by CommiBslongr Campopll, ,*fl«;i
preaided at the meeting In the .
abunce of Mayor OhamBloB, who -
was confined, to hui bed wdth »n
attack of tonallltls, v
n introduslng Mho resolution
Commissioner Campbell suted i»
wished that Mayor Champion mrntii
present, but the matter was too
[ important to delay, ;= ^Hv-Jrl
He stated the resolution Drtt.
vlded that all contracts in tH«
future would be made toy th»:
CommlHlonen and the publliltj;
dlreetor would furnish a detslleil
report to the Conunlssioneni tot -'
the activities of hlji office
month.
Commissioner Robinson stated
In voting favormble to the resolu-
Uon that be regretted the
ner In which the publicity
handled last year, and
the Commlsslonum thould
something about the matter In
which the money was being usefl.
Io receive a detailed n-
NovjniBer aa to tfci^tf"
pendkures, so " " " "
•een this. If
lellc contests In, the rsnort
If we can legally aid thtn.j
jecti 1 am In-favor ot,l(...',.
CommUisIoner I _
fairored piscine tbo',,1)
n lod.
Between 100 and US workmen
have been kept busy on this
operation.
The contract for building
streets, curbs, sidewalks, leveling
lots and graveling lots wan
g t wan
awarded to the Monlhan t Hall
Company,
On Tuesday
Ia Received and Filed
!>y tiani playing aurl f\mv
Even Dps
who Is ahniit the Miv of a half
pint, iuidiMi thriiis by climbinff
up tho cagn in monkGy fashion
or ihe flying
r to gut out of thu way
In the closing minutes of the
game liatli ihe jtpc'Olators aiid
ra were warkrd up io fiiver
After lirt'iikirig n tie score
the Ocean City team fought
furiously to ruiain Its slender
lead. In a melee near the Carn-
den hasket flma sinrted to fly
but the players were quickly
calmed down.
Babe Klpu Hcori'd only one
field goal in the game, hut It was
thla goal which clinched the
game for Ocean City, With bu
one minute to play Klots go
hold of the ball In Ihe Caoiden
half of the court, Kjotz crossed
the Camden team who figured an
attempt would be inarte to freeze
the bail by rushing down the
court and spilling the bai:
through the( net,
(Osntlnutd en Page Five)
A riwiillillon by inn Clvlr, Club
51 WIIH pri-si-nted la the CommlsslNn-
ri< Monday objecting to ihc om-
ployniont of W. Ward Beam as
physical instructor on Ihe beach
I hi* summer. The resolution,
which takes exceptions to alleged
ulterances and his attitude before
Ihe dully dosen class nnd on the
Boardwalk, la ai follows:
Whereas, Ocean City Civic
Club deprecate the employment
and maintenance of J. Ward
Beam as physics! instructor on
ihe beach for the coming season,
IBS7, aa Bome of the exercises,
together with his attitude and ut-
tcrances before the class and on
the Boardwalk we consider not
in keeping with the high Ideals
upon which thla place Was found-
eld, and wo, ai mothers and clt|.
(Continued on p.0« Thm)
George Lawrence Dies
At Philadelphia Home
George W, Lawrence, Phlladel
phla business man, who Is well
known here, died at his home
Monday. He Ii the brother of
Alex Lawrence, Jr., local renl e».
tate broker,
Services were held this after,
noon at the OIl¥er H, Bair build.
Chestnut Street. Inter,
at Monument Cemetery,
wry active
a mem-
Fire Damages Bay
Avenue Bungalow
Orifiii of Fire Unknown—
Cloied Sinee September
A fire of unknown origin
aiinfil damnst. to tne extent Of
$1200 io • bungalow located at
1241 Bay Avenue, The fire oc-
curred at 10.10 Monday evening.
Two alarms were sailed.
The firemen were sreatly
hampered by the •moke in the
building, which Bad little out-
let, as thi Imrigalow hod been'
closed alnce lut September.
It required about an hoar and
a half to eempItMir MHngulnh
the blue, which cawed about
11000 daman to building aid
1100 to the furniture.
While the orlfln Of the flro le
unknown, it
the contractors
wore lasting concrete (oran for
aidewalka in the northern ond
of the development.
The work of extending Bay
Avenue from Seventeenth Street
lo Eighteenth street is in proK-
reBH and should he completed
within the next few weeks,
Monday the Commissloner» di-
rected City Bngineer Colllisoii to
prepare .plans for the extension of
Bay Avenue from Blghtienth
Stri.rt In Roosevelt Boulevard.
Hard Mirfaelng is now being i»|d
3n Bay Avenue from Ninth Street
to Potirteoirlh Street,
City Plans
To Construct
New Streets
Crosi Streets Between 22nd
and 29th Streeti, Atbury
T C l
dlfllcUHr p
*>ucm\ In pej^nff the piibtlcltr
in & lfe^ml n^nner. He B4ld
thfi p6wer restA Witt''.
Commissioners,
of tho publicity (Hrrttor wou}A
receive ovurf comUidArBtfoti* 'thii
rftsoIutlOQ Ifl u follows;
It K&aolved. By Ihe
To Central Avenue
Will Pave Many Alleys
City Hnglneer OoilUnon wu
directed by the Oommlijloner on
Monday to prepare plans for the
construction of many new streets
In the resort, also for the hard
surfacing of many alleys.
The new streets to be eon-
structed are Twenty-second to
Twenty-ninth, inclusive, from A«.
bury Avenue to Central Avenue.
Also for the construction of
Thirty-third Street from Oentnti
Avenue to the alley between Oen-
tral and Wesley Avenue, ont-
half of Thlrty-flni street for tie
•ame distance, the other half of
tita street waa built tome time
ago, one-half of Sixteenth itreit
jaotneait of Wealey Avenue and
Twelfth itreet nutheaat of
Ocean Avenue.
, (ContlnuM M Pan Twtil ••,„
IJty Over Application |
The application of Boberf
stamper tm MrUMon.ts
of Commissioners of the City, Of
Ocean City, N. J.. that tbifc Bo«il
employ KODIA eult&ble pernon to
bo known an the "Publicity
Mfttiagcr," together with gU&h,
othiir Demon or peraonn BU thfv
board rimy deem neceBtKi-jr , for
the purpneo of giving ftttenlfoa
(o tbe advertIH|nK of Ocean City,
Be It Further Kwolved, That
th« publicity manasor aboil have
chargo, subject to the direction.
and authority of JttLta board, .of
(be advertlfllnff of Ocean City,
ftxcupl icKHl advortlBlng. Ho sha.ll
prr^iuri! and furnlnh advertising'
mattnr, as to Ocean City. N...J.,
for boohkttci. signs,
IHi;to'
(blu board at 4s first regular
mooting In cacih and every month
as tn authorized expenditures*
and the purpose of fluch
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