Edward Evans

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1. 1937 · 1937-06-29

   Two developers asked Ocean City for wells, a sewer connection and a street from Fourth to Ninth for about $70

   'Franklin Woodcock and Edward Evans were present asking that wells be built and connected to Sewer through their development at a Cost of about $70, a street beginning at 4th street to 9th. They stating Mr. Gardner said it could be done so council agreed to meet with them and Mr. Gardner on Wednesday to decide if such was feasable.' Nothing more is recorded. Earlier, on 31 March, the secretary had been 'instructed to give grade for walk on North Division street for Edward Evans'. The town's brand-new sewer was three weeks from acceptance and private developers were already asking to hang subdivisions off it.

   S. Franklyn WoodcockClark Gardner

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2. 1938 · 1938-11-22

   Ocean City granted at least twenty-two building permits in 1938 and, for the first time in the campaign's record, refused four

   The permits, as the minute book lists them: Atwood & Lynch, Collins Ayres and one other at Philadelphia Avenue and Fifth and Third Streets (23 February); John W. Burbage on Twelfth Street (14 March); Magee Oil Co. on Somerset Street, Chas. W. Purnell at the Post Office, and Ruth Kubit on Eighth Street (4 April); Mr. and Mrs. Salvatore Rousevalle at Baltimore Avenue and Ninth, Edward Evans on the west side of Philadelphia Avenue at Seventh, and Dr. C. W. Purnell at the Boardwalk and Wicomico Street (12 April); L. W. Farlow in the Ninth Street alley and Collins Ayres a small house behind his own on Fifth (10 May); Joe H[eckmott], Mrs. Jane B. Townsend, Clarence Carey a garage, Charles S. Powell an addition to a hotel, J. P. Whaley a garage, and Raymond Bounds to remodel a garage into stores and apartments (14 October); Parker Smith and Evans Development (10 November); an addition to a restaurant building and a bungalow (22 November). What is new is the refusals. Thomas Shill's shed at the corner of Ninth was rejected on 10 May after six neighbours objected. Sam Ayres withdrew an application for a chicken house on 14 October rather than have it voted on. On 22 November the council refused Charles C. Richards's Colored Recreation Hall, refused Nathan Rapport's application to move a building opposite South Division Street on Atlantic Avenue, and refused Edward Evans a wood shingle roof.

   Clarence CareyCharles C. RichardsE. Raymond BoundsDr. Charles Washington Purnell

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3. 1938 · 1938-12-06

   The town that had burned in 1925 finally banned the wooden roof, in December 1938, after catching builders replacing shingles in defiance of it

   On 22 November 1938 Edward Evans's permit for a wood shingle roof was refused outright and the secretary told to notify him. Then: 'A discussion was had on the numerous Shingle Roofs being renewed against City Demand so a new Ordinance was ordered prepared and Secretary instructed to write the builders that they must secure Building permit before beginning any building and no wood shingles would be allowed for Roofs.' The city attorney, W. H. Scott, was instructed to put notices in the county paper that permits must be obtained before starting building. On 6 December the minute records simply: 'Minutes of Nov 22 were approved and Ordinance passed regarding future Roofs of Buildings.' Ocean City lost most of its downtown to fire in 1925 and had been rebuilding in wood ever since; the ban arrived thirteen years later and arrived because the council noticed people were ignoring an instruction it had never actually enacted.

   William H. ScottEdmond H. Johnson

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