Bids were asked for trash and garbage disposal, and a pickup system was organized. The mayor’s improvement plans were soon put into actions. However, once the borough was founded, its citizens became fiercely proud if their new identity and have strong supporter of local government since. it had been created by a referendum in which 152 voters favored the separation of Wall Township and 115 were opposed. Birdsall presented his message, the borough was little more than a month old. Parks were at the bottom of the mayor's list, although he regarded Lake Como as the Borough's chief asset He also considered street repairs as an immediate need, since auto traffic was increasing and the gravel roads were inadequate. They were sanitation, street repairs, and the parks, Mayor Birdsall put sanitation at the top of the list, because there was no garbage or sewage disposal in the borough. Birdsall, a municipal engineer, presented his first message to Council June 3, 1924, he outlined three main areas in which the community needed improvement. When the borough's first mayor, Claude W. It is interesting to note that the Lake Como was known as Three Cornered Pond in the early days, and the area immediately to the west was known as Polly Pond Bog. The farmlands were eventually divided into smaller tracts, and later were developed under numerous subdivisions according to a much less regular pattern than is evident in the neighboring Borough of Belmar. But this not always successful, and he and his neighbors soon began to turn to the sea to make part of their living. Newman arrived in the area around the 1817, and as with most early residents, devoted his original efforts to farming. His gravestone, at the Newman Family Burial Ground on Leslie Street, Belmar Gardens, is still legible.
One of the original settlers of the area now making up South Belmar was Jeremiah Newman, who was born in 1798 and died in 1828. It is a small, interior municipality, bounded on the west by the railroad, on the north by Sixteenth Avenue, on the east by "B"street, and in the South by Lake Como and Polly Pod Brook. In 1924, the Borough of South Belmar was formed out of the boundary of old Wall. As reported by the Asbury Park Press in 1962
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