, 1905-09-13
BUILDING BOOM IN
The OTTENS SECTION
SYNDICATE SALE SATURDAY WEEK
Owners OF Properties In North
Wildwood Preparing for Next
Season. Guests Who Have
Been Enjoying Lie
at the SeaShOre.

Saturday, Sept. %, ut the corner Of
Central avenue and Seventeeuth,atreet
In case of inclement weather the sale
will take place in the Hotel Ottens.
Lunch will be served to all contract
holders IN the grotto of the hotel i'm
mediately on the arrival of the eleven
O'Clock express train. Sale imm ediately
after lunch. A special train will leave
Holly Beach that afternoon at 5.45
O'Clock, stopping at Millville and Vine
land. 1t is very important that all
contract holders should be on hand, as
their presence will be greatly to the
interest of each. Some of the recent
investors in the syndicate include such
well known persons as Charles j. Gal
lagher, IT., George Davis, William P.
Buchanan, w. e. Moore, George w.
McCurdy, Thomas Martindale; DR..
Frank Brennan, of Atlantic City; Ar
thur +. Thompson, OF Thompson'sSpa
fame; II. l.. Palmer, A. l.. Colson, Miss
Sarah b. Eynon, Mrs. NJ. f. Speck-
man, Samuel Y. Thomson, w. G. Tru-
man, Henry Brandle, John II. Mcclure
Mrs. Anna b. Wainwright, George
Sturm, Henry l.. Holbrook, Edward
Liebe, Matthias Miller, Isaac Cohen,
James j. Mcdonald, Smith & Peters,
Samuel w. Eakins and others.
Contractor Frank E. Smith has been
awarded the contract for the construc-
ton of Henry H.. Ottens'n new and COM
modious cottage, next to and south of
Thomas Martindale's summer home.
The cottage will have a frontage of
seventy-one feet by forty-seven feet in
depth, and will be of the Colonial style
of architecture, with double deck We
randas twelve feet wide on the front
and sides. 1t will contain seventeen
rooms, and the basement will have a
Dutch room showing all the girders of
a rathskellar for the entertainment of
guests at teas and other social func-
tions. A grand stairway, running
from the reception hall to the second
floor, has been designed by William e.
Gibson. There will be three large bay
windows. This is only n of the four
teen new handsome summer homes
now being erected on the Ottens tract.
Charles HI. Yale, the we'll known the
atrical manager, accompanied by his
wife, Is among the late arrivals at Ho-
tel Ottens. Mr.. Yale will erect a cot
tage here in the near future. Promi-
men among other guests are E. p. Ber-
thoff, Red Bank; G. Harry Showaker,
a well known Columbia avenue real es-
tate agent, and wife; Mr.. and Mrs.
Louis H. Welmeyer, DR.. H. S. Side
botham and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
W. G. Graham, j. L.. Frame, Albert
Hart and A. NJ. S%chriver, Philadelphia;
George p. M. Carr, Haddon Heights;
Joseph E. Haines and Frank r.. Ash,
Mt. Ephraim.
Miss Jennie McArdle, of South Ninth
street, Philadelphia, a pretty and ac-
complished girl, is the guest of Mrs. H.
H. Ottens. Last season Mrs. Ottens
won laurels as the champion female
bowler of the Ottens tract, and this
summer was beaten In the contest for
the championship by her young ath-
letic friend, Miss j. McArdle, by one
point. Mrs. Ottens is also entertaining
Mrs. E. Kruse, ~well-known in the So
cial circles of West Philadelphia, and
her husbands sister, Mrs. Kathryn
Stolpp.
Friday nights progressive euchre at
the Ottens was a most enjoyable social
affair. The winners of prizes included
Lawyer George w. McCurdy, Miss
McArdle, Fritz Freyberg, Mrs. William
Duncan, Mrs. George w. McCurdy and
Miss Vestibelt.
William j. Davidson, the genial and
hustling manager of r. p. Whites
grocery store, has just closed a success
full summers business, and will leave
on Saturday of next week for Europe
for a three months stay, his first vaca-
ton In four years. He will visit his
parents in Belfast, Ireland, as well as
other countries.
Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Grouse, of
Philadelphia, are the guests of Lawyer
and Mrs. William F. Brennan, at the
cottage of the latter. Mrs. Grouse is
Mr.. Brennan's mother. DIR. A. g.
Brennan, an Atlantic City druggist,
was also an over Sunday visitor.