Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-06-06
Present Indications are That
Actual Work on Building in
Madison Ave. viii be Com
menCed Within Few Weeks.
HOME ONE OF BEST IN N. ].
Present Degree of Success Due
to {. 0. Reed, DR.. Naulty
and Ways and Means Com
mittee of Local Elks' Lodge.

FIOm pTeSeHL luulCdllODS II VIII
not be many weeks before ground is
broken for the new home of the Elks
of this city. Perth Amboy Lodge,
No. 1884, has been in existence about
dozen years and when it builds on
the ground bought last year on the
easterly side of Madison avenue it
will be the third site the lodge fig
ured on before actually awarding a
contract and putting spade into the
ground. Shortly after the lodge was
instituted, site on Madison avenue
north of Smith street was for a time
under consideration. The owners of
the tract on which the postoffice and
other substantial buildings have since
been erected, were very anxious to
have the Elks build there. 1t was
deemed advisable to wait and later
a lot on Smith street nearly opposite
Mcclellan was purchased That was
held time and then sold at an ad-
vance.
A year or more ago the lot ad djoin-
ing the Hotel Madison on the south
was purchased. In a short time the
price $1,000, was paid and then be-
gan the active planning for build
ing. A committee headed by DR.. ].
2. Salter, now esteemed leading
knight of the lodge, was named to
consider ways and means. 1t is be-
/, cause that committee has done its
work well that the hopes of the Elks
are soon to be realized Another
committee had in the meantime been
at work on the plans and they are
now ready for the builders.
The ground has q frontage of
forty-two feet and It is 100 feet deep
According to the plans prepared by
Smith Dayton, who were made the
official architects after competitive
plans had been submitted to and con-
sldered by the committee, the struc-
ture will be thirty-nine feet wide in
front, the full width of the lot in the
rear and 100 feet deep. 1t will be
three stories high and 1t will have
practically every convenience that
any one could look for In lodge
building in city the size Perth Am
boy will be In few years. At pres
ent the basement will contain only
the heating apparatus. the baths and
the storerooms. There is room for
bowling alleys or anything else that
ground floor, several feet above the
street level and reached through a
handsome entrance, there will be Of
fees, reception rooms and the grill
room.
In the rear will be a kitchen pro-
nounced by those who are familiar
with such things the best in the city
The billiard tables will also be found
on this floor. The second floor will
contain principally an assembly or
social session room of a kind not now
to be found in Perth Amboy. On the
third floor will be cound the lodge
room and an effort is BENIN made to
make that as it should be, the most
attractive in every way possible. 1t
will be large, we'll lighted by day or
night and handsomely furnished. The
entire building will cost in the neigh
bCrhood of 100000 and the present
Indications are that TIE money will
be secured through the sale OF four
per cent bonds to the members of
the lodge and other Elks interested
in Perth Amboy and in the growth
and development of Perth Amboy
Lodge of Elks.
~ " foiy ial &c oAIShI INC pieSSHb
degree of success attained by the pro-
ject is due to the indefatigable work
of Exalted Ruler f. T. Reed, Dr.
Charles w. Naulty, Jr.. his immediate
predecessor, and to the indomitable
will and unceasing advocacy. of a
home by DR.. G. A. Emmons, the
steward of the home and a member
OF the house committee. The ways
and means executive committe, is j.
P. Salter, Henry Mccullough, P. E.
R.; Fritz Hoyler, and the building
committee is H. f. Pickersgill, P. e
r.. Otto w. Will, p e. r.; Forrest
L. Smith, C. A. Emmons, John F.
Ten Brock.