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Show A COTTAGE BY THE SEA. ha Handsome Present Mad Mn. Umr-rlson Umr-rlson by Friend, .. MRS. HARRISON'S (JOTTAOK. President and Mrs. Harrison now know where they will spend the aura-mer. aura-mer. They pawed the heated term of last year in Postmaster General Wana-maker's Wana-maker's cottage at Cape May Point. A : few days ago the place was purchased by some of the president's admirers and conveyed by deed of gift to Mrs. Harrison. Harri-son. Cape May Point is to the southwest of Cape May. It is a borough of some sixty inhabitants in winter, and of about 8,000 in summer. The cottage is a large, handsome and convenient structure, three stories high. On the main floor is the immense hallway, hall-way, with a handsome parlor to the east and a capacious dining room to the west. The tipper stories are conveniently arranged, ar-ranged, with doorways leading to the second story veranda, which encircles the entire building. The house is very cool in summer, being almost on the point of the cape, and so situated as to get sea breezes from three out of the four principal directions of the wind. A splendid view of the ocean is to be had, for there is nothing but the beach boulevard and strand between the cottage cot-tage and the water's edge. The lawns are kept in elegant condition, condi-tion, and are only divided from the streets by a one foot high brick wall, capped with polished flagstone. Cape May Point was founded in 1870 by a party of prominent PhUadelpluans, who were regular summer guests of Cape May. There is a natural hard ocean sand drive of three miles, stretching from Cape May to Cajie May Point, which is crowded every summer afternoon after-noon with the wealthy of the big cities in handsome turnouts drawn by thoroughbred thor-oughbred steeds. |