Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1887 — Lives in a Tree. [ARTICLE]

Lives in a Tree.

Washington is the paradise O's cranks, and all the curious characters in the country seem to have congregated here. My la.t r d’eo-vory is a man who lives inai - ee. lb- \s an. $ 1,800 clerk in the Pei-scm • '3V • dl.ffname is A. B. ll.tv-, 'd He is ■whiskered, picas- iit-Q ! bq;-. < -m-med bachelor of about fmv -ns. Ills aerial habitation is du-.t-d j -.-t ou‘side of the bound: i v liinil:-. between the Fourteenth and -nth street roads, within a quarter of a mile of Joaquin Miller's cabi; it con- ists of a tent-like house bu.lt upon a pine platform fastened be tv. i .-n two big oak trees. This platform's p< rhaps twentyfive feet square, ami t \* fa-tened to the trees as far up fto . tin* ground as the first story of a bn - in ss building. It is certainly higher than any ceiling in America. [ non this platform a wall of pine boards aliout eight feet Irgh is built in the iW;a <4 a J.oilow square, and from the top of this a tent ro V of two thicknesses of canvas r : s«s in wedge shape. The <a'■ o, is of the best quality, and I notice the Govern- 1 ment stamp is on one of t e sides of the roof. The entrance is on the west, ami before it is a wide platform where m owner can come out a. I sit e warm summer evenings, tmd on wi. ~<i are now sitting a rut-king-chair -..ml a water-bucket. This platform is reached by a ladder twenty feet long, but very light. Mr. Hayward takes it off to a farm-house near by when he goes to work, and returning he brings it, again to his tent, and in the tent he entertains bis friends. Its interior is comfortably furnished, and it is heated with a little oil stove. There is a carpet on the floor, rocking-chairs are scattered about the room, and there is a book-shelf and a writing-table. Pictures arc fastened upon the walls, and the whole makes very comfortable quarters; - Washington Cor. Cleveland /.. ad,-.