Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1910 — HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS IN THE CITIES

Costiy New York Living Apartments

lIEW YORK.—In the city of New York, where millionaires seem to |* lrlve like mushrooms In a cellar, *®®re is being constructed an apartment house in which a suite of rooms »H 1 rent for $25,000 a year. Probably rental is the highest that has ever ®een asked for an apartment, even such as will be foun'd In this house, a series of 18 rooms and so many baths that one would be able to use a different one every day in the week and two on Sunday without doubling on “Is trail, it is the apotheosis of luxury; -the last word, bo far as the hui®*h mind of today can imagine, in scandalous magnificence. In other words, the builders of this house have set a new pace for spendthrifts in the way of living. A yearly rental of $lB,000 is the highest that has ever before been asked for unfurnished housekeeping apartments in New York city. The new apartment house will have 17 apartments—one on each of the 17 floors— and five duplex apartments in addition. The eleventh and twelfth floors will be devoted to apartments which will occupy all the floor space, and these will rent for $25,000 a year. The apartments which Share a floor with half of a duplex apartment will rent for SIB,OOO. The architects have arranged the suites so that each of these big floors shall have more and larger rooms than

can be found in a private city dwelling occupying the regulation city lot, and the number of houses in New York that occupy more than one lot even in “Millionaires’ Row” do not exceed a score. The four principal rooms of each apartment—the salon, diningroom, living room and gallery—cover 2,500 square feet, and they are so arranged that they can be turned into practically one immense room for entertaining. -Each apartment will have at least three or four real fireplaces where real logs can be burned; an incinerating plant for the disposal of garbage; vacuum cleaning system extended to every room; the latest heating, ventilating and refrigerating systems, and both electric and gas ranges. In the basement there will be, besides the individual laundries for each apartment, large washing and ironing rooms equipped with laundry machinery. There will be wine vaults, cold storage rooms and two large storage rooms for each apartment as well. Two floors below the ground will be devoted to these and the power plant which will heat and light the building. In addition there will be machinery to manufacture ice for use in the kitchens of apartments. Those who have studied the conditions of Manhattan island, and who have been most emphatic in predicting the era of overcrowding, will take this sumptuous tenement aB a real sign, of that ultimate time when they believe only business houses and the homes of the rich will be left in Manhattan. Other students of the city life will see in this effort a sign of that time often predicted when all city dwellers will live in co-operative apartments.