The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-08-11
4 i'1H
 HIGH LIFE.
New wA N1r3

H,9yti s,cod on the roof of a fourteen story aa,. = Ina, cluster of houses over there" said the architect. IS no, EliEa- beth. New jersey IL is the city of Mexsco. That man on q mule IS a Mexican al- calde Do you see iha; blue line 10 the north Ba.fin's Bay. Those are the Bermuda Islands. That little isle, 10 the south IS Sian,o Domingo. That smoke you observe comes from negro insur- rection. The TWO candidates for presi- den, are fighting down there
 Are those hills the Jersey high- lands:''
 No: they are the Sierra Nevadas"
 Ina, village 10 the southwest, =
 New Orleans
 Beyond ii -
 The capital of Texas.
 That black thread ::
 The Mississippi river.
 ..The black speck ou, on the ocean ,ha, crawls along so slowly =
 :. lay Gculd's yacht. The black speess going by !; are sailing vessels.
 Is that Hobokeu over .o he we>;
 ..Tha, is Chicago. You wia see He boken away ,his s.de.s
 The reporter looked down over ;ae caves on ;he wes, z.Ge af the house .aG saw Hoboken e.irec;iy below.
 The landlord haA taken ;he 3l,.8 man ea ] high p.nnaele.
 The dey.i MAS showing lhe reporter the whole world
 ".Al these N.l s,ve yaa. s..l,. he, " | yoa Nil aaly put " name n he newspaper
 X man IT the sIee, was aooai he >ite of p.a. The resenolI n Central parN by !, seemed ,himbie-sizea wagon drawn by four ants. \ Toy iIain passed on inc elevated railway.
 '' Is ,ha, gray mouse beneath a straw over T the park" asked he reporter.
 No sad ,he landlord. Ina; IS ] park policeman under a tree.
 An Italian rag-picker in 3 brsht-red dress seemed nothing more than ! rcd flag. 4 metropolitan furniture van was a toy ,in-wason. Among ,he smalles; oblects ,o be discovered by careful and minute observations were the niEe and ten story flats oi ,he neishboihood. All looked insignificant They were ;o he towering foaEeen-s.ery buildings what s,unted shrubbefy IS ;o q erea, tree
 To glvc you some idea of the height of ths great building. sad the architect. |" may coniide 10 you inc secre, story of the chimney-sweep. When he started down the chimney he was boy: when he came out a, the bottom he was an ola man. Presidents had been elected dur ins his absence ard nearly shole generation nad passed away. Ills sister. aho had watched ;weniy-,wo years at the bottom of ,he chimney for his eem- lrg. was dead and hei tombstone ofaIu5- iins
 Ma,hematicians. continued he are pu1llng their brains abou, the eNistauge z llecI with only one dimension. Height \ li;,!e ways off this building looks ike a chimney. Envious dwellers in ten story flats and other lowly buildings that court the ground, say with concealed sarcasm 10 those who abide Tn this ia., building: " Wha, story Of the chimney do you live in 7:
 .Aeet all .o liye in tower IS l inc thing for children. When ! baby crlcs fol the moon the aurse brings him out on the roof and le's hiu take hold 3f |. l; Is a pleasant and gosssry ihin.. :ro for tenants ot the tail '34i to s5, on the root midsummer nights lni ohat with ihe people ot Na.s. They wao t.ase 4 ioadness ;sI eYsc.s eN4,uIue saa ..ai15llc the f.nss of tap,:er h iuiy, 'h.; ;hey may ne, ran any usks oi hydfaphobia he plcnlc pe1ple on the root pt.; .a a44lc On ,ae los s;ar They have pound oe ,o,4 of the buiid.s. for any dos s;ats which may ,e, rlbsi. Mos, of ;he hNet stars and planets are below ,he level of the roof. being in ;he nelgh ooihood of the eleventh story, and the people on top of the buildings have 10 look down ,o see them
 h ,he daytime the roof IS qui:e in the suns photosphese. Astronomers and chemists, wiih instruments and larons chemicals, 90 up on ihe roof and ,es, the sun for the presence of metals.
 Autumn Is siN week earlier in the ,np story of the tall flat than m the eighth story. and TWO weeks earlier in the e ,h,h story than on he ground floor. Winter is month longer in the fourteenth story than in stories much below il, so tha, N hen tenants are putting straw mating on the ,hlrd floor he elo,heslines are often frozen or the roof Sunrise here Is
 
 the orb of day does not finally disappear i IT midsummer. Ill len n'c.ock ln the evening. The shortest day m the year io those in he fourteenth story are four teen hours leng. and he longesi days lre twen'y-two hours in length. The length ot ;he days 70 those lIs.ns high.la ,ae ely causes great saving n eAndIes Tie sToend floor Of course, las tac climate If. md $ n ioriy-:wo degrees Of north latitude The sixth story has he climate ot ff;y-tne degrees north latitude. The twelfth story. IS regards climate, Is n s.Sy-sesea degrees nofit latitude. The roof $ jn ao.:h L.;t.uae eighty-tiYe degrees. The eiega,ar as- cends through forty-t~o degrees of lasi- .ude and six,y degrees of temperature One hot summer day the mlr ny 53.5 IT the thermometer denoied one h-as3re and Ten degrees on the groand fo1r l~yraax The Ss.fh